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National Sewing Month: My Favorite Video Tutorial

September 25, 2011 by AllFreeSewing

Dear Readers,

It’s National Sewing Month! To celebrate, AllFreeSewing.com is hosting a special blog series throughout the entire month. Check back daily for posts featuring our favorite projects, new sewing videos and tutorials, guest blogs from talented designers and more. We’re also giving away a HUGE sewing prize at the end of the month. You won’t believe how EASY it is to WIN!

Leave a comment on any of the blog posts with the headline “National Sewing Month”. Your comment will count as an entry into the giveaway. You are free to comment as often as once per blog post (for a total of 30 chances to win!). At the end of the month, we’ll pool all of the comments together and pick one lucky winner to win the mystery grand prize. And trust us; you want to win this one!

Whether you’re already a sewing enthusiast or new to the craft, our hope is that this September will encourage you to create wonderful sewn projects.

Happy National Sewing Month!

Here’s today’s post:

I’m so proud of myself.  This week I did the one thing I dread most out of all my household chores.  I cleaned out my closet.  And I don’t mean I just picked some shirts up off the floor or arranged my shoes in a row.  No, I turned my closet upside down, weeding out all of the things I don’t wear anymore and figuring out what I have left in terms of a winter wardrobe.

Now, the one highlight of closet cleaning for me is the chance to find clothes I’d forgotten about and figure out fun ways to refashion them.  I absolutely love the idea of turning something old and outdated into something fabulously new and fashionable.

That’s why when I came across this sweater that I bought at the mall on clearance two Christmases ago, I was psyched because I had the perfect idea in mind for what to turn it into!
Now the sweater itself isn’t SO bad… it’s just that I don’t see myself wearing it this year.  I’m sort of over ruffles at this point.  But I LOVE the color and wanted a way to wear it as an accessory of some sort.  I figured a headband would be a nice way to show off not only the pretty coral color, but also the nice, soft fabric.

Knowing I wanted to turn my old sweater into a headband, I decided to head to the Internet for ideas.  Lucky for me, I found this awesome tutorial almost right off the bat!  It shows you how to take the sleeves of a sweater and sew them into a fabulous looking headband, and all in just about five steps.  Perfect!  And not only is the headband itself cute, it’s also jazzed up with a fun and flirty flower, also made from sweater remnants.

 

I’m planning to make my sweater headband tonight and I can’t wait to wear it to work and show off my handiwork to all of my coworkers!

If you want to try your hand at a sweater refashion project, here’s the awesome video tutorial:

Tell us:  Have you ever turned old clothes into fun, new accessories?  What did you make?

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