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From the lens Recycle & Reconstruct Old Clothes Into a Fashionable Wardrobe.

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  • LadyJasmine Aug 26, 2011 @ 3:19 pm | delete
    Just so you know I enjoyed your lens, so I blessed it and featured it here: http://www.squidoo.com/back-to-school-blessings
  • Obscure_Treasures Feb 16, 2011 @ 4:58 am | delete
    Wonderful ideas of utilizing your old clothes! Keep sharing more...
  • Cath1125 Feb 15, 2011 @ 11:50 am | delete
    Brilliant lense. Lots of useful tips.
  • moonlitta Feb 8, 2011 @ 12:39 pm | delete
    Here's a thumbs up for an irresistible lens!
  • Koupie Feb 4, 2011 @ 4:52 pm | delete
    Lot's and lot's you can do with those old clothes, love this lens :)
  • totalhealth Jan 31, 2011 @ 1:51 pm | delete
    i never throw old clothes because i always try to find ways on to to reuse the. you have here lots of very useful resources, thanks a lot for all these great ideas
  • spider-girl Jan 30, 2011 @ 10:22 am | delete
    Wow what a great lens! Quite helpful for me!
  • Kimbesa Jan 24, 2011 @ 10:18 pm | delete
    I love upcycling! Thanks and **angel blessed**!
  • lasertek Jan 17, 2011 @ 4:40 am | delete
    Great ideas! We have never tried reconstructing old clothes. What we usually do is hand over the old clothing to those who need it most.
  • CCGAL Jan 16, 2011 @ 11:23 pm | delete
    I'm surprised that this is listed in healthy living, but I guess I don't quite get all of the new categories yet. Anyway, I am just stopping back to leave a little angel dust. ***Blessed***
  • StephanieB-Writer Jan 15, 2011 @ 10:42 pm | delete
    this is great! I love upcycling! Thank You!
  • JodiVee Jan 15, 2011 @ 10:18 am | delete
    I'm actually a snob when it comes to clothing -- I buy it from the retailer. But after reading your lens, I'm thinking I should give thrift a try. Frugality is a good thing, especially in this economy.

    (JobVirtue.com)
  • ezpostcard Dec 21, 2010 @ 8:51 am | delete
    I love the dolls and toys. Wish I knew how to make one.
  • tembrooke Dec 14, 2010 @ 7:56 pm | delete
    Great resources here, and a wonderful topic. Blessed!
  • louiswery Nov 14, 2010 @ 4:19 pm | delete
    Ingenious! We need to adopt your ideas at our place!!!
  • BuckHawk Nov 13, 2010 @ 10:43 am | delete
    My daughter is the one in our family who can take a couple of old clothing items and create a new something from that. I have to share this with her! So many great ideas. Angel Blessed and featured on Angel Wings November 2010.
  • Ener-G Nov 12, 2010 @ 11:40 am | delete
    Blessed by a frumpy angel!
  • AmbrosiaPopsicle Nov 11, 2010 @ 7:06 pm | delete
    Helping the planet Earth and looking good. Perfect :)
  • AmbrosiaPopsicle Nov 11, 2010 @ 7:05 pm | delete
    A wonderful way to help the Earth and stay looking good. Thank you! :)
  • AHERMITT Nov 11, 2010 @ 11:30 am | delete
    love the hoodies.... got me thinking about Christmas presents for the teens in my life.
  • Sylvestermouse Nov 8, 2010 @ 9:49 pm | delete
    Wow! Really, really cool ideas!
  • CCGAL Nov 8, 2010 @ 6:54 pm | delete
    Love this - can't believe how many of the books you've listed are sitting in my library (boxed up right now, but calling me every day to release them). Fun projects. Now I REALLY want to get my sewing room empty so I can make stuff. Very enjoyable and useful lens.
  • Lisa-Marie-Mary Oct 23, 2010 @ 4:55 pm | delete
    This lens is SO CHOCK FULL of ideas that it is totally awesome!! Great job!!
  • WorldVisionary3 Oct 9, 2010 @ 8:11 pm | delete
    Super cool information! Thanks for putting this all together.
