I admit to being slightly obsessed with recycling, reusing and repurposing. I just can’t help it--discarding things that still have some use in them makes me feel really bad… This might be blamed on genes (dad, you know what I'm talking about!), or just on the sad state of our over-materialistic, over-consuming society (of which I am very much a part). No matter the reason, there it is.
I already found several uses for some of my bigger scraps, and also for some of my narrower scraps of soft fabrics. But I also have many very narrow scraps of thicker upholstery fabrics that just couldn’t be folded and ironed and made into button loops.
Some of these I reluctantly threw. Others I piled up in my scrap box, hoping to use eventually. And then, one day, I got an idea: bookmarks!
We are all avid readers in my family. Even my first-grader is starting to spend more and more time with books. And we all need LOTS of bookmarks.
It’s a win win!!
Gret idea, and also lovely!
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