Hot Fashion Design How-Tos
How To: Make prom dresses and bow ties
Check out this video to learn how to take an old 80's dress and make it 2008. Guys: learn how to make a simple bow tie out of an old scarf.
How To: Make a ruffle vest
Check out this tutorial on how to recreate some fancy designer duds. Its time to get your ruffle on.
How To: Do Batik pool dyeing
Expert Batik Artist Jane Downer demonstrates the controversial Batik technique of isolating "pools" of fabric with wax and applying color directly within those pools.
How To: Tie dye a simple spiral swirl design
A step by step guide to spinning and dying a spiral tie-dye shirt.
How To: Apply, set, and remove natural food-based dye
This video shows you how to apply your natural food-based dye, set your dye, and remove your dye. Perfect for an arts and crafts project or a handmade fashion statement!
How To: Make homemade fabric dye
This video shows you how to make fabric dye using ingredients you can find in your kitchen. Perfect for an arts and crafts project or a handmade fashion statement!
How To: Coat a duct tape wallet and tack down designs
Check out this video to learn some tips for tacking down your designs for your duct tape wallet.
How To: Make a keychain from old computer components
Check out this video to learn how to make a keychain out of old computer circuit boards. Make a keychain from old computer components.
How To: Make a candy bikini
Yes, you really can eat your bikini if you follow instructions from this guy.
How To: How to customize Converse Ultra-Highs canvas shoes
Check out this video that shows you how to customize your kicks. This video will show you how to customize your canvas shoes, like Converse allstars.
How To: Convert a T-shirt into a sexy dress halter top dress
Old T-shirts are usually relegated to our closets or heaped in piles to be donated to Goodwill, but even the frumpiest of T-shirts need not be discarded when you can repurpose it!
How To: Embroider and customize your Crocs Prima shoes
Check out this video to learn how to embroider and customize your Crocs Prima shoes. Make yarn uppers and customize with beads.
How To: Make a wallet out of dollar bills
Learn a DIY way of making your own wallet out of ten one dollar bills. You'll never run out of money.
How To: Make a keyboard bag
Don't know what to do with old broken keyboards? Here is an amazing solution how to use them! Easy to do, nice to have! Hack together this cool project.
How To: Pin a toga
A step-by-step instructional video starring Patricia Fahie, Kirsten Pearson, and Elsje Dijkman. Tie a toga correctly and you'll be oh so fashionable whether you're in ancient Rome or the college quad.
How To: Make a toga out of a sheet for a female
How to make a toga for a female. Easy step by step instructions on how to get a great looking toga for your forthcoming toga party.
How To: Make a dog collar with spikes
Learn how to make a spiky dog collar for your dog! This video demonstrates how to stud your collar.
How To: Tie dye a spider style design
Watch this step by step guide to folding and dying a spider style design for a tie-dyed t-shirt. This is a dark dye example, not a brightly colored shirt.
How To: Tie dye a circle design
This is a short instructional video showing the folding and dying required to come up with a circle design for a tie dye.
How To: Tie dye a shoulder burst style and spider style shirt
Watch this video to learn how to tie dye a shoulder burst style t-shirt and learn the spider tie dye technique.
How To: Tie-dye shirts
Watch this quick instructional video showing the folding and dying technique to create an oval shape on tie-dye material and clothing.
How To: Do ombre fabric dyeing
Watch this demonstration of ombre fabric dyeing. Ombre dyed fabric has two different colors at either end which gradually fade out and meet in the center.
How To: Make your own punk patches
Make patches yourself instead of making them! I use fabric paint markers.
How To: Add studs to a leather jacket
Watch this video to learn how to stud your leather jacket. See the finished product in chapter two. Also, learn how to get 100 studs for free from studsandspikes.com (for a limited time)!
How To: Do silk painting or batik
Jill Kennedy is the famous UK author of several books on her favorite art - silk painting. In this video, she demonstrates how wax is often preferential to gutta or other resists for it's ability to contain or hold colors. It can be used in larger areas while providing similar effects to gutta's ability to contain dye within regions. Here she emphasizes the ability to work with dyes immediately after application and demonstrates how fun it is to use traditional Indonesian tjantings and Japane...
How To: Do batik drawing on fabric
Watch host Xandria Ooi learn batik drawing techniques at the Jadi Batek Centre in Malaysia. Part 1 of 3 - How to Do batik drawing on fabric.
How To: Make a booze jacket
Never again will you have to pay $8 for a beer at a baseball game or club. This video will show you how to modify a regular jacket so you can sneak alcohol into anywhere.
How To: Tie-dye a t-shirt for fun
Learn how to tie dye a shirt. This is a fun activity for kids and adults.
How To: Paint a graffiti jacket
Learn how to spraypaint an old school denim graffiti jacket. Part 1 of 2 - How to Paint a graffiti jacket.
How To: Revamp a sweater
This week on Threadheads, the ladies of Compai are helpin' us out with a very special viewer request, plus we hang out and take a look into their popular DIY book series 99 ways. So sit back, relax, grab your sewing machine and get comfy.
How To: Reconstruct a shirt
A cool t-shirt reconstruction lesson sent in to us by one of the loyal viewers of Thread Heads.
How To: Make a pattern from your favorite shirt
David Page Coffin teaches you how to make a pattern from your favorite shirt, which you can then use to make a new shirt.
How To: Convert a sweater to shrug
Holly Jolly How-To: Thread Heads teach you how to turn an old sweater into a shrug for the cold winter.
How To: Make leggings out of a sweater
Thread Heads travel to an Austin craft fair and learn how to turn an old sweater into a new pair of homemade leggings.
How To: Combine a sweater and a shirt
Thread Head Rob takes the cuff, collar, and pocket of a normal button down shirt and attaches them to a sweater for a cool new homemade article of clothing.
How To: Make a scrap fabric cuff
The Thread Heads learn how to make a shirt cuff out of old scrap material.
How To: Make your jeans skinny
A Thread Heads sent in her tutorial on altering her jeans to make them skinnier.
How To: Rework your old clothes
The Thread Heads viewers come together to present a series of tutorials on DIY fashion. Learn how to sew and make other homemade clothing.
How To: Make a beanie, a poncho, and mittens out of a sweater
Thread Heads teach you how to convert and old sweater into three new fashionable pieces.
How To: Make a scoodie or a hoodie scarf hybrid accessory
Make The Ultra Hoodie Scarf. Thread Heads teach you how to combine a hoodie and a scarf to create new fashion.