There are 37+ patterns to use up your yarn stash. Shop your own stash with so many small knitting projects to choose from!
I was thinking today that, sometimes when my spirits are low, all it takes to lift them again is to ask myself one little question: “What is beautiful about this moment?” And, you know what? The universe always has an answer for me. In fact, the universe usually has several. Two of today’s beautiful...Read More »
These Stash Buster Sweater Knitting Patterns are a great way of using up your stash of odds and ends of yarn.
Happy Scallops quilt pattern is the newest stash buster quilt. Jelly roll, fat quarter, layer cake and scrappy friendly quilt pattern.
Have you ever found yourself with a bunch of leftover yarn and no idea what to do with it? Leftover yarn crochet patterns is the perfect way to use up small amounts of yarn, and there are so many wonderful crochet projects that can be made using those bits of chunky or fine leftover yarn. In this blog post, I'll share some fun and easy crochet patterns that are sure to get you excited about using all your leftover yarn! From blankets and coasters to bags and kitchen crochet accessories, these creative ideas will inspire you when deciding what to make with your stash of leftover yarn.
A granny square scrap buster blanket that is a riot of gorgeous color and a joy to crochet! An easy free crochet pattern for everyone!
Hundreds of Free Dress Patterns, Templates & Tutorials I have collected this massive list of free dress patterns, templates & tutorials from a wide selection of trendy designers and talente…
Who wants to use up some leftover YARN? I know I have been lately! Today I have a HUGE list of free stash-buster crochet patterns for you!
This Stash Buster Blanket Free Crochet Pattern is a great project to use up your leftover yarn. There is really no set size for this blanket. You can make it as big or small.
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The craft blog of pattern designer Jeni Baker. Creative adventures in quilting, sewing, and color. Plus free sewing and quilting tutorials.
A crochet stash buster blanket is a wonderful way of using up all of your yarn scraps - even those small leftovers. The end result will be a very unique blanket
Do you love color so much you want them all? Welcome to the club! Our…
A knitted Patchwork Blankets are a perfect idea if you want to create something colorful and fun. Check out these free knit blanket patterns.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen two things: quilters talking sheepishly about the size of their stash and quilters green with envy looking at someone else’s stash. I have a lot of thoughts about this, but it boils down to something simple: sheepishness and envy are not confidence, a
This is a great project to use up all of your odds and ends of yarn, combining them together to make your own unique colour pallette of super chunky yarn. Depending on the yarns you choose, this can make it a substantial and quite weighty piece. It is bright and colourful, with a real 70's boho vibe. It is suitable for a beginner who has mastered the basics of knitting, casting on and off, colour changing using the intarsia method (tying in new colours as you go), knit and purl and some basic sewing up. Each stage of making this special design has been illustrated with images as well as written instructions. So, in spite of it being a freestyled knit, you will be able to reproduce it using these instructions. Feb 2022: The pattern has been fully updated with a clear layout, additional written instructions around the construction of the cardigan, tension and how to combine the yarns to achieve the correct weight of yarn.
Who wants to use up some leftover YARN? I know I have been lately! Today I have a HUGE list of free stash-buster crochet patterns for you!
We all have them - those partially used skeins of yarn. Too much to throw out, not enough to make a project on their own, don't really want to buy more of it. Time for a stash buster afghan! These 10 free afghan crochet patterns are perfect stash busters - with stripes and color changes, they come to life! 10 Free Stash Buster Afghan Crochet Patterns (click the name of the pattern, in blue, to go to the pattern page!) Corner-to-Corner Throw by Catherine J. Watson, on Red Heart Free Website: The Corner-to-Corner is super popular on Facebook lately -
This Stash Buster Blanket Free Knitting Pattern is a great project to use up your leftover yarn with stripes and color changes.
Has your fabric stash gotten out of hand? Here's a list of ways to whittle it down in no time. Management solutions at their best!
There are 37+ patterns to use up your yarn stash. Shop your own stash with so many small knitting projects to choose from!
