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Author
Publisher
C&T Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
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!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
186 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 227 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A guide to the art, history, and politics of visible mending--at once a practical instruction guide for techniques, a statement on the beauty of repairing and reimagining clothes, and a manifesto against fast fashion. Part manifesto, part how-to, this book persuasively calls for a new way of thinking and handling clothes, flying in the face of the supposedly life-changing magic of throwing them away. Kate Sekules's message is simple: If your sweater...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Stash Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
127 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
iv, 156 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Create a fun, stylish new wardrobe from tired old pieces and found treasures! Cynthia shows you step-by-step how to take what you have on hand and turn it into unique, eco-friendly fashion. --Amazon.com.
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