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Monday October 10 - Rags to Bags
Everyone who participated loved this event! It was a lot of fun to make the bags, and it felt really good to use up fabric scraps that were small and insignificant, yet too pretty to be pitched. This project was the perfect solution! It reminded me of my grandmother who was the original recycler - she made braided rugs out of old wool clothing, reused the wax paper bags inside cereal boxes to store thi
ngs, put oval patches on jacket elbows, and never bought a pad of notepaper because she reused envelopes and the backs of greeting cards and such for her grocery lists and notes. Favorite idea: work like an assembly line - first cut all pieces, then sew all sides, then all handles, etc.
Everyone who participated loved this event! It was a lot of fun to make the bags, and it felt really good to use up fabric scraps that were small and insignificant, yet too pretty to be pitched. This project was the perfect solution! It reminded me of my grandmother who was the original recycler - she made braided rugs out of old wool clothing, reused the wax paper bags inside cereal boxes to store thi
ngs, put oval patches on jacket elbows, and never bought a pad of notepaper because she reused envelopes and the backs of greeting cards and such for her grocery lists and notes. Favorite idea: work like an assembly line - first cut all pieces, then sew all sides, then all handles, etc.
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