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Seek and Find Jar
About a year ago at a friend’s birthday dinner, I saw a really neat seek and find tube. It was a long plastic tube filled with rice and small, mostly plastic, objects….a dinosaur, a button, a fish… etc. After seeing … Continue reading
Posted in craft, Little Bit, Reclaimed, repurpose, reuse, toddler
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Bunnies for the Basket
Here are the results of 2 of the many great bunny tutorials I’ve seen this past week. With Little Bit’s Easter basket to fill I figured these would be perfect. I found The Purl Bee’s finger puppet bunny tutorial through Lil … Continue reading
Cashmere Makes Yummy Hats!
I’ve been Sweatering…. That is… scouring local secondhand shops for usable wool, cashmere, and wool blend sweaters…. Here is a picture of the yummy colors of cashmere sweaters I’ve reclaimed. Last week I set to making baby hats. Here are … Continue reading
Adventures in Reclaiming Yarn
Since the beginning of my journey into recycled wool sweaters, I’ve been looking for the perfect sweater to frog. Finding a nice weight wool sweater, that hasn’t been felted, feels nice, had good frogging seams, and that wasn’t full of … Continue reading
Dryer Balls
After getting the idea from Resweater, I finally got around to making dryer balls. Here are the “naked” wrappped up balls of Wool scraps with some strips added to some to make them more round. They are about 2 ounces … Continue reading
Posted in fabric, hand sewing, repurpose, reuse, sewing, sweater, up-cycle, wool
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Rethinking My Papertowel Holder
For a while now I’ve been using cloth dishtowels instead of paper towels. We do occasionally buy a roll of paper towels for the car or emergencies, but in general I don’t use them. So my paper towel holder has been … Continue reading
Sweater Kitty Bed
One of the first shopping trips to search for wool sweaters yielded a large creamy shetland wool sweater made by Columbia. There was this little tag on the sleeve that said “Convert.” I thought that quite an apt label. After … Continue reading
Sweater Projects
Taking my charity shop sweater, I tried to make a smaller sweater for Bennett, 16 months old. I realized only after I’d cut down said sweater that I should not have felted it if I was going to make a … Continue reading
Wool Sweater
I’ve been seeing a lot in online blogs about recycling/upcycling wool sweaters into all kinds of things. So while I was out running errands today, I stopped in to a local charity shop and picked up a 100% wool sweater … Continue reading
101 Uses for Plastic Kitty Litter Containers
This is an idea I came up with the other day to help people reuse and repurpose the containers left from buying and using kitty litter. I’ve been reusing them around my house for a while now and thought other … Continue reading
Posted in craft, litter containter, repurpose, reuse, storage
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Sew the Day 