Recycling has always been important to me (even before it became “trendy”! I still remember it was in 80’s that poly bags isn’t appeared in Hisar city, I got a yellow poly bag with my purchase from kumar store in Hisar, and then each poly bag was stored with time. I stored many bags in an assortment of colours-yellow, green, blue, red, orange, white, and I made yarn out of them and crocheted a rug in 1986, very beautiful one! (Sorry I didn’t procure the photo of that oval beautiful rug). It lasts approximately 10-11 years; after imparting services for a pretty long time it withered and I burnt it to ashes (polluted the environment). Since then I stored every bag and gave away to those who came to me to learn making rug out of poly bags.
Since 4-5 years i said good-buy to poly bags in my house
Regarding my ward-robe, I have always off loaded clothes/ stuff to charity (bagful to garbage collectors, and Krishan Parnami Ashram at village Kamari, some-time woolen stuffs to the beggars in winter). Sometimes there are things I cannot give away or are too damaged , rough or worn…. these go in my rag pile… once in a year or two I get out my serger and my rotary cutter and make tri layer rags with nice surged edges… I haven’t bought tablemats/coasters/ door-mats/ bed-side-mats in over several years.
Some time, I cut out beautiful fabric pieces from the dresses, and give them to trainers at our of sewing class (who couldn’t afford new purchases for practice) in our NGO’s sewing school.
It’s very fun!
In the next post I will surely share with you the method I implied for crocheting my first recycled polybag mat/rug (recall method).
Till then good bye!
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