Comments on: Do you do this too?

By: sunshine

sunshine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:58:42 +0000

I save down to 3/4 inch square pieces for making mini quilts

By: Sarah E

Sarah E — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:50:26 +0000

never.
never to small to throw away.
never.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:14:19 +0000

Those scraps are beautiful! I’d have a hard time throwing them away as well. Here’s an idea from my friend Carrie. She uses her scraps for really fun fabric paper doll kits: http://thismamamakesstuff.blogspot.com/2009/08/makine-stuff-fabric-paper-doll-kit.html

By: Kim Cherrine-Bell

Kim Cherrine-Bell — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:50:31 +0000

There is a video on http://www.threadbanger.com..(there videos play better off of You tube than their own site, anyway) that shows a woman who makes cuffs and fabric pieces she incorperates into other sewing by taking tiny tiny scraps and the cut thread ends from sewing..She fuses them together with a wash out bond material and then free form stitches over them to create one piece….She liteally uses EVERY scrap she has from sewing with this technique….And it looks artsy creative and lovely….Have not tried it myself YET.

By: Carly

Carly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:09:10 +0000

I had a friend who, when they were moving his grandmother from the farm to the city, found a shoebox labeled “Bits of string too small to save.”

By: jodi

jodi — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:11:54 +0000

I’m thinkin of putting mine in a candy jar on a shelf in my studio! I can’t bear to throw them all out!

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:19:09 +0000

Oh yes! I do this too! If you truly cannot use them, give them away. Think of groups who do crafts….like nursing homes, schools (know any teachers?), Brownies and Girl Scouts and on and on.

By: Linnea

Linnea — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:06:20 +0000

lol…I totally do this too. I’m glad there are so many of us! I can usually find a use for them…if they’re too small to sew with, make fabric covered buttons with, or generally do anything else visual with, I use them as extra stuffing in dolls or pin cushions. AS long as they go in the middle they don’t make things too lumpy.

By: amandajean

amandajean — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:55:07 +0000

i keep them too. i call them snippets. and i HAVE made things out of them, so that’s why i keep saving them. it’s madness…but again, isn’t not all that bad being crazy, is it??? ;0)

By: Jane Weston

Jane Weston — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:39:20 +0000

Yep…I save them too. Every so often I think “that’s it…they are going!!” and then I start to look at them and think…well actually there is still enough fabric to sew together and make something pretty…and back into the cupboard they go )