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Its always important to have a storage box/bag of sewing tools, notions, and supplies to use when your inspirational moments occur. I call these items the Survival Sewing Kit, the things you should try to keep in your sewing box or storage bin. You don't.....

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One of the easiest ways of expressing your own design abilities is with
t-shirts. This chapter will give you the basics for tailoring your own exciting fit as well as how to go about all sorts of embellishment techniques that work really well when creating.....

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Basic Fitting & Shaping Techniques for T-shirts
Slicing & Cutting as a Styling Technique
Inserting Pieces of Interesting Fabric
Using Sequins for a Sprinkle of Sparkle
Sewing in Decorative Zippers
Turning an Old Baseball T-shirt into a Halter Top
Using Heat Transfers to Personalize Your T-shirt
Tips on Tinting and Dying Fabrics

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Sweatshirts and sweaters can be transformed into new styles very easily. This chapter will show you techniques on how to reconstruct, deconstruct and trim. Sweatshirts are made out of fleece, a knitted jersey fabric that is generally brushed on the wrong...

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A Fast, Easy Sweatshirt Cardigan
Adding Fake Fur Trim to a Hoodie
Making a Simple Applique Design for Your Sweatshirt
Quick Techno Applique
Turn Two Old Sweatshirts into a Wrap Sweatshirt
Sweaters - Mix & Match
Create a Shrung Out of a Button-Front Cardigan Sweater
Sweater Tote

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There are many changes you can make to your pants, trousers, and jeans to turn them into a new style. Depending on the fashion trends of the season, pants go to through dramatic changes, from high waist to way below the belly button, wide leg to pencil....

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Add a Tuxedo Strip to Your Trousers
Turn Straight Legs into Bell Bottoms
Turn Khaki Pants into Cropped Pants or Bermuda Shorts
Adding Lacing to the Side Seams of Jeans
Adding Patches
Give Jeans a Bleached & Worn-Out Look
Adding Whiskers to Jeans
How to Shorten Your Jeans Without Loosing the Original Hem

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The styling of skirts has gone through so many radical changes since the early 1900s Gibson girl look with the separation of the dress into a skirt, from 1920s flappers to 1930s glamour to the 1940s when skirts made their debut in uniforms to the 1960s....

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The Classic Jean Skirt
Framing Using a Sequin Patch
Fringe the Hems of Any Cutoff Skirt - Even an Old Wool Skirt
Using Elastic for a Gathered or Ruched, Effect
Adding Twill Tape Racing Stripes
Adding Velvet Ribbons
Tapering a Full Skirt into a Pencil Skirt
Turn an Old Dress into a New Skirt