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How To Reuse Used Sheets

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Give Your Used Bed Sheets New Life By Reusing Them!

What to do with bed sheets when it's time to replace them? Reuse them, of course! No need to trash them when they can continue enjoy a useful life as something 'new'!

Anyone can use the ideas here, but if you're a bit crafty and like to sew - so much the better! Sewing opens up a universe of ways to reuse old bed sheets.

I can't say that I'm using all of these ideas myself YET, but I sure have bunches of them in my crafts notebook, ready and waiting for that next set of sheets to come along and find it's new use! I've collected these ideas from all over for years. Squidoo means I can share ideas on how to reuse used sheets with you!

Ready? Let's take a look at how to reuse used sheets!

Contents at a Glance

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Basic Tote Bag
How To Make A BBQ Hat & Apron - So C...
Twitter Talk About Green Crafts
Best Ideas For Reusing or Repurposing Ol...
Reuse Old Sheets To Make Rag Rugs
Sewing Green: 25 Projects Made with
Super Simple Curtains From Sheets!
Warm Company Steam-A-Seam Double Stick F...

The Most Common Uses For Old Sheets

Cut Up For Dust Rags
Drop Cloth For Painting
Bedding for pets or farm animals
Donated to charity
Covering furniture in an unused room or closed house.
Covering plants in winter against freezing temperatures

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Basic Tote Bag

How To Make A BBQ Hat & Apron - So Cute!!

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Twitter Talk About Green Crafts

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Best Ideas For Reusing or Repurposing Old Bed Sheets

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Make Reusable shopping tote bags, drawstring bags, etc.

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Make Rag Rugs

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Make Pillowcases

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Make Aprons For Yourself & For Gifts

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Make Curtains & Valances

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Make Matching Tablecloth & Napkins

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Dust sheets for decorating

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Reuse Old Sheets To Make Rag Rugs

Crochet or toothbrush, you can reuse old sheets to make rag rugs

How to make a rag rug: by lklik6 | video info

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Sewing Green: 25 Projects Made with

Repurposed & Organic Materials

Super Simple Curtains From Sheets!

Great Way To Use Sheets!

Just cut the ends of the top hem on either side of the sheet so you can get a curtain rod through and you have a curtain! If they are too long, measure how much hem you need to take up and turn up a hem with your sewing machine.

Make some cute tie-backs by using fabric remnants that match. How about velvet or velveteen? Or use hair accessories! Think out of the box!

If you want a more finished top, sew a line across the top hem, still leaving room to fit a curtain rod. This will give the curtains a ruffle on top!

What's even more fun about making curtains with sheets, is that it makes it so easy and inexpensive to decorate childrens' rooms with their favorite fun themes. Barbie? Transformers? Spongebob? Did you find an extra good deal? Make pillows too!

There are some really well written tutorials for making curtains from sheets (new or used) here:

Cheap and Easy Curtains, by Megan at Homemade Ginger

WIP Wed: Looney Tunes Vintage Sheet Curtains, by Becky at Becky's Blabber

Me Woman, You Man Cave - Part 2, Curtains by Bethany at Remodel This House

These tutorials are wonderful and I highly recommend them for whipping up some sheet-curtains of your very own!

Image: Bethany's Curtains

Warm Company Steam-A-Seam Double Stick Fusible Web

Make A Shower Curtain From A Flat Sheet

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The Big-Ass Book of Crafts

I love this book!

Make A Giant Game "Sheet"!

You can create several giant game 'boards' with sheets!

Use fabric paints to paint big color dots to make your own Twister game, then make your own color dial out of the back of a cereal box.

Or, paint a checkerboard on the sheet and re-use old CD's (painted red and black) for your own giant checker game!

How many more giant games can you think of?

I love these floor size game "boards" posted at Craftster ~ very cool!

And Kay Balmer's Backyard games: Lawn checkers is a slightly different version of the same thing ~ with an ADORABLE picture!

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