Re-usable bags made with recycled materials

I have an obsession with re usable, made with recycled fabric bags. I thought I had made a few but my few is turning out to be many. I have given many away but I have my favorites that I use for everything. All my bags can carry at least 2 gallons of milk. The red/ white striped one in the middle is the perfect size for bringing your lunch to work. 
All the large bags have a recycled piece of corrugated plastic in the bottom for extra strength and is easy to wash with some soap and water. 

Lake Tahoe art with a 1947 newpaper

We found a newspaper from Thursday Sept. 4, 1947 and had to find something awesome to use it for.

So my hubby grabbed a piece of wood left over from another project and went to work. The next thing you know he has Lake Tahoe cut out. 

So I grabbed the old newspaper and decided to highlight it on his piece.

The piece came out amazing. 

Lake Tahoe serving tray

We had a boring old serving tray that had been in our home for a while and was well loved and used. 

SOOOOOO my hubby grabbed some brown paper bags, Elmers glue, a sharpie and some paint and made it into an amazing pise of functional art. 

A bonus is that is that it has the main roads of Tahoe on it.

It has many coats of polyurethane on it to protect the artwork.

Lake Tahoe Guitar

My husband was given a non-working guitar. So he worked worked his magic on it and then the picture came :-)

My husband LOVES to draw and doodle. This one came out amazing, a piece of art that you can use !!!!

Pill bottle veggie garden markers

While getting ready to plant some seeds in the mini greenhouse my hubby made me I was trying to figure out a way to mark my veggies. So I did 2 things. The 1st things was to save all out toilet paper cardboard tubes. Then I put them in the soil and planted my seeds in the middle of the tubes. This way was things grow if it is outside a tube it is most likely a weeds and the worms love eating them, 

The second thing was to grab my old pill bottles and some skewers. I drilled a little hole in the bottle of each bottle and then put it on a skewer. I then wrote the name of the plant on a scrap piece of paper and put that in the bottle then the lid. All done just put the skewer in the dirt to identify your plants. 

Now I realize I can write the main info on the paper inside also, things like watering, feeding, harvest days etc. 

100% recycled garden containers

This was Rubber maid shed that the shelves just would not hold any weight anymore. So as my hubby was gonna make it go away he realized that it might just hold some of my veggies pots this year.

This is my amazing little green house my hubby made with a corner sliding door piece. It is raised so I can work in it easily and the back will be painted black to get more heat in it. This summer we will have the most amazing crops. :-)

Recycled T-shirt quilted maxi dress

 


This dress started because of a piece a small fabric a friend left me. Also at the same time my new serger arrived so I came up with this dress.
I was once told that you cannot quilt with t-shirts. or better yet recycled t-shirts. Well I think that is 100% wrong.
Since the strap fabric was little to thick tie behind my neck I grabbed my LARGE jar of buttons and things and found a magnetic clasp for the back instead.
The bottom needed something a little more so I ran a strip around the top of my ruffle, I love ruffles!!!!!

Recycled Denim creations

I found a box of denim jeans that I was saving for that just right project, and I had enough for a project. I took the box of denim and gave myself 1 week to do something. Well instead of one creation I made three :-) The first blanket was made with just strips sewn together and then the edges frayed. 

The center picture is of hot pads made from the seams of all the denim jeans I had. I hot glues them in to circles that are the perfect size and look more like art then a hot pad.

The 2nd blanket is my favorite and took the longest, but well worth the extra time. Each line of stitch is a different stitch that my sewing machine can do. I wanted to play with those most forgotten stitches. 

1 box of denim jeans and one week, I wonder what my next box will be full of :-)

Recycled t-shirt maxi dress black to white with lace straps

I have acquired quite a few black and white t-shirts that I wanted to use up. So I grabbed them and found a base foundation dress that I went off of http://ofdreamsandseams.blogspot.co.at/2012/08/t-shirt-refashion-extravaganza-grand.html and here is what I came up with. I now feel the need to make a blueish one.

Old flannel sheet gathered top

I saw a pattern on this website http://so-sew-easy.com/free-sewing-pattern-drape-top/ and decided I wanted to make one. So I did and it fit my smaller size friend perfectly.
I have been holding on to this super soft old flannel sheet I had to made something with for a while now. As soon as I saw Deby's shirt again I knew it was it.
So here is my version of that pattern with am old flannel sheet and a few alterations to make it a little bigger for my larger framer :-)

Wiener Pinback pin cushion/ door stop

I had an old flannel sheet that acquired holes so I made a new dog, the Wiener Pinback. It is stuffed with loads of scrap fabric from others projects. I really hate to waste things and, at first, had no idea what to do with my bags of un-usable fabric scraps. Now not only to I have an amazing pin cushion, I have a door stop when needed.