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s This tutorial was originally published on Crafting a Green World in 2017.  If you sew, and especially if you love to upcycle, the upcycled denim skirt is a rite of passage. Here's how to make one!   You will need:    well-fitting pair of blue jeans. Maybe they have holes in the knees that you don't want to patch. Maybe they're too short, and you don't want to sew on a cuff or a ruffle. Whatever the reason for converting them into a skirt, they should fit well in the waist.    thread and sewing needle for denim. I like using the...

I don’t know about y’all, but every year, I try to plan for Halloween early and every year, my kids promise they have absolutely, positively made their final decision and then change their minds. When costumes are elaborate, handmade things (looking at my 7-year-old for whom I made a Ladybug dress last year and who told me in July she was going to wear it again this year with a few adjustments and then announced, last week, that she had changed her mind back to being a Light Fury), this can be not only frustrating for the adults making the...