What to do with all the TINY LIBERTY SCRAPS?
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- This is long overdue! I'm finally sorting through my box of little Liberty Fabric scraps!
I have been meaning to do this for the longest time and today is the day!
I hope to sew some fabrics strips inspired by Karen at Just Get it Done Quilts but also lots of other brave scrap busters who share their process!
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I made lots of green strip sets for the Red and Green Not Christmas Quilt!
I have posted about the reward tiers today - that video is there for you to see if you are interested!
The shop will reopen on 4th January - there are a few calendars left and some of John's Snowy Cards www.thelasthom...
the music today is called 'At The Fair 'from Epidemic Sounds.
Happy New Year to you All!!!
love
Kate
xxx
I watch Just Get it Done Quilts a lot, Karen is a lot of fun to watch.
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I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
Those roses are georgous!
I love how you highly value the Liberty scraps. It is such beautiful fabric.
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I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
Thankyou for clearing that up. Get bored with material. Love this video while I’m sewing masks.
I enjoyed watching everything you do, Kate. Even sorting fabric. I think a weaver would love to try weaving mug rugs with them. (Also known as coasters).
I love keeping yarn scraps, and knitting scrappy socks out of them
I use long skinny scraps for wrapping around clothesline, then stitch the colorful clothesline into bowls. I love all your videos so much! Thank you!
Great idea Holly! I've done that and it looks gorgeous! Plus, you don't have to wrap all the clothesline, you can just wrap parts of it!!! :)
thats a great tip...idea! thanks😊
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I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
Great idea!
Good idea, thank you.
I use the little stringy strips to knit up hardy rag rugs. Just knot them together into long ropes or yarn and then knit with two strands at a times knitting all stitches. End up with a colourful, nubby rug to brighten up a room. Using circular needles, but not knitting in the round, allows you to knit a greater width ( though it is also a bit hard on your needles 😹)
I use the thin strips for 2 purposes: to crochet with - I have made purses with and bath rugs AND I wind them and make decorative fabric balls to put in my wooden bowl in the dining room along with other decorative balls!
Good to have your company
The long strips are good for twisting into cord.
I've been using selvage strips to tie my plants to sticks. Cording would be even stronger. Thank you for your suggestion. 🍄🍄
Excellent just adore you. From Canada
The skinny strios make colourful ties for your tomatoes and beans etc in the garden. It cheers the garden up no end.
Use your long skinny strings and your crochet hook and make a rag rug!
You could make up little plastic bags of the long narrow strips and sell them in your shop. They are ideal for junk journal paper crafters.
You've read my mind. I would be interested for sure 😊
Amen , what a good idea, they will fly !
Great idea
That’s a great idea.
They would also be great for weaving. Too good to cut up
I learned “crumb quilting” in 2019 by watching RUclips lady Darlene Michaud. She did a whole series. I only watched a few of the early ones and had been hooked on crumb quilting since! Never had so much fun❤️I understand using the paper but find not necessary. I use a 10”square ruler and only piece till I assemble a bunch a little bigger than that ruler. Set up a station, chain sew 2 pieces at a time, making a huge pile. Stop cut apart, iron, and start over again..2 pcs. With 2 more pcs., sometimes throwing in a single pc.Want ever makes you happy. Use ruler to cut my block out, starch, block finished. Made 3 quilts, ready to do another, scrape pile not getting any smaller😂have fun!
Darlene got me totally addicted to crumb quilting a couple of years ago, and I CAN NOT STOP. I find it so relaxing
Scraps reproduce while we sleep!
I discovered Kate early in 2020 when we were first confined due to Covid. One by one, my quilting friends joined me in watching past episodes and looked forward to new adventures Kate shared. In particular, Denise Newcomer enjoyed Kate’s talents. Denise had excellent skills quilting, cross stitching and most other textile work. Due to her pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis, Denise confined herself to her house once quarantines were suggested. We kept in touch with face time chats three times a week; and Kate’s latest videos were always a topic of discussion. Thank you, Kate, for helping us stay in touch during these last two years. Denise died yesterday, but she had received John’s note cards and Martha’s tea towels in the mail. They gave her a sense of connection and appreciation for your family’s warmth and kindness. ❤️
I'm sorry for your loss! How nice that you and Denise could stay connected on the Lime Green Couch through our friend Kate. ❤
So sorry for your loss. I think Kate is an inspiration to us all. I just love her and all her crafts and ideas. God bless. ❤❤
A beautiful yet sad story.
