Old shirt into cute hankies
We needed some hankies and I remembered I had an old pink gingham school shirt in my scrap bag. I’d got the shirt secondhand from a charity shop in Liverpool in about 1999 but I’ve put a littleweight on since then so it didn’t fit any more, and it had little sweat stains under the [...]
Recycle This redesign
Pretty much ever since we launched (How Can I) Recycle This three years ago, I’ve been wanting to redesign it – to freshen it up and to make better use of the available space. I finally got around to doing it last month and with John’s help, we launched the new design on Sunday (and [...]
Zach and Jeff versus The Meteorite
I would like to introduce you to Zach and Jeff. Last week, I went to Liverpool for a wire-working workshop as part of a fantastic “Recycle Into Art” week, organised by the city’s Red Dot Exhibitions. The workshop was run by Alison Bailey Smith, a wonderful artist and thoroughly lovely person who I’d already featured [...]
An Eggscellent Idea
Earlier this afternoon, someone on our recycling blog Recycle This suggested using old frying pans to make fake food art. I thought “hey! I’m THAT COOL too! I could do that!” so here is my knitted fried egg. John wanted to plastinate a real one but I thought knitting would be more fun. I used [...]