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I almost always recycle my jeans into shorts!
I also like to reinforce buttons (they always feel so loose on new clothes!).
Several old band T-shirts have had the sleeves cut off and made into tank tops. I like to make crop-top T-shirts out of old shirts, too! I used to skateboard, so several of the older ones have holes from where I fell, but I like the design too much to let them go completely.
Have you heard of visible mending? It's the art of mending rips and holes to make them stand out as artistic features. Reddit had a great visible mending community that's unfortunately lacking on lemmy.
Yes!! Great subreddit with great submissions. I really enjoyed seeing the mending projects there.
I think it looks really neat!
It's how I learned to embroider and do shashiko!Maybe I should start a lemmy one.
I'd subscribe to it :)
That makes two of us (....and counting).
My pants always wear through the crotch before the legs. I want to recycle like that, but crotchless pants really aren't my style.
Its incredible what commercial sewing machines can do! They can sew on a button, but what they can't do is tie a knot. So the buttons will work themselves loose eventually. I need to fix a few thanks for the reminder.
Any tips on altering tshirts? Or recommendations on a good website for ideas? I have a bunch of nerdy, gamer, TMNT, bookish shirts that are all just basic Ts. I want to alter them into v-necks and other styles.
I used to have a book Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt but I donated it a long time ago. It was great and I really wish I had kept it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ej9slX36xxlw-qpbInssfgOaaMm6KFbs/view
How about a PDF version of that book for ya?
I don't have many tips myself, I am very much a tackle it with no instructions kind of DIY person hahaha
Sweet! Thank you! That will tide me over until I get a paper copy that I’ve been to lazy to buy lol