Recycled Medal Roundup - 5 projects made from Medal Ribbons

If you're still unconvinced of the loveliness that is medal ribbon crafting, 'av a Butchers at this, all the projects that my addled brain has come up with to date in one Red, White & Blue post.

I say to date because, like a kid with a scabby knee, I just cannot stop picking at my ribbon scraps and itching for more projects (cue delicious mental images).

Medal Ribbon Brit Chic Wall Art

(Just heard back today that I won 2nd place in the recycled Art Contest, a $400 gift card for my local Art store! thanks so much for the words of encouragement)

Medal Ribbon Crochet Hook Clutch

Tutorial : Stitch your own Medal Ribbon Fabric

Woven Medal Ribbon Zippered Box shaped Bag

Medal Ribbon Gift Bows

The ones that got away from me in order of medal ribbons required:

A Crochet throw or rug (Olympic athlete)

Bunting (Mildly sporty)

Book mark (Wheezy Asthmatics)

Recycled Crafts - Medal Ribbon Bag

I am not one of lifes medal winners, I have no trophies or medals from my school years, I was definitely more of a bookworm than an athlete let's say, if my Mum had been willing I would totally have been the kid that faked the broken arm in a cast to get out of school sports day.

I'm a wheezy Asthmatic and back in the day I could turn sideways and the sun would shine through me. So when I came upon a grab bag of 11m of medal ribbons for 50c I snatched that sucker up and  (inhaler in hand)sprinted ran  shuffled to the check out.

Well I got them home, spread them out on the floor, attached Gold milk bottle tops as medals, had a mock Olympics with just me, where I won all the trophies, threw them all up in the air, rolled around in them for a bit then figured I should probably find a use for them.

Now I'm obsessed with weaving, love, love, love it so I made this baby to put all my Crochet bits and bobs in. I love that it's recycled, my fave colours Red, White & Blue and the colour scheme got me feeling nostalgic for home with the Queens Jubilee rapidly approaching, so the lining has some Umbrellas on it too :)

Best bit is that I still have a stash of these ribbons, so off to find me some more craft ideas for using medal ribbons, any thoughts my lovelies?

Ruby

x

P.s Check out my new Press page, yup little ole me got featured as The Huffinton Post Stylelist Daily's Craft of the Day feature, woohooo, so excited x