What do you do with your scrap fabric that is left over from your most recent sewing project? Do you throw those little pieces away or do you save them to use in a quilt? I have always thrown them away unless they were fairly large pieces that I could use to make yo-yos or squares, or even stuffed animals.
On one of the quilting shows in DIY a few weeks back, there was a lady on that was using the left over strips and making blocks from those little pieces. It got me to thinking about all that small stuff I had thrown away.
Well as luck would have it, at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago, I bought several boxes of fabric and fabric scraps. Some of them were sewn into quilt blocks of various types, i.e. nine patch, strips, etc.
I think that this is great as I have been wanting to some kind of crazy quilt and it will be a great way to start. I can use the blocks that are already made and make them into pillows. The rest I can just sew together as the mood hits me and make my crazy quilt. I might get it done in the couple of years and have it for my daughter's bed for Christmas. Wish me luck!
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That way the post have a country look and often match the projects that I have used the majority of the fabric on. All of the pots in my kitchen match my curtans for instance.