This week I’m sharing another up-cycling project with textiles: the transformation of a useful blanket box. I found the box (shown below) in a charity shop painted in its original green paint and with a worn jacquard style woven green fabric on the top. It stands on four curved feet. There was a decorative handleContinueContinue reading “How to up-cycle a vintage blanket box”
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How to recycle a shirt!
Today’s post – by popular request – is an expanded version of an earlier one, in which I extolled the virtues of chopping up a shirt to produce material that can be re-used for various purposes, including patchwork and quilting. Here then, is the state-of-the-art, illustrated, blow-by-blow method: 1.Choose a good brand. This shirt isContinueContinue reading “How to recycle a shirt!”
Amanda Jane Textiles 