Now I love a beautiful fabric shop with lovely rolls of brand new fabric as much as the next woman, but I think I love upcycled fabrics even more. I love the rummaging, the searching, the bargain hunting!
In fact this whole post has been inspired by a recent charity shop fest where I purchased this absolutely fabulous, vintage (St Michael) king size duvet cover. 4 metres of extra wide fabric for £2; I was completely chuffed!
I'm also a big fan of vintage pillowcases; my favourite charity shops sell odd pillowcases for around 50p; not bad for about half a metre of fabric.
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| School dress; lots of lovely gingham! |
And of course there are clothes! I have cut up lots of our old clothes; children's clothes are especially good as they often have smaller prints which look good on small scale projects such as applique. If you are a sentimental person (not me actually!) this can be a way of preserving memories of favourite clothes by re-using the fabrics to make something else. (And another great thing about cutting up clothes is that they usually come with free buttons!!)
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| Ladies cotton blouses |
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| Little girl clothes |
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| Men's shirts; sensible and lairy! |
Have you made anything from upcycled fabric lately?
I keep an eye on our charity shops for knitting yarn, but sadly they don't seem to keep it much lately. I love your fabrics, they are really good finds!
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Most of my fabrics are old clothes or linens, I love working that way as it's so much cheaper and of course greener. Currently making fabric corsages/brooches with mostly upcycled fabrics, button and beads. I visited 2 jumble sales recently and got some real bargains.
ReplyDeleteFantastic fabric haul there Shaz, I think I need to pay a vist to your local CS, we seem to be in a CS slump here at the moment, although I did pick up a gorgeous floral double bed sheet not too long ago for £2.00, not sure what to do with it yet though. x
ReplyDeleteI think you and I use the same charity shop. And I do believe that not more than a couple of weeks ago I dropped off a little girls blue and khaki floral top which is featured above. I'd bought it from there a few weeks before, for E, not realising it was WAY to small, so re-donated in my next bagful of stuff. :)
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