My brother is into hitchhiking and letting God blow him where He wills. So he's called it 'hitch monking'. He wanted me to design and make him a cuff that would identify him to other like-minded people and this is what I came up with. It's made from recycled and fairtrade materials. The leather is an old Whippet collar I picked up for 50p, the black fabric is recycled fairtrade cotton (from a pair of hemmed yogapants of mine), and the calico is fairtrade. The elastic I had to buy although I guess if I'd looked around long enough I could have found some on some old clothes I could have recycled. I scanned a used stamp into the computer and printed it out on to iron-on transer paper, then tranferred it onto the calico and embroidered the postmark by hand. It's comfortable to wear and he loves it! I like it too!