A couple of nights ago, I woke up in the middle of the night, and, in that semi slumber state when I was letting my mind wander while trying to go back to sleep, I thought of a solution to a puzzle…
This Stash Buster Blanket Free Crochet Pattern is a great project to use up your leftover yarn. There is really no set size for this blanket. You can make it as big or small.
There are 37+ patterns to use up your yarn stash. Shop your own stash with so many small knitting projects to choose from!
5 Tips for making your patchwork quilts more interesting including using precut charm squares and pulling fabric (including Blenders) from your stash
I have had a lot of people asking me how I am keeping my scraps under control. They know I'm not big on having LOTS of scraps around. I have a small home and studio space so I have to work very smart. I can't keep lots of bins of scraps.. and honstly i don't want to. I love NEW FABRIC... so my scraps are little treasures.. but treasures that need to be USED. First I do not keep tons of scraps. I enjoy what Joan Ford told me, she only keeps so much then she makes quilts with it....
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen two things: quilters talking sheepishly about the size of their stash and quilters green with envy looking at someone else’s stash. I have a lot of thoughts about this, but it boils down to something simple: sheepishness and envy are not confidence, a
Grab your scrap yarn and get ready to make an easy stash buster crochet shawl. Add a variety of colorful motifs for a gorgeous piece. Video Tutorial Included.
Simple, easy beginner knitting project. A colorful afghan made from all your stash yarn. This blanket is a fun, simple pattern to use up all your leftover ...
Stitch and flip quilt blocks are a great easy quilt block for beginners to learn how to make a quilt! Start with an easy quilt pattern
I spend too much time on Ravelry. It is truly addictive. I was recently looking for some stash busters and was amazed at the variety of projects and ideas.I thought I would share a few of my finds with you. The first 2 are not Ravelry. I found this while Goggling (another addiction of mine) when looking for some craft ideas to do with my young nephews at the cottage this summer. Dream catchers Many children will be familiar with Dream catchers from their studies in First Nations Cultures which (if I remember correctly) is about grade 3 in York Region. The Ojibwa believe that a dream catcher changes a person's dreams. Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through… Bad dreams would stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day.Good dreams would pass through and slide down the feathers to the sleeper. For more information on Dream catchers, use the following wikeipedia link which also contains other helpful information links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcatcher Dream Catchers are great cottage projects for kids. The base can be made from a variety of easily accessible items - coat hangers, paper plates, margarine lids. Cover them with yarn, web the center and then decorate with found objects from the beach - feathers, shells, pine cones. The following link is a very kid appropriate set of directions for Dream catchers. http://www.thatartistwoman.org/2009/07/how-to-make-dreamcatcher.html God's eye A God's eye is a yarn weaving and a Huichol spiritual object. The Huichol or Wixáritari are a Native American ethnic group of western central Mexico, living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range. http://www.katcoyle.com/blog/2007/11/gods-eyes/ provides the following instructions Treasure Pouch A little fun something you can knit for kids with just a few meters of sock or DK yarn - a Treasure Pouch. If you are spending time at a beach, it is a perfect little pouch for special stones or shells. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/treasure-pouch Little Ditty Bag A nice little pouch you might enjoy for yourself is a Little Ditty Bag. Pattern at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/dots-little-ditty-bag A 50gm ball of cotton makes a bag the perfect size to be a project bag for socks You could use small left overs to create stripes. Knit with variegated cotton , you can get some funky colour pooling. Deep Sea Flower Dice Bag Knit with just a few meters of Kureyon or Silk garden Pattern at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/deep-sea-flower-dice-bag---anemone-de-mer Minnow Hat We took this little hat knit with left over sock yarn to the Frolic. It got more attention than anything else in our booth. It is a scaled down version of the Dead Fish Hat from Knitty (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fish-hat-dead-or-alive and uses just a few meters of sock yarn. And what sock knitter doesn't have tons of left over bits of sock yarn. The pattern only offers one size, newborn. I am playing around with resizing to fit slightly older children.The one I knit used a mere 10 gms for the red sections and 20 gms for the body. A free pattern on Ravelry at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/minnow-hat Baby Surprise Jacket There are over 17,000 Baby Surprise Sweaters posted on Ravelry. It is the third most posted project. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-surprise-jacket Mitered Sock Yarn Blanket Free Pattern at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sock-yarn-blanket If you are unfamiliar with miters, don't fear this project. All those little squares/diamonds are joined as you go, not seamed together at the end. Gabriela is doing a class on the technique used to make this project this summer. Christine's Stay On Baby Booties These adorable booties use just a few meters of sock yarn. I recognize this yarn as one of my favourite colourways of Trekking, now unfortunately discontinued. FREE Pattern on ravelry at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/christines-stay-on-baby-booties Saartjes Bootees & Easy Peasy Newborn hat Saatjes bootees & Easy Peasy Newborn hat in Regia Kaffe Fassett Design Line colour Snappy 02900 http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/saartjes-bootees http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/easy-peasy-newborn-sock-hat Easy Peasy in Zauberball Crazy1701 A diagonal knit scarf/shawl using random bits of left overs. http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring08/FEATspr08FK.html Mini Mania Linen Stitch Scarf One of my favourite stitch patterns is linen stitch. I have used it dozens of times in various projects. One of its most popular uses is as a scarf with hand painted yarns. . The young lady below has knit a huge version using up a ton of different colours of sock yarn. I love it. It is on my list of must do projects. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mini-mania-scarf Squishy Love Shawl The shawl/wrap below appeals to me also. I love all Noro Yarns. I can't bear to throw away even the smallest scrap of Noro. The shawl below uses a unifying skein of solid yarn knit in random garter stitch and eyelet stripes with a selection of small amounts of various Noro left overs. I have all the left overs, just have to select a solid unifying colour. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/squishylove-shawl Knitter's Journey Afghan - This Becomes this Using Stephanie Pearl McPhee's pattern for the Knitters Journey Afghan Pattern Description from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: “This is one of my favorite projects and one that can reflect a knitter’s journey as well as any scrapbook or postcard collection. It was inspired by a quilt I had as a little girl made of the leftover scraps of fabric from the clothes my grandmother sewed. There was a square that was a piece of my mother’s favorite nightie, a square of an uncle’s flannel shirt, bits of a summer sundress and a soft bedsheet. Our lives and stories about what people did and where they went in the clothes made from those fabrics were laid out in bits and pieces and backed with pink cotton, and I loved it. This knitting project serves the same purpose: It uses the leftovers of projects gone by (or as they go by, my personal choice) to work a traveler’s afghan.” This pattern may be found on pages 206-209 of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off. This Becomes this Or this I hope you have found some inspiration to help use up your stash. If not I have one more option. At Serenity Knits we are happy to accept donations for 2 local schools with knitting clubs and a local church which knits charity afghans. If you have any yarn or knitting needles you would love to get rid of, drop them off and we will get them to the schools or church. Happy knitting Beth
This tutorial is available for download as a PDF HERE (at www.ravelry.com) These blankets always remind me of the works of Gustav Klimt - without the nudes, that is. Many of these look like the Babette blanket, but this is a guide or a tutorial to creating a bigger and freer version with your own colours and in your own style. If you prefer to have a clear framework of reference for colour and a neat chart for your squares, the Babette is definitely the pattern for you - and you can find out more about this very thorough and well-written pattern here. But ... if you have a basket of scraps that look kind of nice together and you're willing to experiment a bit, then read on! First of all, the pattern. I like to use a solid square for this pattern. I use it a lot – most recently in the Equalizer Blanket. __________________________________________________________________ PATTERN: SOLID SQUARE Colour A Round 1: Chain 3 (counts as the first DC [TR]), do 2 DC [TR] into the ring. Chain 2, 3 DC [TR], chain 2, 3 DC [TR], chain 2, 3 DC [TR], chain 2 and join to the third chain of your first 'fake' DC [TR] - like this -> Round 2: Chain 1, do 1 DC [TR] in the same stitch below. Crochet 1 DC [TR] in next two stitches, *in corner space, crochet 2 DC [TR] + 2 ch + 2 DC [TR], then crochet 1 DC [TR] in the next three stitches.