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Extreme sewing makeover: the upcycled jean

I was the kind of girl who enjoy making room in her closet by throwing away half of its content. I was giving everything that I didn’t like and I was buying something new instead. Until I find myself...

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Just another jeans makeover

The second jeans is passed through the scissors and emerged in a cool sleeveless top. I like to up-cycle jeans, those of high quality and resistant denim. When you see all the seams and stitches, you...

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A very green shirt

The recycling series takes another step today: the almost zero carbon foot print. In order to accomplish this difficult objective, I took a piece of menswear that conveys so many possibilities: the...

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A leather jacket becomes a skirt

In thrift stores you can find wonderful clothes. You only need to rummage through thousand piles and hangers and not be too precise in what are you looking for. Call it «serendipity mood» or the hunger...

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A pleating affair

What I also like about upcycling is, that sometimes we only need to change a tiny detail to get a very different result. Today’s refashion is part of this category, unspectacular but effective. It took...

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A dress like a skirt

During the spring cleaning of my closet, I preferred to refresh rather than donate some of my dresses. The one I show you today is a black dress, fitted at the waist, with a cowl neck. A dress that I...

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A ruffled shirt

After my last sewing project, which was long and complex, I wanted to obtain a more immediate gratification. Therefore, upcycling a man shirt was the perfect project. The idea of this refashion came...

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Recycled pants

You’re not going to thought I had completely abandoned my sewing machine for pajama parties, right? Dressing for the night is good, but dressing for the day is even better: it stirs a bit more my...

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Fully Fashioned, the creative challenge launched by ARTE

Fully Fashioned is a competition organized by ARTE Creative, the think tank of the Franco-German TV channel. The aim is to present and reward the best clothing upcycling, the most original refashion....

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Summer upcycling

It‘s been a while that my articles were revolving around geometry and were becoming a little too serious. I was keen on sharing with you lighter and more inspiring posts. Normally, summer sewing...

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A ruffled shirt

After a summer break in the mountains, I find little by little the desire to get back to my normal activities. However, the return to the reality of automn remains difficult, hence my very short post....

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The long life of a shirt

I’m on my 5th man shirt upcycling, I guess I like the exercise enough. Wrinkle it, ruffle it, turn it upside down, there are so many possibilities when refashioning a shirt. I took a thick chambray...

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Striped shirt

There is always a striped shirt in your boyfriend dressing. As stripes mix with almost everything, he is going to put this shirt very often and thus wear it out more than the others. In this precise...

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Checkered shirt

I present you today a quick and simple refashion of a checkered shirt that showed signs of fatigue at the collar. I started by cutting the sleeves in three and stitching together the 1st with the 3rd...

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Striped dress

Since I am now a collector of recycled men’s shirts, I will show you another refashion application of the shirt: the dress. I wanted the simplest way. So I cut the collar and sleeves of a striped...

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Another striped dress

As the thermometer still shows summer temperatures in Paris, I take this opportunity to present you another transformation that I made this summer and that suits this hot weather perfectly. It was a...

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A backless top in a shirt

My penultimate upcycling goes back a year ago … the summer of 2017 was full of transformations of shirts as you can see here, here or here and here …. Since, since I lacked the raw material, I had to...

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A reversed shirt

For me, the summer sewing officially begins with a transformation of shirt … the cotton suits hot wheater so well like the one which pass right now on Paris. I collect beautiful worn shirts all the...

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A shirt for a dress

After the last transformation, I was running out of ideas for the remaining shirts I had in stock. But there is no other rule for inspiration, other than waiting for the right moment. One Sunday...

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The checkered shirt

The lockdown gave us more time at home, but not necessarily more motivation or ideas. As far as I am concerned, I cannot be creative while being anxious. However, from these past 6 weeks there are two...

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