Sooooooo much waste.... need ideas (with pics)
#91
I am using all my strips leftover from projects to make potholders. Or, you could sew them all together until you get the required 27" for a pillowcase, then add a compimentary border. It would be beautiful with those fabrics.
#93
I have made many things from scraps. I sew together pieces of batting and then sew on scrap strip of fabric and bind and make baby bibs. I have even found a purse pattern made with small scraps. But I just took a class with Bonnie Hunter in Hershey, PA this summer and I am now making "Crumb" quilts with my scraps. Any size, any shape. Let me see if I can post a picture.
If this works, it is photo of the lettering I did along with some of the blocks. I guess the other photos are in the other computer. I do have to take photos of the quilts completed.
If this works, it is photo of the lettering I did along with some of the blocks. I guess the other photos are in the other computer. I do have to take photos of the quilts completed.
#98
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Texas
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I am dealing with the same problem with a quilt as you go quilt. It called for one yard to a yard and a half of fabrics and then didn't tell me how much batting I needed. Plus the backing amounts were more than needed. Believe me I have lots left over. My friend is making the same quilt and using fat quarters and has plenty left over at that. None of the fabrics did I need a yard.
#99
Originally Posted by tobylehnj
I have made many things from scraps. I sew together pieces of batting and then sew on scrap strip of fabric and bind and make baby bibs. I have even found a purse pattern made with small scraps. But I just took a class with Bonnie Hunter in Hershey, PA this summer and I am now making "Crumb" quilts with my scraps. Any size, any shape. Let me see if I can post a picture.
If this works, it is photo of the lettering I did along with some of the blocks. I guess the other photos are in the other computer. I do have to take photos of the quilts completed.
If this works, it is photo of the lettering I did along with some of the blocks. I guess the other photos are in the other computer. I do have to take photos of the quilts completed.
#100
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SW Minnesota
Posts: 1,590
I love the idea of putting one's quilting scraps in a bag and labeling said bag with sizes, etc. I have cut varying sizes of blocks and strips and put them in baggies...I also have leftover flannes from a Turning Twenty quilt waiting for me to play with and turn into a doll's quilt for my GD for a Christmas gift. Lots of terrific ideas in this thread!
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