We have aMoroccan leather floor poufin the living room and I just love how beautiful and practical it is. They often ship without any filling so rather than buying a material to fill it, just stuff it with fabric scraps. You can also stuff it with stained bed linens too. And yes, it...
Add a thick grass clippings layer to provide the necessary nutrients and make raised beds less compact to add volume. They will alsohelp break down carbon-rich fibrous material in such a bed. 8. Cook up a Lasagna Garden Do you want to make a garden but avoid a sore back? Try making a...
Challenge: The upcycling process can generate waste, such as fabric scraps or worn-out materials. Solution: Be mindful of waste and strive to use every part of the denim. Smaller scraps can be used for patchwork or stuffing for cushions. Collaborate with recycling services to handle any unusabl...
Green materials can include food scraps and garden waste, while brown materials can include leaves and small twigs. The ideal ratio of green to brown materials is roughly 3:1. Step Three: Add water as needed Composting requires moisture, so be sure to add water to your pile as needed. The...
chips, cuttings, fragments, or other small pieces of raw material removed, cut away, flaked off, etc., in the process of making or manufacturing an item. For National Sewing Month 2015, I’m going to be talking all about fabric scraps and the many ways you can use them in your sewing...
For this step-by-step, we’ve used scraps from our yarns, The Meripaca and The Meriwool We will also use kraft paper tags and boxes, twine for wrapping, and material to personalize the tags. If you’d like to wrap the boxes, you can add silk or gift wrap to this list. Thi...
For green material, definitely use kitchen scraps, but also add chopped green plant stalks, young weeds, and coffee grounds and filters collected from local coffee shops.If you’re interested in hot composting, add some bagged chicken manure or stable waste to help the pile heat up....
Regenerative farming is a technique that encourages zero ground tilling to rebuild soil organic matter and restore degraded soil. Alternately layer fall leaves with straw, shredded newspaper, cardboard, untreated grass clipping, kitchen scraps, and other organic material for a ready regenerative garden ...
You can’t recycle anything contaminated with food scraps, even if it’s paper or cardboard. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggests, “‘Spatula-clean’ is clean enough to recycle!” We know you’re probably wondering, “Are pizza boxes recyclable?” The answer is yes — as lon...
Scraps Leftover bits of food. Scraped To abrade or smooth by rubbing with a sharp or rough instrument. Scrapped Discarded waste material, especially metal suitable for reprocessing. Scraped To rub (a surface) with considerable pressure, as with an edged instrument or a hard object. Scrapped Scra...