Altering clothes

Learn how to fix your jeans so they don't gap or sag (or show crack when you sit down!). Easy sewing tutorial. How to take in or make the waistband smaller.

I owe a huge hug of gratitude to Kathleen at Grosgrain Fabulous. She posted 30 days of sweater embellishments on her blog. In those tutorials she took the most ho-hum sweaters from Goodwill and turned

I love that collared shirts are in style. They are versatile, comfortable, and can easily dress up a casual outfit. Unfortunately, however, I don't have many. And most that I do have are too short for today's style. So I decided to hit the local thrift store in search of men's shirts (so they'd be nice and long) to alter to my needs. Here is the man-shirt pre-altering. I bought this on half-off at Goodwill for $3. Pretty big and shape-less, huh? But it has good arm length and fun, unusual…

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Need to make your dress bigger without using extra fabric? Follow this step by step guide and learn how to let out a dress!

Greetings my friends and a big Aussie hello to you all today. I hope that you learnt a new fitting technique from the previous post How to Lengthen Your Back Rise in relation to the new Harper Pants Pattern. For today’s post I am going to share with you the method on shortening your front [...]

When your favorite dress no longer fits, not to worry because learning how to make a dress bigger is a lot easier than you think. In fact, knowing how to make a dress bigger by adding fabric is one of the easiest ways to enlarge the size of your dress.

Before tossing out those pants with the hole in the knee or the shirt with a stain, give them new life! Here's how to upcycle old clothing!

Hey y'all, today we're going to talk about denim jackets, or more specifically how to alter a jean jacket. Why would you want to alter one? Well, in my case it all has to do