Placemats

I was going to make four, but these are a lot of work. Perhaps I will complete the set for Christmas next year.

I do love the look of recycled jeans.

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What to do with the rest of the sweatshirt

I cut it into 4 in. squares and used it as batting in a crib-size rag quilt of 5 in. squares of quilt weight cotton. It worked well. It's not as fluffy as cotton batting, but it has a nice weight, is sturdy, and is green!

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SHS Panthers!

So, what does one do with a sweatshirt one has had since high school?
One answer:

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The cure to insomnia

I couldn't get back to sleep the other night, so I got up and started on my way-passed-critical-mass Mending Pile. When I finished, I slept really well! Here is the new Repaired Pile:



We've got some patches, some reattached buttons, new waistband elastic, and new hems - all sorts of little challenges.

Part of my motivation may have been to bore myself to sleep, but another is that the mending pile lived on the bed. The guest bed that my sister will be sleeping on in a few weeks. Take a look:



Yeah, I've got some more work to do...

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Recycling

Before: One favorite wool sweater with a giant hole in it plus one pair of pants with a disastrously and completely failed inseam



After: A throw pillow of marginal usefulness (but at least more useful than before :-)



Completely useless: Napping cat

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