I love working with t-shirt fabric. Its stretchy, already hemmed, and cheap to buy. I bought three yellow shirts from a local thrift shop, and made it into a skirt. I chose different shades to shake it up a bit. I cut the shirts horizontally just under the armpit and up the side seams so I had six rectangles. I…
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I found an awesome, vintage dress at the local thrift shop with interesting panels on the front. The only problem was, it had ugly long sleeves and an ugly high neck. I bought it and cut the sleeves making them into cute puffy sleeves. The neck I cut and put a new facing in to finish the edge. Its a…
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My other brother told me about the twister dress. His friend had made a skirt out of the plastic twister mat. I got a dress pattern and made the dress. I put it together with duct tape and even put a zipper down the back. It was really hard too make but it’s so fun! I wore it a couple…
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I don’t remember how I got this idea but I decided to cover shoes with girl faces cut out from magazines. I had lots of fun finding the craziest faces I could find. I had leather shoes to cover, but I couldn’t think of a way to glue them on. Most glue isn’t flexible so it wouldn’t work. My dad…
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I wanted my formal dresses to be different from everyone else because I feel like at my school everyone always looked the same. I bought a cheap, simple, modest A-line royal blue dress and a discount store. I wore a poofy slip with it and added a pale yellow to the bottom. I used a lot of fabric and gathered…
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