Upcycled Design Lab Blog

Starting Over - More T-shirt Tales and a Tutorial (Basket Weave Upcycled T)

So yesterday I accomplished what I was beginning to believe was the impossible!!! Drum-roll please..... I finally finished another t-shirt project!! Amazining?? I know. Thank you. Thank you. Can you here the music? Do you see the confetti? How about the balloons? Me gushing in the spotlight as I bask in the glory of my monumental achievement? No? Ok I guess that part is just in my head. It is pretty crazy up in here. :-) Anyway I actually used one whole t-shirt and a good portion of another tee-shirt. It is perhaps the biggest dent I have made in... Read more →

The T-shirt Saga Continues

So, I have been gearing back up for my T-shirt project and I thought I was on a roll. Of course I started a new project because that is what I do when I lose inspiration on current projects. This usually happens about half to three quarters of the way through the project. I call this the adolescent stage. It's the fight between what mommy (me) intended for her little children (projects) to grow up and be and what they actually are turning out to be given their sometimes quite limited gene pool of resources and a little bit of... Read more →