Sew Your Own: Your Favorite Queer Characters’ Wardrobes
For Halloween or for every day, here’s how to stitch up a look inspired by your favorite fictional queer women.
For Halloween or for every day, here’s how to stitch up a look inspired by your favorite fictional queer women.
Trousers, jeans, and shorts that fit your body and your gender.
With a sewing machine and a little patience, you can make a swimsuit to fit both your gender and your body.
Sewing began as a creative outlet for me, an activity that married my love for theatre with my love for DIY, but it has since progressed into a more nuanced understanding of my body, my style, and the consequences that my personal choices have on the world.
Intern Geneva made four perfect stencils for you to cover yourself with after you go through the easier-said-than-done process of spray-painting them onto your old favorite shirts!
Because tassels are too good to use for only boring things.
I made my own braided infinity scarf because I’m drowning in scrap fabric.
Your ankles need attention. Ruffly, lacy attention.
An iPhone case out of pressed flowers, DIY striped pants, and more!
Pearls are the new studs!
Buy it or sew it, fold it, tuck it into your pocket. Just please don’t blow your nose in it.
Be the designer collaboration you want to see in the world.
Lingerie that’s “designed to frame the erogenous zones instead of covering them up, highlighting your assets.” Mind = blown
Kid tested, mother (earth) approved.
Our “Autostraddle This” t-shirts are available! (Almost.) So we’re preparing for their arrival with this DIY advice: turn your ill-fitting / beaten up t-shirts into pants, tote bags, patches or restyled, cuter shirts! Little or no sewing skills required.
This week in style, learn how to make skinny ties out of regular ties. It’s easier than you might think.
Get out your needles (or go out and buy one) because we’ve got a super simple guide to crafting your own suspenders.