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Check out project #44 “Plant Parenthood” from the new book featured on Idealbite today! Learn how to make a braided hanger for your planter. Accompanying illustrations here. Thanks, Idealbite!

In one of Threadbanger’s first episodes (and Generation T’s very first appearance), Rob and Corinne from Threadbanger refashion one of the no-sew tank tops from Generation T. it was featured on YouTube in March 2007, and has since garnered almost half a million views. Not too shabby!

Our friends over at Threadbanger were featured on CBS–congrats Rob and Corinne. Oh, and look closely for a very brief Generation T cameo!

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Here’s a video from my artist-in-residency at Garanti Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey. The program, part of the show “Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics” was organized by Otto von Busch as part of his doctoral work. Each week a new artist or group of artists turned the gallery into a craft lab with workshops in fashion upcycling, hacking, engineering, and more.

This week, my sisters and I flew out to California to film two episodes for the DIY Network’s show Uncommon Threads hosted by Alison Whitlock. We refashioned seven white T-shirts into a wedding dress (Tying the Knot, project #108), which will premiere next January 2… Here’s Ariana wearing the dress against the green screen.

And here we all are (Sophie’s holding the bouquet made with T-shirt rosebuds, project #90 Nip It in the Bud).

And we refashioned T-shirts into a sleeping bag stuff sack, a Road Trip skirt (project #64, which Sophie is wearing in the group photo below), and car mats for an On the Road segment.

Thanks to our pals over at Campfire Goods for donating many of the T-shirts we used in the segments!

Happy Fourth of July! The folks at Good Day New York had me back for a beach-themed Tee Party. Bikinis and tank tops and beach blankets, oh my!

Today I met Martha, one of my all-time craft idols! On the show, we refashioned two T-shirt projects from the book, Shoulder Chic (#15) and Outer Lace (#16), both no sew projects in the tank top chapter. Then she was nice enough to keep me on for another segment to teach me a fun and easy way of folding a T-shirt. The instructions had been printed on the back of a T-shirt that her producers gave me in advance–here’s a photo of the pillow I made for Martha last night:

And here’s a picture from the set:

And another. Could my grin get any wider?

Observations of my time on the show: 1) Studio audiences can be intimidating–it’s a lot easier when you can’t see the people watching you. 2) Martha was the first host who was tall enough so that I didn’t have to kick off my heels behind the counter. 3) Martha is a fan of Eminem. Seriously, we talked about it during the commercial break!

I’ll try to post a link soon! (And some more behind-the-scenes images to come…)