Newsflash: Sewing Is Green!
Do you think of sewing as “green”? I didn’t, until today. It turns out that making your own clothes is something like growing your own food. Anything you sew yourself is one less garment that has to be shipped across the world to your favorite shopping center.
I had this epiphany when one of my fellow Hatchet bloggers offered me great solution for my plastic bag problem.
Suzy over at Sewing With Suzy read my post about needing a plastic bag intervention and offered to teach me how to make my own reusable shopping bag. I should stop right here to say that I have no idea how to sew and I do not currently own a sewing machine. In fact, the only thing I’ve ever sewed was a shirt in high school Home Economics that unraveled while I was modeling it on the stage. But, hey, Suzy says I can make this by hand and that she’ll coach me all the way so I’m up for the challenge!
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to sew or if you just like reading interesting blogs, be sure to check out Sewing With Suzy. She writes about basic sewing stuff and even has us doing cool projects like the reusable shopping bag I referred to earlier.
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Gardening, cooking, sewing…Yet another excuse to quit my job!
Seriously, I have been thinking about dragging the sewing machine out of the basement. I would never actually wear any of the God-awful creations I could come up with, but some things around the house would be nice.
Robin at Bumblebee
Gina! Thank you for the ‘plug’. The shopping bag is only step #1 that you can incorporate into “green living” as far as I’m concerned. We all seem to have become such a throw away society…It doesn’t fit in with the new decor…garbage…It has a busted seam…garbage…The kids have outgrown their clothes…garbage…etc
Solutions are available to all of us: sew a new slipcover, fix and mend the clothes, give clothes to friends or a church group or remake the outgrown items into other usable items such as a crazy quilt, stuffed animals, or just plain deco pillow stuffing etc.
Thanks again Gina for the boost I’ll be adding your great ideas into my blogs too on an ongoing basis. Suzy
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