… to treasure (part 1)

Drumroll please.

Presenting project no. 1 from Saturday’s trash-to-treasure transformation at the Everybody’s Bazaar. Remember—I was given $25 to spend at the big yard sale on Friday, and then had 24 hours to come up with a plan for how to improve upon the castaway items I purchased.

One of the “trash” items was a quilt top I bought for $5. I loved its cheerful color scheme—and its price. You can get a closer look at the original quilt top here .

The audience gave me some other ideas for how to repurpose it—turn it into a tablecloth, a table runner, pillow cases, etc. All were great suggestions, but I had my heart set on making an apron.

I followed my favorite apron pattern and just treated the quilt top like any other fabric. You can see the result in the photo above. A fully-reversible apron, with leftover quilt top to spare.

Coming soon: what to do with an old picture frame, a secondhand soda crate and wooden alphabet blocks.