I pushed through repairs on several items from my mending pile, and I have also been going through a much larger pile of handed-down clothing and fabric.
I sorted T-shirts, found the all-cotton ones that we don't want to wear as T-shirts, and cut them up for re-use in an Alabama Chanin-style project, which I can work on outdoors this spring while watching children.
Some of the less worthy fabrics went into the kitchen wipe and baby wipe pipelines.
Other have been butchered down to the re-usable parts, and put away until I get to them.
There were some shorts, which my children don't wear, which are going to be short pants for my youngest when the weather is a little warmer. No alterations needed, because of the diaper.
The big thing remaining is a wool suit that my mother-in-law shrunk for a project, and then gave up on. Wool jackets and coats are challenging to disassemble, because there is usually a lot of interfacing and inner structure going on. It's very educational to see all the work that goes into one, though. I am thinking of using the wool for a bog jacket, much smaller and simpler than the ones pictured at the link.
I was reading in an older book about how having prints and pictures hung up in a house made it more comfortable, and I had recently come across my set of small classroom butterfly posters and was planning to put them up anyway, so I found a place to string up some crocheted wire, and I hung them up with clothespins. Only four small nail holes in the wall.
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