March 9, 2010: Green Ideas for Quilters

Anita Heady provided some interesting suggestions to help us "Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle, Repair, Maintain and Preserve". Here are just a few of her suggestions:

  • Get free patterns over the Internet or draw your own.
  • Purchase inexpensieve cotton clothing from thrift stores for quilts. Even non-cotton fabrics can be used if appropriately backed.
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  • Fix color problems with dyeing.
  • Reuse those scraps. Small fabric "crumbs" can be built into larger quilts.
  • Repurpose a pastel quilt as a rabbit.
  • Use filtered water for irons and remember to turn them off when not in use.
  • Sharpen needles and cutting blades rather than replacing them.