Trash to Treasure

Yesterday, while "cleaning" a spot in the basement, I found these lengths of fabric, one to ten yards in each piece.

I washed them in cold water and the gentle cycle in the machine, and they came out fine. The tweed at bottom of the picture is wool from Scotland, only one yard, but wide enough to make a skirt or a vest. Yum. The houndstooth check is linen, and I can't think of anything I would ever make from it, but I love to look at the black and white pattern. There's enough of the dark green print and the red print to make summer dresses, if one wore dresses in the summer. And the print corduroy at top right will definitely appear next winter as a skirt or vest, or maybe a big shirt. The others are lining materials, but I may use the bronze organza for curtains because there's ten yards of it.

Here's a couple more that didn't make it into the picture. I don't know what the pink net-like fabric is.

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That book, The Tortilla Curtain, made a lingering impression on me. I was already in favor of embracing our Mexican "visitors," but now, if I had the energy, I would demonstrate in favor of amnesty, or making all those border guards hand out green cards instead of carrying guns.

Which reminds me: I've got to print and mail the June newsletter. If any of you Bookmarkers haven't read the book, be assured it's really worth reading, whether you're for or against the illegals.