Recycled Mens Shirts

You can sew a pet or baby mat from 4 x short sleeve shirts.

Recycling long-sleeved mens shirts x 4 for baby/pet quilts the red gingham was short sleeve, so it had to be this size. I sewed it as 9 patch blocks, but you could sew it as rows. I usually check and unpack and redo my point matching, but really wanted to complete this no fuss, it still turned out nicely.

4 x mens 100pct cotton shirts.

Backing: #benartexfabrics took a lot of pinning to get it to fit on 1 width length of cotton.

Binding: #artgalleryfabric

Batting: 2 layers of prewashed cotton flannel

Quilting: stitching each side of every seam, grey cotton Aurifil thread front, navy Gutermann thread back.

Canvas Tote Bags

Cotton canvas gifted by #Minervadotcom fir review. Thank you. After making the storage cases, I made Laura Ashley Simplicity 9814 #sewingpattern hand bag style totes. Mr W uses his #simplicity9814 every weekend as an #overnightbag. I interfaced the top and bottom of the bags, the hands, and the front and back pockets.

2nd hand: orange (my current favourite colours are cream, yellow and orange - Mr W said "Fallon colours") quilting cotton, Andover fabric. Leftover: the grey cotton canvas and the coral Art Gallery Fabric. Black zips were purchased for making cushion covers a few years ago.

Antique Wood Trunk

After/before antique wood chest/trunk, no lid, torn and chipped veneer, which was glued down and stapled down in places, and I didn't remove the metal. It's expensive to find real wood and cast iron

Hot towel, iron, chisel to remove veneer. Washed. Sand with electric sander. Oak varnish.

Measured sides, sewed a bag with drawstrings from a cotton suiting I had in the attic, cream  with white pinstripe, I like neutrals as they're good for small spaces, everything matches, unisex.