Resewing adventures are a way of creating and sharing ideas to magic discarded clothing into something else – long white cotton skirt turns muumuu by cutting armholes.

Our fashion habits and mores have led the world to the point where mountains of perfectly good clothing are being shipped around the world or sent to landfill.

This year I’m investing time, energy, creativity and skills to devise ways to refashion 365 outfits from old stuff in my wardrobes (yes, that’s plural) with the Sew it Again project.

The project is an initiative of the creative business/social enterprise Textile Beat, which made a splash last year at Brisbane’s Green Heart Fair. Notification came yesterday that the next Green Heart Fair run by Brisbane City Council as part of our city’s sustainability agenda is on June 1 and I’m looking forward to that.

Meanwhile, it’s Go Green Week in the United Kingdom (Feb 10 – 16) and I enjoyed these comments from University of the Arts London’s new Chair of Art in the Environment Lucy Orta.

• What message would you most like to convey to students about the role of art and design in improving sustainability? The only way forward is to work collaboratively and share competences.
• How do you think art and design can change the way people think and behave? Art and design is unique we have a force because we are neither politicians nor businessmen, we can communicate across media and we have the gift of creativity and the power of our ideas.  

It is funny where creativity comes from – I put my thinking cap on while swimming laps at UQ pool and came up with this skirt-to-dress conversion for a long cool white cotton skirt bought for $4 from an op shop.

With the skirt folded in half, I cut out a D-shape at the sides just below the waistline and removed the side zip. In hindsight, I could have shortened the straps before neatening armholes with bias tape but instead devised another way to shorten afterwards by using a button and ribbon. To finish off, I added the Textile Beat logo – getting ready for Fashion Revolution Day April 24 #insideout.