#zero waste craft

[wastelesscrafts]

I read somewhere that embroidered clothes need to be washed differently. Is this true? I read that right after getting a bunch of embroidery floss to visibly mend some clothes

Washing embroidered clothes

Yup! Check out my post on securing embroidery thread, which includes laundry instructions. My embroidery tag's also a good resource.

Handmade embroidery tends to be fragile, so it's important to properly secure your thread and take good care of the embroidered item. If you don't, you risk for your threads to come loose.

If you're not careful when washing embroidered items, your embroidery threads could get snagged on things like buttons or zippers in the washer.

Try to either wash them by hand (safest), or use your machine's delicate cycle combined with a laundry bag. Always let the item air-dry.

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[thackeroy]

This was one of the first things I knit, the tension is fairly loose and I'd honestly like to remake it, but with that said, it's a fairly simple chevron pattern and I made it into a little hand towel that I use in the kitchen to dry my hands, it's nice having a fun bit of rainbow in an otherwise dull kitchen.

#project || chevron hand towel #my content #crafter #crafting #craft #crafts #craftblr #hand knitted #knitting #knitblr #yarn #yarnblr #hand towel #low impact #zero waste #sustainability

[calendulacraft]

Fast Fashion to Slow Fashion :: a DIY guide to up-cycling and mending clothing on a budget.

For those of us living on a small income, buying from sustainable fashion brands is often out of reach. I would like to point out that *buying new but ecological garments isn't the only way to cultivate a slow fashion wardrobe*. Here are a few options for transforming *upcycling* your clothing, thus making fast fashion into slow fashion:

Mend and repair :: patch hand-me-down sweaters, fix holes in leggins from target and other department stores. By giving items a longer life, and preventing unnecessary garbage, fast fashion items become slow fashion! Here are two tutorials I have written on how to mend a torn belt loop on jeans and patch leggings.

Up-cycle clothing that doesn't suit your style :: when preparing for a trip back home and wondering how to acquire some nicer clothing for the trip a friend of mine gifted me a big bag of clothes. Almost all of them were items that we could call "fast fashion" and nearly all also had stains or rips that needed mending. By fixing and adapting these items and then going on to wear them for several years longer, I am keeping them out of the cycle of buy then trash.

Tailor items that don't fit you :: Taking in clothing is quite simple and there are lots of tutorials on how to hem pants and skirts or take in a size or two. I recently made a tutorial on how to take out a skirt, or make a skirt bigger by adding panels.

At some point, we must face the fact that a t-shirt is totally worn out and cannot be used for clothing any longer. In such cases here are a couple of crafts to utilize the fabric and other items from the scrap pile:

Create a Quilt :: if you find yourself with a pile of beautiful & memory-filled scraps -- transform them into a quilt as I have done in this post.

Make Twine :: Longer scraps of fabric, especially those from stretch materials like leggings or jersey cotton t-shirts can be made into a thing rope also known as fabric twine. I wrote a tutorial on how to make twine out of fabric scraps.

<<Best of luck in all your crafting endeavors!>>

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[the-solarpunk-activist]

A lot of stuff I hear in sustainability circles is oh, I still live at home what can I do?

Besties there is so much you can do.

You got chores? Dishes one of them?

You can fill up the sink with water and wash with just that. Less water than constantly running

I find that gross but my grandma does it. When I do dishes I use a jar with a drop of soap, fill it with water, and dip my scrub brush in that so I'm not wasting soap.

Dry dishes with a towel

Air dry your dishes

You can also ask if you can keep a potted plant (edible plants are bonus points) or a garden

Also bonus points if you use food scraps for a garden. That's a whole topic for another post another day but seriously look into it

Or you can trade plants with friends and neighbors

Or steal cuttings

You can wash your clothes on cold, ask if you can hang dry your clothes

You can use eco friendly laundry detergent, or just start using the actual amount needed. That stuff is so concentrated it isn't even funny

Use reusables whenever you can

Try to eat less processed foods

Try to eat more plant based

Try to limit your car trips

Take walks and pick up litter

Go to the beach and pick up litter

Bonus points for separating recyclables

Learn to repair your clothes, a basic sewing kit should be all you need for simple mends

Shop at yard sales, thrift shops, second hand, or local

Shampoo bars

Soap bars

Yes including hand soap

Weave baskets out of toilet paper rolls. No idea how you do it but I've seen it and they look pretty cool

Learn an "old fashioned" skill, like spinning yarn, canning, gardening, basket weaving, wood carving, etc

Try to be creative!! So much about Solarpunk and sustainability is about being creative with your solutions

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[ecopunkbeginner]

I really want to learn how to sew, but I'm very overwhelmed. I'm afraid of practicing on most things for fear of messing them up and wasting them. I'm really the kind of person who needs someone teaching me and available to answer my questions, but I don't have anyone for that and there's several reasons I'm apprehensive about finding a class (the most rational of which are my lack of income and COVID, but social anxiety is also a factor).

