repurpose.remake.reuse.reclaim

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. ~Issey Miyake Wow, it's been a long while since I've been in here. I have done several projects but haven't had the chance to post anything. I hope to catch up as soon as summer is here. Hopefully earlier. However, my good friend & fellow-blogger, writer  Running Girl , posted about the scarf I made for her from her old running tees from last year! I thought it deserves to be highlighted here. And you can go to her blog to read all  about it . In the meantime, here's some of images. I wish I took more. Here's the final product on the runner herself.

Aurë Entuluva! -Hùrin Thalion (Day shall come again!)  Turning this Square into something Shapely... I simply added elastic to the high (empire) waistline to add shape TC loves the Quenyan language (Elvish) by JRR Tolkien and often writes on anything. I found this scrap of material she wrote on with her Elvish writing. Took it and incorporated it with another t-shirt scrap to sew on the hemline.  Red, black & white are her school colors. And here's a newly refashioned baby doll school uniform =.)

The horse is God's gift to mankind.   ~Arabian Proverb Kiwi loves horses. She would own one if she's allowed to keep them. So you can say that her horse t-shirts are one of her valuable possessions.  She has several of them and most of them are getting shorter but not tighter. To salvage one, I cut off the lower part of the shirt saving the main image.  I took one of her dad's old gray t-shirt (shhhh, don't tell him...), gathered it before adding it on.  The shirt is a little loose after sewing it together so I added elastic in the back (not pictured). Here's a baby doll shirt that should last, hopefully, for a couple more years. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll

Have you ever read any of Herge's Tintin books?  DSL is a big fan of the young Belgian reporter. He's always borrowing them from the library.   Les Aventures de Tintin  is a series of  comic strips   created by  the  Belgian   artist,  Georges Rémi  (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name of  Hergé .   I learned of him when I did a short-term mission work in a French camp near the Alps for a whole summer.  A group of young Bostonian kids came to volunteer for a week and on their time offs, they will go to a local bookstore to buy Tintin books.  I ended up getting my own copy of  Le Lotus Bleu , in French no less. And I bought now-hubby a souvenir shirt.  After more than 20 years, the shirt is still around, somewhere.  Until I found it all tattered up.  I guess I couldn't throw it away.  It's priceless (that means it cost me a lot of Francs to buy that shirt.) The graphics are still inta...