S1E14: Sustainable Crafting for Earth Month!
Listen on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube.
WHY You should care about sustainable crafting!
- Trash doesn’t just disappear
- Things don’t degrade in a landfill, they just get squished down
- Everything you’ve ever thrown out is still most likely sitting in a landfill
- So much effort goes into making/shipping/distributing materials,
- Disrespectful to the OBJECTS and the PEOPLE involved to just not use them or throw them away
- Trends come and go – so beware of diving BIG into a new craft
- Too much stuff you don’t use can take up so much room and feel shameful when you no longer want to use it!
BUY LESS
- Easy to be inspired and buy supplies – much harder to actually execute
- Wait to purchase supplies until you’re ready to do the project
- Finish projects before starting more (tackle that WIP pile!)
- Shop your stash
- if you’re not using your stash, donate it/give it away to someone who will!
- Keep the good juju flowing!
- Buy versatile things
- Interchangeable needles
- Acrylic mix in to make fabric paint
- Will you be able to use supplies for something else?
BUY MORE INTENTIONALLY
- Buy quality so you purchase once
- When you make that purchase, who are you supporting?
- Theresa’s meat girl
- If you love your local fabric store, recognize that people need to shop there in order for them to stay in business
- Caveat: it’s more expensive, do what you can
- Buy secondhand
- Facebook Marketplace
- Estate Sales
- Buy Nothing Groups
- Secondhand Craft Stores
- Craft Racoon
- ChArtReuse in Franklinton
- Make & Mend (based in Somerville MA, but they have a great variety online!)
- Thrift stores
- Estate Sales
- Borrow
- From friends & family
- Libraries often offer non-book items to borrow
- See if you have a local tool library
