How to Keep your Winter Projects Sustainable

Use your fabric scraps to fill up your pillow projects or give some life to handmade dolls and animal toys. You can also create some festive bunting or garlands for the holiday season! Melissa from Polkadot Chair has an amazing autumn leaf garland tutorial, which can be found below!

You can turn larger scraps into storage bins that can help you keep your home organized. You could even use them to store the rest of your scraps! Craftideas.info has a free, simple tutorial you can find below.

If you happen to have any 100% natural scraps such as cotton, wool, cashmere, bamboo, hemp, linen, or a blend of any of these, you can add them to your compost bin. It’s a good idea to shred the fabric first so that bacteria can break it down faster. Be sure not to compost any fabric with synthetic traces or artificial dyes, or else you’ll be cultivating a backyard landfill. Check for tags, buttons, zippers, and any labeling that you can responsibly recycle.

And of course, whether you’re all scrapped out of ideas or just don’t have time to start, we’ve got you covered at Retold Recycling! We just launched a new way to recycle scrap fabric through our Scraps Bag. Fabric scraps don’t get recycled in the same facilities as clothing, so we wanted our DIYers to be able to divert their working materials from landfills. Just like the classic Retold bag, the Scraps Bag comes with a prepaid shipping label. Just load up your unused and unusable textile scraps and send them off! Each Scraps Bag can hold about 5 lbs of textiles, and yes, that does include the synthetic stuff you couldn’t compost. For more information on how our Scraps Bag works.