I use the narrow strip to tie up tomato plant in garden. Birds will pick off strings for nest. Winwin! Hugs from California
I went over to ‘just get it done’ quilts and someone left a great idea. Make a box made from twigs tying it with the scrap strings. Then put the tiny pieces in side and hang it in a tree in the spring. In the fall you will see pretty colors in the birds nest. Brilliant.
A word of caution because it also makes them an easy catch for predators.
I just bought a twig basket at the thrift store for this. I'm going to crochet loose bag, I think, to put scraps in. It's really windy here so there will be some trial and error to see what works.
We have predators here, but not on my deck... I can hang the basket near the suet blocks. I love watching the birds.
I do this with my wooly leftovers from knitting and it works ;) Not too bright colors, but the ones you could find in nature anyway. so fun to see the nests in fall and winter!
Kate, you could weave all those long skinny remnants into new fabric!
Those long narrow strips would be beautiful as a rag rug - either woven or crocheted. That would use up WAY more than saving them for postcards
I have 7 boxes along top of my fabric shelves. As I quilt I put leftovers right into the the box with that color. Periodically I sew the pieces together by color around a small white scrap. I trim into squares and put them together. they are my kids favorite quilts. Lots of memories of other quilts.
I’m lusting after your Liberty scraps!! I save my tiny ones for 1/4” or 1/2” hexies. Your long skinny strips can be knitted or crocheted, mostly for bag making.
I can understand why you want all your tiny pieces of liberty fabric. They have such beautiful colours and prints. I would use long narrow strips too small for other uses for ribbon on gifts. Selvage edges are great for seam stabilizer when sewing garments. Thanks for sharing you pretty things. All the best in 2022.
I wish I had a scrap bin of liberty fabrics like that 😁. Maybe with those long thin ones you could plait together and make a lo ng cord and sew a trivet or bathmat or something like that.
I love piecing
I really enjoyed this quarter of an hour with you, Kate! I've missed you here. Love Liberty. You are so inspiering. I came to think: What if quilters exchanged fabric (scraps) instead of buying new fabric themselves? Wouldn't that be a good idea?
feel good fibers where people destash and others can buy it.
Guess U have nothing better to do.
@@veliaantila1099 excuse me?
I live in central Texas and work at our antique shop a few a week…Well, we always talk quilting with customers and this last month a couple with their son traveling came in and I asked where they were from….they were from your area! She quilts and was so excited to learn about you! Then another new customer brought a spinning wheel in to sell and as we visited…I mentioned you…and your channel and she said,” OH YOU WATCH KATE AT THE LAST HOMELY HOUSE!?!?” I said YES! Anyway you are quite popular across the world and TEXAS!❤❤
Glad to see you back and looking well. I know all too well about scraps! I have taken to making yoyo garland with mine that and tinie tiny paper pieced pin cushions.....
I love every one of your videos, Kate, and when you occasionally miss a week I am both worried about you and frustrated. Hahaha! You are definitely a part of my 76 year old life! About those long skinny Liberty scraps, I scatter little piles of them around my garden on the shrubbery and low limbs of trees. The birds find them and use them in their nests. Then it blesses me to come upon a nest with a bright streak of blue or pink. This actually was my husband’s idea to help me whittle down my Mt Scrapmore a bit. I can’t wait to see what you do with this. I am going to buy me some paper rTolls and join you! Thanks so much for all you share. ❤
Happy New Year to you and your lovely family Kate. I know why you (and I plus many others) collect scraps etc. It is generational- we were taught to keep everything because nothing new was coming along soon . We are the post-war generation, and certain things were still rationed when we were born. To this day, I cannot throw anything away, without offering it to someone who might need it, and I think this approach to what is actually re-cycling at it's best, is the best way forward, but with kindness, generosity and thrift thrown in. Keep flying the flag Kate!
My name is Kate and I'm a "scrapalholic"....I laughed so hard! 💖
What I have done is laid those tiny bits of "cabbage " on a piece of background, cover with mesh fabric and sew down with random stitches to create fabric or pictures.
Note that I think scraps and leftovers need at least a year or two to ferment in order to spark "joy" again.
Thanks for keeping me focused on my appliqué project while you sorted Liberty!
Happy newyear Kate,I'm very glad to say you are looking a lot better after being poorly last year.and I love your hair a touch longer,pretty colour.anyway ..stay safe.xxxx
Those beautiful narrow strips, I use for coiled baskets. I wrap them around clothes line cord and sew them up to make baskets, rugs bags ect...
