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.
Make jewelry, home decor and even musical instruments from bicycle parts such as chains, spokes, rims, gears, brake cables, handlebars, pedals, seats and frames.
Rugs I have hooked from recycled yarn, wool, t-shirts and other fibers as gifts to family and friends
My mom made an incredible weaving of a birch tree forest near where she was born in Gander, Newfoundland.
I experiment with making small tapestries from recycled t-shirt yarn and other yarns.
I love that my family was doing creative recycling in all our various corners of the globe – from recycling yarn, to wood to upholstery samples.