DIY : Proenza Schouler Scroll Necklace

While looking over the nominees for this year’s Lucky Magazine FABB award, I discovered a treasure trove of DIY projects and great knock-offs at Honestly …WTF.

 Go. Play. Make cool stuff.

DIY: Spike Comb

DIY: Luv AJ Handpiece

These are a few pics from a fantastic DIY on Christeric . Yes, these shoes are adorable. But really, they aren’t why I’m posting this.  This is a level 5 DIY, but for those with the tools and craftiness, it shows how to reshape a heel using Bondo.  That’s a skill I could use! I have no idea how often I have seen a shoe and thought how it was ALMOST the right shape. I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to try this out- check out the subtle conversion of a pair of Pleaser stripper heels into  a much more fashion-y, current shape:

Video from Instructables

It’s Saturday morning- what are you going to do with your day? How about learn to make leggings before spring legging season is upon us? Giannyl shows us how easy it is to do, and the simplicity of the style makes it totally adaptable. I’m going to try a couple of plain pairs, and then see if I cant manage something with patches inspired by all of the awesome leggings at Fashion Week. Remember that you want fabric with a four-way stretch to make this work!

This is my extra-special, extra blurry phone cam DIY special.

This cute scarf starts out as two old T-shirts (actually, I ended up using two and a quarter as I had some bits left over from experimenting). When choosing your shirts, go for extra squishy. Note that for your $, big men’s shirts have a lot more material. I spent $1.99 on each shirt at Goodwill.  Also, if you pick a shirt with a side seam, your scarf will have seams in it. A seamless shirt equals a seamless scarf (duh).  You can use plain shirts or any patterned shirt where the pattern does not alter the texture of the cotton. No iron-on designs! T shirts only, as the entire thing hinges on the fabric.

1- cut off the botton seam, and the sleeves and collar, leaving a tube. I used two shirts, but one or three are also do-able.

2- fold the tube on the closed side, leaving a margin at the top. Note that the open parts are now on the sides!

3- fold the tube again, keeping the margin.

4) cut the tube like so, leaving that top margin intact. I suggest evenly spacing the cuts, about 1 1/2 inches apart.

5) This is what you should have now.

6) OK, this is the hardest part of the whole operation, but I believe in you.  You need to cut a DIAGONAL from the top of your first cut, across the margin, to the bottom of the second cut. Then you need to do this for each cut down the line. You are making one long ribbon- at the end, you will need to go back and cut the last loop free.

7) now you should have a pile of T-shirt ribbon. Grab it every six inches or so and yank, and it will politely roll up into yarn for you.

Arrange your T-shirt yarn like so. The oval should be big enough that you can wrap it three times and still stick your head through. I suggest figuring out how long it should be to go around your head comfortably, and making it three times that long.

9) I suggest braiding and tying to attach the shirts to one another, because I’m too lazy to sew.

10) (optional) wrap a short section with a leftover end or spare piece – it will keep your scarf from tangling endlessly, plus hide any messy ends that didn’t work out right.

11) You did it!