Mend and maintain for a sustainable 2020

[thanate (Ann needs more tea)]

@tendstowardschaos

It is mind-blowing and almost inexcusable to see how much just goes to landfill. It’s left me wishing for simpler times when stuff (textiles, especially) was made to last and people mended and made do (often out of pure necessity, I know)

I’ve been thinking about this with the “Economy Quilt” thing from the fabric scrapalong thread… There’s a line in the original description about how this sort of quilt is “always welcome for those with expanding families & not-so-expanding purse-strings” or something similar, which is probably not true in the US at present. Or at least, the crazy amount of time that goes into something like that makes it frivolous compared to a $3-5 thrift store blanket.