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Make fabric from scraps

Denise Felton — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:02:58 +0000

SharonB of Pin Tangle has posted a tutorial for making gorgeous, unusual fabric from your scraps. She says,

With this technique you can not only use up your orts but you can use embroidery threads, wool, textured yarns, silk ribbon ends and tiny scrap fabric.

Beautiful and upcycled. Awesome. Go to her tute.

Salvage garments with “mend writing”

Denise Felton — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:06:00 +0000

Catherine McEver of Stuff You Can’t Have has a brilliant idea for converting worn or stained clothing into funkwear: embroider it with mend writing. She says,

This embroidery strategy lets you get a word in edgewise by using the English alphabet but arranging it so that it looks vaguely like some kind of Asian writing…Because almost no one else can read mend writing, you can be very sarcastic and/or blunt in your communication.

See more on her blog post.

Stitching with kids: Recycle your junk

Denise Felton — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:06:29 +0000

Create a stitching project for your wee one from materials in your recycling bin. Brilliant! See This Little Project blog for the details.

Many thanks to Rachel Hobson of Craftzine.com for pointing out this find.

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