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Category: Recycle & Upcycle

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Recycle & Upcycle Sewing

Boho Basket from a Homemade Coiled Rope

updated on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022Leave a Comment on Boho Basket from a Homemade Coiled Rope

How about making an original Boho Basket from the homemade twine you made with one of my previous tutorials?

Recycle & Upcycle Sewing

Fabric Scrap Twine

updated on March 7, 2022March 6, 2022Leave a Comment on Fabric Scrap Twine

What to do with all the fabric scraps you have? Make this fabric twine to use in further projects!

Arts and Crafts Recycle & Upcycle

Recycled Snowflakes

updated on April 24, 2021February 24, 2021Leave a Comment on Recycled Snowflakes

Recycled snowflakes are one of my very favorite Christmas decorations. They’re easy to make and we have lots of fund making them with the kids.

Gifts Recycle & Upcycle

Beeswax Wraps

updated on July 2, 2021April 21, 2020Leave a Comment on Beeswax Wraps

The beeswax wraps are a hit now but it’s not something the humanity came up with just now. I remeber my mom packing my lunch in a clean cloth that I used as a napkin at school. So in a way with the beeswax wraps we’re coming back to something from the past that we …

Gifts Recycle & Upcycle Sewing

Spring beanie from a sweater

updated on July 2, 2021March 17, 20202 Comments on Spring beanie from a sweater

This spring beanie is the last part of my project “Complete upcycling of a sweater”. You can also read about how I upcycled the body of the sweater into a handbag and how I made a winter cap from the collar. I was left with the sleaves which I turned into a lighter headwear.

Gifts Recycle & Upcycle Sewing

Upcycled handbag from a sweater

updated on July 2, 2021March 10, 2020Leave a Comment on Upcycled handbag from a sweater

This is the second part of my mini-series “Complete sweater upcycle”. In this tutorial I will show you how I made an easy zipper handbag from the bodice of a sweater.

Arts and Crafts Recycle & Upcycle

Recycled mini hats

updated on March 6, 2020March 3, 2020Leave a Comment on Recycled mini hats

So you say your dolls have nothing to wear, ey…

Gifts Recycle & Upcycle

Shoebox Suitcase

updated on July 2, 2021February 25, 2020Leave a Comment on Shoebox Suitcase

I decided to give our girls creative suitcases for Christmas. And I wouldn’t be the Creative Mom if I didn’t think instantly about not buying them but making them. Fortunatelly, I had two great shoeboxes at home.

Fashion Accessories Gifts Recycle & Upcycle

Winter Beanie from a Sweater

updated on July 2, 2021February 11, 2020Leave a Comment on Winter Beanie from a Sweater

This is the first part of three of the project “Complete Sweater Upcycle” in which I’d like to show how I upcycled a whole sweater into a winter beanie, a handbag and a spring beanie. The winter beanie was made from the collar of the sweater where the material was the thickest but it can …

Recycle & Upcycle Sewing

Upcycling Old Jeans Into a Handbag

updated on November 24, 2022March 31, 20193 Comments on Upcycling Old Jeans Into a Handbag

I really enjoy upcycling. You take something that would otherwise be considered for throwing away and you make it into something useful. When my husband decided to throw away his old pair of jeans, I prevented this horrible act of waste:) and because they were not completely torn, I decided to make handbags for our …

Recycle & Upcycle Sewing

Upcycle Your Old Sweater Into a Handbag

updated on November 24, 2022January 1, 2019Leave a Comment on Upcycle Your Old Sweater Into a Handbag

What’s great about upcycling is that feeling that you don’t just throw away an older thing, you give it new life and make something new from it. I had a sweater I loved which shrank very mysteriously (no way I grew bigger, no way!). I felt so sorry to throw it away…so I decided to …

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