My latest recycling project

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When I think about it I do seem to write quite often about my repair and recycling projects. I guess that’s just a reflection of my life! My latest project was to make something out of my favourite trousers. I bought them back in the 1990s and wore them a lot. They were jeans-style trousers but they were made from patches of cotton in all sorts of patterns, the label said ‘100% scraps’! They had a button fastening at the fly instead of a zip, and after many years the button holes were too worn to hold the buttons any more. I replaced the buttons with a strip of wide elastic and that kept them going for a while longer, but eventually some of the fabric patches themselves developed holes in the actual fabric. I could have patched the patches and of course it would have looked perfectly OK, but all the different thicknesses and different layers would have made them difficult to wash and dry. So in the end I decided they had reached the end. But still I didn’t want to throw them out. I tried to think of how I could make them into something else, but there wasn’t really enough intact fabric to make any other garment. So in the end I combined them with another pair of worn-out trousers and made this beanbag. The ‘beans’ came from a worn-out fake leather beanbag that someone was giving away on Freegle. What do you think? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2024.