Recycling For the Dogs



I was looking around for the dogs rope chew toy and realized I'll have to turn the place upside down in order to find it. I had just had a long weekend with a sinus infection and horrendous 3 week long allergy attack, so there was no "turning the place upside down"! Then I remembered I had two pairs of pants ready for the trash! The house was freshly cleaned, chores were done, and it was nearly bed time...what better time to do some sort of crafting?!


I cut the pants up the leg seams and separated those side and inner thigh seams from the strips of fabric. As I was tearing up the seam, it would cut into the fabric intead of follow the seam, hence the uneven pieces.

 

Next step was to put all 3 pieces on top of each other and tie a knot at one end. I cut each section of fabric into little tassle-type things for the end.

 

 

 

 

Now braid the 3 sections.

 

 

 

 

 For the larger ones, you can tie a knot in the middle of the rope and at each of the tassled ends as well for more chewability. I couldn't get a good picture of them since it's all black. But you can use pretty much any durable fabric. Try to vary it up, different types of fabric, colors, lengths. There really is no limit to what you can do with these. Pretty fun, I think!