Originally Posted by
Sandrea
I have a question. I am pretty new at some of these techniques. My question: Is there any reason why you would sew your scraps onto a roll of adding machine tape, rather than just plain sew the scraps to each other and keep sewing new scraps to the group as you go. Not sure I understand why sew them to the paper.
Looking at her picture, she "crazy quilted" a lot of the scraps, rather than sewing them all in straight line. You need some type of foundation for that. An alternate method would be to cut strips of muslin to whatever width you wanted and sew the fabric onto that. You would have strips that were 36 or 42" (depending on the width of the muslin) that could be clamped to a hanger so they would stay straight. Then, when they were washed, there wouldn't be anything to rip out.