** Repeat from * to ** twice more. Join with slip stitch to the top of the first DC [TR]. Colour B Round 3: Chain 1, do 1 DC [TR] in the same stitch below. Crochet 1 DC [TR] in next four stitches, *in corner space crochet 2 DC [TR] + 2 ch + 2 DC [TR], then crochet 1 DC [TR] in the next seven stitches.** Repeat from * to ** twice more. Join with slip stitch to the top of the first DC [TR]. Round 4: Chain 1, do 1 DC [TR] in the same stitch below. Crochet 1 DC [TR] in next six stitches, *in corner space crochet 2 DC [TR] + 2 ch + 2 DC [TR], then crochet 1 DC [TR] in the next eleven stitches.** Repeat from * to ** twice more. Join with slip stitch to the top of the first DC [TR]. Colour C Round 5: Chain 1, do 1 DC [TR] in the same stitch below. Crochet 1 DC [TR] in next eight stitches, *in corner space crochet 2 DC [TR] + 2 ch + 2 DC [TR], then crochet 1 DC [TR] in the next fifteen stitches.** Repeat from * to ** twice more. Join with slip stitch to the top of the first DC [TR]. Round 6: Chain 1, do 1 DC [TR] in the same stitch below. Crochet 1 DC [TR] in next ten stitches, *in corner space crochet 2 DC [TR] + 2 ch + 2 DC [TR], then crochet 1 DC [TR] in the next nineteen stitches.** Repeat from * to ** twice more. Join with slip stitch to the top of the first DC [TR]. An 8, 10, or 12-round square can be made by following the instructions as per rounds 5 and 6, except that the number of stitches between each corner increases with every round. Essentially, you must do one DC [TR] in each stitch in the previous round, and 2 DC [TR] + 2 chain + 2 DC [TR] into each corner space. To finish: chain two, yank tightly. Leave a long tail for joining, and cut yarn. __________________________________________________________________ PLANNING Now, assemble your colours. Before I even start thinking about making a blanket, I look at my collection of little squares. Whenever I reach the end of a skein, I use the last smidgen of yarn to make a 1-round or 2-round square and string it on a piece of ribbon. This not only helps me to use up all the little tiny balls of yarn that manage to snarl themselves into a big, tangled mess as soon as I turn my back on them, but it also helps me visually plan my next project. At first I used to put them all on the same ribbon, but found it more interesting to sort them by colour – I simply put all the colours I think are nice together on one string (and sometimes re-arrange them according to whim). This helps me visualise the kind of blanket I want to make. For example, here I’ve got a string of autumnal colours (cream, brown, green), brights (red, orange, yellow, cerise pink) and a string of candy colours (pink, yellow, blue, peach, lilac), and a string of all the colours that haven’t found a family yet. Because we’re heading into autumn over here, I decided that I’d have enough browns and greens and assembled the yarn to make a candy-bright blanket instead. I find that twelve or thirteen colours are more than enough – I don’t like the blanket to look too “busy” and find that more than twelve or thirteen colours can make a less harmonious whole. One thing that has proved to be invaluable is a project sheet for the blanket. This sheet (check the link in the Free Stuff here) simply helps you keep a record of all the yarn you’ve used – you will never recreate the same blanket twice, but you might want to make another using the same colour scheme. __________________________________________________________________ ENOUGH PROCRASTINATING: GET DOWN TO WORK, MISSY! Then you start crocheting. Sit down with a mug of tea and a good film and toss out squares of varying sizes. Four things to remember: 1) The 2-round squares should have only one round of each colour. 2) The 4/6/8/10-round squares should have two rounds of every colour and you should only use each colour once per square. 3) The exception to 2) is the occasional square that follows the pattern of the blue square on the left: A-A-B-C-C-B. I don’t do many of these because the bigger bands made by the double rounds of one colour look less ‘busy’ and ‘bitty’, but the odd square in this pattern breaks up the monotony! 