Do you remember my January post about turning my scraps into fabric twine?
My first project with it was to make these.
And I continued with the re-use-recycle idea and folded origami boxes out of Vogue magazine pages to gift pack them in.
Trivet or Doily? – What you call it depends on how you use it!
trivet – doily
handmade from textile offcuts
silk – wool – cotton
origami box
folded from old Vogue magazine pages
recycled paper
This morning I made my first Garden Fairy’s Wardrobe dress for 2015 with two different pink geraniums that grow in my front garden.
© Sandra Alcorn 2015
I decided to use two shades of pink together inspired by the two colour effect of the fabric twine I’ve started making.
A Xmas gift of The Sustainable Fashion Handbook by Sandy Black combined with a workroom tidy up spurred the start of this new project to recycle some of the smaller scraps that mount up in my studio.
© Sandra Alcorn 2015
© Sandra Alcorn 2015
I found the instructions on My Poppet. It’s easy to make and all ready my mind is sparking with ideas for what I might do with it.
You can see other ways I use my scraps in my posts Macarons, Memories & Momentoes and Treasure & Mermaids.
Always better than them ending up in landfill.
Petal & Pins 