So we know that you can recycled old sweaters into yarn, but repurposed sweaters can be valuable for seamstresses, too!
Five Eco-Friendly Craft Projects for Your Butterfly Lover
August 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you don’t love butterflies, then you’re probably not a good person deep down inside. Butterflies are beautiful, and their ephemerality is a reminder of the graces and the inevitabilities of the seasons. Because of their beauty, their symmetry, their simplicity – and because of what the often represent to us of beauty and simplicity [...]
Tutorial: Balancing Butterfly Mobile from Recycled Paper
August 8, 2010 By 4 Comments
Balancing butterflies have gone viral in the blog world lately, and here’s why: They’re awesome. Balancing butterflies take the theory of gravity to a most playful, and least logical, end. By clever distribution of weight, a balancing butterfly will balance on the head of a pin, on the very forward tip of its head, perched [...]
Sewing Clothing from Pillowcases: 8 Repurposed Projects
August 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
With the green movement going strong and craftiness in the spotlight I have discovered a lot of people sewing clothing from old pillowcases. My BFF Jen was the first to tell me about transforming pillowcases into dresses for little girls which was showcased in one of the old Victorian magazines she used to collect. She decided she wanted to give [...]
10 Crafty Green Things to Do With Old Sweaters
August 6, 2010 By 12 Comments
