Repurposing cutting mats
11-23-2011, 04:39 AM
#31
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My DH takes my old ones and uses them in his shop. He put one on a top of a cabinet or something and he can use it when he needs to cut something with one of those retactable razor cutters that all guys have...LOL( I have a couple as well). He used one for a neighbor that wanted him to make a fish cleaning station for him...he screwed the edges down on a treated piece of plywood next to the sink for the cleaning station...works like a champ! Now they can clean the fish and not cut into the wood and it can all be cleaned and hosed off and be outside in the weather. I have also cut one into smaller pieces, using the sections that I didn't "use up" to have little cutting areas next to my machines and to carry with me when I need a small cutting mat.
11-23-2011, 04:54 AM
#34
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Location: South central Nebraska, US
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Heat renews warped cutting pads, some advocate laying on towels and books. As I mentioned before I just lay mine out on a hot sunny sidewalk. Has worked for me. Happy sewing.
11-23-2011, 06:20 AM
#37
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Location: Portage, Michigan
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I know that this is a stretch but donate them to a local high school, community college or university that has a sewing skills, fashion design or architecture department. I work at a university that has all three of those departments and I see cutting mats in all three areas. The students can always use more cutting surfaces in the classrooms. I found one mat in the trash last summer that was so old...."How old was it?" It was so old that... it had been used so much that the surface was not long flat but covered with ridges from the number of years of cutting, and cutting and cutting in the same areas.
I am sure donations of even the mat you don't like would be appreciated.
I am sure donations of even the mat you don't like would be appreciated.
11-23-2011, 06:43 AM
#40
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
Posts: 361
Now, that is championship recycling!
my fave is my warped board cut to fit the back of a cookie sheet...glued with contact cement so it is steady and flat now...inside the cookie sheet, i i put pc of cardboard, wrapped with old blanket and then covered with denim (my favorite ironing surface) ...then glued this all inside the cookie sheet...pin-able, ironable and cutable... and reclaimed a ruined board. I also have little ones for the end of my ironing board and inside my sewing kit.
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