Renegade sewing

Last year I taught Renegade sewing at our homeschool co-op. There were six teenage girls in the class. We deconstructed and reconstructed t-shirts to make clothing and accessories and constructed our own fabrics from cotton scraps that we then made into bags. The girls started out with a little knowledge of sewing, and fearlessly dove into their projects. We didn't use any patterns in the class, but found wonderful inspiration in the book, Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt by Megan Nicolay. The girls had a great time and the finished projects were inspiring.