Another use for the narrow strips: I use some of them to tie my climbing plants onto their support sticks - then I can admire my beautiful fabrics all over again when I weed, water and harvest from my garden! (Then the Cotton fabrics biodegrade and make compost!)
All truly unusable tiny pieces (including snipped threads and tiny pieces of batting) go into an empty pillowcase until the pillowcase is half-full, then that is donated to a local animal shelter. Or, the tiny pieces of batting go into stuffed toys which is fantastic because the toys are then washable.
I love the plant tie idea. I may just do this 🥰🥰🥰
Love it? I sew and make toys, and crochet. It's nice to find ways to use every scrap of yarn, felt, and fabric.
@@kilodeltawhisky1504 … yes! Me too 😊
@@susanhawthorn4379 … haha - here’s another crazy idea: I might make Pom-poms (yo-yos) out of the fabric strips and just dangle them from my plants (my friend’s little girl thought of that one!)! Another Commenter suggested donating little baskets of scraps to the birds for their nests - isn’t that priceless?!
The "cabbage" I have been saving to stuff sewn stuffed animals. I used to make stuffed animals for my older children and I want to use the cotton scaps.
there is also confetti or collage quilting. You draw a design on some fusible material, use your tiny bits to create form and shadow on the design. You have the fusible side up, Place the bits of fabric on the top and then once you have a solid coverage, you iron the bits to the fuseable fabric. then you place a layer of fine netting over the top and quilt about every half inch.
Also make paper with it
Also, arrange on a low volume rectangle say, and then attach w fmq sewing. There are options of gauze or netting on top to stabilize, or there are products you can buy to sew through to hold scraps in place without catching on your foot that dissolve in water. These abstract marvels can then be used for diff ideas - cards, cut up as hearts, birds etc, collages, fun with kids….. have fun❤️
To past your talents is the best advent ever. Watching me and my self becoming is the most important thing I received this advent. Sorry if it reads as abstract.
This is the exact project for which I am saving all of my tiny clippings after cutting out fabrics for 1/2” hexies. (Using a Teflon pressing cloth so as not to gum up my iron). This, and using modge-podge (glue paste) to do a sort of “papier mâché” - I guess it’s going to be a “fabric mâché” - on Dollarama clear bowls and plates as decor items such as jewelry, coin or key bowls.
👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍
I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
Being a weaver, I use my long narrow strips for weaving rag rugs. In fact I generally cut off the selvedges and will make a rug with just selvedges. Over here, we refer to that as a Hit & Miss rug. It’s all great fun to see how all the pieces play together.😉😌
I watched Darlene Michaud doing a crazy quilting series a few years ago, and I was hooked. No rhyme or reason, just pieces, and that makes fabric to make something else.
I love Darlene Michaud! That was her “Crumb Quilting” series..really fun!👍🏼 And addicting😂
@@sewmanythings8616 Yes! Darlene got me going just sewing bits together and making some great ten inch crumb blocks. I have enough now to make a double-size quilt, and yet I still love just mindlessly sewing little pieces together. Very relaxing and a break from more complicated projects
Darlene sells scraps as well.
I love Darlene, I did actually make a crazy quilt after watching her.
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I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
I wish I had some of your patience!
Great sitting with you this afternoon. It's cold and raining here in Maine. I made a cuppa tea and had a nice visit with you. There should be a LOVE this button beside the LIKE one! ... have a great week. Hugs from Maine.
I just found your channel, just watched this one video. I look forward to watching you grow. I am struggling with some anxiety and depression right now and your voice and accent and conversational style made me relax and take a break and listen to my new friend. Maybe too much info, but thank you!
