Recycling For Sewing

Cloth recycling for scrap dolls

Cloth recycling for scrap dolls

At this time there is an alertness in our culture of environmental cares and desiring to be good stewards of this wonderful planet, numerous people are being more diligent concering recycling and reusing articles at home. For some time, many folks have been involved in cloth recycling, using favorite remnants of material to create a quilt that is full of memories of beloved articles of clothes. Why not use that same idea of fabric recycling and use it when creating fabric dolls?

If you have already devoted the time and work into creating a rag doll, you should think about what items you have lying around your home that would provide adornments for your doll with minimal expense or work. What about a new belt? Utilize scraps of material with sticky Velcro to secure the belt. Maybe put to use the fingers of a stretchy glove to make delightful leggings for Dolly's denim mini-skirt! Those stretchy-fingered gloves could also make socks. You just tuck and fold them down, decorating them with a bit of attractive lace that you've on hand. You can secure the lace with some fabric glue and have great fancy socks. Hand towels which have bleach stains or a surplus of towels in your cupboards could be snipped and clipped to fit Dolly. You can select the size one would like for a bath towel for Dolly or create a cool pool towel using long narrow pieces of colorful towels that are no longer used or need. Handkerchiefs could be used to create a western neckerchief for Dolly or a cute summer top. Stretch elastic could be embellished with glittery sequins and beads for necklaces and accessories which are a "necessity." Paper cups and bowls could even be used with old paints, beads, and feathers to create a great hat. Just add some elastic on the sides to hold the hat onto the dolls head. Remnants of polar fleece make wonderful blankets, skirts, shawls, scarves, or ponchos.

Cloth recycling not only helps you be a exemplary recycler and protector of our planets resources, but it's a perfect place to allow a youngster to begin on projects that allow for creativity and personal interpretation. Take some time to instruct a young person in how to plan and cut out a pattern for a belt. Show them how to line up the sticky Velcro, add it to the cloth of their choosing from your cloth recycling resources and you will find a great new project that encourages some free thinking and creativity! Excess notions and fabric definitely take on a new appeal when considering the plethora of possibilities that are awaiting creative folks anxious to make new clothes for a fabric doll utilizing recycling methods that work!

by: JoAnn Gagnon

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