This spiffy hat and pants (so named by my 5 year old son) were upcycled from a single pair of pants. It was pretty tricky cutting the material for the smaller pants and the hat. But I managed to just fit them all in. For the pants, I just used my son’s pj pants as […] Read more…
Instead of sewing something today for the Kids Clothing Week Challenge, I decided to just embellish. That’s actually a very dangerous word. Too often people go overboard with embellishing. That said, I hope you don’t think these are too much. A little tiger shirt for my son. I borrowed the graphic from his school – […] Read more…
Last night (or rather very, very early this morning), I decided to cut out fabric for a Sienna dress I was going to sew today. And then an hour later I had the dress made. It was very late and I was tired, but I just got so into it. I wanted to finish it. […] Read more…
I cut this fabric over a month ago. Yup. A month ago. It was warm and sunny. I got a little carried away cutting fabric for projects and just placed each into a clean ziploc bag. Well today was the last day of summer (or at least part of the day) and in honor of […] Read more…
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I’m a finalist in The Great Ugly Knit Upcycle! #11 Recycled Haute Couture Check out all the great entries and vote for your favorite! I had so much fun searching for old ugly knits at thrift stores, garage sales and rummage sales. Here’s a closer look at what I did: First I started with these: […] Read more…
