By
Karen Lee
/ June 2, 2011 / 2 minutes of reading
2. Felt Rose
I bet you have some felt scraps lying around too. Here is a great PDF pattern by bedbuggs for making this pretty rose brooch by using up your recylced felt scraps.
Karen lives a simple, frugal, green life and shares her eco tips and news on ecokaren and is a co-founder of Green Sisterhood, a network of community of green women bloggers, making change. When she's not managing Green Sisterhood or blogging on ecokaren, 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.
O, these are excellent ideas! My job as an eco seamstress (at http://www.gaia-noir.co.uk) means a LOT of fabric offcuts, and I’m always looking for ways to re-use them, since I challenge myself to throw away as few scraps as possible (only 1 basketful of unusable tiny/damaged pieces after a full year in business, yay!).
I make hairbows from scrap and I’ve tried patchwork squares, and shredding remnants for heavy bolster cushion stuffing, but making some little floral embellishments would be fabulous! 🙂
Wow. Just one basket of unused scrap in one year? That is awesome! Fabric flowers are definitely a creative way to use up scraps of all different sizes.
These are very cool. As you, i also keep so much scraps and could never throw out materials. Recently i used my old clothes and fabrics to upcycle into bags. Check them out… http://www.RecycleMyBag.com
This is really wonderful, A lot of things can be done with this great idea=)
I have 3 bags of fabric scraps! great ideas Karen!
Oh, you will have so much fun making flowers Rachel. The possibilities are endless! Have fun!!
O, these are excellent ideas! My job as an eco seamstress (at http://www.gaia-noir.co.uk) means a LOT of fabric offcuts, and I’m always looking for ways to re-use them, since I challenge myself to throw away as few scraps as possible (only 1 basketful of unusable tiny/damaged pieces after a full year in business, yay!).
I make hairbows from scrap and I’ve tried patchwork squares, and shredding remnants for heavy bolster cushion stuffing, but making some little floral embellishments would be fabulous! 🙂
Wow. Just one basket of unused scrap in one year? That is awesome! Fabric flowers are definitely a creative way to use up scraps of all different sizes.
These are very cool. As you, i also keep so much scraps and could never throw out materials. Recently i used my old clothes and fabrics to upcycle into bags. Check them out… http://www.RecycleMyBag.com
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