Recycle Now – Day three

Those that know me, will know I am the hostess with the mostess!! I love to cook and entertain for our friends and family in our home.  I can also clean as well as the best can, iron not so bad, but other womanly chores like sewing, knitting etc are not really my forte.  So deciding that we would recycle some of my daughters old clothes into mini me outfits for her dolls and teddies is a big deal for me…secretly I have been dreading it, whilst my eco-warrior daughter has been in her element planning it all out for us!So we sat down with the pile of clothes she had chosen, the models, some scissors, thread, needles (I do have a sewing box! just never use it!) and a mini sewing machine that her nan had bought for her to use one birthday.

Getting the machine set up was difficult enough!  Then we got the clothes laid out and chose each doll/teddy an outfit, took the measurements, highlighted these in a felt tip pen, then got the scissors out and cut out the pattern we had made.  Then my eco warrior sat herself down at the sewing machine and had a go.  Unfortunately I think missy is as able in this department as her sad old ma as the attempts were not brilliant, but at least she had a go.

I then had a go by hand on the second outfit, hemming it with needle and thread, keeping the stitches level in size until running out of thread as I had under measured!!  But we eventually got it done not brilliantly and you could see it had an amateur look to it but hey we had achieved!!!

After that I needed to take a break, thank god a friend had arrived and had brought with her some yummy Green & Black chocolates…mmm just what the doctor ordered, anyway I digress, so with two down and several more to do, I managed to escape and let my cleaner take over, she is a whizz and does all my alterations and in no time her and missy had finished off the others and now the dolls/teddies have a brand new collection of clothes for summer and not a penny was spent!.

For more ideas on creating mini me clothes for the dolls/teddies, check out Doll clothes patterns.

The other two fantastic bloggers taking part in Recycle Now´s bloggers challenge are The Rubbish Diet and Be More Eco.

Check out day two post here if you missed it yesterday.

Related posts:

1. Recycle Now – Day One of my unique pledge
2. Recycle Now – Day two
3. Recycle Now – Day four
4. Recycle Now – Day five
5. Recycle Week – Pledges you can all get involved with

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