Sewing: how to make your home and wardrobe greener with a needle and thread

    Sewing is an activity to be rediscovered. Sewing and mending artfully help us to save money, to repair clothes and fabrics and to make by hand what is needed to decorate the house, as well as for clothing, according to our skills. Learning to sew means taking care of the planet.



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    Sewing is an activity to be rediscovered. The sewing and the artfully executed mending helps us to save money, to repair clothes and fabrics and to make by hand what is needed to decorate the house, as well as for clothing, according to our skills. Learn to sew it means taking care of the planet.

    Maybe your grandmothers are good seamstresses. It's time to learn all the secrets of sewing and mending from them. The New Year holidays are approaching and thanks to small sewing jobs you can prepare home decorations and gifts for family and friends. How many of us are able to do the mending and sewing work to perfection? If we've never tried sewing, let's try start from the basics and then we explore the possibilities and advantages of this art which should be timeless.

    The 3 Rs of sewing

    Knowing how to sew responds perfectly to the "3 Rs" of a more sustainable lifestyle: reduce, repair, reuse. Knowing how to sew and mend allows you to reduce the amount of new garments to buy, since you can refurbish the clothes you already own if it is simply a matter of making small repairs. Repairing is essential both to save money and to reduce waste and guarantees the reuse of everything that until now we had abandoned in a corner.

    Small mending jobs

    Small darning jobs are the basis for extend the life of the clothes, fabrics and fabric decorations present in our home. Knowing how to reattach a button to a jacket, mend socks or a t-shirt, sew the hem of a curtain or a pair of trousers and replace a zipper are all operations that allow us to take care of the house thoroughly and to what we own, in the name of saving money and time dedicated to finding something new to buy.



    Free wardrobe renewal

    Those who know how to sew - but also knit or crochet - can practically renew your wardrobe for free reinventing what it already owns, but which it now considers a bit dated. So then you can start from a pair of old jeans to transform them into a handbag, from an old t-shirt or sweatshirt that turns into a little dress for children. Knowing how to sew allows you to recover and breathe new life into old jeans, sweaters, shirts and t-shirts to renew both the wardrobe and the home decorations in a few steps. Sewing allows you to easily readjust clothes when the size is not perfect, think for example of a skirt to be tightened or of sports trousers to which to add an elastic.

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    Eco-friendly fabrics

    If for you sewing and mending are not just emergency interventions, since you are in fact a very good and passionate seamstress, you can go in search of environmentally friendly fabrics for your next projects. For example, here is organic cotton, naturally dyed linen and hemp fabrics, fabrics without pigments that are potentially harmful to the environment. You could also experiment with some methods to dye fabrics in a natural way and make your business increasingly respectful of the Planet.

    Sewing: how to make your home and wardrobe greener with a needle and thread

    Sewing: how to make your home and wardrobe greener with a needle and thread

    Sewing: how to make your home and wardrobe greener with a needle and thread

    Reuse fabric scraps

    If at the time of purchase you can orient yourself on environmentally friendly fabrics, do not forget to exercise your creativity with sewing starting from the fabrics you already have at home, even if it is only remnants. The best ones can be obtained from the remnants clothing accessories, home decorations and puppets for children. Look for old fabrics, sheets and curtains in the basement or attic. If for various reasons they are no longer usable as they are, the time has come to transform them into something new. If, on the other hand, you find old clothes that you will no longer wear, still get some material for your projects. The buttons of an old jacket could turn into special decorations for another suit.



    Do not waste

    In sewing, the same rules apply as for our pantry: never waste anything and try to keep and reuse everything that can be used. If you recover some simple ones fabric scraps, you can reuse them to create cloth puppets, book covers, baby bibs, pincushion, bag decorations, accessories such as bracelets and necklaces, gift boxes for wine bottles, decorations for birthday parties and much more . Give space to repairs, recovery, reuse and above all imagination.

    Marta Albè

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