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Grow Your Stash and Upcycle Quality Fabric_
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this beautiful fabric was all thrifted
and I'm going to show you how to get
quality fabric spending way less money
than you would in a fabric store first
we go in my favorite thrift store and I
head straight for the men's shirts
because they're usually full of quality
fabric you can feel the quality of the
100% cotton in your hands as you touch
them the first thing I look for is of
course color what am I looking for what
am I going to do with this fabric the
second is I want to have a big men's
shirt and I want to make sure there's
not extra seams in the back that will
cut up the fabric I want it to be big
honken pieces so I look for giant men
shirts I like long sleeves because you
get so much more yardage with a long
sleeve and I like color I am forever
looking for oranges and reds and the
brighter happy colors I do seem to like
blue too so I look for color I look for
size I make sure that it's 100% cotton
if it's a short sleeve I might buy it if
the color is wonderful enough and if the
price is low enough it just depends on
what I'm wanting but long sleeves are
definitely preferable I always start in
the extra extra large place because you
get more f for your buck in the fabric I
check if the fabric is what I like I
like this one it's not a plaid I often
look for things that aren't plaids like
florals and other things but many of
these have polyester in them so you
really do have to check to make sure
they're 100% cotton at least I do
because I'm a little bit of a cotton
snob I want it to be quality cotton and
I want it to be 100% cotton so check for
wear and tear you can check on the edge
of the sleeves on the back of the collar
and you can see this has been worn a lot
and that means the fibers aren't as
strong in the rest of the shirt this one
has a stain it's a stain in a place that
won't matter so I might buy it anyway
but I always check for stains because
sometimes there are stains in places you
just didn't notice till you get home so
be aware of where the stains are and if
you can live with that or not I love
novelty prints and very rarely I get a
novelty print that is 100% cotton often
they have polyester built into them
brights I've done Lots with brights you
can feel by watching and looking this
one has poly in it and poly is just not
going to work as well I'm a fabric snob
and I want 100% cotton I want it to be
quality cotton and I want it to look
nice and these days they keep putting
spandex in so you'll get 3% spandex so
be careful I have purchased Women's
cotton dresses Women's cotton skirts
baby clothes that are out of cotton and
other cotton things in a thrift store
before those purchases are rare and they
just happen because I just can't resist
I do however always look in Linens I
look in sheets I like to buy 100% cotton
sheets for foundations for my string
blocks I love that you can sometimes
find novelty Fabrics I find that the
quality is variable so that last one it
was 100% cotton but it was terrible so
be sure to always check quality my tools
are ready and I'm going to break down a
shirt for you there's a lot of people
who've done this online but my way is a
little bit different because I give
myself permission as you're going to see
to waste things that take too much of my
time so this is a pretty quick process
to break down a shirt and put it back
into Fabric and it is kind of sad I try
not to think about that it was sewn
together so I could take it apart again
but it's such a wonderful way to buy
fabric for less you can get quality
wonderful fabric so first I take the
buttons off I make sure they don't pop
all over the world and then I just slide
my scissors up and I take that whole
front thick piece off yes I know it has
a proper name but let's not try to say
it and act like I'm a seams dress or
anything so we're just going to take all
the thick parts off and I just run my
scissors and they're very sharp I use my
Kai scissors and I just run them along
the seam down at the Hem I am not very
big of a perfectionist close enough is
close enough and if I waste a little
it's okay with me because speed is my
friend I keep all the buttons just
because they're the best toy
grandchildren could ever hope to play
with disclaimer the children need to be
old enough not to put them in their
mouth or choke on them also you can use
buttons for so many amazing quilting
projects I also cut off all the tags and
then I go for the sleeves and my first
thing is to cut the sleeve off there's
so much fabric in the sleeve I do not
believe in hurting myself over this so
again I just do close enough is close
enough I cut that little cuffy part off
some people believe after they cut this
cuff part off that they should save some
of the fabric in the cuff but it's not
worth the time to me some of you who
want to save every little piece are
probably having a cow but really I give
you permission to just throw that in the
garbage you do not have to keep it if
you do want to keep it I'm showing you
one time time how to keep it fast which
is use your cutter but you only get to
keep one of the pieces of fabric most of
them the interfacing is on there so hard
it's not usable and you can't use it
anyway and it's too much work sometimes
it peels off but not usually so it's not
worth it so I really do just throw the
Cuffs away I do not keep them then you
go down that one little seam and down
the other side of it and you have Tada
whole sleeve worth of fabric and it's
pretty great I like to press it and play
with it but we just get all the usable
fabric we can and we Salvage it and we
save it and then we fold it up into neat
little packages so that we can keep it
in my little bin so when I want it it is
ready for me time to cut the shoulder
Circle seam it's kind of like going
around or roundabout you just start
cutting you go around and around till
you come to the beginning and you have a
perfect little circle that cuts off the
shoulder seams and I do both and then
we're ready to do the rest this rest it
just keeps getting faster and faster as
you go it's really really therapeutic
and fun to cut a shirt apart and Salvage
the fabric so I cut across that whole
back and because there's tux taken in it
causes lots of yardage this is me
getting rid of the excess of the yolk I
use my cutter because it just gets the
seam off faster and it's quicker than
using scissors so slice slice slice and
these pieces are big enough to do lots
of things with so now we're done with
all the hard parts and we have just the
simple big yardage easy Parts left we
just sliced on both sides of the seams
and TDA we are ready to fold everything
up and take care of it it is really fun
to measure and see how much yardage you
get it's amazing when you have extra big
men's shirts versus maybe a medium shirt
the amount of yardage is so much bigger
and so that's always something to keep
track of here it's time to think about
Pockets I often we'll leave pockets in
and actually work them into a quilt it's
really fun to tuck a $100 bill in a
little pocket for a graduating senior if
you don't want to keep the pocket intact
then you just cut around it then take
your cutter and cut around the pocket as
quick as you can and Salvage the pieces
of fabric in the pocket it's not very
big but I find it to be still a useful
size to keep you have to take that top
one and cut off all the seams so it's
even smaller but it works and that's
another way to deal with the pockets and
we're ready to rock and roll here's that
gorgeous shirt I bought earlier in the
video it's so beautiful to me and I
still need to process it but I wanted to
show you these quilt blocks that I made
from the shirts that I bought earlier in
the video sometimes I just like to make
quilt blocks to use for charity quilts
and these go really well with a couple
of fabrics look how beauty that is going
to be when I put it into some pattern
that I come up with I don't know here's
another one and this one is sweeter
softer it could be for a woman's shelter
or for whatever I decide to use it for
this is fun to buy $18 worth of shirts
and make all those blocks I allow myself
to have four tubs of thrifted fabric I'm
not allowed to have more so when I run
out of space I have to start sewing this
is my thrifted Fabric and I have
beautiful colors I divide them into
colors they are so useful I use them all
the time I like plaids I like florals
these are my brighter ones in here and
some of it is little pieces of yardage
that go with plaids so I keep most of my
plaids in the tubs with my shirtings I
just want all of my thrifted fabric
together so if you need some fabric that
is less expensive some of you have been
writing to tell me how expensive fabric
is in your area it is worth going to
thrift stores and seeing what you can
find and picking some up that can bless
and serve your life stay Merry and
creative
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