If you love sewing and clothing, and want to save good textiles from landfill, The Art Of Refashioning will inspire you to create clothing in a new, eco way! Join fashion upcycler Mariana Kirova and discover how to upcycle/recycle 'old' clothes into beautiful new styles yourself. Explore how to get started, how to re-design and work with colours. Find out creative solutions for reworking existing clothing without being a dressmaker, know pattern drafting or use commercial patterns. Join the DIY sewists that revolutionise how we rethink and create clothing!
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If you love sewing and clothing, and want to save good textiles from landfill, The Art Of Refashioning will inspire you to create clothing in a new, eco way! Join fashion upcycler Mariana Kirova and discover how to upcycle/recycle 'old' clothes into beautiful new styles yourself. Explore how to get started, how to re-design and work with colours. Find out creative solutions for reworking existing clothing without being a dressmaker, know pattern drafting or use commercial patterns. Join the DIY sewists that revolutionise how we rethink and create clothing!
EP 12: Refashion Using ‘One New From Two Old’ Technique
The Art Of Refashioning
17 minutes 17 seconds
4 years ago
EP 12: Refashion Using ‘One New From Two Old’ Technique
Find all links, projects and now also a video of this episode on the website:
https://www.ecofashionsewing.com/about-upcycling/ways-to-refashion-clothes-with-one-new-from-two-old-technique/
It's exciting to dive deeper into the ways to refashion clothes with the 'One New From Two Old' technique. It's one of my favourite!
Although often too simple at a glance, this upcycling technique is a clever method to make old clothes work for you once again.
The 'One New From Two Old' technique, as I called it, has potential to deliver amazing results... when you do it right. Hence, my top tips at the end of the episode.
Furthermore, you'll enjoy (hopefully;) different example refashions while I'm explaining how to get creative easier following the technique.
In the video you'll see me wearing an upcycle project I can't get enough of (more photos of me wearing it on the website)! It is a great example how mixing two mainstream and boring on its own items have hidden potential to turn an absolutely amazing new combo!
In a nutshell, method simple to apply, promising eye catching results, and resulting in completely unique you potentially adore for years to come.
Well, all that while challenging your creativity, of course. But isn't that the most fun?
Check some action steps you could do now at the end of the article on the website.
Mariana x
The Art Of Refashioning
If you love sewing and clothing, and want to save good textiles from landfill, The Art Of Refashioning will inspire you to create clothing in a new, eco way! Join fashion upcycler Mariana Kirova and discover how to upcycle/recycle 'old' clothes into beautiful new styles yourself. Explore how to get started, how to re-design and work with colours. Find out creative solutions for reworking existing clothing without being a dressmaker, know pattern drafting or use commercial patterns. Join the DIY sewists that revolutionise how we rethink and create clothing!