4) I do a maximum of three or four 10-round squares per blanket. __________________________________________________________________ ASSEMBLY When you’ve crocheted a little stack of squares, you can start putting them together. From this point on, I use an odd form of maths to calculate the width and depth. Each square is measured by its number of rounds – a 4-round square is 4, a 6-round square is 6. (Genius, eh? With these encryption skills, I ought to work for the CIA.) In order to make a blanket that roughly fits a standard double bed (140cm/55 inches in width), I find that my blanket should be 54 rounds across. What do I mean? Look at the illustration below. Each box represents a square (the number stands for the number of rounds) and the sum of the numbers in each of the blue boxes is 54. I crochet the blanket in strips – here you can see my first completed strip. It’s 54 rounds across and 12 rounds in length. No, I didn't use the plan above. I just put it together, willy-nilly, 'cause that's the way I roll, hookers. My blankets are usually made up of five strips - Strip 1 – 54 rounds across, 12 rounds long Strip 2 – 54 rounds across, 16 rounds long Strip 3 – 54 rounds across, 12 rounds long Strip 4 – 54 rounds across, 16 rounds long Strip 5 – 54 rounds across, 12 rounds long The finished blanket’s length (before the border) is 68 rounds, which is approximately 180 cm/72 inches. So get started! Lay the squares on a flat surface and, like a giant crochet jigsaw puzzle, put them together in a pleasing fashion :-) Once you have created your own layout, you have to sew it together. You can simply continue in this manner, just arranging and attaching the squares in a random way, or you can create your own pattern. __________________________________________________________________ CREATING A SIMPLE PATTERN The good news is that once you have worked out a nice 12-round and 16-round strip, you need to do very little to change it. Here is a 12-round strip (in blue) attached to a 16-round strip (in pink) - please note, not much care was taken to create this example, I just flung squares next to one another. (Obviously you will do this part with all due care and attention to create a more harmonious and balanced aesthetic.) The next time you start a 12-round strip, just leave off the first block of squares – below, I just moved the first three 4-round squares (in darker blue) to the end of the strip. When it came to the second 16-round strip, I just moved the first block of squares (in darker pink) to the end of the strip. In the last 12-round strip, the first 6-round squares have also just been moved across to the end. The overall effect is random to the untrained eye because you’ve used different colours in each strip – but there’s method in your madness! __________________________________________________________________ EDGING I simply edge the blanket with a row of DC [TR] followed by a row of SC [DC] in a contrasting colour. __________________________________________________________________ ODDS AND ENDS A note about assembly... Eibhlin asked if you could crochet the squares together. Theoretically, you certainly could. I personally think this method looks nicer when the squares are of uniform size, because the crochet seam forms a kind of ridge or frame around the squares. When the squares are of different sizes - especially with so many little ones, - I find that this method tugs the fabric a little bit, so I prefer to whipstitch them together. Below is a photo of two squares crocheted together (on the left) and sewn together (on the right.) I've used a different colour yarn to show you the 'ridge' effect. Ends and weaving: A few of you had questions about ends and weaving (hello, CJ and Fairyhedgehog!). Normally when I finish a square, I leave a tail that's three times the length of one side. I use this tail to sew the square to its neighbour(s). I then make - yes, eek, prepare to throw your hooks now - a small knot and yank the yarn tight. The knot is generally not visible and can only be found by squishing the squares to find it with your fingers. I weave the leftover yarn in and out and up and down, and leave a little tail to crochet or weave over. I wash the blanket once before I wrap it up in cellophane for its next owner, and I have yet to see any undone ends. Maybe they're too afraid of me to unravel. Can you join as you go? This method seems to work best with traditional granny squares or squares with a lacier texture where the point of joining is between a 3 DC[TR] cluster (see an example on this video here). Of course, here's nothing stopping you from making this blanket with traditional grannies - I just like the solid squares myself, but you can use any granny square pattern that can be completed in a variety of rounds. Curious to see the finished blanket? Click HERE!
