Take Two Lost Halves And Add Them Together...

Take two lost halves, add them together and what have you got? A brilliantly sustainable and strangely fashionable pair of Glove Love gloves, that's what.

But there must be loads of other Glove Love type ideas out there for wasted parts which could make ingenious combinations (without using a lot of energy to make)?

For instance, here's someone turning odd socks and gloves into "hand-made sock monsters for every ocassion".

Although technically that's recycling or upcycing (taking old stuff and making it into new stuff), which everyone knows about. What we're talking about is more creative re-use. What about, say, making your own houseboat - does that count?

Actually, no. That's utterly brilliant but we're specifically talking about taking two or more wasted single parts and combining them into a new pair or collection, without any manufacturing in the process.

Things which combine form (they must look great), function (and still do a useful job - like, um, keep your hands warm), and systemic sustainability (in the case of Glove Love, each glove evades landfill and avoids a new pair being bought with all the resources that uses).

In other words, ideas which stay true to The Glove Love Princple. So if you've got any suggestions about other things like this we could do, please tell us in the comments below - we'd love to hear them.

Since we started talking about socks, we did think of doing Sock Love (which sounds even more open to misinterpretation than Glove Love) but wondered if the hygiene factor was a problem. Even though they're washed, somehow other people's socks seem less romantic to buy and wear than gloves ;-)

Perhaps that's why you don't see that many single socks for sale. Mind you, there are bargains to be had if you hunt around - still two days of bidding left to buy this machine washable, size 6-11 single black sock on ebay for instance.

Of course there's no reason everyone couldn't just do this themselves at home and make their own odd sock pairs. And you'd think with a bit of global digital connectivity this could itself turn into a worldwide movement - Odd Sock Lovers Of The World Unite! Sadly, when we searched Flickr we could only find one right now (he's called Paul).

So, come on Green Things - what are some ideas for more Glove Love type projects?

Shoes perhaps?

Or jewelry?

Or something else entirely? Please leave your All-Consuming ideas in the comments below. We're all ears.

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