I was just laughing to myself as I remembered how I first began crafting. I've said before, I'm not a quilter, but I really enjoy watching every type of crafter at work/play...I began paper crafting, crikey, must be 15 years ago now...I began by taking my 'things' in a carrier bag to a crafting get-together each week. This soon became a small cardboard box, followed by a larger cardboard box, then a pull along crafting trolley...which then led to me needing a 'desk', and some storage...then even more storage...I began shopping at craft shows and online...but I needed 'somewhere' to do my crafting by now, so I put my desk and drawers in the space underneath the stairs...which I soon outgrew, so I took over the spare bedroom...and somehow ( 🤔🤔😆 ) there appeared a craft shed in the garden!!!😆😆 Which took me forever to get everything as I wanted it, oh and naturally I needed heating, and electricity in there, some Ikea storage cubes (with fabric inner cubes), a comfy chair, larger 'desk', ooh I 'needed' a daylight lamp for when the dark nights came...Oh for goodness sake...now I needed folders to store all my cutting dies in, and a rack to store my alcohol pens/inks, and something suitable for my glues, glitters, embossing folders, quilling supplies, paper clay, beads, etc etc etc....................and you think you have a problem with your gorgeous fabric scraps Kate, it's an obsession 🤣😂🤣😅🤭🤭 but I have no wish to be cured 😜😜 xx Thoroughly enjoyed seeing in the New Year with you and everyone else on the lime green sofa xx
Please don't cure my obsession with quilting. There's a song by Aurora "cure for me" Our crafting obsessions fit that song well.
У меня так же, сначала был уголок для творчества в гостинной, потом появилась комната, но мне стало тесно.
👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍
I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
I use all the little bits in an old pillowcase and when fill I make dog / cat beds for shelters
I use the little strips when wrapping gifts. I made the decision a few years ago to not buy new fabric. I use what I have or buy recycled fabric. I look forward to seeing what you make,
Happy New Years to you and the family!
I use the very thin strips in my garden to tie up plants. They add a bright colour in the garden before plants come into bloom.
😂 great minds think alike - I had already posted my very similar reply before I saw yours. I’m leaving my comment in, because it helps the channel with the YT algorithms ..
same here in to tie up my tomato plants to poles and/or chicken wire fencing. albuquerque nm
I do too.😀
This is a very good idea. I’ll do that. Thanks
If the strips are too narrow for seam allowances, you could just zigzag stitch the strips next to each other, leaving raw edges, to a foundation fabric to make quilt blocks, and maybe lay them out with strips going alternate directions. Even quilt as you go , by stitching them directly on batting , butted up close to each other.
You can crochet with those thin strips of fabric. I have made mug rugs, pot holders and rugs with fabric strips. And you can twist them together to make cord or rope.
I was thinking...my mother used those thin strips( or tore some herself) of 1" and crochet them into rugs or whatever..
Love your time with us..( and I purchased that book a poem a day on your recommendation.. love it)
👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍
I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
You can use the really skinny pieces with a needle punch machine making your own embellished fabric for new projects.
Happy New Year Kate! You can use the long skinny strips to make rope bowls or coasters! Good luck
Happy New Year. Look forward to seeing what you make.
Someone should come up with a national fabric swap library…. Send in your scraps…. Get some new exciting scraps to make new projects! No waste 🎉
Clever idea
You do have to be careful about sending scraps to other countries because the recipient will have to pay customs fees on what you sent to them.
Hi, Kate. I have a neighbor who is a quilter and has her own long-arm machine. She gives me all her fabric scraps. Even the thin small ones. I place them onto fusible Pelion, place a piece of parchment paper on top and iron them onto the Pelion. Take it to my sewing machine and zig zag along edges. You then have a piece of fabric - however big you want it - and you can make sachets with it, journal covers or pages or whatever you would like. The possibilities are just about endless. It is very relaxing to do and fun to see what you come up with. I also make snippet rolls with them. Loved watching your process. Happy New Year! ❤️😘🤗💕
It is so nice to hear you use inches so easily! Mostly here in the USA we still use inches even though gradually centimeters are creeping into the daily language. I’m too old to change now! lol!
Just found your channel. Those small bits…..I love using them for the clothesline basket. Those basket made with a zig zag stitch. I wrap those small bits around my clothesline. I often use selvage edge along with the bits. It works best for the long thin bits. I often throw some dye into a bag with the bits to give them a consistent background color.
I love it that you don’t throw away Liberty fabrics!! I am new to quilting so I only have small pieces of Liberty, and I am always on the look out for people who carry Liberty here in the USA. I like your idea of tying cards with the long, skinny strips. I also wonder if you could crochet a small mat with them? I bet there will be lots of ideas in the comments. I loved watching you doing this so please don’t think that anything is too small to do a video. Happy quilting………………..
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I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
i have seen some lovely work done with those thin strips also the salvage ends with makers name on
some made bags with them others used the strips to make random pieces of fabric
they were very good and the colour combinations were bright and cheerful
best wishes
I would use the long strips that are half an inch or less wide to wrap presents, like ribbon. Also a RUclipsr called “MadeByMarzipan” makes drinks mats (coasters) with pieces thinner 1/2” using an item called silky, don’t know what it’s called in U.K. but there must be something similar available. Loved the live stream Kate.
