Green Magazine

waistcoat craft

Do you know fleece material ? It is a synthetic fabric made from PET and other fibers that keeps you warm and is a perfcet alternative to wool for vegans. Another characteristic of this fabric is that due to its composition if you cut it, it doesn’t fray. With some handstitches I did a waistcoat to my “Little Princess”. It is simple, but makes effect. The fabric is a light pink pile bought at Tessuti Raponi. In this place you can buy stock finest fabric at low prices, some of them are put into basket and sold by weight. At the begining I bought it to make a blanket, but last year I did not have time to make it. This year I decided to make the waistcoat. Waistcoat are fashionable again and actually fashion is considering easy wearing, non stitch and free cut styles.

To close it I used a pink ribbon that was enriched with some beads. If you want to avoid stitching, you can consider opening 2 holes (cut line) on each side and pass a beautiful wide ribbon through them.
Try to make it, make a DIY ( do it yourself) . With a rectangle and 2 internal ovals the shape is done. Then you can make fly your immagination to create the closure shape trying it on. Buying the fleece or pile by weigth and with some immagination we can make our own waistcoat to go out or to wear it at home during cold winter nights.

Here below you will find the instructions to how to make a waistcoat:

To make the ovals I have first done the shape on a carton piece ( a biscuit box) then I marked it on the fabric with a pencil.

Kid waistcoat instructions

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-You select your gift from their Oxfam Unwrapped online catalog.

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From water jugs to school books to goats, all Oxfam Unwrapped gifts benefit those living in poverty.

Here some examples of their gift ideas:

Cooking stove

plant vegetable garden

Pair school uniforms

Building tools

School desk and chair

Donkey

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Jason Mecier is a great ecological artist and his collection of “celebrity junkdrawers” on which he creates portraits of celebrities with their own trash merit to show and talk about. Results are marvelous and watching carefully his creations and the pieces of junk of each celebrity you can also figure out a part of the style life of the celebrity.

Here some of his celebrity junk portraits:

Tori Spelling by Jason Mecier

Nicolas Cage by Jason Mecier

Lady Gaga by Jason Mecier

By chance I have stopped by with my family at San Remo (Italy) and discovered how wonderful is this city right after the Blue Coast in France. As soon as you entered into the center of the city you can park the car and rent a bike. We found immediately at the main parking that has been built at the old train station right in front of the sea a tent named “nolo bici” which offers so many types of bikes to rent. We picked two city bikes and also a trolley for children and had a pleasant ride by the bike course that is long 24 km and it is sorrounded by the typical Ligurian landscape past the sea. This bike course is suitable also for kids and going along it you can stop by some coffee bar and take a delicious Italian coffe or stop by with your children at any park and have an Ice cream. After cycling for at least two hours on our way back to the parking we found a mobile artisan ice cream on bike!
Here we want to share a video, it is worthwhile to visit San Remo and enjoy a ride on bike: