Rowzat's Upcycled Creations

Yes, I recently brought the used soap bars home from a recent hotel stay. I carried them in a bag which once held frozen fruit f...

  Over the past week, I mended three towels. Two towels still had a lot of fluff.  The other was simply beloved by my spouse, even though I ...

Every once and a while I decide that rug making would be kind of cool. But it never goes as planned. I started this rug for the ...

  I am not generally a purse person. I use them to carry my stuff, but I don't have many. I use a relatively small crossbody purse daily...

One of the things that really bothers me about gift-giving is all the packaging. I love the aesthetics of a well put together gi...

We have a debate in our household on what the item above is called.  I call it a potholder.  My middle schooler insists it is an oven mitt. ...

I used up my last box of pantyliners several weeks ago. Before I started upcycling, I would have simply purchased  another box. However, the...

  Almost every piece of factory-made clothing I own fits me badly. I hate shopping for clothing. As I have been doing more sewing, I am real...

By now you all know that I don't believe our current rate of resource consumption is sustainable.  I believe that money as a medium of e...

It's summer in Minnesota. I am outside and simply not sewing very much. I am still thinking about my carbon footprint. It...