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DIY Leopard Fur Cape/Collar

You can make a collar like this using any patterned fabric. Perfect for keeping warm. The beautiful and talented Paulinemma has killed it with this DIY. If you haven't checked out her blog, you definitely should. A small number of very well executed DIYs hiding in her archives too!

DIY Leopard Collar and Love Heart

Leopard print collar and loveheart back inspiration from Bitching and Junkfood.

Images: Bitching and Junkfood

DIY Leopard Print Tee

Kate from This Is What I do made this fantastic DIY leopard print cross tee inspired by the one from Urban Outfitters, seen here being worn by Betty of Le Blog de Betty. Great work!

DIY Draped Maxi Skirt

The gorgeous Aimee of Song of Style has done an amazing job of updating her maxi skirt with a little DIY - similar to a longer version of the dree hemingway draped skirt. So gorgeous, and doesn't she have the most amazing legs? Simply hike up a maxi skirt a bit and pin or tie it into a draped style.

DIY Leopard Print Trim Tee

Add leopard print to the neckline and sleeves of a beige tee - subtle leopard print thats not too in your face. This is me on Saturday night (hmm actually most probably sunday morning) after many hours of gallivanting with London girls. Love love love my new full wool skirt. Could wear it all day.

Wearing: Zara ankle strap suede wedges, new look spotted tights, wool full skirt from rome, thrifted tee.

DIY Givenchy style shadow dye

Picked up this great idea from AfterDRK, love this dark ombre look. To DIY, dip dye any item of clothing into black rit dye. I think it could work really well on any sort of printed item of clothing. Choose something with some black in it like this leopard print below so the pattern kind of bleeds out of the dyed part. The image below is so cool - at first I kind of thought it was a dark shadow being thrown onto the jacket.

Image: AfterDRK

DIY Autumn Denim Layering

DIY layering is essential to getting through the confusing 'what to wear' Autumn months. These two streetstyle shots caught at Paris Fashion Week shows us how to layer a denim shirt perfectly. To insert a little bit more DIY into this look, cut the sleeves of a denim jacket or trench coat and layer away!

Image:Muoti mielessa

DIY Leopard Collar

Back to wearing coats. It feels so nice and cosy. DIYed myself a little leopard print feature collar by, erm, wearing the collar of my leopard print shirt out over my coat on Friday night. Not strictly a DIY, but the easiest way to get amongst the collar craze.

DIY Weekly - Leopard Print Shoulderless Shirt

Introducing DIY Weekly! I have to admit that when I do DIY projects, I always forget to take a before shot and write down exactly what it is that I did, which is no use to you! To remedy this I've decided to aim to upload one DIY tutorial per week. Hopefully this will focus my DIYing, help me remember to take photos of the process, and make sure that you guys get to see inside my DIY obsessed world!

Here's this weeks DIY. I bought a cute leopard print sheer silk shirt from a charity shop during my mid-week lunchtime thrifting (£1.50) and decided that it was time I got some shoulderless shirt action.
Here's how I did it (please don't hate me for lack of photos of the different steps...DIY Weekly needs some fine-tuning...):
1. I put on the shirt, and in the mirror using some chalk (I sometimes use light coloured eyeliner if I'm out of chalk) sketched roughly where I wanted the shoulderless section of the shirt to sit. I chose to go for quite a deep cut out, almost down to the elbows - but you can always angle it less for a more subtle cut out.
2. I then took the shirt off, lay it flat on a table and cut the marked section of the shoulders out of one side. I then tried the shirt on and checked that the angle was correct. It turned out I had to cut a little bit more out of it to perfect the angle.
3. I then folded the shirt in half down the middle lengthways so the arms were lying flat against each other, I used the chalk to sketch onto the other shoulder the exact cut out I had done. Its good to do this so that you get a symmetrical look. I then cut out the second side and tried it on in the mirror so I knew the cut outs were the same.
4. Then, using some brown thread, I hand sewed the edges of the cut outs. I folded the edge over a tiny bit so any fraying would be underneath and covered. If you have a sewing or selvage machine you can use that instead. I used a long stitch on the underside and a very fine stitch on the outside.

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DIY at LFW - Gem Fatale's Leopard Print Nails

Met the absolutely LOVERLY Gem from Gem Fatale's Style Blog on Day 2 of LFW - we had such a laugh hanging out in the Press Lounge with MJ, trying not to look unprofessional and dodging the 'who do you work for?' questions. It was great to unknowingly meet someone who's DIYs I had blogged about in the past - remember these crazy Wah inspired nails? Annnd to realise that she was the blogger to recently win the Asos 'Battle of the Bloggers' competition with her pant-wettingly funny essay entitled 'That's Fashism'. Was so happy to see that she was sporting the DIY Leopard Print nails that first brought her to my attention! Looking forward to getting to know her a bit better (a blogger date perhaps?) and seeing her do great things in the future.

DIY at LFW - Leopard Print Bow

Imogen from Eight London killed it with a DIY leopard print bow.

DIY New York Fashion Week Roundup

Instead of doing single posts I have decided to do one big wrap up from NY Fashion week - bearing in mind that we are going to be moving on swiftly to LFW (yay!)

DIY Silk Shoulders: Add some matching silk squares onto the shoulder of a basic knit or cardigan (Rebecca Taylor via Knight Cat)

DIY Bell Details: Sew some small indian bells onto a dress of skirt for a bohemian feel. (Vivienne Tam via Knight Cat)

DIY Red Velvet (not the hummingbird cupcake kind): This is not strictly a DIY buttt... trawl your local charity shop for red velvet. (via Go Backstage)

DIY Chain Fringed Sleeves: Buy a roll of chain from a craft or hardware store, cut similar lengthed strips and sew to the arms of a dress of long sleeved top to create fringed wings like the ones at Balmain (via Go Backstage)

DIY Wooly sleeves: Our penchant for capes this season (such as the one below from Asos) will mean that when the winter wind comes along (I think I felt it yesterday. sad face) it will probably find its way into our coats through the arm holes! arrgh! One way to combat this is to get yourself some armwarmers. Seen on the catwalk at Richard Chai (images via Go Backstage), these can be layered over short leather gloves for draft free layering. You can DIY your own by unpicking the end of a pair of (unworn) knee high socks and scrunching them down your arms.

DIY Chain Embellished jacket: Glue some chain onto a jacket or dress to emphasise the panelling. (Balmain via Go Backstage)

DIY Rope Belt: Tie a double sailors knot in the middle of pieces of thick rope and secure at the back. (Go Backstage)

DIY Broach Embellished Bag: Attach lots of broaches or detailed buttons to a bag (both can be found at charity shops for next to nothing). (via Go Backstage)

DIY Embellished Dress: Take a whole heap or buttons, flowers, ribbon, bells and basically anything you can find in browns, blacks, golds and bronze - and attach to a dress of top in this way. (via Go Backstage)