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Whether revamping your own cast-offs or picking up lightly used items at a thrift store, with Jayne Emerson's help, you can create great new looks that are uniquely your own. New From Old provides a wealth of ideas for revamping your wardrobe and customizing clothes and accessories.. A detailed practical section covers basic stitching information plus all the back-up how-to-do-it for Jayne's creative concepts.

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New From Old
How to Transform and Customize Your Clothes

Author: Jayne Emerson
Pages: 144
Page size: 8" x 10"
Publisher: Firefly Books
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4W30637
Weight: 1.3lbs.

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News From Old provides inspiration and a wealth of ideas, backed up with step-by-step practical information on:

Turning cast-offs into a fashion statement.
Revamping your wardrobe on a shoestring.
Customizing clothes and accessories.

About the Author

Jayne Emerson is a freelance textile designer who has sold her work to top international fashion houses, such as Chanel, Marc Jacobs and Donna Karan and has seen her designs on the catwalk long before they hit the stores. In New From Old, she shares her design ideas and fashion know-hot so that each of us can remodel our old clothes on a budget.

Table of Contents
Introduction	6
Simple customizing	8
Choosing items to revamp	10
Choosing colors	12
Keeping a storyboard	12
Changing Color	14
Before you start	16
Camisoles	18
Transforming lingerie	20
Over-dyeing	24
Dyeing trimmings and accessories	26
Hand-dyeing	28
Dip-dyeing	30
Tie-dyeing	32
Transforming shoes	34
Adding Decoration	36
Before you start	38
Ribbons and braids	40
Embroidering a jacket	44
Embellishing buttons	48
Making embroidered buttons	50
Collecting decorative buttons	52
Adding beads and glitter	54
Vamped up shoes	56
Beaded sweaters	58
Appliqué decoration	60
Changing Form	64
Before you start	66
Bolero jacket from sweater	68
Leather bargains	70
Silk scarf halter top	72
New necklaces from old	76
New jewelry from old	78
From skirt to scarf	80
From skirt to belt	82
Lengthening a skirt	84
New capri pants from old pants	86
Old shirt, new shape	88
Changing necklines	90
Tablecloth into skirt	92
New pajamas from old	96
Making Things	98
Dyed projects	100
Decorated projects	102
Altered projects	109
Useful stuff	122
Knowing what to do	124
Dyeing basics	126
Starting to stitch	128
Seams	130
Hems	132
Fastenings	134
Hand and embroidery stitches	137
Suppliers and useful addresses	140
Index	142
Acknowledgments	144

Instruction Page

By the Sea

Kitchen Altered Book Pages

Cards

Tablecloth into Skirt and New Capri Pants

Scarf Into Top and Bolero Jacket From Sweater

Applique Decoration
Appliqué Decoration and Vamped Up Shoes

Embroidered Jacket and Tie-Dyed Pants

Colored Lace Trim Camisoles

Colored Lace Trim and Camisoles

Examples

Examples

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