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To enter go to the whiplash page – see button on your right – and read for instructions.
There are three categories to enter:
Tutorial:
I love a good tutorial – these must have clear photos or illustrations and good detailed instructions, the project can be simple or complicated – can be a deconstruct/reconstruct project or a embellish/decorate project but the main criteria is how easy the tutorial is to follow.
deconstruct/reconstruct:
This involves taking a piece of clothing – yours or someone elses and changing it in some way – you might like to turn some old pants or jeans into a skirt, or take a baggy t’shirt and make it fitted and funky, or turn your old clothes into new clothes for your children, or take that old shirt with the gorgeous fabric and do something fun with it … Before and after photos please
embellish/decorate:
This involves taking a good but plain item of clothing and enhancing it in some way – you might like to embroider or bead some detail, edge or trim the cuffs or hem, or crochet a collar or cuffs, silkscreen or handpaint a design… Before and after photos please
Resources:
Wardrobe refashion check out the side bar for lots of resources and read the entries for great ideas
fiftyRX3 good ideas and links
what the craft check out the patterns
generation T will be reviewing the book and offering it as a prize too – the website has some free tutorials to get you started.
sew whats new some great how-to if you are new at sewing also advanced techniques too.
craftster search for tutorial or altered clothing
wists search for tutorial or altered clothing
Prizes:
Book:
Megan Nicolay, Generation T; 108 ways to transform a T-shirt, donated by Workman publishing and generaton T.
There’s a new revolution in town – a T-shirt revolution. … Generation T; 108 ways to transform a T-shirt is the new bible for the legion of hip, urban, craft-it-yourself teens and 20-somethings rebelling against cookie-cutter apparel and mass-produced fashions.
patterns:
3 patterns from Amy Butler – for the Cabo Halter top and the gypsy fashion set.
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UGH i cant believe you are giving away the book by sew fast so sleazy after what they have done to the knitting community.
Yikes…is it a good idea to be supporting the whole Sew Fast, Sew Easy thing after the way they tried to hijack the “Stitch & Bitch” term from the local groups, and how nasty they’ve been to Debbie Stoller and the knitters?
I love this topic and all, but the ethics of that particular company just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I have reconsidered offering sew fast sew easy book as a prize – not wanting to endorse the controversy surrounding the trade marking issue. But in the interests of impartiality I will be reviewing the book – as one of whipups goals is to provide impartial commentary on what is happening in the craft world.
I can understand wanting to stay impartial. I guess for me, I just kind of squick at companies that do unethical things and try to put happy pro-crafter faces on it while their actions are totally the opposite of their public “goals”, y’know?
For me, at least, I’d rather give my money to an equally-good resource that doesn’t try to sue local crafting groups, in order to encourage the positive behaviours over the ethically-questionable.
wow! thanks for mentioning my site under resources. i’ll try to be worthy. AND the admiration is mutual.
hello from germany,
would you please tell me the deadline for the wardrobe-surgery. I want to join the competition but can’t find this information!
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