Recycling #2

While I was high on the success of my first recycling project, I thought that I would tackle another one.

I had a pair of pants that I bought a few years ago after Christmas.  I do not wear these for 2 reasons; 1) It was post Christmas, I was about 10 pounds heavier than I am the other 11 months of the year, and 2) I can wear jeans to work at my current job!

I loved the fabric of these pants, so I didn't want to give these away.

After some brainstorming, I decided I wanted to make a wine bag.

Yes, that is 3 Buck Chuck - only the classiest in our house :)

I used some black felt I had left over for the liner, and some scraps of black and white fabric from a bag I made for Annie as the handle.  And, since I love girlie things, the handle just had to have a bow!

Some up close... 

 And lastly, me trying to model the new wine bag.

Sorry for the cheesy self portrait - is this my surprised face? Who knows, I was just excited about my wine bag.

Total cost: $0! Best part - I still have a leg and a half left of the pants. What else can I make? :)

Mission Recycling: 2 down, 9 to go!

Recycling #1

Remember one of my goals for this year? To reuse 11 things in my house, turning them into something that I will use and love...
Well a few days ago I got around to doing that.  I had a sweater, that I really liked, but was too small for me (read too short - and there was a chance of some crack showing if I sat down).

Well, another problem area was the boring pillows on my couch:

So, I cut the sweater into squares, sewed it to some plain cream fabric that I had laying around, inserted the old plain cream pillows and boom - instant textured pillows. 

Now - remember how I said that the sweater was too small for me? Well it is kinda too small for the pillows too... if you look closely, they are kind of like stuffed sausages. I am not going to show you the back of the pillows, since that is like a muffin top.  But you get the idea. Beside, from the front, no one is the wiser.

One more time - Plain before:

And the pretty after:

 Okay, so the really cool shag pillow that my rents got me for Christmas makes a huge statement too, but I think that the sweater pillows help out too!

What do you think?  1 down - 10 more to go!