Baby Clothes Morphed Into An Enduring Momento
$2
10 Hours
Easy
My daughter had a trunk full of baby clothes destined for the dumpster. I persuaded her to send it to me (she lives in another country!) This is what I did with it.
I braided it - 2 strands of T-shirt yarn and 1 strand of grocery bag strips; hot glued the braids and hand stitched across for additional strength. This was the difficult part as the needle would not go smoothly through the plastic yarn.
The mat measures 52 inches across. I used 34 baby T shirts and 130 grocery bags. The finished product I sent to my daughter. My grandson (Aedan, 6 years) is delighted with it. It graces his room - a momento of his all too fleeting babyhood that we all enjoyed so much.
This is another mat made exclusively with grocery bags. I spray painted it. It measures 24 inches across. I used 87 grocery bags. I discovered that using T-shirts alone makes a rather limp mat, but braiding it with plastic strips (2:1) gives it enough firmness. Using grocery bags alone makes it too stiff. It is not easy on bare feet either. (I use it in the hallway outside my apartment). It is easy to clean. Just toss it into the washing machine. It lasts forever.
The other side of the mat! It is actually very easy to make. The fun part is when you hot glue it and see the design coming together.
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Great Jesse. Go ahead and do both and send us the pics. Good luck!
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I am thinking of making quilts out of my grown children's baby clothes. They are 32 and 29. Would this be wrong to cut these clothes for a quilt? Maybe save a couple items?
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