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| Crafting:The Fun Way to Recycle
As teenagers, we embroidered on our jeans, got into macramé and knitted ponchos. String wall art and pottery soon followed. We got our craft fix at places like Ben Franklins and Woolworths and even Avon offered prepackaged embroidery kits. Knitting stores sprang up everywhere and almost anyone who could throw a pot or knot a plant holder held a class at the nearby YWCA or church basement. Crafting returns!
One particular area of crafting that is really growing is recycling crafts—turning outgrown or outmoded clothing, flea market finds and even old books and postcards into usable creations or works of art. Skirts become handbags, old bedspreads turn into rugs and old family photos are reworked into personalized books and mementos.
—Betty |
Everything Old is New Again Recycled crafts give new meaning to the idea “out with the old, in with new.” We’re beginning to see many who believe “out with the old, in with the newly crafted” is better. Below are a few fun craft-related sites and blogs: Glitter
Workshop The Craft
Gym Craftaholicsanonymous Make Stuff
HomeEc101
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Although
my mom could not be considered what she would call an “artsy
craftsy” person, I was fortunate that she taught me a little
about knitting and embroidery. She did almost none of these things
herself but she learned from her mother and aunt how to do it
and passed this on to me since I showed an interest.
Although
interest in crafts overall seemed to wane a bit in the 1980s,
crafting came back in vogue with a smash in the late nineties
and today. It seems to have really taken hold of both Boomers
and Gen Xers and our children, Interest in crafts—everything
from knitting to stamping to scrapbooking seems to be on the rise.
In
our town, there’s a store riding the new wave, making something
new out of something old. The store, Madison-based, 