Category: Thrift & Recycle

To thrift means buying second hand (used, discarded, vintage) items at flea markets or thrift shops. To Recycle is to take care of Earths limited resources. Let’s use our creativity and look for cheap finds and fun re-usable items together.

Sewing a Denim Basket

Sew a basket out of your old jeans!

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Fabric in my taste

Started to collect fabrics and lace in 2004, and here is the list of what i crave.

Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Do Redo – a Swedish book book about recycling

Do Redo – the art of butchering a sweater. A book in Swedish: I’ve found a new Swedish book about knitting…

Book Inspiration/Thrift & Recycle

Ribbon & lace in a row

Update on the knitting project: The two-end knitted mitten now has a hole for the thumbs and the pattern on the…

Crafts/Thrift & Recycle

Green Foliage and other finished projects

The weekend was great! I finished up a lot of projects that I have started but not taken to the end….

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Viva Vintage by Trudie Bamford

I just love vintage, second hand or what ever you like to call it. Vintage is actually not just second hand-old….

Book Inspiration/Thrift & Recycle

New old stuff

One of my favorite things found in a flea market this Sunday is this adorable green runner with pink and mauve…

Crafts/Thrift & Recycle

Shopping galore

Swedish blog post about a few crafty items I bought.

Pretty things/Swedish/Thrift & Recycle

Loppisbiten

Swedish blog post about becoming even more interested in going to flea markets.

Creativity & Life/Thrift & Recycle