fashion into

fashion (something) into (something else)

To use something as the template or model for the way in which something else is created or developed. This short story is so compelling that I really think you could fashion it into a novel. We fashioned a few empty crates into a makeshift table in the middle of our new living room.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fashion something into something

to make, form, or convert something into something else. He fashioned the newspaper into a temporary rain hat. Sarah fashioned the clay into a little bowl.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • a crack at (someone or something)
  • all right
  • (you) wanna make something of it?
  • all for the best
  • a thing of the past
  • a slew of (something)
  • a bird in the hand