First of all, @AIMR, your scraps organization is astounding. Mine are just stuffed, jammed, and crammed into two giant plastic bags which aren’t going to hold up much longer under the strain. eek.
Secondly, I’m impressed at the things people do with scraps. I knew they had to be good for something and that my hoarding, I mean, saving instincts were not in vain. I don’t think I’ll be able to tackle my scraps stash this year, but I’ll be popping in here to see what kind of cool things people are producing!
A scrapalong sounds fun! The ideas in here are inspiring. I’m in.
In the past, I saved selvages, snipped threads, and itty bitties. More recently, I’ve resolved to save only fabric bits that are mug rug sized or larger. This is in an attempt to pare down my stash.
This! I keep most of my fabric scraps this way…except for the huge bag of selvedges (lost cause there) and a bag of ultra crinkley fabric strips that I wanna make into textile bracelets.
I can’t remember the name of the pattern for the organizer-pouch-thingy off the top of my head! I’ll have to dig deep into my emails tomorrow and update. It really cool with zippered pouched on the inside.
I use to have my scraps organized by color into huge ziplock baggies…but then I got lazy. Also, I just like to let my hands swim all up in that bin sometimes, just for fun. Like a crafty ball pit.
I love your panels! I spy a fabric I have and a few that I will now be hunting for
I haven’t actually made anything with mine yet, I was just thinking pouches, boxy bags, or maybe midori-style journals.
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(Linda -2023 is a use the good stuff year! :us:)
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A few years ago, I neatly organized all of my kimono fabrics and scraps…I hated it!!!
Now, I just make sure the carpet is clean and dump the entire bin on the floor and sit on the floor to pull the ones I want to use…
Sometimes creativity means you have to be in the thick of things…
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oh you must spam…I am collecting all of the ideas for my scraps…I need a lot of ideas…ha ha
That is such a great idea…and I love your collection of scraps…everything from novelty prints to geometrics…we are certainly all fabric lovers here, which is why we have so many scraps!!!
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(Linda -2023 is a use the good stuff year! :us:)
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I also use clear take out boxes like she has to store tiny fabrics by color. I plan to use them to paint with fabric as well. I was surprised to read that she mostly uses glue and the quilts the fabric. It makes it much more manageable than sewing each tiny piece…makes sense!
Not sure if my scrap collection will ever make anything so beautiful, but it is indeed inspiring!
I always love all of these ideas, but for some reason I’m super intimidated by patchwork, even “crazy” patchwork styles, and I don’t know why. You would think that since you’re using scraps anyway that it would be easier to not worry about screwing up…
wow I didn’t realize you were ‘allowed’ to use glue in fiber art till now - I even felt kind of guilty gluing fabric to that book cover as it seemed like ‘cheating’ somehow! Having just watched this lady’s video and read her blog, it’s so good to find out that she uses glue, always has, and never cared less what anyone else thought about it LOL - I worry too much
