Don’t things just seem extra special when you know they’re one of a kind?

These men’s sweatshirts are handcrafted at Brooklyn Industries. They also have a ladies line of one of a kind items which can be found over here.

These skirt are from Muumuu Heaven Hawaii, where old muumuus are given new life in these one of a kind designs. From their website:

Muumuu Heaven is a family-run business that uses vintage Hawaiian aloha wear to create fabulous, one of a kind, eco-concious fashions.

Of course, another way to have a truly unique one of a kind item is to sew/knit/embellish it yourself.

This top found (with handy instructions) at whatthecraft.com.

First of all, let’s just start with the fact that the pattern for the great wrap-around skirt shown above is FREE, thanks to the fabulous Fitz patterns. There are some other great free gems over at Fitz, which, incidentally, is an indie source for sewing patterns that thankfully breaks away from the same-old-same-old, to come up with some really unique pattern ideas. And even the ones that aren’t free are a steal-of-a-deal at around $2.00-$3.00 AUD each.

The pattern for this cute top, for example, is $3.00 AUD, and that includes the pattern for the coordinating ra-ra skirt. The patterns come as downloadable PDF documents in a large format, and then you have the file printed at a print shop.

So, to summarize: affordable, no waiting for it to arrive via snail mail, and clearly the most important part: really really great looking patterns.

Remember these recycled fabric bags from tiny happy?

Did you want one as much as I did? Well now you can make your own! This great new tutorial from tiny happy will show you how. I followed the directions as closely as can be expected from a girl who usually just looks at the pictures, and this is how my bag turned out:

The instructions were quite easy to follow, and there was only one tricky part (where you sew the two straps together at the top) but you are warned of this before you start that particular step, which I appreciated. If I am not told outright that something is going to be tricky, I just sit there going “what in the hey-hey am I doing wrong?”, So that was very helpful. Also nice about this tutorial is that it’s pretty darn quick. I made this bag in a short afternoon’s crafting time, if that translates at all.

In other tutorial testing news, the old-pants-to-new-skirt tutorial posted here on whip up in April was used recently over at gleek.net to make these three great skirts:

I’m loving the one with the emboridery.

And in other tutorial links (although I’ve not seen this one tested or tried it myself) an oversized t-shirt to halter top transformation from instructables:

Link via Make Blog

Gorgeous bags from recycled fabric found over at tiny happy.

Perfectly dressed up t-shirt from Knappy Knits.

And this great skirt by Nichola, whom, along with Rachael, recently started the awesome group blog Wardrobe Refashion whereI found this skirt, as well as the links to the two projects above.

I myself am not brave enough at the moment to take the wardrobe refashion pledge, but that doesn’t stop me from being inspired by the creative ideas showing up over there! There are so many more great projects already being posted on the site, from smocks, to tees, to hats, and the challenge hasn’t even officially begun. This round of wardrobe refashion officially begins on June 1st, and if your as excited as I am to see what great ideas people come up with, check it out over here.