Keep your mind and hands busy

Are you like me - quite a bit of time on my hands, feeling a bit listless, and needing something to keep you engaged? A quick idea that you can do to keep your hands and mind busy has a lot of fun results! Time to make over those old shirts, oversized or weird fitting clothes, or even just those random bits of cloth you might have hanging around.

Working with my hands has always been a stress reliever for me and also keeps me from watching too much Prime, Netflix, Disney+, and more...it’s a lot. Even with all of those distractions and really good shows, I still feel like there’s more to do! Looming in my craft closet I've had fabric scraps waiting to be cut into quilt pieces and sewn together for at least a few years. Luckily enough there are HEAPS of resources that are here to help!  If you need inspiration to get started on a quilting project check out Seattle Modern Quilt Guild. If you’re not too burnt out…They also offer Zoom for their "block of the month" meetings! Yay Zoom!!

If you don’t really have enough cloth to make an amazing quilt don’t sweat it. We have a few ideas that use clothes that are already in your closet! Make those torn jeans or shorts fabulous with a pop of color bysewing in scraps from your old shirts! Or use a shirt to make a stylish scarf that’ll be sure to turn heads (for the right reasons) when we’re back out in the sunshine! Shirts are themost versatile bit of cloth that you can have! You can make rugs, fashionable upgrades to what you already own.

There are hundreds of different looks that you can achieve with what you already have AND it’ll make you even more fashionable when we’re out and about and you don’t have to spend even half of what you’d need to by upcycling your closet. Show us what you end up making and give us a bit of a fashion show!