I know there's guides and videos online, but I always get so overwhelmed and usually don't know where to start because all my ideas are abstract, abstract to me specifically (because I don't know how fabric construction works), or difficult and/or risky enough to scare and/or confuse me out of wanting to do it.

Does anyone have tips for teaching yourself to sew? How do I practice without being wasteful?

#low waste #zero waste #sewing #wasteless crafts #mending #visible mending #i have one thing that im not afraid of practicing on that has a few simple rips in it and i think i might be able to make that happen #(if i even have needles...shit do i have needles?) but after that i only have like vague ideas #solarpunk #diy #fiber art #fiber crafts

[silverfroot]

organizing shampoo bars

Organizing my shampoo and conditioner bars along with my sanitary pads.

I used a cardboard box, covered with leftover cloth that I sewed by hand.

I am far from perfect zero waste, couldn't adapt to menstrual cups or O.B. or menstrual panties.

However, not being perfect doesn't stop me from trying the best I can in all the rest.

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[pillowpest]

mending

#art #colourful #handmade #craft #upcycled #mending #visible mending #repairs #zero waste

[practicalsolarpunk]

Knitting can leave you with a bunch of odds and ends of yarn long enough to keep but too short to actually make something out of. This website is full of awesome yarn scrap-buster patterns!

#fiber crafts #knitting #zero waste

[sidewalkchemistry]

@/foragedfibres on Instagram

#v #handicraft #cordage #weaving #crafts #herbarium #corn #zero waste #low waste #corn husks #herbalism #Zea mays

[samaspic31]

im so fucking mad about capitalism's devaluation of manual labor (especially financial, hi raise the fucking wages) and expectation to outsource labor, leading to dire exploitation (everyone is exploited, but manual workers especially AND don't get compensated for the toll on their body AND get looked down on unlike white collar workers, all that because making intellectual products is worth 10 times more money i fucking guess). The average person used to have so many more practicak skills and we used to know how make so much more stuff, having people cook, clean, take care of your children and sew for you was the height of luxury for a wealthy woman, depending so much on buying to substain your lifestyle was reserved to the extremely wealthy. People were expected to hold more basic skills outside of a hyperspecific field of their career like today and were allowed to spend time on broad and practical knowledge, and today schools do not even out the playing field because it's still mostly theoric regurgitation (which great, but give all the youngsters a cooking, crafting and sewing class and teach them accounting im begging) making people into highly specific tools relying on buying most of what they don't even think they can make, because disempowered. (this is linked to capitalist shaming of perceived failure and beginners and imperfection but that's a whole other can of worms)

Like for example it was just a given painters made their own paint (or started by making it for their mentor, any way they were taught how), it was considered a necessary first step, a way to understand your medium, and a way no to depend on anyone else or a corporation, and i think a lot of artists are missing that step of having to spend effort on the medium itself. I don't know how my graphic tablet works and i can't make acrylic paint and that's a shame

Like it was always normal for the already rich to leave all physical work to exploited workers but today it's everyone else's case too (at least in the economic north), making your own stuff is a counterculture thing, and even poverty or being an exploited worker eats so much of time that it makes it so buying is necessary and stuff made with exploited labor the only affordable option, fucking vicious cycle

there were deep inequalities with how the teaching of those skills were segregated, which was for which gender and social class, im not saying it was universally good, and women were expected to accumulate way more skills just to do all the managing of a household AND get that labor devalued, just, urgh, it was considered important to know at least i guess

also the birth of packaging and the rise of single use plastic+ worldwide transport of goods is heavily linked to this and a consequence of a global economic boom but it's still a fucking disaster-

anyways buy a s little new shit in as little packaging as you can and fuck corporations

#this post is not about disabed people being unable to do physical work. they need that outsourced labor. i am talking about people who can #but have straight up forgotten making it was an option (thanks advertising bombardement) #that's what i mean when i say craft and diy and zero waste communities need to be taking an anticapitalist approach #dependance to other people's labor is not inherently bad (no human can do everything anyways) but that level of dependance in every area of #life used to be something expectional and isn't realyy possible to extend to all human population without exploitation #and not the rule. nor was making things discouraged #im getting into paint and inkmaking hi #hope i make sense #anticapitalism #reflecting on the past is so interesting they got a LOT wrong but some parts were damn better #like yeah fuck that 90s when sweets are baked not bought post (hello the 90s were consumerist as fuck #but also the culture of making your own stuff being the norm ? kinda right #fuck trads and their romantization of the bigoted parts of the past return to tradition is bad but returning to more self reliance yeah goo #i don't know if i make sense

[drvodrveno]

Long time no see, Tumblr.. I simply forgot about this account for a while.

