The good folks at fashion favourite Anthropologie have some stunning tops and tees on offer which is great if you're flush but not so great if you're saving the pennies.
Crafter Stephanie, also known as The Crimson Owl, fell in love with a singlet online and by the time she got around to buying it it was nowhere to be found. Lucky for her, and for us, she's a dab hand with fabric, scissors and a bit of heat-activated bonding.
Her tutorial for how to create your own Anthro Knock-Off singlet takes you from plain vest-top to something 'Anthropological' in a few easy steps with some lovely photography work to boot.
Check out her other fabulously clear and concise tutorials too.
Our PM has just got back from a bit of schmoozing with our friends across the pond. Fancy showing your love for all things US by singing "Oh say can you seeeeeeeeee, this lovely American flag t-shirt I'm wearrrrring!" and wearing the Stars and Bars with pride?
Witness, if you will, the wonder of the Ruffled American Flag T-shirt on A Little of This, A Little of That.
It's an excellent tutorial on customising a t-shirt even if you're not up for a star-spangled garment, as you can turn the techniques to whatever end you like.
We all have t-shirts that we love to death and find it hard to part with when they start to lose their t-shirt youth. You've been through so much together why should you throw your beloved tee away? What better way to honour your t-shirt than by turning it into a pair of funky undies and giving it a whole new life?
The Zen of Making's Haley Pierson-Cox quite agrees that loved clothes should be allowed a second chance. The Brooklyn magician of making shares her plan for turning an old t-shirt pantswise to help you 'upcycle' for the ultimate in undie creation.
Haley uses one of her husband's old t-shirts in her tutorial, which suggests he was finished with his tees.
We suggest you ask the t-shirt wearer before you start creating undercrackers, or, if they have one you really like, you can always spill curry/red wine/engine oil on it to make it unwearable and perfect pants material...
Zips. Zippers. Call them what you will they're fiddly beasts and no mistaking. How are you meant to tame them? They're just so scary with all those teeth!
Stand back! Here comes Craft to save you from the snapping jaws of the dreaded zip monster.
Craft's Nicole Vasbinder (Queen of Puff Puffs) sits you down (preferably with a nice cup of tea, I'd say) and takes you through the whole rigmarole of dealing with zips.
From coil zips to invisible zips, she explains how to shorten them, centre them and make them do your will.
Possibly the most useful zip 101 ever. Dread the tiny teeth no more and get fastening.
The horror of a holey handknit is a terrible thing. Do you darn it? Do you burn the whole garment in sorrow? Neither according to a fabulous new idea from the Dutch which involves no sewing at all.
Woolfiller takes the principal of needle felting and throws it at your holey clothes. Basically you take a small amount of wool and, taking advantage of the way that the teeny tiny scales in wool react to being poked repeatedly with a needle, you felt a patch over the gap.
This can be a teeny tiny patch or a huge one according to the jaunty instructional video on the website.
I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced that it doesn't look like you accidentally dropped something on yourself. However I can see that it does have its uses and the more imaginative you are the more potential it has. The projects on the website have some grand ideas.
Interesting to see what happens when you crafty lot get your paws on it.
Sock monkeys are great. What's not to love with a combo of socks and the cheekiest creatures on earth? You can't go wrong with a bit of sock monkey which is why when a Sock Monkey dress popped up on Twitter I had to investigate.
The Sock Monkey dress is apparently created for a fashion show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis when they teamed up with the young crafty minds at the Teen Arts Council.
The monkey-faced gown is machine knitted and the designer offers a custom-made Sock Monkey frock for those with a few thousands dollars burning a hole in their pocket.
If the monkeys on the skirt weren't enough for you then there's a more busty sock monkey dress too.
This is why we love Twitter.
When it comes down to it if you can craft with it you can probably find a way of wearing it. A point proven astoundingly well by the fashion folk at one of Fifth Avenue's trendiest New York stores.
These fabulous crafty fashion creations were found by our style reporters from OSOYOU and Catwalk Queen in the fashion fabulous heart of New York. They have been sent to hunt down style for the launch of the new Sex and the City 2 film thanks to the kind folks at HP.
The dresses feature in the Henri Bendel store and are all made out of everyday objects - cup cake wrappers, hair curlers, sugar crystal sticks, playing cards, marshmallows, sweetie papers and feathers.
Clearly fashion is hinting that if the apocalypse ever comes we're never going to run out of items to help us look crafty and chic.
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