A round up of over 40 ideas for what to do with knit fabric scraps. Lots of ideas for how to use knit fabric scraps up.
You'll love these brilliant ideas for using up those little bits of yarn leftover from your crochet projects!
I’m always looking for fun ways to store things in my creative space that are both visually inspiring and useful. I think this pretty three pocket hanger made with vintage doilies and scraps of natural fabrics meets the requirement perfectly. Materials 6” Rusty hanger, Vintage doilies in a variety of sizes, Assorted natural coloured fabrics - I used thick cotton, muslin, calico and tulle. Assorted natural coloured ribbons and trims, Buttons, Normal sewing supplies, Reynolds freezer paper, Computer and colour printer. Iron. Preparation Printing: I used the the graphics below on my pockets – this is
It took me a little too long as a parent to realise that the most engaging toys aren't really toys at all. One of Miss Pea's favorite 'untoys' is my fabric stash. I have a small basket of mostly larg
What to do with tiny fabric scraps aside from bottom of the basket or bin. Do join me on the blog today for my crafty answer...
have lots of batting scraps?? Don't throw them out! Here are 8 great ways to use them up ;)
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Use materials from around the house to create a shape geoboard. This simple shape geoboard activity is great for STEAM. Encourage learn through play.
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You'll love these brilliant ideas for using up those little bits of yarn leftover from your crochet projects!
I just love that this week Websters Pages & Dusty Attic is doing a product collaberation in which both design teams get to work with both companies products together! I was sent this beautiful 12x12 Display Frame a while back from Dusty Attic and finally got the chance to use it! I decided to make a Shabby-Chic wall hanging for on of my daughters bedroom. I used a combination of Websters Pages Western Romance, Postcards from Paris and Lifes Portrait Collections, along with a number of their beautiful trims and embellishments (DesignerThreads/Heart Doily, Silhouettes/Cameo, WP/Unity Stamp Set/Beauty). And from Dusty Attic I used the 12x12 Display Frame and about another 10 pieces of their beautiful laser cuts including the new Cameo Sliders (behind the cameo), Corset, 2 of the new Rose Stems, a Lamp Post #4, Baroque corners, Wrought Iron Fence, and a Wrought Iron Trim Set (along the top of the design). Here are some close-up shots of each of the sections on this home decor piece... The Rosebud I simply painted white and used a pink and light green chalk ink on the edges to give it some subtle color. I just LOVE these new Dusty Attic Cameo Sliders!! It's like they were specially made for the Websters Pages Silhouettes! They fit perfectly! For the Corset chippie, I painted the whole thing with white paint, then inked it lightly with some pink chalk ink. Then I stamped the piece with a lace stamp (I used a strip stamp from an old Prima Frame stamp set for this). And then finally added some glitter with a bit of Stickles (Stardust). TIP: I wanted to keep the pinks very soft on this project so I slightly changed the look of the Websters Pages Cameo by dabbing some Colorbox White Chalk ink over the edges of the Cameo piece... This week the design teams of both Websters Pages and Dusty Attic will be posting their projects at a special thread in their forums. I've seen most of the projects and let me say, they are spectacular! You can view the projects made by the Dusty Attic design team girls throughout the week at this link DUSTY ATTIC FORUM ...and you can see the projects of the girls from the Websters Pages design team girls at this link WEBSTERS PAGES FORUM. Thanks for stopping by my blog and having a peek, and thanks so much for your kind comments, your feedback means a lot to me! (Please note: I am often asked where you all can find the Dusty Attic Products, I have listed a number of great retailers for this product that are happy to ship worldwide! You can find them in the right hand column of my blog....I got a note from a number of them recently that they have just recieved new product and are fully stocked....but my advice is hurry, because I understand they sell out quickly! ...Many of them (such as http://www.staytruetogod.com/ ) will take orders too if they don't have the items you were looking for in stock!
