My way to use up and recycle scraps of fabric.
At a quilt class a few weeks ago, the person in charge asked if I would give a short talk on what I do to recycle fabric etc. (She knows me.) I mentioned this to someone on the board and they said I should post it so here goes.
Use It Up! Wear it out! Make It Do or Do Without! These are words of the Great Depression and WWII years yet so applicable for today when fabric is anywhere from $8-$13 a yard if not more. So my question to you is..why are you tossing it in the trash can?
Some of my ideas may not be right for you but just things that I do. When I was small, one of my favorite things was to play in my mom's bottom drawer where she kept her clean rags. She said she would plink me down on the floor and open it up and I would keep busy for a long time, taking them in and out. ( I imagine I was under 2 years old). Yet even today, I love going through another person's rejects and their bag of scraps is like a wonderful treasure to me. The enjoyable thing for me is trying to figure out how to make those little bits and pieces, scraps and strings, into something useful and a fun challenge. So here are a few of my ideas plus some I have gleaned from other folks for using all those wonderful bits and pieces you might not have thought about. Plus a few other things that are not particularly fabric but do involve sewing in one way or another. I will describe the items in each picture.