Need a closet refreshener, or maybe just a fun night of DIY with the chicas? Here are some easy ways to add personality to your garments. Have fun and be careful with those scissors!
1. Make a Stenciled Frida Tee. Directions here.
2. Add ruffles to a boring blouse.
3. Color on cotton fabric and then glue or sew them as appliques.
5. Use fabric markers to color a plain silk slip
6. Use letter stamps to add your favorite song lyrics to a dress or skirt.
7. Revamp a men’s dress shirt into a frock. Visit the thrift shop or raid your pop’s closet and get busy! Here are the directions!
8. Ombre-dye your jeans! If you haven’t tried this technique by now, it’s about time. BoiFromIpanema demos how (a video!)
9. Add glittered penguins. Just because.
10. Add patterns to your clothes using yarn dipped in dye.
11. Use plastic Mexican papel picado banners as stencils.
12. Cut up your old t-shirts and sew them into a scarf.
13. Cut out word stencils and use fabric spray.
15. Add crystals and glitter to an existing shirt.
16. Press white paint to get the look of batik.
17. Add appliques to a shirt or dress.
18. Use cardboard designs with fabric spray.
19. Transform a Mexican embroidery dress into a blouse.
20. Add glow-in-the-dark paint to shoes, a shirt or dress. Have fun with the design!
These are such fabulous ideas–thank you for sharing! You are soooooo creative!!
Happy Left Handed Day!!!!
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Neat idea on way to reuse fashionable clothes.