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To start off this Halloween season, Threadbanger.com visited the Broadway show Wicked and met with Tony award winning costume designer Susan Hilferty. She showed us just how unbelievably intricate each costume is and how they’re made to last through hundreds of shows. Every costume is hand made with experiment in mind. Susan compares it to being a jazz musician. It’s trial and error, thinking and rethinking, but when it works– it’s a whole new level of design. On Threadbanger’s Friday How-to, Corinne teaches you how to make an inspired witch costume and it may be her most dramatic and detailed make to date! Check out the videos at Threadbanger.com.

From Kendra at threadbanger.

Rob Czar from Threadbanger.com got the skinny from Naughty Secretary Jennifer Perkins– the founder of The Naughty Secretary Club. Vintage connoisseur, jewelry designer extraordinaire and savvy business woman, Jennifer rekindled her love of making jewelry after abandoning the real world of secretaries.

With a motto of, “If I stare at something long enough, I can make a piece of jewelry out of it” Jennifer has a style of nostalgia, vintage, and hullabaloo. She makes everything from brooches to bracelets, out of anything from little plastic French fries to “Abe was a Babe” pendants. Recently she put out a book, The Naughty Secretary Club: The Working Girl’s Guide to Handmade Jewelry, featuring beautiful work that’s been featured in Elle, Lucky, and more. Check out her book and interview to see how decorative possibilities exist everywhere.

Guest post Kendra from threadbanger

Thread Heads were challenged this month by the Janome Sewing Machine Contest. To win, viewers had to send in one of two videos – either explaining why they need a sewing machine or their best DIY tutorial.

The response was incredible with over a hundred submissions from extremely talented and devoted DIY-ists from all over the world. Threadbanger dedicated an entire week to showing their videos and in the end gave away three sewing machines instead of just two.

The talented winners were Mateusz Krol in Poland, Georgeanna Hall in Korea, and Zachary Hutchinson and Kearsten Hall from the U.S.A. For those who didn’t win or enter, the Threadbanger sewing machines are available on the Threadbanger website under Sewing Machines.

Contest entries: Tuesday: Janome Sewing Machine Contest Submission: Thursday: Viewer Lesson: How to Make a Zipper Shirt: Friday: Janome Contest Winners: How to Make a Rad Shirt:

From Kendra at Threadbanger

This week on Décor It Yourself, Meg Allen gives a great and easy tutorial on how to make “Save the Date” cards for a DIY wedding.

These of course can be translated for any event in which invitations are in order:

First, take some left over card stock and a rich colored contact paper. Draw the words “Save the Date” and the date of your affair on the back of the contact paper.

Cut out the words neatly and arrange on four pieces of card stock. Then head to a photo booth and get snappin’. With a little computer arrangement and scanning of the strip(s) you like best, they can easily be turned into the front of a post card invitation.

Color adjust, size, and align your photos for a postcard template with a nice and easy greeting on the back for your friends and family. Four postcards can fit on one piece of paper. Easy and inexpensive for a personal and charming DIY wedding.

To see the full tutorial and check out the highlights of the week visit Threadbanger.com.

Steampunk fashion has made quite an impact on the Threadbanger site with a whole week dedicated to it. Steampunk is a subculture of fantasy and speculative fiction in which the steam technology and style of the Victorian era combine with inventions of the modern day technology. This lifestyle is both very futuristic in the sense of innovation, yet retro in fashion and materials used.

This week on Threadbanger, you’ll find 4 tutorials on how to re-create steampunk fashion and decor.

Steampunk Goggles :: Steampunk Gloves :: DIY Terrarium :: Steampunk Outfit

Also, the good folks over at Indy Mogul made a DIY Steampunk binoculars video.

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From Lindsey Chen at Threadbanger

Ciao everyone! It’s back to school- so this week threadbanger has an awesome tutorial on how to make a killer backpack out of an old suit jacket. … And check out their new sewing machines thanks to Janome.

About the author: Kendra is a native southerner from Atlanta, Georgia and instinctive writer and crafter. She’s been working with threadbanger since August 2007 and is still at it.

This week on Threadbanger, they bring back the Compai Sisters, the creators of the 99 Ways Book Series (Rock Your Scarf, Deck Out Your Denim and Tie Your T-Shirt into Something Special). They give a really fun and easy tutorial about how to embellish a tank top for a cool new summer look. And check out their Janome Contest where they are giving away TWO sewing machines!

Look out for more posts by Kendra – production assistant at threadbanger.