If you're going to use all that beautiful fabric, you need to know what you have and what you're going to make. It's time to see what you have and pick some great projects to plow through some serious yardage! (This post may contain affiliate links)
This Scrappy September, we want you to raid your fabric stash and sew up something beautiful with all that's left of your other projects. We knew that quilters end up with lots of leftover fabrics and that inspired us to get scrappy with our September sewing! This September, we are challenging you to make a new quilt entirely from your scrap stash. Are you up for it?
Hello and welcome to my stop on the Summer Scrap Elimination Challenge! I love sewing with scraps, so when Sheridan asked who would be interested in participating in this challenge, I signed up immediately. A challenge like this is always great motivation to dig into those scraps. If this is your first time visiting me, I'm glad you're here! I'm a quilt pattern designer (see all of my patterns here) and a Christian. I share devotions here every Monday morning (read my most recent one here) and my quilting adventures all the time 😊 Sign up for The Bulletin to get my newsletter, which is filled with news from here, a delicious recipe and fun things to make. Late last year I finally sorted all my scraps by colour and it has made it so easy to find what I need! I should have done it years ago, but I was hung up on the idea of needing beautiful baskets to store the separate colours in, but I didn't want to buy them, lol. Finally I decided to use shoe boxes instead, since I had a few of those lying around already, and that allowed me to get the job done. If you haven't yet found the perfect sorting/organizing system, I encourage you to just go for it, even if it's not Pinterest worthy. Being able to easily find the scraps we want makes it so much more likely that we will actually sew something with them! For my project for the challenge, I decided to make colour coordinated panels from scraps, just sewing random bits together until I had a useable size. In this case, I chose to make the blocks 8 ½" square. Crumb quilting like this is perfectly mindless and relaxing, though it is a bit time consuming. Sometimes, you just want to sew pieces together without worrying about matching points or precise cutting and this is perfect for those times. Keeping the blocks all one colour, while also using a variety of fabric, was more challenging than I would have thought...it can be so hard to decide if a fabric is teal or blue, lol. Really, there are no wrong answers, though, so it was all good. Just like this, these blocks would make a pretty quilt, but I chose to turn them into snowball blocks, with black corners (also pulled from the scrap box!). Of course, snowballs don't come in all the colours, so I'm calling these my Marbles 😊 I had every intention of having a finished mini quilt to share today, but then life happened, in the form of deadlines that needed to be met, hikes that needed to be hiked and campfires that needed to be enjoyed. So, instead of a mini quilt, I have one finished Marbles block and 6 squares ready for their corners, with another square started. This is an approximation of what they'll look like when I finish more blocks and get them made into a mini. Want to make you own Marbles block? Here's how I made mine. Start with a fun assortment of pretty fabrics, all in one colour. You'll also need thread, either in the same colour as your fabric or a neutral. I chose to use Aurifil 2600, which worked nicely with my variety of teal fabrics. You'll need a good pair of scissors to trim up your pieces and I use my Clover mini iron to press seams open as I go. When paired with my homemade pressing board, I can press the seams without leaving my chair. This is the only time I don't purposely set up the iron across the room, thereby forcing me to move regularly while sewing. If I did that while making these crumb blocks, I'd never finish a block! Lastly, you'll need your rotary cutter, mat and ruler. Without thinking too much, pick out two pieces. If needed, use the scissors to straighten up the sides, then stitch them together. Press the seam open. There will be a lot of seams in this block and pressing the seams open really helps the block to lay flat(ish). Use the scissors to trim them even, giving you a straight edge to add the next piece to. Again, without thinking about it too much, pick out the next piece and stitch it on. Don't be afraid to cut up a larger scrap if you need a shorter piece. Press the seam open again. Trim with the scissors to give yourself the next straight edge and just keep going. I usually like to work on several small chunks at the same time. I add a piece to each chunk, chain piecing them, then press them all at the same time. Before long, you'll be able to join the chunks together into a larger piece. Keep repeating the same process, adding individual pieces or joining chunks together as you see fit. This is the mindless, there-are-no-wrong-answers part of the process 😊 After a while, the pieces would get so big that I didn't feel like I could cut a straight edge with my scissors, so I use my ruler and rotary cutter. In this case, the piece is bigger than the 8 ½" I was aiming for, so I trimmed one side and then set it aside while I worked on the chunks to make the other half of the block. When I had enough sewn that I knew it would be bigger than 8 ½" square, I trimmed the other two chunks and then stitched all three of them together. At this point, it's all crazy and wonky around the edges. Use your ruler and rotary cutter to trim it to 8 ½" square. Depending on how big the trimmed off pieces are, you might want to throw them back into the scrap box for the next time, or just dive right into stitching your next block using those trimmed off bits as your starting point. Because of the way bits are sewn together, then trimmed, it's quite likely you'll end up with seams right at the edge... or pieces that will probably end up disappearing in the seam allowances. No big deal. That's just the way these blocks go. To turn the squares into Marbles block, you'll need four black 3 ½" squares. Draw a line diagonally from corner to corner on the wrong side of all four. Because this is the Summer Scrap Elimination challenge, I'm also making bonus HSTs when I do these stitch-and-flip corners. There's no point in creating more scraps while making a scrap elimination project, right? I learned about using Triangle Buddies from Bonnie Hunter and I love to make bonus HSTs this way, so that's how I draw my second line on each square. Pin the squares in the corners of your crumb block, with the diagonal lines going across the corners as shown. Stitch right on both lines. Trim off the outside corner, leaving a ¼" seam allowance. Press the corners open to reveal your finished Marbles block 😊 But don't forget about those bonus HSTs! Trim their seam allowance to ¼" and press them open. In the interest of using them right away, I stitched my bonus HSTs into a little pinwheel block. Since I've only finished one Marbles block, I've also only made one pinwheel, but I plan to make a bonus mini quilt out of these pinwheels. And that's it! Somehow my scrap boxes don't seem much emptier than they were when I started, but I truly think they multiply when we're not looking. Just means I have what I need to make lots more Marbles blocks and other scrappy projects, right? I hope you'll tag me on social media when you make your own Marbles blocks. I'm @devotedquilter on Instagram and @devotedquilterdesigns on Facebook.
In 2013, I had my International Stashes Bee make me X & + blocks, using Badskirt Amy’s tutorial. Her tutorial makes 8″ unfinished (7.5″ finished) blocks. The Bee members used …
This Scrappy September, we want you to raid your fabric stash and sew up something beautiful with all that's left of your other projects. We knew that quilters end up with lots of leftover fabrics and that inspired us to get scrappy with our September sewing! This September, we are challenging you to make a new quilt entirely from your scrap stash. Are you up for it?
Who wants to use up some leftover YARN? I know I have been lately! Today I have a HUGE list of free stash-buster crochet patterns for you!
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This post may contain affiliate links. This colorful and bright scrapghan pattern is so wonderful with all of the different colors pulled together into one piece. Boxy Neon Afghan by Vanessa @ bobblesandbaubles.com definitely makes great use to all of those scrap yarn pieces that you probably have left from other projects and are just … [Free Pattern] Easy Stash Buster Afghan For Mindless Relaxing Read More »
Time for some stash busting? Here are 15 gorgeous crochet pattern ideas for left over skeins and bigger projects to make a super dent in your yarn stash.
Who wants to use up some leftover YARN? I know I have been lately! Today I have a HUGE list of free stash-buster crochet patterns for you!
Who wants to use up some leftover YARN? I know I have been lately! Today I have a HUGE list of free stash-buster crochet patterns for you!
Who wants to use up some leftover YARN? I know I have been lately! Today I have a HUGE list of free stash-buster crochet patterns for you!