If you have an attic, a closet, or even a junk drawer, I guarantee you can create a unique background for your close-up photos! My favorite thing about macro photography is that you can work on the tiniest sets; and tiny sets don’t need too much of any one material to fill your frame. You could create a stunning scene in a shoebox if you tried. I’m sure you have a ton of odds and ends that would make excellent backgrounds in your macro photography, so get digging! Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Hoyle's Lilac (see the pattern at the bottom of the page) English quilt sold at Bonham's Auctions, full of Hoyle's Lilac prints. Swatch books from the mid-19th century are full of purple cottons, known in England as Hoyle's Lilacs after Thomas Hoyle & Sons, a Manchester printer that specialized in color-fast, inexpensive cottons. Advice in 1860 for dressing a poor family: "The elder girl would require three frocks...Hoyle's lilac prints are the best." English patchworkers used an abundance of purple in their quilts. Their preference for pinks and lilacs and subtle contrast produced a different color style from Americans. Americans generally preferred bolder contrast--- more primary colors, lots of browns, fewer pastels. My current Moda reproduction line Civil War Jubilee has several purples. The color name is Hoyle's Lilac. Civil War Jubilee A piece of Hoyle's lilac See an English research project here: http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/profile/psykas/projectdetails/524 (We always have problems with my esoteric English words translating to the Japanese mills so somehow the word came out Hayle's Lilac in the sell sheets---but it's supposed to be Hoyle's.) Civil War Jubilee The Civil War Jubilee collection tends towards the darker end of the color palette and is the perfect contrast to Moda's Mill Book Series which tends toward the lighter end of the same reproduction palette. Mill Book Series circa 1835 Mill Book Series circa 1835 I designed a quilt in EQ7 I call Hoyle's Lilac... Based on this idea, a mid-19th-century quilt recently sold at auction from the Muriel & Foster McCarl collection--- an American quilt with an English sensibility. The block is BlockBase #2902, a mid-19th-century favorite with published names including Odd Fellow, Baltimore Belle and Flying Geese. I used prints from Civil War Jubilee for the darks Civil War Jubilee And prints from the Mill Book Series for the lights. Mill Book Series circa 1835 It could be very scrappy Or tend more towards the pinks. Civil War Jubilee Mill Book Series circa 1835 Civil War Jubilee Mill Book Series circa 1835 Civil War Jubilee A fat quarter pack of each reproduction collection and you are set for the mid-19th-century. HOYLE’S LILAC 88” Square quilt 12” Blocks with 10” Border Cutting a 12” Block A—Cut 4 squares 2-7/8”. B—Cut 1 square 8-3/8”. Cut into 4 triangles with 2 diagonal cuts. C—Cut 4 squares 3-1/4” Cut into 2 triangles with a diagonal cut. You need 8 triangles. D- Cut 6 squares 3-5/8”. Cut into 4 triangles with 2 diagonal cuts. You need 24 triangles. E-Cut 1 square 3-7/8”. Yardage for Set Setting Squares & Triangles 2-3/4 yards Border—2-1/2 yards of 42” wide fabric Setting & Border Cut 9 squares 12-1/2” Cutting the Edge Triangles Cut 3 squares 18-1/4”. Cut into 4 triangles with 2 diagonal cuts. You need 12 triangles for the side triangles. Cut 2 squares 9-3/8”. Cut into 2 triangles with a diagonal cut. You need 4 triangles for the corners. Cutting the Border Cut 2 strips 10-1/2” x 68-1/2” for the side borders. Cut 2 strips 10-1/2” x 88-1/2” for the top and bottom borders. Links don't work anymore. See a PDF for the pattern here. https://workspaces.acrobat.com/app.html#d=BFxawJQAEUUUO-Yu4Fpnpg Another mid-19th-century flying geese quilt in purples, pinks and some madder oranges. Read more about 19th-century purples here: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2012/05/purples-lilacs-and-mauve.html And the source for the Mill Book Circa 1835 series here: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2013/04/modas-mill-book-series-collections-for.html
These homemade paper dolls are easy to make with cardboard and fabric scraps. Fun for toddlers and preschoolers to decorate and play with.
Confusion reigned yesterday. We taped up the last box for AQC and dropped it off at the shipping depot on Wednesday. Phew. That was a big task on top of many and it took every spare space and hand in...
Do you have an over abundance of fabric scraps that you are holding on to, “just in case”? Cintia from My Poppet was doing just that, and then she came up with the clever idea of turning her scraps into pretty twine. You can find the simple tutorial below. Scrap fabric strips in assorted lengths (max 1″ wide) Something to wind your twine on to Scissors For more pictures and the full tutorial, head over to My Poppet.
Hi all! Today is my stop on the Folk Art Fantasy Blog Hop featuring Amanda Murphy 's latest line for Benartex Fabrics . I was immediately drawn to Amanda's booth at quilt market in May. Below is a photo I snapped. I think it was the colors that drew me in (and probably that amazing medallion q
Drill or have drilled two holes in each base. Have students bend off the top part of the hanger. Students then twist the hanger to make an interesting shape. Put hanger in a base. If there is a lot of resistance it is a good idea to change the shape. After hanger is in the base, look at hanger design from all sides. Make sure that hanger does NOT stick out bottom, or it will have to be cut off.
