Quilt and pillow covers maximize how much fabric we can recycle by using small pieces of 3x3 inch fabric in the design.

You can turn almost anything into a yarn. Here's an example of how we'd create rugs using old bed sheets

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The plan: Create a business, Coming Home Goods, that recycles textile waste, helps renew the lives of the formerly incarcerated, and creates local jobs.

70-80% of the formerly incarcerated in CA are unemployed. We'll partner with local employment services that help the formerly incarcerated secure gainful employment. Goodwill already runs local services like Re-Entry Program Navigator in SF.

How we’ll do it: Coming Home Goods will kick off with its “Trinidad” line. The line consists of handmade rugs, quilts, and pillow covers. Once clothes are received, we'll sort them and launder useable pieces and sell unusable clothes to textile recyclers. The quilt and pillow cover designs use 3x3'' pieces of fabric to make a flower pattern (see image), maximizing the amount of fabric we can recycle from clothing. We'll shred bed sheets into yarn to crochet into rugs (see image).

These one-of-a-kind home goods can be sold in local stores or by a national distributor such as Target Inc.