Think Crafts Blog – Craft Ideas and Projects – CreateForLess

By Recycled Crafts Contributor, Anitra from the blog “Coffee Pot People”. 

 
Have you been to the fabric store lately and seen all the wonderful new trims? Oh, I am beguiled by them! And yes, I did succumb to the lure of a few that were simply irresistable, but I also have a huge stash of the more ordinary sorts of ribbons, laces, and trims already.

The question: What can you do with the trims you already have to make them stand out?

The answer: Lots of things!

 
One thing you can do is use the fabric you’re working with. Cut a strip of fabric on the straight of the grain that’s as wide as you want your trim to be, and then simply fray the edges.

When I finished fraying my new “ribbon”, I had a wad of textured threads to pick up, which looked pretty cool, since the fabric was multi-colored. Something like that wouldn’t make it through a wash cycle on a garment, but as a collage element…

If you’re like me, you have lots of bits and lengths of this and that, saved from other projects or picked up at thrift stores and garage sales. Here are a few more ideas for those odds and ends:

This:

becomes this:

This:

becomes this:

And even printed ribbon, turned upside down, can play:

becomes this:

Now I’m wondering. What unusual things have you used as trim?

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