Dana from Made created this cute gathered dress for her daughter from a thrift store t-shirt that brought back memories of her trip to Seattle earlier in the year. With a little elastic thread and a few cuts, the dress-from-t-shirt was born!
File this under “brilliant” and “why didn’t I think of that.” Betz White shares her genius, and ever-so-easy, steps for covering a boring old canvas tote with fabric, resulting in a nicely lined bag with straps with minimal effort. Brilliant!
Designs by Vanessa shows you how to create a flower-trimed t-shirt with her shirt full of posies tutorial.
Lee Meredith of Leethal Knits shares her tutorial for making jewelry from recycled wool sweaters. The project comes from a series of classes she taught over the summer in Portland, Oregon, and she also includes pictures of a few projects from her students. As she mentions, the techniques are simple and the creative possibilities are […]
I have always enjoyed cooking and baking with a recipe. I like to follow exact instructions and then, hopefully, there are no surprises. Other people like to make it up as they go along, adding dashes of different flavors until they arrive at a taste they like. However, I have made a few t-shirt quilts following specific directions and they never turn out the way I want. They always end up too square and blocky. Since I had a number of cute t-shirts that I didn’t wear anymore (from the cluttered days of my Threadless addiction), I decided to experiment with making a freestyle, dash-of-this-pinch-of-that t-shirt quilt.
I love the cute ruffles on this girl’s skirt refashioned from a men’s t-shirt by epicurean style.
Check out these inspiring entries to Platform 21’s Remarkable Repairs contest, from furniture and fashion to musical instruments and appliances. Via Core77.
