When it comes to making something new and fabulous by reusing old materials, our author Wendy Hill has always been way ahead of the curve. She sewed this raincoat from recycled plastic bread bags decades ago, when she was in high school and green was still just a color, not a worldwide movement.
Wendy Hill's Wonderbread raincoat
Wendy’s latest innovation is just as far out in front of the crowd: quilting and making jewelry with recycled zippers. See this article in the Bend, Oregon Bulletin for the story of her new fascination with zippers and how she is transforming zippers donated by generous souls all around the country into new creative projects.
Wendy is an award-winning quilter and the author of two books from C&T: Easy Bias-Covered Curves and Fast, Fun & Easy® Incredible Thread-A-Bowls. She’ll have a new bias-covered curve quilt in the May/June issue of Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting, so watch for her there.
Zip it, baby! Wendy's new zipper quilt
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