How-To: Holiday Jumper Dress
Make a handmade holiday dress for your favorite little gal with this holiday jumper dress tutorial from Kat at Sew Chibi!
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How-To: Wrapped Bodice Dress
There’s something that I find incredibly intriguing about a DIY project that includes instructions for keeping a pair of scissors at the ready on the bedside table. This wrapped bodice dress tutorial from Geneva at A Pair and a Spare will show you how to make a stunning dress by twisting and tucking brightly colored […]
How-To: Five Tea Towel Dress
Sachiko at Tea Rose Home created this beautiful little dress from a package of five assorted tea towels. I only wish they made tea towels much larger, so I can have one in my size, too! Take a look at her lovingly-photographed tutorial – her process for turning towels into garment is simple and ingenious.
Duchamp Urinal Dress
For a mere $2,607 you too could be a walking work of couture art with … yes, this happened … The Urinal Dress, inspired by Duchamp’s famous 1917 readymade, Fountain. London designer Philip Colbert created the dress as part of his Venus in Sequins collection, which also includes inspiration from Pop notables such as Warhol […]
CRAFT Pattern: Splash Swimsuit Cover-Up
by Nikol Lohr Cool, whisper-soft, and silky, this breezy lace cover-up is as comfortable to knit at the beach as it is to wear there. Worked in soft, gently luxuriant Lorna’s Laces Pearl, a 50/50 silk and bamboo blend, Splash knits up quickly with a simple old shale lace pattern that coaxes excellent mileage from […]
Six and a Half Stitches’ Silk Draped Dress
I love blogs where the author not only loves to craft, but loves to write. I want great projects, but they need well-crafted text and stunning photography. Enter SixAndAHalfStitches. This post about how she created a silk dress isn’t just a post, it’s a beautiful vignette about the author’s creative process. Oh, and btw, I’d […]
How-To: Sew a Ruffle Dress and Skirt
By Christine Haynes This project is like learning to make a whole closet full of skirts and dresses. Follow the steps and you’ll have a simple dress or skirt that is endlessly alterable. For the dress, you can make it as a halter, with shoulder ties, with straps, or strapless. The skirt is made […]
