Looking to see if anyone has any ideas for shredding fabric to make stuffing like for quilts or pillows. I have socks and underwear. I have enough cleaning fabrics but still don't want to throw these textiles away. However, some of the clothing is already pretty gross.
A recycling program is also a welcome suggestion. I know of a few but know they may just go straight to landfill instead of actual recycling.
Fabric shredding and recycling; what do you do?
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For pillows, I don’t bother shredding cause the fabric gets balled up and smushed anyways. I just stuff until the pillow is as firm as I want it to be.
If you are quilting, you could use the fabric cut offs for applique or hand-piecing details. I have ripped ruffles, straps, buttons, waistbands, and other bits off old clothing to make embellishments or mends on other items, or make patches for decoration from patterned or printed fabric.
I am slowllllly working on handsewing the scrappiest “quilt” ever on a torn bedsheet. I have sewn the torn areas back together and am now cutting squares out of t-shirt graphics and other sentimental fabrics to sew onto each side of the sheet. For thin/stretchy materials, I sew the cut square to another piece of material like a cotton t-shirt remnant as backing, then sew the completed square down. You can stuff each square individually to make a puffy pocket quilt, but I think with the amount of bulk from my clumsy handsewn seams and all the lil handmade patches I am sewing onto the thing, it’ll be plenty thick once I am done with it.