Top Five Reasons to Upcycle Clothes
If you have sauntered through my website, you probably caught on that I love sewing upcycled clothes. I started out upcycling back in the early 2000’s. Then I went through a phase as a quilter. I always had kind of a scrappy love of using what I had on hand instead of always rushing out to buy fabric for each project. That practice of using what I had made my quilts explode with color and print as I constantly busted out my scrap stash for each quilt instead of using precuts or yardage.
In 2021 I came back to upcycling. My website was an online journal where I documented my healing journey and shared about my art and sewing. In 2021 I started over, so to speak. I got back to what brought me to sew in the first place, which was upcycling clothes. Sewing clothes is my passion! I love altering my wardrobe and constantly get ideas for fresh upcycles.
Something drew you to my website, and chances are you love upcycling clothes too, or at least you are interested in giving it a try! Here are five reasons to upcycle clothes!
Upcycling your wardrobe reduces your carbon footprint, especially when you stop buying so much fast fashion and embrace slow fashion as a way of life.
Upcycling your clothes can help you create a completely unique wardrobe. You can’t put a price tag on being able to express yourself with the clothes you wear. When I wear my upcycles out and about the city I feel like I’m confident and can take on the world. It feels so good to wear my art on my sleeve!
Upcycling your wardrobe is an art form! Fashion designers are also embracing upcycling as a way to express their vision, and you can see upcycled clothes everywhere from the runway to fashion magazines.
Personally, altering my wardrobe has increased my self-confidence by leaps and bounds. Clothes have a way of drawing your people to you! If you want to meet like minded people, wearing your me makes and expressing who you are with your wardrobe makes a first impression that is unforgettable.
Skills building and trying new techniques also gives you so much self-confidence, makes you more intelligent and the skills you learn build on each other. Even if you are just starting out though, your makes will be completely original and one of a kind! That is the nature of creativity when you “keep your eyes on your own paper” and just do you!
Why do you upcycle? What got you interested in giving it a shot? There are so many projects here on my website, and found across the web. Get to that sewing room and create! Then rock your makes proudly out in the world.
