repurposing fabrics, do you do it?
10-07-2011, 10:57 PM
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so even if it is a mixed content, if it has synthetic in it it will melt?
I have seen a description of how to test a fabric scrap by burning it. Something about different smells, etc. Post a query in a new thread and someone will answer it!
this much I can tell you-----------cotton burns, synthetic melts.
Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
Originally Posted by LeslieFrost
Originally Posted by Rhaorth
Wish I knew how to test fabric, so I could determine if the ones that did not have labels are 100% cotton
10-07-2011, 11:02 PM
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I have over the last year and I have also started buying more Walmart fabric. It was between less quilting or using lesser quality. I rather quilt with lesser quality cottons or repurposed cotton then not quilt. Think green when you repurpose. It is the big in. :P
10-07-2011, 11:09 PM
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Some great ideas here. I must start to haunt the charity shops - though I find that a lot of the sheets etc that they sell are just too grotty to use. Does anyone know if there are any books on this sort of thrifty use/reuse of fabric? I'd like to do it more often, as I'm now on a retirement income, and also because I increasingly want to live in a way that respects the planet's limited resources and makes the best use of everything. But I'm often unsure as to what could be used and how, so somee help and inspiration wouldn't go amiss. If there isn't such a book, will one of you ladies please write it!
10-08-2011, 01:16 AM
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I am using fabric to cover a dresser I had brought for my son years ago. He has moved out and I need more storage so I am going to sand, prime, paint, Mod Podge and turn it into something nice for my sewing room.
10-08-2011, 02:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Rhaorth
Anywho... who else shops at goodwill/thrift stores for fabric (be it sheets, scraps etc)
But I regularly haunt the used clothing stores for 100% cotton sheets and 100% cotton curtains. I don't live in the US and this is my best source of fabric. I've made plenty of quilts with these items.
10-08-2011, 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Rhaorth
so even if it is a mixed content, if it has synthetic in it it will melt?
I have seen a description of how to test a fabric scrap by burning it. Something about different smells, etc. Post a query in a new thread and someone will answer it!
this much I can tell you-----------cotton burns, synthetic melts.
Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
Originally Posted by LeslieFrost
Originally Posted by Rhaorth
Wish I knew how to test fabric, so I could determine if the ones that did not have labels are 100% cotton
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