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lulu
True Blue Farmgirl
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Connie
Geuda Springs
Kansas
USA
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 Posted - Jun 29 2011 : 03:12:36 AM
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I use old sheets to make new covers for my lawn furniture, beats the heck out of buying new cushions.
LULU
farmgirl sister #1369
"Scattered Prairie Gals" chapter
Take care and write soon.
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
2474 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
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Posted - Jul 02 2011 : 9:00:16 PM
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Old bth towels can be sewn together and used as a backing for a picnic cloth. Old white sheets make really great Halloween ghost costumes. You can alsocut them into strips and use them for ties in the garden. Bonnie
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Aug 05 2011 : 9:35:52 PM
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As for the old china, I have a friend who used hers in the flower garden. Instead of buying those little fences she used the china to outline her beds. She just stuck the part that was rounded up and the broken edge in the ground. Making a line of what looked like a scalloped edge.
farmgirl sister#43
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
--Edmund C. Vance.
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Sharon Denise
True Blue Farmgirl
211 Posts
Sharon
Temple
TX
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2011 : 07:00:32 AM
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Cute cute CUTE ideas!! So happy I found this thread! Many more entries for the idea file! :-)
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
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Farmer Judy
True Blue Farmgirl
433 Posts
Judy
North Aurora
IL
USA
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Posted - Aug 07 2011 : 2:05:39 PM
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I kept the old mattress cover that has rips in it to cut up for batting for smaller stuff like baby blankets or pot holders
God bless,
Judy
Born a city girl but a farm girl at heart!
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thebyrdhaus
True Blue Farmgirl
520 Posts
Patty
Columbus
Oh
USA
520 Posts |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 06:10:35 AM
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I know I am kind of late on this thread...I just found it. But I never buy new fabric. I recycle sheets like crazy. I can get some almost new sheets at thrift stores and make beautiful quilts, aprons, coasters, placemats, pj's, dish drainer quilts, pot holders, curtains, clothespin bags, and loads of other items. I love recycled linens.
Patty #1840
A rind is a terrible thing to waste. Compost.
When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”
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SRhea
Farmgirl in Training
42 Posts
Sue
San Angelo
TX
USA
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Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 2:43:52 PM
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 3:24:55 PM
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I have several good thrifts near by and I can generally pick up beautiful and expensive sheets for fifty cents. I'm planning on buying up a bunch, washing them real well and then dying/hand painting them and making a bunch of pretty frilly aprons to sell either next year at our farmers market or online through etsy or something
I give all old blanket and towels to the humane society, they always need then so badly.
I'm currently about to see if my land lady will sell me her old and beat up horse trailer to convert and refurbish into a moveable chicken coop =)
If you garden and have plastic pop bottles (2 liters) You can remove the bottoms from them and place the top part over young plants to insulate and protect them. You can use the fluted bottoms to put potted plants in.
You can cut towels into squares and use them as dish cloths, car wash rags, garden tool shed rags, and they make a good layer on the bottoms of home made slippers. =)
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
http://pinterest.com/annikaloveshats/
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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