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Amy Pulsipher
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From T-shirt to dusting rags
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Mark Miner
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Hey PEP-folks,

My busted flannel is now a nice stack of shop rags! It served for at least fifteen years, so I have no complaints, and it will serve for a while more.

Happy homesteading!
Mark
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Christ is Risen!

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Hal Schibel
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I finally tackled the multi-decade pileup of T-shirts. All of the cotton shirts got turned into fabric scraps for the textile BB (https://permies.com/p/2959399) and the not-so-cotton shirts got turned into rags. I made sure to cut out all of the designs for sentimental reasons. The backs, bottoms, and sleeves became rags. I didn't do anything special to them, just cut them up.
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These are all the shirts from the collection that were some sort of polyester blend.
These are all the shirts from the collection that were some sort of polyester blend.
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First shirt.
First shirt.
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Cutting it up.
Cutting it up.
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Cutting it up more.
Cutting it up more.
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Another shirt.
Another shirt.
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So many rags!
So many rags!

-Halley

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Charmaine McPherson
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I used my daughter’s t-shirt that is too stained and worn to wear to school anymore, and my son’s pants that he’s outgrown. (We used them as part of his Halloween costume for its last use and now it’s a rag.)
I set aside the pieces too small to make rags as scrap fabric and the button from the pants is in my button jar.
I got 2 large rags, 2 medium rags and 4 small ones.
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After. Using a zig zag stitch, I finished the edges to prevent fraying.
After. Using a zig zag stitch, I finished the edges to prevent fraying.
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I found a new work T-shirt, and so to maintain equilibrium I have to demote and old work shirt to rags.
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these are done for
these are done for
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action shot - of course, y'all didn't ask for that on this particular BB ...but if I didn't have it ;-p
action shot - of course, y'all didn't ask for that on this particular BB ...but if I didn't have it ;-p
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nice to have rags sooo used I don't mind using once and tossing
nice to have rags sooo used I don't mind using once and tossing

row row row your boat, gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

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Svedka Merc
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(Posted from my phone, doesn’t seem to like this site. Sorry for the duplicate posts.)


Started doing this a long time ago after seeing a box of “t-shirt rags” that a customer bought for use in their shop.
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Started doing this a long time ago after seeing a box of “t-shirt rags” a customer bought for use in their shop.
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