Using it as ribbon works well.
Always love visiting with Kate.
Happy New Year Kate. Another you should check out is Tiffany's Quilting Life. She lives in Arizona and works with scraps most of the time, even tiny blocks. She is an amazing teacher and quilter , and a great friend too.
Happy new year Kate! ❤
The tiny little pieces that can’t be quilted can be used as stuffing for certain projects.
Erin Halvosen has a great video for this. It is called: ‘Recycle Fabric Scraps to make colorful twine fun and easy’. I really like this twine.
I know what you mean.. my very tiny bits and pieces I make small and large pillows for animal or person using waverly home dec fabric from walmart...LOL BUT pillows are "heavy" and cannot be washed in the top loading machine...that's the only downside.
👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍
I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
My friend made a pouch out of large scraps, that is large enough for a cat bed. She puts all of her tiny bits and left over (washable yarns)n in the pouch as she goes. Once it is crammed full, she will close it up and gift her kitty a new bed. Could do the same for a pup!
Could you use the liberty strips to tie up packages? Maybe braided together? Such beautiful fabric; I can see why you can't part with any of it. 💜
Enjoyed this video. We always have loads of scraps left and it’s a good idea to use them up like this. Thanks, Kate
That seems like a job Vienna would like to help you with 😊 You could have a try at making fabric twine with those long scraps, my bestie made me a gorgeous bag for Christmas and she used handmade fabric twine as the drawstring, it's so lovely.
I handed over a quilt just last week to my niece and her new husband, made of 1 inch hand pieces liberty squares - 25 years in the making …
That was a huge sacrifice. I hope they understand the real value of what you gave them
@@leannemori9688 I think so! I finished it during lockdown/furlough. It was good to finish it, and I know they will value it. I still have hundreds of squares ready for another!
The skinny strips could be used for packages instead of all that tape. Love the scraps; I love to run my hands through material scraps.
AHhhhh. thread in the veins ))))
Is that big enough? yeeeeeesssss. ))) THREE quarters wide becomes a 1/4 inch show in a scrap quilt. I do love those little sparks!!
What a lovely surprise to see you today. I loved this video. It's somehow more like your old videos.... impromptu and relaxed. Just you doing what you do and taking us along just because. No appointment necessary. Thank you so much.
💐A very therapeutic thing to do 💐 Beautiful Liberty scraps 💐
The long strips could be used for rug making by put holes in the end and join then, then crochet them into a round square or oblong rugs. I’ve seen these made from old sheets as well. Thank you Kate your a charm.
That’s what I do! It goes very fast!
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I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
I received a package of fabric a few days ago - and it was tied with a thin scrap of fabric - I think it was the strip from cutting off the fold when the seller made fat quarters
My mom collects all the scrap fabrics from my sister. She has a quilting business and turns out lots of scraps. So my mom pairs her fabric with all the scrap pieces and made 15 quilts this Fall. Mom makes beautiful quilts with scraps . She said she always felt like God takes us which are like scraps and turns us into something He can use.
Dear Kate, I still can't face my box of scraps - it is an old wadding box which is about 3 ft long 2 ft wide and 2 ft high so you can see why I am hesitant of even beginning to look. I had several friends who just wanted to make the quilts of their choice and of course there were lots of little piece left over. Needless to say, I ended up with most of them, the scraps I mean. Many have come in useful for little projects like the applique designs on quilts for charities, so I'm not complaining - I just need to sort them into colours and check the sizes. Like you if they are 2 inch square, I can do 9 patch quilts and get some of them out of the box. Maybe this year, now that you have inspired me to at least look at the box, I will get something done. Thank you
Oh Kate, you are such a glorious inspiration. I do agree with you about being bored with fabric we have so we buy more. We just get tired of looking at it. Whatever the reason, all of us quilters do it. We are fabricholics as you said. Much happiness, health and continued successs. Always looking forward to seeing you. love, Sherrie x
Quite the job! I’m amazed at how often we like minded people, even though oceans apart, follow the same RUclips channels. Yes, I know just who you’re talking about: Jenny, and Karen too. 😊
Long strips… ribbon or braid and sew into baskets etc. So happy to se you this Sunday. All the very best of health and happiness to you and your fam for 2022. 💕❤️💕
Thank you Kate! Always enjoy watching you and your creative ideas! thank you very much!
