How to make a mini Strapless Lace Dress. Easy Hooded Fleece Cape for Children or Adults. Take the remainder of your fabric and decide which way you want your cape to flow.
Most fleece is about 44 inches wide off the bolt, which is sufficiently wide enough for most adults. If you want a larger cape or more flow, use the yardage as your width instead of the 44 inches (for instance, if you purchased 2 yards of fabric and cut 15 inches off the end for the hood, your cape will be 57 inches wide). Fold the fabric in half widthwise, right sides out, and lay flat. Decide how long you want your cape to be, measure that height on the fabric and cut in a straight line across to trim of the excess fabric (I used a rectangle approximately 25 by 18 inches for the baby cape).
Trim the bottom and front edges of the fabric so that the bottom front corner of the cape is rounded. Teeny Tiny Fold-Up Shopping Tote. Like most refashionistas out there, we try to do our part to recycle, eliminate waste, and reduce consumption.
But sometimes, despite our best intentions, we don't remember to bring our reusable totebag to the grocery store. "Beating" LED Heart T-Shirt. Upcycle a Men's Shirt into a Retro Summer Blouse. How to make a Layered Tulle Dress. Transform your old boots into fashionable furry boots. Reconstruct your t-shirt with lace sleeves. Geek Earrings: Instructables Robot, Totoro, Gir, Triforce, and Wiimotes!
I wanted to make some very personalized and funky earrings to give to my little sister.
She loves all the classics--Zelda, Totoro, Nintendo, Invader Zim, Robots, etc., and generally loves to wear anything that screams loud and proud to the world "I LOVE THIS STUFF!! " While her backpack, t-shirts, shoes, shoelaces, necklaces, and hats all carry the stamps of various anime and video game titles, her ears remained sadly unadorned. Luckily I stepped up to include her ears in the party. This instructable covers how to make awesome Instructables Robot earrings to show off your love for Instructables. Once you know the basic process of attaching pieces, firing, and painting the clay, the other geek earrings are easy to make! Recycled Dress. This dress is made completely out of recycled materials.
Although it's a bit time consuming, it's absolutely FREE! Materials Used: Top: - Newspaper - Glossy Mod Podge (you can get this at walmart, hobby lobby or you can make it yourself) Cut out the frame of the top from newspaper. Begin to decoupage newspaper on top of that to thicken up the base. once the base is thick enough, cut strips of colorful newspaper and decoupage them onto the base of the top. Duct Tape Top Hat. Funky Feathered Keds.
DIY Convertible Dress. Barefoot Running Plasti-Socks. Box Pleat Apron. Cut one piece 60 x 17 inches.
How to make a simple asymmetric T-shirt. Retro Reconstructed Dress. I found a big skirt at a vintage shop that was made of a beautiful fabric, so I bought it with the intention of making a 1940’s style inspired dress.
This is the process of the reconstruction. Step 1: Making the Pattern For the bodice, I drafted my own pattern roughly based on a couple of different patterns, adding my own alterations through trial and error. I arrived at my own design after several sample pieces. Step 2: Cutting the Skirt For the construction phase, I started by cutting off the waistband of the original skirt. Step 3: Making the Bodice. Bacon Egg Scarf/Hoodie. Keep warm with your favorite food items!
Bacon and eggs Step 1: Materials! 1) white sweatshirt with hood that fits (cheap at used clothing store) 2) scissors/fabric cutter 3) needle and thread (yellow and maroon) 4) felt (9 x 12" yellow, maroon and cream colored were used, depending on bacon color you may choose to use pink felt) 5) hot glue (optional, not shown but used) Step 2: Cutting Up the Sweatshirt. Zipper Purse. How to make a fashionable long sleeve blouse.
DIY Sleeveless Button Down Shirt. T-shirt reconstruction inspired by Prada Spring Summer 2011 Striped dress. Make a Dress from a Button-Down Shirt. Sew Your Own Feather Mohawk. How to make a T-shirt Dress. Gathered Summer Dress. Lithium Rain Radiant Beacon of Righteousness (Blinking I-hoodie) The only thing you can't buy from the shiney new Apple Store is an I-hoodie, an Instructablized version of the hoodie with light up logos of the instructables hand and the Apple Macintosh* logo.
This is the Instruct-intosh version hoodie, well, it can be any garment or accessory like a light up Instructables Hand-bag (maybe next time). I do not have conductive thread nor electroluminescent panels so this is a ghetto version of making light up stuff to bedazzle your clothing. This was going to be the I-Pear logo from ICarly TV show but that looked like it was from Disney so I picked the lesser of two evils.
By the way, remember me? How to make a long line asymmetric top. Narnian Duct Tape Vest. How to convert a T-shirt into a Bikini Cover up. Customizable Fleece Hats. Fashionable Holes. How to make Superhero Arm Warmers from an old T-shirt. This original arm warmer project is from Megan Nicolay of Generation T, an exclusive blogger for iLoveToCreate!
This T-shirt transformation project is my favorite of the accessories in my first book. They're super easy to stitch up in an afternoon, and even easier to embellish with iron-on glitter sheets--which seriously increase the superhero factor. These arm warmers are especially good for: 1) Completing late night deadlines (reports, papers, presentations, tax filing, etc.). 2) Healing goose-bumped flesh in the over-air-conditioned spaces of warm-weather climates. 3) Protecting long-armed folks from that pesky draft caused by the gap between the glove and sleeve in cold weather climates. 4) Shielding the knuckles of bicyclists from biting winds when they ride really fast. 5) Executing superhero power stances.
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This instructable comes to you from the creative mind of the newly Mrs. Awajiman, who wanted to add a whimsical, personal touch to my groom's outfit on our wedding day. Backstory Our wedding was held at San Francisco Airport Aviation Museum, an unexpectedly stunning and somewhat offbeat venue in the heart of the SFO international departures terminal. Since it is a functioning museum and library, there were strict restrictions on floral vendors and the type of flower arrangements that could be brought in, which led us to ultimately decide for a flowerless wedding. Mrs. Ghillie Shoes for Your Renaissance Faire Costume. Cheap Easy Sew Pants. DIY Christian Louboutin "Petal" Bag.
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