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Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020

Manuela

Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« on: March 22, 2020, 01:37:36 AM »
Welcome to the Look What I Did With My Scraps contest.
This can be anything from garments, soft furnishings, accessories to quilts - be creative. Dark siders are very welcome  :drink:
However, no matter how big your scraps are, they should be leftovers from a previous project.

And, of course there are a few rules:

1. Please post a picture of you pile (or piles  :devil:) of scraps before you start and/or include it in your submission post
2. You can have more than one entry, just submit them in separate posts
3. Sewing starts on April 1st and ends on April 30th - you can plan and prepare before the starting date
4. Please put your submission post with pictures up here by May 7th and use the template below:

(your name)'s Entry (indicate the number if you have more than one entry)

What is it and for whom

Pattern used (commercial or self-drafted, anything goes)

What scraps/leftover fabrics did you use (pictures welcome)

A short description on how you made it/problems overcome/etc.

Pictures included in the text please



Sources tell me that some of you are basically drowning in scraps :fabric: so let's do something about it  :snip:


« Last Edit: April 06, 2020, 00:22:26 AM by Manuela »

Iminei

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2020, 08:35:27 AM »
OOOOhh Can I join in??
Can I ? Miss, Me Miss, Please Miss ??????

Does it have to be finished finished by the end of the month ?????


Awwwwwww Just seen Rule 3 :(

Are the rules more Guidelines Miss ??? Are They Miss??? Like in the Pirates Code ???
« Last Edit: March 22, 2020, 08:37:14 AM by Iminei »
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Renegade Sewist

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2020, 08:42:18 AM »
OOOOhh Can I join in??
Can I ? Miss, Me Miss, Please Miss ??????

Does it have to be finished finished by the end of the month ?????

Haha! Spoken like a true Darksider. You see @Manuela here in the Darkside a quilt top, or flimsy they're sometimes called, is a separate finished thing. We have tops as well as complete quilts. And lots of UFO's and WIPS.  ;)
Hey Bill! Read the manual!  Hehehe.

Lachica

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2020, 10:33:41 AM »
Darn it! Last night I cut a load of cotton lawn into squares for reusable wipes. This morning cut a towel up & overlocked to make reusable baby wipes. Hooked out scraps for mask.making, will that count?
Mary
2020 stash: not gonna count, not gonna feel guilty.

wrenkins

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2020, 12:29:15 PM »
@Manuela  Must every part of the item be from scraps? My scraps are veh veh small and I want to make (maybe two sets of) placemats.  :S
« Last Edit: March 22, 2020, 12:46:10 PM by wrenkins »
Harbouring resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die!

Starryfish

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2020, 12:36:18 PM »
I've got some navy fleece that I can make a hat, glove,scarf set for next winter.
A day without sewing is a day wasted.

Manuela

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2020, 00:17:30 AM »
@Manuela  Must every part of the item be from scraps? My scraps are veh veh small and I want to make (maybe two sets of) placemats.  :S
@wrenkins, we had this question last time - and BrendaP’s patchwork skirt as an example. She used scraps for the visible part of the skirt and underlined it with something else.
So, the visible parts of your project should be made from scarps/leftover fabrics, non- visible or ‘supporting’ parts don’t need to.

Catllar

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2020, 07:34:51 AM »
@wrenkins , you could use your veh veh small skwaps to make new fabric by stitching them onto a solid piece of backing fabric, from which you could make your table placemats.
If life gives you lemons, add to gin and tonic !

wrenkins

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2020, 08:19:24 AM »
@Catllar I've discovered crumb quilting so that's exactly what I'm going to do.  :) Some of the pieces are a bit bigger due to stupidity mis-cutting so I'll work around those I think. The backing and wadding can't be scraps but they won't count if I submit for the contest as they won't be seen. Big IF right there. Can I get my ass in gear. I have photographed my bag of scraps so that's a start!  0_0
Harbouring resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die!

Flobear

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2020, 10:32:12 AM »
Ooh, ooh, @wrenkins I've just looked at crumb quilting and am now dying to have a go planning to do some housework and try it out later <nose-growing-longer-smiley>

Eta The vacuum cleaner is out but unused, the sun is shining on the dust on the mantelpiece, I have a small heap of 'crumbs' in twos, soon to go into fours !
« Last Edit: March 29, 2020, 13:43:20 PM by Flobear »
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SewRuthieSews

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2020, 18:36:27 PM »
I would very much like to participate in this, just thinking what sort of scraps.

(You'd think I'd have loads of time to sew, but I work from home all day, spend half the evening on the phone staying in touch with everyone, I do get some sewing time but its not endless!)

I am considering 3 main options, but will only construct one of them.

1. Cotton skirt with a large number of narrow panels
2. Knit top pieced from lots of jersey scraps
3. Kimono Jacket made from home dec scraps

I have a couple of days to think about which one excites me the most.

Flobear

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2020, 19:42:50 PM »
This is my little effort from today. Most of the bits are quite small. I made a few minor boo-boos but the teapot won't mind  ;) It's only half a tea-cosy as I don't have enough scraps in the right colours to make the other half. I will do some sort of block that won't mind being rectangular for the other half.

I've put the wadding and backing fabric on and quilted the sandwich. Mr Bear looked at it and asked, How do you get the teapot in  :S

I like the randomness of it. You can see the tumbler of wine which helped with that  ;)

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BrendaP

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2020, 20:51:40 PM »
@wrenkins, we had this question last time - and BrendaP’s patchwork skirt as an example. She used scraps for the visible part of the skirt and underlined it with something else.
The "something else" was the back of a duvet cover donated by DD.  She had used the front of the cover for yet another something else. >:)
Brenda.  My machines are: Corona, a 1953 Singer 201K-3, Caroline, a 1940 Singer 201K-3, Thirza, 1949 Singer 221K, Azilia, 1957 Singer 201K-MK2 and Vera, a Husqvarna 350 SewEasy about 20 years old. Also Bernina 1150 overlocker and Elna 444 Coverstitcher.
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sewmuchmore

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2020, 10:14:16 AM »
Silly question but how big is a scrap? I have lots of odd pieces left over from other things but they are about 1/2 metre. Can I use them as they are or do they need to be smaller?
It's not easy being this perfekt

Janet

BrendaP

Re: Look What I Did With My Scraps contest - 01.04. - 30.04.2020
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2020, 12:33:43 PM »
I think we had this question last time.

A scrap for patchwork is very much smaller than a scrap for clothesmaking purposes.  My suggestion would be about a fat eighth or half a FQ for darkside stuff and less than a metre for other things.
Brenda.  My machines are: Corona, a 1953 Singer 201K-3, Caroline, a 1940 Singer 201K-3, Thirza, 1949 Singer 221K, Azilia, 1957 Singer 201K-MK2 and Vera, a Husqvarna 350 SewEasy about 20 years old. Also Bernina 1150 overlocker and Elna 444 Coverstitcher.
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.