treasure box embroideries

Well, that's really the history of beautiful crazy quilts. So many are made with pieces of material taken from garments. Curtains, whatever has meaning and beauty that you want to keep with you.

With modern clothing, I think it's a question of whether the time to "recycle" the fabric, and the likely result are worthy. We tend to be very throw away. For me, if it's something I love and I may recycle it into a totally different object. But, if it's just the wrong size - there's a good chance I'll donate it to a worthy charity (shelter, suits to the charity that helps women looking for jobs, getting off welfare, etc).

ellice

Thank you Ellice , i read a lot about Crazy [ as well as `regular`] quilts,, Of course with us , recycling and remaking , was a needed part of life, when i was a child , as we had nothing. Thus we learned to adorn the plainest , older things with a bit of thread , a new button etc ,,,, Since i don`t buy much ready made clothes, i have things i just change , lately i took some `Veteran skirts` and turnmed them into cushion covers , some have turned into bags , shirts etc,.,,, I have some clothes which in some manner or other i already wear 40 years, thus if i now decided to cut them up for something it is quite ok ,, The embroidery treasure box is either things i inherited or recieved... Coats and things i can`t reuse for myself , i donate wilingly . mirjam

I had a beloved bathrobe that I wore til it was threadbare, but saved enough of the lewss-worn areas to make a couple of teddy bears. I've put them in my daughters' Hope Chests and someday they'll find them there - and may remember me wearing that robe *every day* for a big part of their youths!

sue

Thank you for telling this story. It is exactly waht i feel about recycling things. mirjam

Then-DH-to-be had a hunting jacket that was falling apart. After hunting season was over, I snuck it out of his house, took it apart and used it as a pattern for a new one. He had mixed feelings about it: on the one hand, he liked the new jacket; on the other, he missed his old comfy one!

Joan

I can imagine that feeling , even though a bathrobe isn`t a chair ,,, mirjam