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Welcome to those of you visiting Wardrobe Refashion for the first time after reading about myself and the site in the Good Weekend magazine's Enriched List!!

Please take a look around, feel free to contact me with any questions by using the contact form and if you feel inclined why not join by filling out the form.

For those of you who would like to read the article you can see the whole list here.

COMPETITION TIME!!!!

*NEW UPDATES !!!!!


Exciting new competition brought to you by Tessuti Fabrics andBurdaStyle and boy is it a quick one! You have until April 2nd to send in your garments to be entered to win an invitation to have you garment modeled on the runway of the Stitches & Craft Showin Melbourne, a $500 Gift Voucher from Tessuti Fabrics, a BurdaStyle Editorial Feature by Nikkishell, and a pattern of your choice from BurdaStyle!

Use one of these patterns:
Anda Dress 
JJ Blouse
Jorinde Jacket
Ellen Pants
Marie Skirt

Create your garment and upload it to BurdaStyle, include a detailed description of your garment such as how you altered the pattern, any techniques you used, your fabric choice and any other details you think we should know. Email a photo of it to submissions@burdastyle.com by 11:59 pm EST April 2nd include ‘Stitches & Craft Melbourne’ in the title, in the body of the email you must include your user name, garment title and link to the project on BurdaStyle.

G magazine interview

 I was recently interviewed for G Magazine for their 'Less is More' article. I was pleased to see myself alongside some great people doing their part, Judith Levine, Mark Boyle, Linda Cockburn and Waveney Warth and Mathew Luxon.

I was also interviewed for a local Queensland ABC radio show this afternoon.  I was asked about Wardrobe Refashion and my own pledge to not buy new clothing. 

Heidi & Seek WINNER!!

Congratulations jesse.anne.o!!!

I actually really like the neutrals she's done - I would like to see more versatile neutrals and less color blocking. I feel like that's always one of the challenges I see manifest when people work from salvaged materials and while I'd love to support them, it's not my personality to wear so much color blocked stuff, or stuff that you can obviously tell can from many different parts. I *do* really like when it's all the same color scheme at least, since it stands out less that it's assembled from a bunch of different pieces.

Posted by: jesse.anne.o | 01/07/2010 at 09:10 AM

You are the winner of the Heidi & Seek dress below!  Please contact me with your postal details.

Free sewing patterns

I was recently contacted by Kaye who asked if i knew how she could offer her unwanted patterns to other sewers.  She has set up a typepad blog where she is in the process of posting the patterns one by one.  I'm quite fond of this one!

All you need to do is leave a comment on her blog mentioning which pattern you would like and Kaye will contact you with details of where to send a self-addressed envelope and she'll pop it into the post to you.

I managed to snag some great vintage patterns from her, oh how i love vintage patterns!

Advice for a reader

Laurel emailed me today to ask for some advice and i though i'd post her questions here to see what suggestions you have:

Hi. My name is Laurel and I live in the Philippines. I saw the clothes you refashioned from other clothes and I'm really amazed. I'd rather refashion than buy every now and then just because the clothes become out of fashion or whatever. Anyway, I have this corduroy jacket I bought for $3 (its missing a pocket in front but its not really noticeable), but the jacket has a straight shape(shapeless??) and makes me look frumpy. I was wondering if I could still alter my jacket to have a sexier shape? I'm not one for sewing beyond the basic running stitch so I'm having it altered at my friends dress shop. Is corduroy ok to alter? And is it ok to dye it (I don't like Tan and want it to be a dark brown color)? ANother are my jeans. I have like 3 pairs that I don't use because they're too big for me now (I lost a lot of weight =D), what can I do with them so that I can wear them again? Thank you so much for any suggestions.

Sew Weekly

By the end of 2010, Mena hopes to have a closet filled only with clothes that she have sewn herself.  She favours vintage styles and aims to sew one dress a week.  I'll be keeping my eye on this blog, i love vintage and one of my goals this year is to sew more vintage.

Check the project out here.

Eco-fashion predictions for 2010

Check out Ecouterre's eco-fashion predictions for 2010 here.

Heidi and Seek Giveaway!!

Hayley Lau has been altering, designing and creating clothes since 2004. Since learning about the devastating impact of clothing manufacturing on people and the environment, she has endeavoured to challenge the norms of the fashion industry in an effort to live more ethically and encourage others to do the same.

In 2008 she began an eco-friendly, sweatshop-free women's clothing line called Heidi & Seek. Hayley designs and sews each garment from reclaimed materials in her home studio. She believes that reusing is much kinder to the environment than sourcing new, eco-friendly materials. Hayley also aims to counter the disposable nature of today’s fashion industry, which relies on exploited workers to bear the cost of the low prices offered to customers. She strives for fairness and eco-friendliness in every aspect of business.

Heidi & Seek does not sacrifice good design to be green. Hayley's designs are wearable, individual and nonconforming to fad trends. Each garment is one-of-a-kind and handmade with love.

We're lucky enough to have one of Hayley's fabulous dresses up for grabs!!

Size small.

To win all you have to do is leave a comment by Monday 9am (AEST) letting us know what feature you would like to see on a future Heidi and Seek creation.

Website: Heidi and Seek

Happy New Year!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Wardrobe Refashion was very busy in 2009.  We saw the site go from strength to strength with a HUGE increase in participants and readers.  We also attended the Stitches & Craft Shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney with a Reconstruction Zone and fashion parade which were a big success.   I'm very excited about 2010 and what the year will bring for Wardrobe Refashion.  I hope you'll join me for the ride!

New and coming up.....

There is now a contact form which can be found at the top of the blog just underneath the banner.  If you have something you'd like to discuss with me just click on the link, add your details and click send. You can now search the blog by using the search widget in the lefthand sidebar. You can sponsor Wardrobe Refashion and help support this wonderful community at the same time as promoting your business or product.  Find out how here. You will see more in the 'News Blog' this year including competitions, reviews, features and much more!

Share....

Do you have something to share with the Wardrobe Refashion community?  Maybe it's a book or website you think is relevant or you'd like to tell us about a store or designer who refashions?  Or maybe you'd like to share something entirely different, so long as it's relevant to Wardrobe Refashion i'd love to hear from you, just email me the details.

Thanks.....

I'd like to thank everyone who has supported Wardrobe Refashion over the years, participants, readers, those of you who have helped me out, those who have sponsored, those who have promoted the site though articles and mentions. 

THANK YOU!

 

Now, let's get started with 2010!!  Make sure you check out all the new introductions on the blog.

 

Nikki.xx