Use your fabric scraps to create a colorful and lightweight bowl. To start, cover the outside of a bowl with aluminum foil or plastic wrap so that the fabric will release from the bowl when dry. This ...
What do regular boutiques do with all their leftover fabric? In normal times, they would make toilet bags, jewellery pouches or some such thing. In pandemic times like now, they’ve been churning out ...
Sometimes the best DIY projects come from materials you would least expect—namely, the pile of leftover fabric from your other crafts. While the scraps from other sewing or quilting projects may not ...
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While most artists create masterpieces with paint and brushes, 66-year-old Khalidah Asri crafts stunning works of art using thread and textures of fabric scraps from second-hand clothing. “I’ve always ...
Bertha Shum thought she had struck “waste gold” when she stumbled upon Sewing Paradise, a fabric studio in the Kowloon district of Sham Shui Po. The studio catered to the Hong Kong market, supplying ...
Take a step back into the old days and try quilting with scraps of fabric. Quilts made of clothing scraps are a great way to reduce landfill overload, revive an old-fashioned skill and save money. My ...
Scrap fabric of tailors in Van Phuc Silk Village (Ha Dong District, Hanoi) have been turned into colorful folk paintings, thanks to the diligent skillful hands of people with disabilities. Visiting ...
Longtime readers of this column may remember the reader who wanted to know where she could donate her fabric scraps. I offered details on a small organization in Texas that turns new fabric scraps ...