A Sew Crafty Welcome!

Sew crafty is made up of myself and my daughters Alicia (8) and Holly (6) (sometimes we have other helping hands like Daddy or friends)

We all learn many things by working on our projects but the most difficult lesson, it seems, is to always finish what you start. When you see a completed project for sale you are also seeing a success story!

We hope you enjoy our projects and ideas!

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Upcycle Mania!

It's been a while since my last post, but boy have I been busy! I have begun what I call Upcycle mania! To Upcycle something is to take something intended for one purpose and change and improve it in some way. It's not complicated ... cutting up old Christmas cards to make tree decorations can be called upcycling. You get the idea.


My current upcycle projects include recycling t shirts into dresses, hoodies, mittens, hats and whatever else I can think of. Today I added a new project - making mittens from recycled sweaters. Here are some pictures of the t shirt dresses and hoodies:







I also made some cute twirl skirts out of recycled t shirts:




I'm working on a few other upcycle projects - I'll post them and a tutorial soon! Drop by again!
Vist my etsy shop: www.SewCraftyRobin.etsy.com to see some of my finished projects.
R