20 Ways to Refashion a Hoodie
Check out some of my favorite methods for upcycling a hoodie, and find your next favorite fashion!
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Clothing + Fashion
DIY Tie-Dye: 10 Creative Projects to Subvert Big Fashion
Want a fun summertime project that highlights your creative expression, gives a second life to clothes otherwise destined for the waste stream, AND subverts Big Fashion?
You are going to love tie-dye!
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How to Make a Broken Dish Pendant
It’s easier than you think to cut ceramics with a couple of standard tools, and there are loads of ways to finish off the pendant to your taste.
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How to Sew a Button Back on Your Pants
Fortunately, sewing a button back on your pants is a super easy and low-fuss skill that requires only a basic amount of hand-eye coordination. Anyone can do it!
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How To Make a Petticoat: 15 DIY Tutorials
A petticoat may not be the essential everyday wear that it once was, but it’s still essential to give the perfect silhouette to certain garments.
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Three Dozen Free Vintage Dress Patterns
Even without the foundation garments, even without the advanced techniques, even without antique tissue paper patterns with an unreasonable waist to bust ratio, you can sew yourself a dress that LOOKS vintage.
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20 DIY Cloth Masks
If you’re just getting started on creating your own cloth masks, or if you’re looking to switch up your go-to pattern–or add a handy accessory, OR make a matching cloth mask for a kid’s teddy bear!–then check out this list of my favorite DIY cloth mask patterns and tutorials.
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How to Make a Hoop Skirt: 15 Projects
Do you want to look like Queen Elizabeth I or Marie Antoinette?
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16 DIY Memory Quilts To Make For Your Loved Ones
For preserving memories big and small, DIY memory quilts made from your favorite clothing are both beautiful and practical.
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Two Dozen Homemade Halloween Costumes for Adults
Don’t let the kids have all the fun this Halloween!
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Two Dozen Homemade Halloween Costumes for Kids
Homemade costumes get more candy.
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How to Sew Pants: Two Dozen Free Patterns and Tutorials
Need to cover your butt?
I’ve got you covered!
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30 Wonderful Weaving Patterns
Whether you have a store-bought, antique handcrafted, or DIY recycled weaving loom, it’s time to make something wonderful on it!
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25 Completely Free Vest Patterns and Tutorials
A vest is one of the easiest and most accessible clothing items to sew.
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28 Free Bead Loom Patterns
Want to make something beautiful on a bead loom but you don’t quite know where to begin?
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13 DIY Ways to Display Patches
If you’ve got a fun collection of patches, you don’t have to a) hide it away in a drawer, or b) pay a professional framer to display it for you.
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How To Sew a Patch
Go get all those band patches back on your denim jacket where they belong!
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18 DIY Tutus For Babies To Adults
A DIY tutu is one of the easiest ways to make an outfit look fancy.
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Two Dozen Free Wedding Dress Patterns and Tutorials
Yes, you can DIY your wedding dress!
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36 Free Underwear Patterns and Tutorials
You’ll never look at that store-bought cheap underwear the same way again.
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Three Dozen Upcycled Hanger Projects
Regardless of whatever you hate about the hangers you have, the answer is rarely to throw them away.
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Three Dozen Free Knit Hat Patterns
A knit hat is a great knitting project, whether you’re a beginning knitter or a seasoned professional, because there is a knit hat pattern to suit everybody.
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21 Free Leggings Patterns and Tutorials
Leggings are super easy to sew, very forgiving for the beginner, and best yet, when you’re in charge of making them, you get to choose your favorite prints and patterns, and you get to make sure that the fit and length are exactly what you want.
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Make a Decoupaged Wooden Plaque Jewelry Holder
Want a lovely way to display a few special pieces of jewelry without having to make even more room on your crowded dresser?
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20 Bra Patterns and Tutorials to Make at Home
Even something as complicated-looking as a bra is quite possible to be DIYed at home.
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30 Free Apron Patterns and Tutorials
You should probably be wearing an apron.
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How to Sew a Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour lent her name not just to the bouffant hairstyle, but also to the practical yet lovely little drawstring wrist bags that allowed one to both wear a fancy ballgown (with no room for pockets!) and carry a lipstick and some cash for gambling with.
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How to Make a Reversible Skirt
It’s business on one side, and a party on the other!
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When You Don’t Want to Spend Thirty Bucks: How to DIY a Dance Skirt
Something that simple is also simple to make!
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How to Refashion Pants into a Skirt
You can sew a well-fitting skirt without knowing how to set pockets or sew a waistband or use a zipper foot or make a button hole!
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Clothing Refashioned: 35 Ways to Refashion a T-shirt
My favorite way to craft with T-shirts is to refashion them into yet more pieces of clothing.
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Pattern Drafting: How to Draft a Curve
Enlarging an existing pattern by a fraction of an inch is a pretty common thing to have to do.
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Pattern Review: The Oliver + S School Bus T-Shirt
Sewing for kids gets harder as they get older.
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How to Sew an Upcycled Denim Skirt from Your Old Blue Jeans
If you sew, and especially if you love to upcycle, the upcycled denim skirt is a rite of passage. Here’s how to make one!
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