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Unlock your closet's potential with simple wardrobe fixes and refashions to express your style. These basic alterations and step-by-step restyling tutorials will help you fit and reassemble garments into newfound faves. No sloppy shortcuts here-learn how to alter sweaters, pants, and everything in your wardrobe for a more flattering fit. Take it in, take it up, or let it out-all on your home sewing machine. Spend less, look better!
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"GO FROM THRIFT-SHOP CHEAP TO RUNWAY CHIC EACH AND EVERY DAY! Based on her wildly popular blog of the same name, guerrilla seamstress Marisa Lynch shows you how to easily (and affordably!) transform your wardrobe from frumpy to fabulous! With just a snip here and a stitch there, your basement bargains will rival anything in designer collections. Yes, with a little imagination--and DIY tools like needles, thread, and safety pins--you too can update...
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Presents a guide to working with recycled materials such as linen, burlap and wool. Shows 28 projects with deconstruction techniques, sewing tips and information about their environmental impact. Projects include totes, lunch sack, scarf, onion sack, skirt, bin and many more.
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Take secondhand finds from frumpy to fabulous with this guide by the Renegade Seamstress featuring resizing techniques and 19 refashioning projects.
With her award-winning blog, The Renegade Seamstress, Beth Huntington combines two of her favorite activities-thrifting and sewing-into the art of refashioning. In The Refashion Handbook, she shares 19 stylish projects, each showing you how to transform easy-to-find items into a better fit, a new design,...
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Contemporary crafters are thriving on personalizing, modifying, and altering fashion, and as a way to take a greener approach to their creative lifestyle. This book shows you how to upcycle all your slightly worn, slightly damaged, or out-of-style sweaters into fabulous new items for your wardrobe and your home. Readers learn how to choose, cut, restitch, felt, and embellish old sweater fabric, transforming it into beautiful handbags, mittens,...
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Designers Carmen Webber, a contestant on Season 4 of Bravo's Project Runway, and Carmia Marshall, aka Sistahs of Harlem, have created a sensation with their fabulous blend of street couture and uptown chic, as seen in the pages of many fashion magazines and on the backs of many style-conscious fashionistas.
In Denim, Mania Carmen and Carmia teach you to make 25 of their hottest designs, with patterns and instructions so easy you can start the project...
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Feel more like a home wrecker than a home designer? Tired of 10,000 shows on HGTV that don't include decorating with spray paint or cooking for vegans? Only know the names of flowers because your tattoo artist inks them on you?
Then Home Rockanomics is the book for you. Never mind Martha Stewart, we're here to share recipes from punk bands, decorating tips, and even how to make your clothing cooler!!
Ms. Minx brings the online cult phenomenon Punk...
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Learn to incorporate treasured clothing into heirloom quilts without sacrificing your modern aesthetic.
Stitch memories together forever with 12 quilt projects that are as meaningful as they are stylish! Modern heirloom quilter Suzanne Paquette shares the emotional, creative, and technical aspects of memory quilting through colorful storytelling and photography. Practical projects inspired by real families' stories will help you celebrate love, provide...
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Cast-off denim and T-shirts are the perfect materials for upcycling into a wide range of projects, from bags and totes to table runners, placemats, and trivets, to stuffies and pet chew toys, to games, tree skirts, stockings, and so much more! Follow the instructions as given or use them as a jumping off point as you personalize the designs. This is an upcycling resource you will turn to again and again for creative project ideas.
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Megan Nicolay revolutionized the T-shirt. She repurposed it, reinterpreted it, reinvented it-and created the #1 craft book in the nation, Generation T, which continues to dominate. Now she explores new ways to slash a tee, scrunch a tee, and sew a tee with “Generation T: Beyond Fashion”. A collection of 120 projects for every occasion, it takes the humble yet ever-malleable tee in dozens of new directions, from baby gifts to pet accessories, stuff...
12) Cool clothes
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"Clothing that you can quickly craft yourself? Yes, please! Get ready to upcycle everyday items into cool clothes. Follow along with simple instructions and step-by-step images for fast fun making rad hats, cozy leg warmers, and more. Designed to easily fit into an active classroom session or library visit, it's easy to turn trash to treasure with Crafts in a Snap!"--
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"Turn old jeans into something new and exciting with Hacking Fashion: Fleece. With this book, students learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster creativity and problem solving. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on maker-related concepts they may already know. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information."--...
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"Are you tired of your basic T-shirt? Looking to upgrade your footwear? There's no need to spend big bucks when you can fashion hack it! Flip through these pages to learn how to take your everyday look and make it pop! Easy-to-read, high-interest hacks will engage even the most reluctant reader"--
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Slow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh follows her bestselling book, Mending Matters, with a comprehensive guide to building (and keeping) a wardrobe that matters. Whether you want to repair your go-to jeans, refresh a favorite garment, thrift-shop like a pro, or dye, tailor, and reinvent clothing you already have--this book has all the know-how you'll need. Woven throughout are stories, essays, and a slow fashion call-to-action, encouraging readers...
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