How to Make a Poncho from Your Favorite Blanket (no sew!)
Do you have a favorite blanket that’s outlived its usefulness as a throw? Heres how to make a poncho from it!
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Clothing + Fashion
Make a No-Sew Hood from a Babywearing Wrap
You don’t need a sewing machine to turn your kid into a vampire, assassin, young Jedi, ranger, or any other hooded creatures this Halloween. All you need is a wrap used for babywearing, and you’ll have this no-sew hood configured in no time.
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How to Sew Cuffs to Lengthen Pants
This method that I’m going to show you is a way to both lengthen pants and, if not to actually shorten them, then at least to make the ubiquitous cuffs look intentional.
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How to Make Patches for Pants as You’re Sewing Them
Sewing pants for a kid? Save yourself some trouble in the long run, and just add knee patches from the get-go. Here’s how to make patches that are built in!
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How-to: Repair a Knit Dress with a T-shirt
I know a great method to repair a knit dress that doesn’t require a patch.
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Spotted: 10 T-Shirt Reconstruction Tips
T-shirt reconstruction can range from simple to complex, and working with reclaimed tees can come with its own challenges. These are some handy tips to make it easier!
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Spotted: DIY Sequin Top [no sew!]
Turn a thrifted men’s t-shirt into a cute DIY sequin top. No sewing required!
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How to Sew a Button and Repair a Hem
How to sew a button or how to repair an unraveled hem are some mending basics that even someone who has never sewed can pick up easily.
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30 Awesome DIY Jewelry Organizer Projects!
Is your jewelry out of control? Get it all together with these 30 DIY jewelry organizer projects!
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Create a DIY Jewelry Organizer from a Wooden Display Box
Create a bright and colorful DIY jewelry organizer with a wooden display box and paint!
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Spotted: Make a Sweet Terrarium Necklace
Wear a little green around your neck with a homemade terrarium necklace!
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Pretty in Pink Once Again: 23 Prom Dress Refashions
Please, won’t YOU rescue an ugly Prom dress today?
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Clothing Refashion: Prom Dress Pants
Prom dresses are some of my favorite articles of clothing to upcycle. Thrifted, that fancy fabric is cheaper by the yardage than purchased new, and they always include gorgeous embellishments and perfect hardware that careful cutting can preserve.
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10 DIY Skirts from Reclaimed Materials
I know, a lot of you probably are still digging your way out of that last round of crazy snow. This late-winter cold snap has me dreaming of spring like nothing else. I can’t wait for bare legs, open-toed shoes, and skirt weather!
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How to Make Rosettes from a Reclaimed Tee
Don’t you love the look of a rosette? These simple fabric flowers are very cute, and they’re actually simple to make with just an old t-shirt from your stash. Here’s how to make rosettes and use them in your crafting.
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50 DIY Jewelry Projects from Recycled Materials
Add DIY jewelry to your wardrobe with recycled materials! Here are 50 projects and tutorials that you’ll love!
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Clothing + Fashion: The 14 Best Ways to Patch Jeans
Hole in your pants?
You can fix that.
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Clothing + Fashion: How to Patch Your Pants
Why is there a hole in the butt of my jeans?
Why did I sew a dinosaur patch over that hole in the butt of my jeans?
These are questions that you probably shouldn’t ask, and that you definitely do NOT want the answer to.
What you DO need to know is how I did it, and that’s what I’m going to tell you!
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DIY Fashion: Turn old sweatpants from boring to cute!
Who says you can’t be comfy and look cute at the same time? These cozy, skinny sweatpants are my kinds of DIY fashion tutorial!
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DIY Fashion: Make Your Own Belt Bracelet
Skip the impact of buying new– create your own DIY fashion like this stylish belt bracelet!
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Holiday Crafts: Christmas Tree T-shirt with Vintage Button Ornaments
One of your kid’s T-shirts (at least!) has a mystery stain that nothing will remove.
Here’s an easy way to make that gross shirt look brand-new, completely concealing that ugly stain while adding an adorable festive motif! All you need are fabric paints, vintage buttons, and a creative kid to do the art.
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E-Waste Jewelry by Marcele Godoy
Do you have e-waste – like old cables, chargers, and cords – laying around? Upcycle it into gorgeous jewelry!
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Jewelry Findings: Make an Earring Backing from a Wine Cork
Lost an earring backing? Here’s how you can replace these sneaky jewelry findings in just a few minutes!
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DIY Fashion: Make Your Own Vintage Button Brooch
Make your own unique brooch with recycled felt and vintage buttons!
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4 Applique Techniques to Customize or Mend Your Sewing Projects
Got a sewing project that needs an oomph or a stain or tear you want to cover? They one of these applique techniques!
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How do I Re-use T-shirts: T-shirt Crafts that You Can Wear
Before you take the scissors to that pile of screen-printed jersey knit, check out this master list of T-shirt crafts that you can wear–there are T-shirt mods for your top, T-shirt mods for your bottom (ahem…), T-shirt mods for kids, but all of it is just the way that T-shirts are meant to be.
Wearable.
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How-to: Change the Neckline on a T-shirt
Tired of always having the same old neckline on every single T-shirt?
Fortunately, the neckline of a T-shirt is the easiest thing to alter. You can create tons of different looks, it’s super quick and easy to do, and it doesn’t require any sewing skills!
All you really need, in fact, is a pair of great scissors, a T-shirt to play victim, and a brave heart and bold hand.
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How-to: Take in a Too-Large T-Shirt Tutorial
Tired of being swamped by a too-large T-shirt?
My Mammaw would tell you that you look slouchy when your clothes are too big.
Gain my Mammaw’s approval, and a T-shirt that is cuter and comfier to wear, by taking it in.
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How-to: Organic Terrycloth Hooded Towel with Applique
There’s nothing like hopping out of the pool and into a comfy, soft, bounteous towel.
But big beach towels are hard for little kids to manage, and that bleached, dyed terrycloth can be scratchy and harsh on damp, delicate skin.
It’s an organic terrycloth hooded towel to the rescue!
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Crafty Book Review: Knits for Dolls, by Nicky Epstein
Got some yarn leftover after your last knitting project?
Wondering if you should stuff it back in your stash for perhaps forever? Pass it on? Trash it?
Instead, how about you thrill your favorite little kid by using that stash to knit him or her the most awesome, clever, modern doll outfits ever?
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How-to: Alter a Kid’s Sports Uniform So That it Actually Fits
Knowing how to sew means that you don’t have to make do with something that doesn’t fit and is uncomfortable to wear. Here are the easy ways to fix the three most common areas of ill-fitting kid uniforms–and one of them doesn’t even REQUIRE sewing!
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Crafty Book Review: Sew Pretty T-Shirt Dresses
Our version of Cool Water from Sew Pretty: T-Shirt Dresses is entitled Willow’s Rock Star Dress, and has pink skulls, glow-in-the-dark bats, orange flames, and a guitar player wearing a sparkly silver tutu and crown.
How To: Turn a Vintage Earring into an Unique Hair Pin
Give your earrings, brooches, or buttons new life by transforming them into a unique hair pin!
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How-to: Upcycled Toy Charm Necklaces–They’re Toys You Can Wear!
These toy charms can be worn on a necklace or bracelet, one at a time or in a whole herd. They make fine jewelry on their own, but the secret trick to these little charms is the latch that allows you to release them from their jewelry status. In the blink of an eye, you’ve gone from having a necklace full of toy dinosaurs to a handful of toy dinosaurs, ready to make standing in line at the grocery store SO much more bearable.
Here’s how to make your own.
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