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DH brought home some Tyvek mailers from the office that they can't use any more (old logo). Any ideas what to do with them, other than mail stuff? What can you sew with Tyvek?

I'm going to look online but I'd like to hear if you know anything to do with it, too.

You can sew it. Add fabric handles for sturdy bags. Like those made with pet food bags. Do NOT iron because it wrinkles with heat. Art quilters love the texture. A friend paints them, then irons to wrinkle. Cut out pedals to form flowers.

It seems they would be indestructible as English Paper Piecing templets...

Had a friend apply it to fabric postcards after painting them. She also painted, cut strips, then rolled around bamboo skewers to make beads like magazine beads. Heat them up and apply glitter or varnish. Lots of projects on craft sites.

• • • It's also waterproof, so you could line the bottom of your totes.

It is great for art quilting, as mentioned. If you paint it and use a heat gun, you will get an interesting product.

Have fun experimenting!

Susan Brubaker-Knapp would melt it atop her quilted pictures and paint it too I believe. Check her website; she was at our Retreat in NC as a guest speaker. Also she was on The Quilt Show. Worth checking out her site. I'd have to look it up for you.

It's www.bluemoonriver.com Here's one that has tyvek in it.
http://www.bluemoonriver.com/Gourds.html

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Way back when - I saw a vest made out of recycled Tyvek envelopes. Far out dude!

Several years ago, part of the Olympic uniform (windbreaker jacket) was made of Tyvek.
What about cell phone, kindle, ipod etc case? Book, journal covers?

Wonder if you could cut it in strips and crochet or knit with it...I'm thinking rugs or purses.

Project Runway would make evening dresses out of it.

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Oh, Nancy, you reminded me of that time years ago when ladies cut their bread wrappers on the bias to get one long strip and then crocheted them into small kitchen rugs.

I worked with this in the 80's... I put pockets on lab coats for a company in Decatur, AL...

Thanks everyone. I don't have enough for a piece of clothing or a rug, but I do have enough to play around with. It's interesting stuff! Wonder if I could sew it into (craft) things that need a little stiffening? And I'll bet my cats would like it inside cat toys, for the crinkle factor.

They make good postcard backings.

I had so many plastic grocery bags that I cut it into strips and used the plarn to crochet a shopping bag. It was hard because my stitches were so tight. I like tge idea of sewing with it.

I have some that I use to store printed pages used for tracing baby quilt embroidery designs, ex alphabet with eyes, Noah's ark, animals, etc.