  • Aika Oct 6, 2010 @ 3:38 am | delete
    great lens, this will help educate more people about recycling. Simple ways yet brings big impact to our environment.
  • emerald125 Oct 5, 2010 @ 7:44 pm | delete
    so much old clothing gets wasted... fantastic links here for those talented enough to sew - blessed by an angel
  • zapider Oct 2, 2010 @ 3:45 am | delete
    Recycle and REUSE Jeans! good tips..
    great lenses...
  • karanta Oct 1, 2010 @ 12:46 pm | delete
    Great informative lens!
  • Health-Gal Sep 30, 2010 @ 5:47 am | delete
    wow, what a great list of resources, will certainly come back to put in practice some of your tips!
  • FridaFey Sep 27, 2010 @ 5:52 pm | delete
    nice ideas!
  • remanon Sep 27, 2010 @ 2:44 pm | delete
    Brilliant lens - love it. It's packed full of information.
  • BevsPaper Sep 27, 2010 @ 6:09 am | delete
    Something that stuck out as I read through this fabulous lens on how to recycle our clothes was the little factoid of throwing out an average of 35 pounds a year in old clothing. Wowsers! My Squid Angel bell rings out a Blessing for your terrific ideas to upcycle and repurpose our old clothes.
  • awelldressedbullet Sep 14, 2010 @ 6:06 pm | delete
    Wow, can I just say fab-u-lous! - Kathy
  • GrowWear Sep 8, 2010 @ 11:19 pm | delete
    And impressive lot of ideas and recommendations for recycling and reconstructing old clothes.
  • TriCandy Jul 15, 2010 @ 5:09 pm | delete
    Good information.
  • dorotheajames Apr 3, 2010 @ 4:11 pm | delete
    It's the sock monkey all over again!!! I love the idea of recycling old clothing into new things, and just recently I have started combining two articles of clothing to make a completely new piece of clothing. Thanks for all of the great information.
  • Treasures-By-Brenda Feb 2, 2010 @ 5:09 pm | delete
    Great lens, lots of resources and ideas here.
  • tandemonimom Jan 21, 2010 @ 11:27 am | delete
    Who knew there were SO many books on recycling and reusing old clothes? What a great resource! I actually made a doll for my daughter using Sock Doll Workshop, once many years ago.
  • anyaface Jan 12, 2010 @ 11:44 am | delete
    i love your page! So many cool ideas to use your old stuff to make really cool things.
    I will be back to check out some of your links as i clean out my basement! ;)
  • aj2008 Dec 2, 2009 @ 5:06 am | delete
    There's some very good tips and links here.
  • Heather426 Oct 16, 2009 @ 10:25 am | delete
    this is one of my favorite lenses. Blessed by a new squid angel today.
  • gelise1 Sep 24, 2009 @ 9:32 am | delete
    This is a great lens and inspires me to be creative again. When I was a teen, i used to take my baysitting money and buy fabric to make my own clothes. I used to take my old jeans and make skirts out of them or embroider designs on them where they had worn. There are lots of ways to recycle clothing nd my friends and I enjoyed sharing ideas. I even made things for my friends, like handbags.
  • MeltedRachel Aug 28, 2009 @ 4:33 am | delete
    Oh wow! Thanks for the feature!! What a great lens :D What an awesome resource- a must have favourite lens! 5*, favourite and lensrolled to Recycle Fabric :D
  • Pastiche Aug 17, 2009 @ 10:01 am | delete
    Remaking clothes is a passion for me. I started when I was a teen (I'm a grand mother now) and haven't stopped yet - my daughter is also a fan of altered and upcycled fashions. We scour the fabric and thrift stores all the time looking for new project ideas. Love this lens! 5*
  • ChapelHillFiddler Aug 17, 2009 @ 6:10 am | delete
    One of the best lenses I've ever seen. I buy skirts at the Goodwill which are made of a certain kind of rayon I like and then cut them down into 6-gored skirts that are easy to travel with. I love this and plan to lensroll it to several of mine and come back to study it later! Recycling and sewing, what a dynamite combination. Thanks!
