Scraptastic Tuesday

Moving scraps on

15 May

I’ve not written here for a whole month; we’ve just started some major building work on the house so we’re living in a lot less space than usual and it’s a bit tricky to get any sewing done. Before the...
Read more »

11 Apr

This months bee block for Siblings Together was chosen by Maria and the Frame Block box tutorial is by Sarah. It’s a great scrap busting block although that very much depends on your scrap collection! The outer frame does require...
Read more »

Vintage Vibe

18 Mar

If you’ve been around a while you may well be aware of my love of vintage sheets and the fact that I held an extensive collection; over the years I have been selling off pieces through my Etsy shop and...
Read more »

Pants!

19 Feb

Last summer I had a think about how to use scraps of jersey/knit fabric and made a scrappy flower. Just after Christmas Tobi asked if I could make underpants for him with knit scraps. He’d done a bit of research...
Read more »

Using someone else’s scraps

16 Jan

November was my month in the Siblings Together quilt bee and I had a brilliant lot of blocks sent to me. I was running low on red scraps and Nicky (also one of the Scraptastic Tuesday hosts) kindly sent a...
Read more »

A scrappy birthday gift

16 Dec

Last month my eldest had a birthday to celebrate and we’d talked for a while about making a new bag for her. I’d suggested the Two Zip Hipster bag by Dog Under My Desk as it’s a pattern I’d had...
Read more »

Colourful,scraptastic loveliness

13 Nov

This project started back in September with the sorting and stitching of scraps in to colour groups: Slowly over the month it grew: I tackled reds: Last weekend I tackled orange, yellow and green and then I deconstructed a pair...
Read more »

Scraptastic Tuesday

11 Oct

I mentioned last month that I had started another scrappy project; this is the progress so far: Tobit bought me Handmade Style last year for my birthday and he’s now made the basis of the patchwork bench reworking the measurements to...
Read more »

It’s all blue

19 Sep

Judging by my scrap collection, blue is probably my favourite colour: I’m not sure what this looks like to the reader but it’s a boot box full. Some of the scraps are pretty small; an inch square and some small...
Read more »

A whole new outfit and how to use knit scraps

9 Aug

I’m still playing a bit of catch up on things made but not shared. Back in June Bethan asked if I could make her a skirt, we had a rummage in my stash to see what cuts of fabric we...
Read more »