DIY for Environmentalists: Crafting, Making, Project How-to's, and more!
About Karen LeeKaren lives a simple, frugal, green life and shares her eco tips and news on ecokaren. She leads Eco Etsy Team, an awesome group of enthusiastic green business owners on Etsy. She sells green goodies in her Etsy shop and writes for various green blogs. When she's not leading the team or blogging, she is a chauffeur to two greenagers, wife to an accidental recycler, master chef to hungry locavores, seamstress, knitter, and dumpster diver, not necessarily in that order.
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Hello! My name is Bonnie Getchell and overall, I'm a craft nerd! I love making crafts, re-doing furniture, and anything along those lines. I especially love creating items that are from recycled materials like toilet paper rolls, bottles, etc.
I'm the lucky momma of two little blonde daddy-clones--we spend our days doing elaborate art projects, trashing the house, eating cheese cubes and oranges, and waiting for my partner to get home from his day job so we can pester him.
Kelly covers visual arts in and around Washington, DC for DCist and is editor of Crafting a Green World. Kelly has also been published by Bust Magazine and you can find her byline at Indie Fixx and Etsy’s Storque and has taught in Etsy’s virtual lab on the topic of green crafting.
i think i’m kind of becoming obsessed with having little pouches for things… i’m almost giddy over this idea!!!!
Cool! pouches are so practical. I love ‘em too! And you can make drawstring out of t-shirt yarns – made from t-shirt scraps. No waste crafting is where is at!!
i’ve also seen the use of t-shirt sleeves to make infant hats… i’ve used the bottoms of t-shirts for this before once my little guy was older, but i never made them when his noggin’ was small enough to use the sleeves. great idea, though!
That would be really cute! Yeah, you would have to make them before they are born, I guess. Great idea!
I think the sleeves make great headbands! You can leave the sleeves open wide to make a wide headband, or allow it to roll up to make a skinny headband. I use 3/4 length headbands to wear like a bandana to protect my crazy fair skin and scalp from the sun when I am in the garden or at the water park.
Hi Tiffany, You mean leave the sleeves intact and you can squeeze your head into the hole as a headband? I never tried that thinking my big fat head wouldn’t fit! Gotta try that now. Thanks for the tip!
Thank you for this posting. It will really help me use ALL parts of a co-workers t-shirts as gifts for his family.
I have used the whole short sleeve for a cover for my head when I went fishing. It kept my head from getting cold. My husband did alot of laughing that day! Haha