Tuesday, November 4, 2008

The Great Scrap Question


So my plans for today are to go vote first thing (don't forget!) and then head to my studio for the rest of the day to get some sewing done. Of course whenever I sew, I end up with lots of small scarps of fabric left over and I am always unsure of what to do with them. I hate to throw anything away, so I save my scraps hoping someday I will have a use for them.
One interesting thing I have found to do with small pieces of fabric that doesn't ravel or fray easily is to use a zigzag stitch to sew bits together in a crazy quilt-like design. Since the fabric doesn't fray you don't have to create a seam, just butt the two piece of fabric up against each other and use a wide zigzag stitch to sew along the line where the pieces meet.
The picture is what I made using pieces of felted wool sweaters this way. My plan is to keep adding to it as I find more felted sweaters until I have a nice big blanket. I also have a lot of fleece scraps, and today I want to try using those to make something smaller, maybe scarves?

1 comment:

lesley said...

great idea... i love the random pattern that results from sewing all the scraps together!