  • Clairwil Jul 18, 2009 @ 6:54 am | delete
    Fabtasic lens with lots of great ideas. Excellent*****
  • sunnysumersmile Jul 8, 2009 @ 11:20 pm | delete
    this is so great! i absolutely love the great finds at thrift stores and the endless possibilities of what you can do with them! check out my stuff i've made/altered at www.squidoo.com/funkyfashion
  • Jun 24, 2009 @ 11:41 am | delete
    Thank you! This was a really terrific Lens! So helpful!
  • JanTUB Jun 23, 2009 @ 11:00 pm | delete
    So it's called UPcycling? That's my thing for today. What a great lens. Really enjoyed reading... 5*
  • Heather426 May 25, 2009 @ 12:06 pm | delete
    Wow! I have enjoyed so much getting to know you on Rocket Moms. All your lenses are beautiful. this one is one of my faves, lensrolling to A Few Of My favorite lenses...5*'
    as a sewer and a recycler, I love this!
  • Lori_Lee-Ray May 21, 2009 @ 12:24 am | delete
    wow! Great lensework. I'm saving this one to favorites. I love sewing and having people wonder where I got my outfit! Lots of great ideas and tips here. Thank you for sharing!
  • lakeerieartists May 18, 2009 @ 6:53 pm | delete
    Blessed by a Squidoo Angel. :) Can you add this to my Living the Organic Green Lifestyle Group?
  • lakeerieartists May 18, 2009 @ 6:50 pm | delete
    This is a terrific lens. You might want to add the book Alternation by Alexandra Underhill and Shannon Okey. They are both from Cleveland. I know Alexandra and have written a lens about her called the Art of Xan.
  • ClassyGals Apr 20, 2009 @ 1:36 pm | delete
    Truly wonderful ideas on how to save money on clothing. I've selected this lens to be the featured lens on the very top of Discount Family Fashions Group. Thanks for submitting such quality work.
  • NaturalMindset Mar 25, 2009 @ 9:03 pm | delete
    Hi,
    I enjoyed your lens! Five stars and lensrolled at So Many Sewing and Knitting Sentiments.
  • mia Mar 9, 2009 @ 10:08 pm | delete
    LOVE IT! i love crafting & reconstructing thrift store findings
  • SalonOfArt Mar 3, 2009 @ 12:19 am | delete
    Great lens! What a great idea and you've done a fabulous job at providing a variety of ideas to keep the old clothes up-to-date. I had no idea there were such great uses for old sweaters! I am truly a fan!
  • only1bub Feb 21, 2009 @ 11:03 pm | delete
    Love your page - you put alot of work into it! I included a link to it on my page coming up tomorrow "13 ways I saved the world" which is about recycling. Hope you don't mind!
  • Belindance Feb 14, 2009 @ 8:57 pm | delete
    Wow, I never knew there were so many resources on reusing clothes. Probably I say in my grandmother generation this was so common to use every scrap of material for something. The stuffed animals are really cute, the best I did as a kid was make hand puppets with socks, ha! So much more now....
  • lou16 Feb 5, 2009 @ 2:25 am | delete
    Some great ideas - last year I turned one of my daughter's toddler shorts into a cushion for on her bed...........she thought I was wonderful. I got a sewing machine for Xmas so I'm planning on trying out alot more 'reconstruction'.
  • Womens-Ed-Hardy Jan 27, 2009 @ 3:36 pm | delete
    This is a great lens - I hadn't thought of half the suggestions that are on here. (Well actually much less than half of them.) Excellent!
  • hlkljgk Jan 16, 2009 @ 3:06 pm | delete
    awesome ideas!
  • RolandTumble Jan 13, 2009 @ 12:13 pm | delete
    Fun stuff. I don't sew, but my partner does. Just about everything I wear comes from thrift stores (except my own CafePress items, my kilt and socks).
  • Khari Quander Jan 11, 2009 @ 12:24 pm | delete
    Absolutely love the page all the different ways and tutorials on how to recycle your clothes is uber cool. Thanks for doing your part to...Save the planet! If you get a chance check out my
    Buy a Wardrobe blog.

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