I was at this event to host a garden-themed stall, and I had ammassed assorted bits and bobs that people could put to new use - all kinds of food containers to be used as plant pots (yoghurt pots, cases from biscuits, margerine tubs, coleslaw pots, cream cheese containers, plastic take-away boxes, and on and on!), cut up circles of carpet to be used around seedlings to deter pests, netting from shop-bought fruit to cover over plants and keep birds away, cut in half lemonade bottles to use as 'cloches' (like a mini greenhouse for a plant as it grows in its early stages, to protect it from cold)....
And people had also knitted lots of lovely clothes for sale, for children and adults.
I was most impressed by the bracelets that you could make on the spot - out of the rubber from bicycle inner tubes! I had popped out into the church garden for a breather from the stall, when the lady from this stall came and sat next to me, and as we chatted all the while she was sewing away - sewing buttons onto the rubber, with bright pink thread, creating an instant item of jewellery right there before me! So innovative and infinitely pretty. She told me how she had used craft cutting tools for the shapes, like hearts and sunshine and circles, and was using odd buttons and
other little bits and bobs to sew on.
Abundance Wimbledon - surplus fruit project. Picks unwanted fruit, gives to good community causes.
Love Fashion Hate Sweat Shops
Squirrels Scrap Scheme - sign up to get batches of scrap materials for your community organisation/group.
TedWood's Emporium - for upcycled/home-crafted corsage, phone covers, tote bags, cushions, and more.
Tomfoolery - All sorts of home-crafted wares. Lots of bicycle themed stuff!