Orphan Socks New Usage Idea: Reuse

April 21, 2010 by admin  
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Orphan Socks New Usage Idea: Reuse

Losing your cute shocks’ partner? Don’t throw them away. Orla Kiely has a clever idea to reuse the orphan shocks. This idea is to pull socks over the bottoms of planters, jars, bottles, etc. and cut the sock bottom to size. EveryDay magazine has used them as planter cozys to make pretty centerpieces. Even you [...]




Reusable Cute Bag from Recycled T-Shirt

April 2, 2010 by admin  
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Reusable Cute Bag from Recycled T-Shirt

Bag from T-Shirt created by Martha Stewart, a business woman and author who has always drawn inspiration from her surroundings, could be alternative to recycle our old T-shirt into a reusable shopping bag. She also shares how to made it so we can try this at home. A simple idea but clever to help everyone [...]

Funky Patchwork Furniture from Recycled Fabric

September 8, 2009 by admin  
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Funky Patchwork Furniture from Recycled Fabric

Patchwork is usually used for quilting and bedcovering. But Lisa Whatmough, a British designer, has used patchwork technique in different way for her Squint Limited company. She adopted it for covering her funky furnitures become unique and fun product. That’s an extraordinary technique I ever see.
She combined various old textille collection and period furniture with [...]




Stripe-y Patchwork Cat Tutorial for Recycled Fabric

August 29, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Fabric, Green Product, Handicraft, Recycle

Stripe-y Patchwork Cat Tutorial for Recycled Fabric

Every people have used fabric or cloths that they don’t use anymore. Most of us perhaps re-use them for dust cloth. But why don’t we create another cute object from used cloths? One of recycled fabric objects is patchwork. Thanks to Michelle Russell for her kindness to share this free pattern of stripe-y patchwork cat [...]