My granddaughter and I fill old pillowcases with the scraps that are not big enough to use for quilting. The pillowcase are filled about half full and is sewn shut and the finished DOG BED is stored in the spare closet. When the cold weather hits we take them down to the ASPCA for the dogs and cats. I now have 2 quilt shops that have a basket in the classroom and the students are encouraged to put there fabric and batting scraps in the basket. Last saturday we took 35 of the dog beds to the shelter. Where when going through the shelter found that they were still using some of the ones from the last trip.
Per my GRANDMOTHER "No fabric gets thrown away until the dong will have nothing to do with it"

CHECK WITH YOUR LOCAL ART TEACHER AT THE GRADE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS..I HAVE GIVEN SCRAPS. BITS AND PIECES OF RIBBONS, LACE ETC..EVEN BUTTONS... AND YARNS

Another great Idea-now I have two projects to fullfill. I guess I have to get quilting to make more scraps!

I put anything smaller than 2" into a bag then, give it to a friend who does nothing but miniatures. She thinks she has gone to heaven when she sees me coming with a bag of scraps.

If they are really tiny, slivers etc you can use them in your compost pile/bin... 100% cotton only.

warm quilt hugs, sue in CA

what a neat idea!

This isn't my idea, but something I want to try, someday. A friend told me she is going to make paper (you know, with pulp and a screen) and put little bits of fabric and thread in it for interest. That may be a little more labor intensive than you want to do, but it sounds like fun for kids. If you have scraps, I'd say cut them down a bit if you're going to do this.

Great Idea! I have been throwing all my very tiny pieces away, now I will save them too!

As I was reading entries on another site it was suggested that the little tiny crumbs, threads, etc. be put together in one of the moss hanging baskets in the early spring so the birds can use them for their nests. It is reported that they love it. Wondering if it is going just a bit far - but I do love those birds.

Jana

Place tiny pieces between two pieces of water soluble stablizer. Work a quilt pattern over it such as a meander just make sure you have touched all the snippits. You can add long strings of thread also. That's how I use my old thread. Then rinse and you have a piece of "fabric" to do with as you want. I save all my cuttings. The color depends on what you use. It's pretty cool.

Our local garage likes to get them to soak up grease and oil.

I made a crumb quilt with my scraps.

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...45965719XDkBtt

The blocks I'm making now have smaller pieces than the above quilt does. Quilting with no rules!

I take those itty-bitty bits & mix them in with stuffing to fill stuffed animals for community service(my quilt guild contributes stuffed animals to local police & firemen for children in distressful situations). It works well!

In our area we save the bits and pieces and thread cut offs for our local YMCA collects these pieces and sends them to the shredder to recycle them. It helps to keep it out of the landfills and makes us feel good for we are making new product. Once you get into the habit it is simple to just throw into a box and bag up when full.

I've read that you shouldn't give birds your scraps because the babies get tangled up in the threads, and the fabric holds moisture. (I don't know, everybody seems to have different ideas about this!)

Give them to Salvation Army. They bale them and sell them to some foreign country who recycles.

Wow, Ann Marie. That is something else. Please let us see it when your done.

There are people who make their own paper with some small scraps blended in. I have always wanted to do it,but....Too many other things to accomplish. I really don't need another interest to distract me :?

so either way, stuffing is the best, Thanks for the tip!

I save mine in a ziplock bag, and take them to the elementary school for the teachers to use in art classes. Great for Collages and whatever

ROFL - Please, let's not go there. :oops:

At a local quilt show I saw a jacket made entirely of printed selvedges, imagine that , it was the coolest thing, if only I had saved my selvedges!

I like your crumb quilt! I like that name too.

save them up and make your dog a pillow. I belong to a sewing group and we save ever thing and a lady makes pillows for the animual shelter. Last year we made 152 polliws . I bet your little dog would love it


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crumb blocks, stuffing for dog/cat beds at the shelters, paper crafting uses bits of fabric for the front of handmade cards, paper piecing

I'm almost there.

:oops: :lol:

I bought a box of clear Christmas ornaments. The ones they use for crafts and used some of the snippets from my project and cut extremely small and filled the ornament. They are colorful and you can mark the year and project and have a keepsake you only have to use once a year that will bring back memories. You could even hang in sewing room as decoration.

Happy scraps.

I sew a "bag" out of material I don't really don't want to use in a quilt (you know - some of that "what was I thinking when I bought this material"). Leave one end open then put my little scraps in it until it's full. Sew it closed and then donate it to the local animal shelter. I also made one for my cat who loves it.

Go to quiltville.com and then look for crumbs crumbs crumbs. I just found it today

You can also use very small pieces of fabric and all loose theads for home-made paper. I used to make it, but not anymore!

I make trees out of the pits & pieces. I use the thread spools as the tree trunk and a chop stick(cs). Snip a small hole in the center of the fabric, push it on to the cs, fill the cs up till you think it looks nice, glue it into the the spool. Iall so put a old button on the top as a "star". I adjust the length of the cs so they are not all the same height, group they in three's and you have a "forrest".

A funny thing happened to me recently. I usually throw my scraps and cut threads into an old tissue box as I go along and then figure out what to do with them later. My sewing table is in the corner of our living room, and I asked my DH if he happened to throw that box out, thinking it was just trash. He said, "my dad threw it out. I told him not to touch it, but he threw it out anyway, insisting it's just full of trash." My dear, sweet, 82-year-old father-in-law, this is SOO something he would do. You gotta luv him!

I laughed because the scraps and threads in it were unusable to me, but now I don't have my tissue box to throw them in. I told my DH now he better finish our new box of tissues very quickly.

I collect small scraps of fabric in soft fruit plastic containers, keeping different colours separate. When I have sufficient, I 'scatter' the trimmings over a base fabric, carefully cover it with an appropriately coloured piece of chiffon (I use scarves purchased cheaply from charity shops), insert lots of flower pins through the layers to roughly hold everything together, and then use decorative stitches and free machining to trap the small pieces of fabric. I then cut the completed fabric to shape to make evening bags, etc.

Check the classified sections under scraps! I just sold 2 boxes of scraps. They paid postage and I had 2 less boxes! :-)

In response to your inquiry about small pieces, put them in a pillow case sized fabric, fill it about 3/4 full, serge closed and give to homeless animals for a bed. Everything is used - our stash is not overwhelming and we always like to buy new fabric anyway.

darlene