Looks like you are going to be set for retirement! ha ha ha
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Some of the best stuffing I ever found was was from a manufacturer who made padded bras back in the early 70s. The bags of trimmings were very cheap. Made lots of pillows for my dorm room.
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Ha! My daughter has been raiding my scrap bin to stuff home made stuffies like this one:
I loved her resourcefulness, and now, her thriftiness!
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Ack! & also her adorable mushrooming!
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Excellent!!!
She’s a smart cookie!!!
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Just like her mother…creative, resourceful, and fun!
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Oooh… you could have some of her drawings printed onto minky with Spoonflower, and make up real stuffies as a surprise.
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What a great idea that is!!! 
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That is a great idea! Spoonflower does that thing where you fill a yard with different blocks of print too. You could reverse-image drawings so they are same front & back & fit a few on one yard. OMG, kid designed menagerie!
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We are SWIMMING in stuffies, lol. Maybe mini ones. Maybe. 
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Xmas ornies for the folks? Family calendars? That’s paper but you know, you are all great at that too!
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Lol…great ideas. I do both of these things every year!
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This speaks to my mom soul lol
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OMG, minis as Christmas ornaments would be awesome.
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Or as an “art smock” for keeping her clothes clean, but showing off her own work?? Something that can be sized so it is still useable while she is in that growing so fast stage?
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@Abbeeroad, what a cute little stuffie. I would love to make a fabric version!
When I made my SIL a flannel lap quilt, I purchased some additional charm squares to finish off the quilt back. I recently found them in the box of leftovers from that project. I use the trays that come with catfood orders from Chewey as project trays and there are a ‘few’ of them stacked up in the corner.
So I used most the leftovers to create this:
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I did order more fabric to add borders and backing, every scrap project creates more scrap! I’ll quilt in a spiral heart pattern from the center. Another in progress lap quilt to donate through Laps Full of Love.
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This convo has totally inspired me to print the old drawings I have on shirts. Won’t they be surprised to see me wearing those? LOL, I have some really good ones
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Now I’ve fully unpacked all of my craft supplies I’ve figured out I’ve got way too much dressmaking scraps. Anyone has any ideas for those? They’re usually odd-shaped, so quite useless for most projects. I’ve used larger scraps to make pillowcases, but there are only so many pillowcases a person needs.
My quilting scraps are in a different bin, but they’re more useful because they’re usually straight and quilting requires little bits of fabric.
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I have a lot of random fabrics, including dress and upholstery, from my grandmother’s stash and am going to try the glued fabric bowls that @Smmarrt showed us a couple of months ago
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I use lots of random shape and fiber scraps for scrapplique.
Here’s my favorite:
It was partly inspired by the tickertape quilts, which can also use odd scraps
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