Tutorial: DIY Fabric-Covered Switch Plates and Outlet Covers
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Tutorial: DIY Fabric-Covered Switch Plates and Outlet Covers Read More 👉
Y’all, what would YOU do with a treasured letterman jacket that you won’t wear but don’t want to get rid of and is actively oozing toxic substances?!?
Can Your Varsity Letterman Jacket Be Saved? Read More 👉
It’s possible to remove most candle wax from most fabric, even if your candle wax is highly pigmented, and even if your fabric is precious and delicate.
How to Remove Wax from Fabric: Two Methods Read More 👉
It can be tricky to think of ways to paint or dye silk fabric, if you’ve mostly worked with cotton, linen, or other plant-fiber fabrics before. You probably already know that silk takes dye differently, but how differently? Can you paint it? Transfer images to it? Dye it multiple colors?
14 Techniques to Paint and Dye Silk Fabric Read More 👉
There are huge environmental and economic benefits to covering your windows with curtains. You conserve energy when you insulate even energy-efficient windows with another layer or two, and if your windows are older, the energy conservation is even more extreme. With that energy conservation comes concrete savings on your energy bills. It’s a win-win situation!
15 DIY Curtains and Window Coverings for an Eco-Friendly Makeover Read More 👉
Drapes are a surprisingly eco-friendly home furnishing.
DIY Drapes from Upcycled Sheets and Lining Fabric Read More 👉
Want a fun summertime project that highlights your creative expression, gives a second life to clothes otherwise destined for the waste stream, AND subverts Big Fashion?
You are going to love tie-dye!
DIY Tie-Dye: 10 Creative Projects to Subvert Big Fashion Read More 👉
Dog brushes brush the mats out of both dog fur AND fuzzy blankets!
How to Restore a Fuzzy Blanket with a Dog Brush and Elbow Grease Read More 👉
Burlap flowers look really cool!
Twenty Burlap Flowers You Can Make Read More 👉
If you think the hexagons, themselves are cute, wait until you see all the absolutely adorable things that you can make from them.
Two Dozen Hexagon Quilt Ideas Read More 👉
You can make anything you can think of out of felt (and some days, I feel like I already have!), but some of the most surprisingly fun–and surprisingly lovely!–things that you can make are felt flowers.
45 Ways To Make Felt Flowers Without A Cricut Read More 👉
There’s nothing like a bunting to make a festive occasion just that much more special.
How To Make an Upcycled Playing Card and Upholstery Sample Bunting Read More 👉
Life is too short to guiltily hoard a drawer full of ribbon bits and bobs and scraps and ends (*awkwardly raises hand*).
30 Stash-Busting, Scrappy Ribbon Crafts Read More 👉
Whichever kind of felt you prefer, you can settle happily into any of the felt crafts below, knowing that whatever you make, it will be a great choice for the environment
Four Dozen Eco-Friendly Felt Crafts Read More 👉
Fortunately, there are a lot of beautiful ways to upcycle paper and yarn doilies.
25 Ways to Upcycle Doilies Read More 👉
There’s a definite learning curve to sewing with heavy-duty fabrics, but I can assure you that with the proper tools and techniques, most machines can, and do, happily handle canvas, denim, and leather.
Crafty Book Review: Hanging Flowerpot from Heavy-Duty Sewing Read More 👉
Make a sweet, fabric bouquet from your stash of fabric scraps. They’re a cute decoration for your house or as a gift.
How to Make a Fabric Bouquet from Scraps Read More 👉
Here’s how to make that fabric wall hanging happen!
How to Make a Fabric Wall Hanging Read More 👉
The process is simple, the results are natural (although NOT vegan), and when you’re finished, you’ll have a sturdy, water-resistant fabric that you can sew into whatever you like.
How to Make Waxed Fabric Read More 👉
Did you know that turmeric is great for dyeing fabric? Here’s how to make turmeric dye and how to care for your dyed fabric.
DIY Turmeric Dye for Fabric (+ washing instructions!) Read More 👉
Got some plain old fabric in your stash that needs a little love? Check out these fabric paint techniques to give it a little more pizazz!
4 Ways Fabric Paint can Revamp Plain Fabric Read More 👉
There’s nothing like hopping out of the pool and into a comfy, soft, bounteous towel.
But big beach towels are hard for little kids to manage, and that bleached, dyed terrycloth can be scratchy and harsh on damp, delicate skin.
It’s an organic terrycloth hooded towel to the rescue!
How-to: Organic Terrycloth Hooded Towel with Applique Read More 👉
Let’s say you need a pillowcase. You need it to be organic, because a loved one is going to be mushing her face into it for eight hours every night.
You need it to be soft, because you want your loved one to be comfy so that she gets that whole eight hours.
Oh, and you need it to be awesome, because your loved one is pretty stinkin’ awesome.
How-to: Organic Flannel Graphic Pillowcase with an Envelope Back Read More 👉
Sara Lee Parker creates beautiful organic fabrics, and she just released a new line!
Fab Fabrics: New Line of Organic Prints from Sara Lee Parker Read More 👉
Sarah Waterhouse hand prints her cheery – and sometimes cheeky – designs onto every yard of organic cotton that she creates.
Fab Fabrics: Hand-Printed Organic Cotton from Sarah Waterhouse Read More 👉
Hemp legalization is closer to becoming a reality for U.S. farmers!
Is Hemp Legalization in the U.S. Coming Soon? Read More 👉
We talk a lot about sustainable fabrics around here, both as part of our Fab Fabrics series and when we’re sharing tutorials. A quick scan through our archives turns up the usual suspects: hemp, organic cotton, recycled felt, jute, linen, and – of course – vintage fabrics. But every once in a while we run across a fabulous fabric that’s from more of an offbeat source.
Finding sustainable, waterproof fabric can be tricky. Even recycled synthetics contain quite a bit of new plastic in addition to the recycled content. That’s why I was super excited to learn about a brand new waterproof fabric made from lotus flower stems. The fabric is a blend of lotus flower fibers and silk, and it’s sustainable and waterproof!
Fab Fabrics: Waterproof Lotus Flower Fabric Read More 👉
Our version of Cool Water from Sew Pretty: T-Shirt Dresses is entitled Willow’s Rock Star Dress, and has pink skulls, glow-in-the-dark bats, orange flames, and a guitar player wearing a sparkly silver tutu and crown.
We love recycled felt around here! Ecofi felt is made from post-consumer plastic bottles, which means that every time you use it in your crafting, you’re helping to divert plastic waste from the landfills. Not too shabby, right?
There’s not an easier clothing modification to make than swapping out the shoulder straps on a strappy tank top. It takes just a few minutes to do, and it completely changes both the look and the fit of the top.
Would you like to sew a quilt using only your fabric scraps that are so small that any normal crafter would toss them in the trash?
You bet you would!
How-to: Sew a Postage Stamp Quilt from Small Fabric Scraps Read More 👉
Directional fabrics, including children’s novelty sheets, require a slightly different, and only a little more complicated, method to sew a circle skirt with nothing upside-down.
Here’s how to make your kid a circle skirt where Charlie Brown ALWAYS faces the right way.
How to Sew a Circle Skirt from a Kid’s Bed Sheet (or other Directional Fabric) Read More 👉
We love Daisy Janie around here! She’s a sustainable fabric designer from way back, and it’s great to see an old favorite still keeping things fresh with new collections and beautiful patterns and colors.
Fab Fabrics: New Organic Cotton Designs from Daisy Janie Read More 👉