It’s time for the Sustainable Craft Challenge, when I join some of my creative friends and we each bring you a craft idea with a sustainable twist. This month our theme is REPURPOSE. Stay tuned at the end of this tutorial to check out all the creative repurposing ideas.

I had an old embroidery book with a missing cover, broken spine and all the pages falling apart. I do love embroidery but I have many books so didn’t need to keep this one for the patterns and ideas so I’ve given it a whole new life and repurposed it into a pretty garland.

This idea would work well with magazines, junk mail etc too if you don’t have an old book that’s falling apart.

To repurpose an old book into a paper garland you will need:

• An old book

• Large paper punches in various shapes (or a cutting machine)

• Sewing machine and thread

• 2 short lengths of ribbon