Here is a random picture of a birch eating spoon in the making to get things going.. sharp tools, curly shavings, focused hands and and a big, calm sense of peace inside the head.

Making is good for you, and your hands can often save your head a lot of trouble.

#the art of slow living #woodworking #meditation #arts and crafts #zero waste #craftismytherapy #carving #wood crafts #sustainable #handmade #movement #flow #green woodworking

[wastelesscrafts]

Hi! I'm thinking of making a garment from scratch and will probably need a large piece of fabric for this. I'm wondering what sustainable ways there are to get something big enough? Like, what I could search on second hand apps?? I'm also a big fan of interesting textures, like crushed velvet or satin, so bonus points for that!

Sustainable fabric sources

The most sustainable item is one that already exists.

If you're planning on thrifting fabric, you'll always be faced with surprises as you'll never know up front what you'll find. I personally love this as my creativity thrives when my material choices are limited, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.

Textile waste:

Some countries have commercial textile waste outlets. They're worth a check if you have a local one.

While not entirely the same, your local fabric shop may also have a discount pile of fabric leftovers. You'll still be buying newly made fabric, but those scraps don't always get sold so you're still using something that had a higher chance of going to waste than the rest of the shop.

Thrifted fabric:

While a few thrift shops have a craft section, you'll probably have the most luck in the homeware department: bedsheets, tablecloths, curtains,... all make for great sources of fabric. Just make sure to pick materials that are suitable for clothes.

Don't forget to check out the scarves, too! I've made a ton clothes in the past with thrifted silk scarves, for example. Plenty of satin to be found, too. Clothes like maxi skirts can also be a good source of fabric.

Take a look around the store first and see what's available before taking something home for a craft project. Some of life's necessities are hard to thrift for: underwear, disability aids, and plus size clothing are common examples, but this heavily depends on where you live and shop. If you've picked out the only large size on a rack, it might be better to leave it for someone else.

You'll also occasionally find people giving away their fabric stash in buy-nothing groups. I've had luck with finding textile lots on thrifting apps in the past, too.

Making the most of what you have:

The cheapest and most sustainable option is to use what you already have.

Check your stash before shopping for new materials. Ask around if any fellow crafty friends have leftovers they don't use any more. Learn how to minimise fabric waste when cutting out your pattern pieces.

If you've got lots of smaller bits of fabric, look into techniques like fabric piecing, patchwork, or colour blocking to achieve larger pieces of fabric.

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[rootsandwingsboutique]

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[calendulacraft]

Mending Tutorial:

Looking through my wardrobe I noticed a theme among my favorite pants. And so I decided to make a short tutorial on how to mend torn belt loops.

At first this isn't a noticeable tear. But, with time a small hole will just grow & grow. Best to fix a little problem before it becomes even bigger. This mend took about 5 minutes in total and all I used was a patch of a similar weight to the garment (in this case jean), scissors, needle, and thread.

As you can see in one of the photos my mending kit came in handy for this project as I wasn't at home when I made this tutorial. Most experience menders already have the tools they need to do such DIY projects. But, for those starting out a mending kit is super helpful. You can find one via my Etsy page.

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[mothlymade]

crochet strawberry baby bucket hat🍓🍓

#didnt have a baby handy so here is an avocado #procrastination #sewing #crafts #cottagecore #etsy shop #zero waste #crochet #baby clothes #baby fever #i dont have baby fever but i think the baby fever tag would like this :)

[keeps-ache]

why break a tradition y'kno lol

#wip #i'm gonna burn myself out but that's life babyyy #//also i'm feeling Very understimulated and i can't FOCUS HH #i can't find a video that i can play in the background i'm going ot EXPLODE #none of my music is doing it #and i'm TIRED so i wanna sleep but i wanna draw and i'm dddyyyinnnnggg :') #i'm not gonna sleep we all know that so Obviously i need to find something to watch #gosh but nothing is working soooo #i swear i woke up this morning with enough energy to start researching frog populations but zero focus. no wait nevermind that correlates #life could be a dream. if only it was easier to do things. if only i could draw unceasingly. life could be a dream sweetheart #//this might be a good time to stare at a word doc until my noodle brain pulls itself into order lol #//my mom called me a busybody once when i was like 10 #cuz i was Really into arts and crafts for like 3 years and was Always making something #and yeah that's still the case lol #it's just harder cuz now that i'm aware and have so many options to waste time. i'm wasting So Much Time #like man if i Always have to be doing something can i at least pick what it is? #the answer is no. now scroll for the next 17 minutes and Boil #//anyway lol-- i go now! [turns into a rabbit]