I love going through my scraps because I see fabric I didn't know I had and so they are to me, just like shopping for new fabric. My problem is doing something with it besides just lookin at it.
I think some of us 'of a certain age' were brought up in the era of , waste not want not.... I am the same and have drawers full of 'useful things'.... and wear clothes unto shreds... start as best, then to every day, then to garden, then to floor cloths! My addiction tends more towards Tilda.... books/kits and fabric although I do love a bit of Liberty. My grandchildren benefit from my urge to make Their Christmas gifts were hand knitted aran sweaters... which they love... cant wait to see what you do with all the bits!
My sister has this bumper sticker,”She who dies with the most fabric wins”
Very wise woman 😇
😄
This is from the fifties!!!
Wins what?
So fun I collect scraps by color ...lg jars of color.Then make asst. projects.How about some tassels with all those skinny strips...Im sure they'd sell in your shop...Happy new year
Most of the quilts I make are scrappy quilts. Love them.
Use the long scraps in the small weaving looms i do its great
Actually, I think that we are addicted to scraps. Those leftover bits of cloth challenge our creative ingenuity to craft something out of almost nothing. There's a wise saying here in the U.S. (and maybe other places): "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Good on you, Kate!
You can crochet those lovely narrow strips into mug rugs or, if you've loads of them, small mats.
yes! keep those little wee bits. you can collage them onto fusible web. They're much too pretty to toss.
I tend to get bored and/or frustrated when I get to a difficult point in a project, and the creative juices are always flowing, so pretty new things catch my attention! I really have to hunker down and force myself to complete a project. I admire people that complete 1 project at a time. I strive to do that.
com plete? what is this word???
@@katehenry2718 verb
1.
finish making or doing.
"he completed his Ph.D. in 1983"
Similar:
finished
ended
I have a hard time accomplishing this state of things.
Oh, and we loved it too!!!!
Crumb quilts are great to use up your small pieces in that card making pile 😀
The tiny pieces can just be sprinkled like shredded cheese on a layer of dissolvable interfacing. Then another layer of that interfacing in laid on top and pinned in places just keep the sandwich flat while it gets randomly sewn on a machine like scribbles to hold the bit of fabric pieces together. Then a good rinse in warm water removes the interfacing and leave a textured fabric.🦌💌❤️📚🙏
Hello Kate! I think the tiny strips would look amazing added to the pulp in handmade paper!
Stay well!
Muskoka ON 🇨🇦
Yay! I'm always happy to see you on a nice Sunday morning! Love and happy new year to you!
I have seen many who use the tiniest scraps as stuffing for pet bedding. I have also seen those who fill up pillow cases with the tiniest of scraps, sew closed and donate to pet shelters for bedding. Always a use for fabric, no need to throw out :) Love going through the scrap bin and making the strips on the machine tape. Can be used to add to quilts :) Lovely job Kate. I just love your visits.
I one bought a pet bed at a charity event and took it apart to wash the canvas outer shell only to find that the person who had donated the pet beds was a quilter and their idea of a discard scrap is bigger than mine. I preceded to wash everything and sort it out like Kate is. I am obsessed with little scraps. I love the half square triangles left over from sewing across a square and cutting off the excess. I have plans for all those hst's! Yes sure I do...
Я тоже не выбрасываю, маленькие лоскутки. Из самых маленьких лоскутиков делаю текстильную пиццу.
👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍
I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?
The extra thin strips are great for wrapping things; gifts, cords, papers, food boxes etc.
They make lovely strings to hang pictures, any kind of wall art, tree decorations indoors and out. Use them tied together to hang pretty things in trees like bells, chimes, bird feeders, nuts, seeds etc. Make a ball for your kitty, or a toy for your puppy. Use them to stuff pillows for animal shelters or braid them for leashes. Braids serve as great tote bag handles. If you know campers, they can use some for starting campfires for cooking. Tie some together to make cheerleader holders for Agnes. Use them to tie up things in a garden or flower bed. Have fun!🤩
Ideas for the thin strips you may want to try. Covering wire clothes hangers by winding round them, use as stuffing for cushions or anything that needs a little bit of padding. See onto plain fabric to make abstract art.
hola ,me identifique contigo realmente agobia ver tantos trocitos de telas ,pero me da pena tirar asi que me pongo a clasificar jajaja
feliz 2022!!!!!