Thrifty Creativity – “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”

There are some printed skirts, attractive in themselves, that somehow do not appear to belong with any sort of contrasting top. The skirt above falls into this category, providing a reason for recycling the cummerbund into a halter. Opened and pressed flat, the cummerbund measured 16 by 30 inches—sufficient material to make a bare-midriff halter [...]

One for the price of two may be a bargain if the alternative is zero; in this project two nearly new, but badly stained, cotton-knit boy’s shirts were combined to make one new shirt. They were permanently stained on the outside, but the wrong sides were still perfect; the solution was to turn the shirts [...]