Post #3864004

2026-07-16 17:24 UTC

I almost always recycle my jeans into shorts! I also like to reinforce buttons (they always feel so loose on new clothes!). Several old band T-shirts have had the sleeves cut off and made into tank tops. I like to make crop-top T-shirts out of old shirts, too! I used to skateboard, so several of the older ones have holes from where I fell, but I like the design too much to let them go completely.

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@hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-16 17:35

My pants always wear through the crotch before the legs. I want to recycle like that, but crotchless pants really aren’t my style. Its incredible what commercial sewing machines can do! They can sew on a button, but what they can’t do is tie a knot. So the buttons will work themselves loose eventually. I need to fix a few thanks for the reminder.

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@Wren@lemmy.today 2026-07-16 18:25

Have you heard of visible mending? It’s the art of mending rips and holes to make them stand out as artistic features. Reddit had a great visible mending community that’s unfortunately lacking on lemmy.

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@dkppunk@piefed.social 2026-07-16 21:04

Any tips on altering tshirts? Or recommendations on a good website for ideas? I have a bunch of nerdy, gamer, TMNT, bookish shirts that are all just basic Ts. I want to alter them into v-necks and other styles. I used to have a book Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt but I donated it a long time ago. It was great and I really wish I had kept it.

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