Projects

Upcycling Project – Green Cotton Top

Before So here’s the first project I’m tackling for this series: a way-too-small lime-green cotton top, which has excellent seams and binding, and some very attractive pintucking detail. My personal interest, with upcycling, is to exploit what’s already beautiful. Why spend time on pintucking when someone has already done such a good job of it? [...]

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My 2012 Upcycling Projects

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I’ve been shopping. It’s so much easier to cut up other people’s clothes (although the police have asked me to stop) than my own, so I took off to my local charity shop, St Christopher’s Hospice. Can you believe they were having a 50% off sale? That meant I spent just £25 for 3 bags [...]

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