Vintage Linens and Needlework Creative Reuse
Even if you love the vintage handkerchiefs, pillowcases or quilts that you inherited, what can you do with them?
Even if you love the vintage handkerchiefs, pillowcases or quilts that you inherited, what can you do with them?
From shrunken felted sweaters to tiny balls of leftover yarn, get ideas for ways to creatively reuse your sweaters, wool and yarn.
Each month, I make a handmade gift for my grandmother Rea from recycled materials – which brings her joy and increases my discipline around getting creative projects done.
Rugs I have hooked from recycled yarn, wool, t-shirts and other fibers as gifts to family and friends
These Instagram feeds are providing a lot of creative energy to me these days for rug hooking, weaving, quilting, embroidery, drawing and interesting craft business models.
Inspiring Trashmagination artists made items from recycled glass, fiber and playing cards.
I call this my Earthworms rug because I think the peach colored fabric looks like worms crawling across the rug.
A hand-hooked rug from recycled wool scraps expresses our appreciation of a special teacher.
Here are some happy memories of rug hooking & beaches!
I made two hooked rugs for Christmas gifts – one for my mother-in-law and one for my dad.
This rug reflects the nine colors of scarves at the Family Nature Summits, and it’s my first non-wool or yarn rug.
We drew panels in a family comic book as a way to engage my children in our family history.
A presentation at my rug hooking guild about Newfoundland gets me wondering how much of trashmagination is cultural?