Monday Message

"I wish to urge again the importance of self-reliance on the part of every individual Church member and family. None of us knows when a catastrophe might strike. Sickness, injury, unemployment may affect any of us. We have a great welfare program with facilities for such things as grain storage in various areas. It is important that we do this. But the best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary." (President Gordon B. Hinckley)

Spring has made things the lovely green that we love after a winter of no green. Of course, with that beautiful green comes time to mow.

The rhubarb is coming up and looking great. I thought you would like seeing how strange it looks as it starts to open a leaf...

Flocks are out they always are so very pretty...

And I have been picking asparagus - yum!

It has been very windy which has been hurting me but pushed on and finished the garage that was a lot of work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq_Y5cX8quc - this is interesting and would be so frugal.

https://www.pinterest.com/ginya18/remake-old-clothes/ - here are a lot of ideas.

https://www.pinterest.com/jfabrit/clothing-remakes/ - so many ideas.

https://www.goingzerowaste.com/blog/upcycled-clothing-ideas-for-a-zero-waste-lifestyle/ - there are some ideas here.

https://sustainablykindliving.com/best-ways-to-reuse-old-clothing/ - ideas.

I think there are many ways to recycle your old clothing. Have you priced fabric of late? Oh my goodness! It would pay to go to thrift stores to find clothing with lots of fabric

The rag balls that someone painstakingly made is what they use to do with clothing that no longer had any use...they cut them into strips and sewed the strips end to end. That is what they did with these rag balls as well. It is interesting to see the different fabrics.

This too is what they used to make quilts with as well.

Being frugal was all of this and more.

https://www.roseryapparel.com/videos/beginner-friendly-clothes - this gal uses pretty thrifted sheets to make dresses - very pretty!

Don't forget to trade clothes with others who may have child sizes you need etc.

I have shared before my grandmother making my mother an outfit for her concert at school. People would give my grandmother clothes they no longer wanted and she made a little pinafore dress for my mother out of the used clothing. But as she tried to make the little blouse, there wasn't enough of a ladies blouse to make it. So since the dress had the front part, she cut the blouse so that the hole in the ladies blouse was behind the bib part of the dress. I like what she could do, she did this with a treadle machine and oil lamp.

I one time found a dress at a yard sale but down the front someone had a coffee stain. I was able to embroider over the stain. You could also applique something over a stain.

Also, don't forget you can make old clothes into rags without any sewing but I save buttons and zippers off of them first

Share what ideas you have below.

This is my little spinning buddy, Carl, and while he wishes he was the color of my spinning right by him there on the table, he is just happy to watch.

Missy says she is showing a makeover for her, her pillow.

Tippy Longstockings, not wanting to be bested by Missy, says she, too, is sporting her pillow. 

I covered each with a scrap of fleece (to be fair they are the same). I covered their pillows with the fleece and safety pinned underneath to hold in place and they can't lay on the pins. They each have their own and clearly love them and they were a no-sew option.

Keep working at your storage and skills and frugalness.