Embellishing Your Clothes

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Recently, I've been trying to write a series of posts in ye olde blog that give quick reference overviews, with lots of links to resources and tutorials, of various methods of embellishing your creations (thusfar, your wearable creations). It's been a lot of fun and has driven me to photograph a bunch of projects I thought you all might apperciate.



Appliqued wings on a thrifted coat:


Winged

Hand-painted shirt (the test shirt):


Mzungu

Another hand-painted shirt, in progress:


Anatomical Heart

Embroidery with Sublime Stitching pattern:


A Dragon of Thread



Rarr.

Embroidery with my own pattern:


Barn Owl

Click on any picture for a larger view.

I think approaching everyday items from an embellishment-centered view makes for some remarkable and really quite fun crafting. I know it's certainly transformed thrift stores for me.

Now I'm trying to come up with more things to try and post about along the embellishment lines. Suggestions?