Recycling for textiles

This is a piece I made by patchworking together sections of excess textiles that I cut from the edge of other textiles pieces.

These tiny pieces are like little treasures so it seemed a shame to throw them away.

In my Recycling book I'll show you how to reuse little bits of textiles.

In this textiles piece I've recycled a cheap Star Trek action figure by wrapping it with fabric and yarn.

This piece is called "The Seamstress" and also features recycled fabrics and thread spools.

This textiles piece was made to cover a really old chair.

I copied images of my family onto pieces of fabric and added them into the textiles.

The finished chair will feature in my recycling book.

This purse features recycled fabrics, found marbles, and a recycled purse frame.

I'll show you how to make your own recycled bags.

Is this going too far?

I decided to make art from my old bras!

The lace looks fabulous when it's melted.

A chapter in my Recycling Book is going to be devoted to recycling old projects- you know the ones- you're totally embarrassed by them- you hide them away in a cupboard or chuck them out! Well I'm going to show you how you can use them for parts. Think of them as your exploration into how not to make your finished item.

Above is The Sun. You can find out more about her and my other Tarot Art Dolls on my Tarot Art Dolls Lens.

Her head fell off and cracked:



And she wasn't as "splendiferous" as I had hoped. So I decided to take her apart and start again.

My partner thinks this doll is starting to look like a Resident Evil boss!

I've had this doll hanging around for a while, wondering what to do with her so I thought I'd experiment with using her to make an altered art doll.

I've taken the original Sun's hairpiece and weaved the Barbie's (or Cindy- she might be a Cindy?) hair into it. I'd wrapped fabric around my old Sun Doll's head because the hair didn't look right on her head but I'm really pleased by the woven bits here.

I've taken Barbie's legs off so that I can set her more easily into the "skirt structure". No sense wasting good legs when they can be used for another project). The textiles for the skirt (you can see it in the background) has been reworked and layered up with other bits to make it prettier and a bigger piece of fabric.

Come back soon to see how she progresses!