Sewing Supplies and Fabrics for the Thrifty and Green
If you love thrift stores and garage sales, this is the column for you. Theres gold in them thar hillssewing gold! Adjust your perspective a little and appear at the world as 1 big fabric store and youll uncover all sorts of treasures to add to your stash.
- Have a closet full of old bridesmaid or prom dresses? Use them to make a quilt or a patchwork pillow. Give the bride a memento from her wedding by printing her wedding specifics on a piece of printable fabric. Then, use fabrics, trims, and even petticoat tulle from the bridesmaid dresses (or even the brides dress if you have scraps from alterations) to artfully dress a pillow she can hold always. Give your daughter a memento of her high-school dances with a quilt created with fabric from her dresses. Create an appliqu of a dress to place in every single square utilizing the fabric from her gowns.
- Handkerchiefs, gloves, scarves, bandanas, lace & linens. When I was a child, we had to have a new embroidered handkerchief and a pair of white gloves every Easter. Sew these mementos into projects to develop an artistic memoir. Trims can frequently be pricey when new, so take them off of old garments or lingerie and re-use them. Make a dress from a vintage pillow case or from a bandana.
- Employed Clothing & Thrift Items. Find tablecloths with embroidery or lace to transformmany vintage linens had been created with handmade lace. Use old straw hats as types to develop fancy dress-up bonnets. Use old jeans to make trendy handbags. Uncover old craft or knitting kits and use the threads and yarns to create decorative trims for your projects. Get rid of the back and insides of an old stuffed fabric doll or toy, and use the front or profile for a cute appliqu on jeans. Silk or lace from wedding gowns can be removed and employed for other sewing projects, and the tulle from underskirts can be re-created into pettiskirts. Take a blouse from your closet that you havent worn (but cant bear to give away) and use it to develop a camisole or a fabric belt.
- Robes & Terrycloth. Cut worn parts from old robes or towels and sew them with each other to make an enjoyable shower curtain (use with a liner). Vintage chenille is entertaining to use for stuffed toys.
- Buttons, Beads & Jewelry. If you have an old jacket with great buttons, contemplate taking the buttons off to re-use them. Uncover beaded sweaters or jackets, old jewelryeven shoes– and disassemble to reclaim the beads and findings. Take away belts from cool belt buckles and attach a new fabric belt. Re-use hardware from old purses to make new ones. Often, hardware is expensive to purchase new but remains undamaged on utilized pieces.
- Scraps. Be certain to use those scraps of fabric for small projects like appliqu, scrapbooking, patchwork, hair clips, stuffed toys, and embellishments.
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