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Refashioning

How to fix a hole-y shirt without really fixing it

November 16, 2010

Today’s post is going to be a quickie (but hopefully it’ll be helpful!). I apologize in advance for the many color variations in the following photos. Who knew green was so hard to photograph?? It confuses my camera mightily. So, Lisey had this long-sleeved hand-me-down shirt, and somehow, a hole happened in the sleeve area. [...]

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Pants to Ruffly Skirt Tutorial

October 12, 2010

When I shared the photos of Lisey’s ruffly skirt with you, several of you requested a photo tutorial.  I aim to please, so I hacked up another pair of Lisey’s worn-out khakis to make another skirt and this time, I took pictures. I did the various steps of this skirt in different areas of my [...]

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What to do with the cut-off part of cut-offs: Make a bag!

August 10, 2010

After I made Lisey’s pink Gap pants into cut-off shorts for her, I decided I wanted to make something out of the pant legs, since they were in fairly good shape below the ripped knee portions.  I’ve made stuffed animal sleeping bags out of pant legs before, but this time I decided to make a [...]

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Oh, cut-offs! How I love you!

August 6, 2010

Sometimes when pants start to wear out, especially in the knee area, I like to make skirts (I make plain ones and I recently made a ruffle version).  Cute though they are, skirts are definitely not the fastest way to reuse hole-y pants.  No, if speed is the name of the game, cut-offs totally rock. [...]

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More Refashioning: Old Khakis = Ruffle Skirt

June 22, 2010

Can you tell it’s summertime? I’ve been using my sewing machine a lot more than usual because now that we’re on break from homeschooling, I actually have something approaching free time. Ahhh.  I love summer (not so much the weather…just the break from school!). Anyways, I’ve been slowly working through my pile of clothes to [...]

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