Recycling

Earth Day was this week, so I decided to make a journal quilt in honor of the day. I used scraps from my stash and made a background pieced together from multiple fabrics. Since my town will only collect plastics for recycling that have the #1 or #2 within the recycling symbol, I decided to cut up a white plastic container that otherwise would have gone to the landfill. I laid out the strips to look like a tree and created leaves by cutting up the plastic grass from a sushi lunch. Here's Earth Day: