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Recycled Clothing Crafts
Volume Seven, Number 29 July 23, 2005
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We are sending this issue out a few days late, sorry for the delay. The topic is Recycled Clothing Crafts. We have some tips and links to some interesting projects online.
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Recycled Clothing Crafts
SShortening Pant Legs and Sleeves
Long sleeved shirts can become short sleeved shirt and highwater pants can be made into shorts. That way, if your child likes the clothing, but it is highwater-ish, it can still be re-used.
By Holly
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Make Your Own Dickies
Dickies can be made by taking the dickie cloth and using garters at each side at the top to attach around bra straps. They can be made from expensive remnants from something that you hemmed. I keep a stash of large pieces that were cut off from hemming just for this use.
By Holly
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Recycled Jewelry Brooch
By Shauna Smith Duty Can't afford designer jewelry? Want to have trendy accessories that your friends will compliment? Give new life to your broken necklaces, matchless earrings, and miscellaneous charms and beads from the bottom of your jewelry box. Recycled jewelry can make great accessories for personal use or gift giving. The one-of-a-kind creations you make will become treasured works of art.
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Making Pillowcase Skirts
I made a little girl's skirt out of a decorated pillow case. I cut off the top part of the case leaving the open decorated part for the skirt. It was hemmed, so I just turned the top cut part back and made a casing on the inside of the cut end to the width of elastic, with a small amount for the seam. That made the elastic waist band. I used the left over part I cut off to make a small draw string purse by making another casing and putting a matching ribbon draw string in it. Every piece of the pillow case was used.
By Martha
Pillow Case Skirt
By Stella Rivet Supplies:
- Beginning sewing skills
- Pillow case/cases
- Sewing Machine
- Scissors
- Zipper or elastic
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Jeans Skirt with Ruffle
By Stella Rivet
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Jeans Purse
The seat part of old jeans can be made into a purse, and I'm sure you've seen this many times. But I'd like to point out that the softer jeans fabrics need some kind of a stiffener (lining) to give them body. Otherwise, the purse just kind of shrinks downward when you set it on a table and the contents can spill out.
By Holly
Denim Pocket Purse
By Shauna Smith Duty Ever wonder what you can do with blue jeans that have seen better days? Favorite blue jeans may not be suitable for reuse because of all the wear and tear. But they've been a faithful friend, not complaining when you dripped chili on them at that picnic, and keeping quiet after Christmas dinner when you gave their waistband a workout. Don't ditch them, recycle them! A hole in the knee or bleach spot on the leg will only add personality to a denim pocket purse made from recycled blue jeans.
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Flannel Shirt Memory Quilt
My husband and I lived on a farm and through the years he wore and wore out many flannel shirts. I saved them all and finally made a crazy quilt from the best parts of them, including some pockets and buttons. Now that he is gone I have a warm reminder of him and the years we had.
By Joyce
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Reusing Old Crocheted Sweaters
Enhance your Shabby Chic or vintage decorating with crafts from OLD CROCHETED SWEATERS from the thrift store. These sweaters are often torn or pulled in one area so are not useful as sweaters anymore. I have bought them for between $1-$3 each.
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Remaking a Dress into a Skirt
If the top part of a child's dress doesn't fit, but the skirt part does, you can cut off the blouse portion, sew up the back part of the skirt, hem the waist area, insert elastic and make it into a skirt.
This is from an old memory of what my mother did for me when I outgrew a favorite dress. It lived on as a reincarnated skirt.
By Holly
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