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A new adventure: The Re Challenge

By Tricia on August 12, 2010 in Handmade, Refashion, sew crunchy, sewing, The Re Challenge

For a while now I have been sharing my refashion, recycle, reinvented projects with you. I have blogged about the virtues of handmade, and my desire to live a simpler less stuff life.

Well, I have been working on the details for quite some time now but I have started a new blog named “The Re Challenge”. I want you to join me in inspiring others and being inspired to need less and live a more handmade life.

Here is some info from The Re Challenge blog site:

Re-Fashion, Re-Create, Re-Use, Recycle, Reduce, that is our goal.

The Re-Challenge is a challenge to anyone who should accept it to practice the 5 Re’s before going out and buying something new or even worse, mass produced.

Less is more and new is not necessarily better.

If you have a Re project you have worked on, go over to the blog and send them in. I may post your project.

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Refashioned Aprons from hankerchiefs

By Tricia on August 12, 2010 in Handmade, Refashion, sew crunchy, sewing

This summer my younger girls took a cooking and etiquette class. A few days before the Mother’s tea to end the classes I am told that they will need aprons sewn. All this in the middle of my moving my studio and believe me, I could have used movers because I have so much stuff.

I remembered that I had some vintage womens hankies (though they were big enough to be napkins) stashed away. In fifteen minutes I had two aprons which coordinated but were different for my girls to wear. The bias edge that ties the apron on came from a crib dust ruffle which I have had in my refashion pile for years now.