Calling all my hoarders thrifty scrappy geniuses! It’s time to dig through your stash, pull out all those little itty bitty bits and bobs of whatever you love to work with, and whip us up something scrap-tastic. And I am NOT just talking to our stitchers! I’m calling on ALL of you, no matter your medium, to show us how you use up every last bit of stash, be it fabric, yarn, wood, paper, clay, pastry dough, etc. Every medium is welcome in the Talk Scrappy To Me Challenge.
Crafting Period: Six Weeks! June 2 - July 16th, 2023, at midnight.
Your craft may be any medium that we have a category for here on Lettuce Craft.
Your project must be made with a majority of scraps. You may need to add to them, by purchasing something like thread or glue, but the spirit of the challenge is to use the scraps you have. Live by the scrappy spirit!
Each member may only submit one entry, which cannot already be posted on its own thread.
Additionally, your entry may not be submitted for any other contest in this community.
All entries must be posted by Sunday, July 16th, midnight, your local time. (LC will timestamp your post.)
The winner of the Talk Scrappy To Me Challenge will receive a $20 Amazon gift card.
Additional Details:
You should submit your entry by creating a project post on the correct Completed Projects sub-board for your medium. (Ie. a recipe goes on the Food & Drinks board)
You are REQUIRED to have a descriptive title and then include “- Talk Scrappy To Me Challenge Entry” (example: Scrap Quilt - Talk Scrappy to Me Challenge Entry). Once you have posted your submission, you need to reply to this thread with a link to your post. If you do not do this, your entry will not be considered.
Voting will happen on July 17-31, 2023.
The winner will be announced on August 1- we will contact you via Private Message, after the announcement.
If cheating of any sort is discovered, the applicable entry and votes will be disqualified.
If you have any questions, or want to chat about your crafting progress for this challenge, post it here! Let’s have fun! Happy crafting!
I made a scrappy project for @Rlynn for OWS (it’s in the mail so I won’t share yet), and I’m planning to make some more of them. Or there’s the scrappy quilt pattern I’ve been wanting to try. Or there’s so many paper scraps …
AIMR
(Linda -2024 Choose Projects that You Want to Do :us:)
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You are the perfect cheerleader for this challenge! Thanks for being such a prolific scrappy project maker and for inspiring us with your projects and those of our fellow scrappy members!
Wow! So many ideas…it will be hard to narrow down what to make…anything can be made scrappy!!
Speaking of scraps, look what my momma gave me!
Yesterday she and I met up at the Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival (more on that in an upcoming post) and she gave me two garbage bags full of 100% linen, 100%wool, canvas, and a few quilting cottons. Mom sews early American reproduction clothing for this company and she was kind enough to save me all the scraps!
Wools - I didn’t realize the photo was fuzzy. Just know this is a HUGE pile. @Magpie suggested that I make a quilt with yarn ties at each corner. There is more than enough for a full sized quilt.
I’d say yes… sorta, on repurposed things. Your broken jewelry sounds like a great idea that would fit in. I just want to be clear that this isn’t specifically a recycle/upcycle challenge, like making wind chimes out of plastic water bottles. Not that that’s not cool. Just that’s a specific type of challenge that we’ve done before, and THIS particular challenge is about using scraps leftover from making something else, in a new way. So if you make a pie, and you have leftover scraps of pastry dough, and bake them into tiny hand pies. Or if you have offcuts of wood from building a deck, and you use them to make a side table. And of course the classics, like making a tote bag out of scraps from making a quilt.
And just to clarify your scraps do not all have to be from one particular past project, like scraps from a single quilt turned into a pillow. It can be scraps from many projects.
I have two potential projects in mind that I’m not sure about …
When I packed up my craft room in November / December, I came across some scraps leftover from a quilt I made a couple of years ago. I managed to turn those into two tops for baby quilts before I had to put those in storage as well. Coincidentally, this morning I picked up some more items from our storage unit and came across them, and took them home. I finally have my machines, a table and some projects at the same place for the first time in 6 months, so I’m going to finish them up soon. But as they top was already done last winter, would this project count?
And also, do the scraps leftover from making something have to be your own scraps? Because I rescued some cut-off pieces of tile from the dumpster, technically those are scraps. I bought the tiles but the tiler cut them up laying the floors. I’m thinking of turning those into a mosaic project for the garden. Would that count?
I’m literally overwhelmed with choices. I can’t brain very much about this without spinning off into the multiverse of possibilities, it’s just… too exciting!
