Learn it...

Project Upcycle shows you thrifting and garment construction techniques that you'll use again and again. You need basic sewing skills -- and an eagle eye for the good stuff at rummage sales -- to make projects like cute cashmere shrugs from old sweaters and flirtatious wrap skirts from vintage tea towels.

Celebrate your exit from the corporate world and liberate your suit jackets and dress shirts into saucy berets. With Betz's upcycling magic, your shirt cuffs become billfolds to hold the cash you save, and you'll learn endless variations on felted totes, limited only by your imagination and your stash of old wool sweaters.

Watch each lesson in Project Upcycle on your own schedule, at your own pace, as many times as you like. If you enjoy creating unique looks that are simple, sustainable and fun, sign up for Project Upcycle: Thrifty Sewing Projects.

Make it...

Taught by Betz White

• Author of Warm Fuzzies and Sewing Green
• Creator of Make New or Make Do sewing patterns

Betz White has built a career on thoughtful design, skilled craftsmanship and a focus on materials that are kind to people and planet alike. She is a designer, green crafter and the bestselling author of two books that encourage readers to ?stitch beautifully, tread lightly?, Warm Fuzzies and Sewing Green. Her original sewing patterns, Make New or Make Do?, are designed to be made from either new or repurposed fabrics and are sold in specialty fabric shops nationwide. As the perfect earth-friendly compliment to her pattern line, Betz debuted her first coordinated collection of organic cotton sheeting with the Robert Kaufman Company, in 2011.

See what Betz is up to next at blog.betzwhite.com.

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Sample Previews

	Course Introduction	2:24
	Hunt and Deconstruct	8:21
	Mad Cap	45:27
	Cashmere Shrug	34:17
	Off-the-Cuff Wallet	32:22
	Felted Tote Bag	31:55
	Wrap Skirt	39:10

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