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		<title>Box with fabric scrap &#124; Caixa de retalhos</title>
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One of the things I like best in quilt is the ability to create from things that would normally be discarded.
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<p>One of the things I like best in quilt is the ability to create from things that would normally be discarded.</p>
<p>Think of the amount of boxes we throw away every month &#8211; those which lost their color, were stained with time or had the surface torn when taking of a label.</p>
<p>Consider also the huge number of other things that end up in the garbage because they do not preserve a pleasing look after being manipulated for years and years.</p>
<p>Consider even those scraps of fabric that always remain after each new quilt project is finished &#8211; so small that they couldn’t be used in another project. And there goes a few good meters&#8230;</p>
<p>We are living in a <a href="http://www.climatecrisis.net/" target="_blank"><strong>time of growing environmental concern</strong></a>, where the responsibility for what we consume and discard should be taken into account. Thinking about it, I decided to make a new project joining quilt with the idea of recycling.</p>
<p>The other day, I took some ugly and old boxes &#8211; one of them has almost ten years &#8211; and a handful of small fabric scraps and tried to figure out a way how to use them. I used a special scissor to even each scrap edge and cut them into geometric shapes.</p>
<p>Then, with strong glue and brush, I began to paste the pieces of colored cloth one by one on the surface of the boxes.</p>
<p>(As a teenager, long before I became interested in quilt, I was already looking for interesting ways to decorate my boxes and covers of books.)</p>
<p>What about the result? Instead of sending the boxes to the trash because they were ugly, I got a new one, very beautiful and unique. I’m event thinking in making some to give away &#8211; or to pack my gifts to friends.</p>
<p>Maybe that is a great contribution of quilt to change how we act and adopt an attitude of preservation of the planet.</p>

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<p>Uma das coisas de que mais gosto no patchwork é sua capacidade de criar a partir de objetos que, normalmente, seriam descartados.</p>
<p>Pense na quantidade de caixas que nos desfazemos todos os meses &#8211; aquelas que perderam a cor, ficaram manchadas com o tempo ou ainda tiveram a surperfície rasgada quando tiramos a etiqueta do correio.</p>
<p>Pense também no número enorme de outros objetos que acabam tendo o lixo como destino porque eles não preservam uma estética agradável após serem manipulados por anos e anos.</p>
<p>Pense ainda que, em cada novo projeto de patchword que faço, sempre sobram retalhos e retalhos de tecidos &#8211; tão pequenos que não poderiam ser reaproveitados. E lá se vão bons metros&#8230;</p>
<p>Estamos vivendo em um <a href="http://www.climatecrisis.net/" target="_blank"><strong>momento de crescente preocupação ambiental</strong></a>, em que a responsabilidade com o que consumimos e descartamos deve ser levada em consideração. Pensando nisso, resolvi fazer um projeto que aliasse o patchwork à ideia de reciclagem.</p>
<p>Dia desses, peguei algumas dessas caixas feias e velhas &#8211; uma delas tem quase dez anos &#8211; e um punhado de retalhinhos e tratei de pensar em como reaproveitá-los. Usei uma tesoura de picote para fazer com que os retalhos tivessem uma borda uniforme e não desfiassem, e resolvi cortá-los em formatos geométricos.</p>
<p>Depois, com cola forte e pincel, comecei a colar um a um os pedacinhos coloridos de tecido na superfície das tampas e das caixas.</p>
<p>(Quando era adolescente, muito antes de me interessar por patchwork, já procurava maneiras interessantes de decorar minhas caixas e capas de cadernos.)</p>
<p>O resultado do trabalho? Em vez de mandar as caixas para o lixo porque estavam feias, ganhei outras, bem bonitas e originais. Penso até em fazer algumas para dar de presente &#8211; ou ainda para embalar meus projetos e dar aos amigos.</p>
<p>Talvez aí esteja uma grande contribuição do patchwork para mudar o modo como agimos e adotar uma atitude de preservação do planeta.</p>
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