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My one and three year old love babies. They love them so much that they want to swaddle and cuddle them. What happens when a toddler can't wrap their baby the way they see it in their mind? Frustration. So yesterday while I was listening to this in my kitchen I thought that I would bring up my sewing machine and make two swaddle babies for my babies. They didn't take long at all and I can't help but be happy when I see my kiddos carrying them around the house. They both went to bed last night with their baby in their arms. We made smaller versions of these with the Relief Society in my ward. We made them to donate to my church's humanitarian center. These ones I made were about double in size and instead of using fleece for the blanket (because you can leave the edge of fleece unfinished and it won't fray) I made little blankets out of cotton quilting fabric. Basically you fold the square blanket over into a triangle and sew a little rectangle in the center for the body. You're just sewing the rectangle out of both sides of the folded blanket. Make sure you stuff it before you close it up. I cut out two large circles for the heads and stitched a really long stitch around the edge so that I could pull it tight and stuff it like a little ball. I hand stitched the heads and hair and lace collar on. Then I painted the faces on. See? They are pretty easy to make. Even without a pattern. Folding the blanket sides over to swaddle their babies has never been so easy!
Spring and summer have arrived in Wester-Norway; both at once! Last week we had rain and almost below freezing temperatures at night, this weekend we are enjoying 25´celsius and green spring is upo…
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Children use collage materials to make patchwork houses from cardboard and fabric scraps.
Just in time for Spring! We transformed our super ugly sheds with very little money with scrap pallet, fence, and miscellaneous lumber. The door on the large…
Hello friends! I'm super excited to share with you the latest Kit Page I've made for The Scrapbook Diaries! This one includes one of my Stamp Designs, the Corset Lacing design! This is my first time using it, and I have to say it played out just as I imagined it would :) This kit has so many pretty elements, premium Prima flowers, one of my favorite NEW Shimmerz Paints called Moody Mauve, as well as some lovely chipboard designs and of course my new stamp! (Janene has set it up as a Basic, Basic Plus or Complete set, so no worries if you've already got my stamp, you can order the Basic kit and not end up with an extra of a stamp set you already got). Here's a close-up of my stamp design, ....love that Prima paper as well, has to be one of my all time fav's of Prima papers, such a cute design! Such fun chipboard designs and some lovely Glass Pebbles in this kit as well. Here's a close-up of the gorgeous bloom embellishments in this kit! As always I've also created a full Step-by-Step Video Tutorial to go with this kit, Janene will send you a link to a special private thread where you have unlimited access to this (online) video. If you would like to get your hands on this kit, just head on over to The Scrapbook Diaries and get your order in! I'd move fast on this one, the last few kits I designed for The Scrapbook Diaries sold out very quickly, I don't want anyone to miss out on this one! (there is also a lovely bonus page that Janene designed as part of the kit :) Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, your comments and feedback always bring me so much joy!
What to do with tiny fabric scraps aside from bottom of the basket or bin. Do join me on the blog today for my crafty answer...
Smile - featuring Pion Design This is a layout that I had intended to submit for the Pion Design Sketch for the month of May but somehow I got my timezones all mixed up and missed the submission date. So here it is! This features the Studio of Memories Collection. Ring of Roses, Pink Butterfly and Tags. This is a photo I took of my niece before her dance recital May18th. It was so much fun to see her all dressed up and excited. Aunt Jen couldn't help herself with the camera. I also used Dusty Attic Keys and Locks DA0680 and keys along with the new Dusty Attic, Dusty in Bloom flowers, Bridal Veil DA0805 at the top and the little blooms tucked here and there. More detailed photos. Thanks for looking. Maybe next time I'll get my international times correct.
by Christine Barnes Earlier this week, Heidi and I presented our program “All Things Kaffe” to the Pine Tree Quilt Guild here in Grass Valley. We talked a bit about his life, showed two…
From the moment I spotted the front cover of Sarah Fielke's new book, Hand Quilted With Love, I knew I wanted to make it. In fac...
The end of winter is in our sights and I, for one, can't wait for the start of spring but this lovely photo shoot is sure to make the last few frosty weeks a little more bearable. Lucky for us, we ...
