Last night, despite saying I was going to go to bed early, I got on a roll and finished the rest of the pouches I had ready to go.
I’ve been a little out of sorts the past few days. Totally missed playing up the scrap swap as much as I wanted. I’ll match us up tomorrow and send out emails.
Yeah, I’m definitely addicted. So who wants to satisfy their craving with me or get hooked?
Sign up here, I’ll take names until Friday May 20th . Leave your name and some contact information and I’ll pair us all up. Be ready to commit to shipping your scrap bundle by June 10th. This will be open to everyone everywhere so please let me know if you object to international shipping and I’ll match you with someone in your country.
I’ve learned that shipping works in mysterious ways (something I’ve learned running my shop) so if you’re shipping across a border keep in mind it might take a bit.
The keep everyone happy guidelines:
– scraps must measure at least 2 inches by 2 inches, there is no maximum size but it is supposed to help you destash your scrap bin so sending fat quarters probably won’t help with that.
– scraps must be clean, and in usable condition
– scraps can be new fabric or vintage reclaimed pieces
– fabrics should be of relatively the same weight, cottons/linens/light canvas so allow for quilting, or mixing with other fabrics and use in the same project
– send 10-ish ounces to your partner by June 10th
Feel free to add some other goodies or random items if you wish. Check out blogs or shops to get to know your partner, send an email and be friends, most importantly have fun!
Sign up below!
My hubby and I have been using Mint.com for our household budgeting, we keeping track of the money online. But somehow we’re messing it up so we’re going to keep the cash at home. Instead of boring paper envelopes I’ve decided to steal this idea and make some zippered pouches. I’ve made a lined & zippered pouch before but couldn’t seem to find the link again, so I just used a few I found after Googling for instructions/a tutorial.
I gathered up all my various scrap swap scraps and pieces together some fun colour combinations.
I just pieced them together stripe by stripe.
Then cut them down to the right size.
I cut some plain cotton for the strip of fabric to stamp the lettering on the front.
I used Staz-On I had at home and some $1.50 alphabet stamps I picked up in those impluse buy bins at Michael’s.
We left all our bill money in the bank so we can still pay those online and we have cash in our ‘envelopes’.
Posted in DIY, scraps, sewing, tutorial-ish
Tagged budgeting, lined pouches, zippered pouches
I had this entire post written last night and just had to add one more image. When I woke up my browser had crashed and despite hitting ‘save draft’ there wasn’t one. Grrrr.
On a good note I get to relive all the goodies I was sent! My first package come from Ali in England. Pardon this first picture but I took it at night, which is a good thing because the delicious chocolate treats didn’t make it till Mr Sun reappeared.
She makes these awesome little crocheted snowflakes and I shamelessly asked her if she could send me one.
There were such fun things in my package. Scrap swapping is addictive. It’s like small scale fabric collecting/hoarding but for free!! The best of so many worlds.
I know wiener dogs have a fancy pants long technical name but can’t the world just hold vote and agree that ‘wiener dog’ is much more awesome than Dachshund?
Here’s a peek of what I sent her. You can see all of it on her lovely blog post.
Along with some handmade fun.
And because there was an extra person I had 2 partners and sent the lovely Victoria some fun things. She wasn’t able to participate after all and tried to back out but I said I’d send her some stuff anyway. I think I can spare some fabric.
On the weekend I turned my kitchen table into a bit of a nightmare so I could squeeze in some crafting while Nate was avoiding his nap. I was working on a project with vintage pillow cases and inspiration hit and took me on a bit of a detour.
Start with a vintage pillow case and trim off the nice finished edge at the opening where you put your pillow in. You can either trim really close to the stitching and have a closed loop piece, or cut into it and have an open edge. I’m going to show you how to work with both options.
Now you have 2 big loops, cut off the seam so you have one long piece of fabric.
I was cutting the orangey one for another project and in the process I trimmed a bit into the seam and created an opening on one edge. So here’s how to finish that off and make a nice clean edge, and a thinish headband.
Open the fabric up and use the fold inside, the part that was the very end of the pillow, as a guide to fold the unfinished edges inward. I didn’t go all the way because I wanted my band a bit thicker.
Then fold it again so the raw edges disappear inside. You can iron and pin at this point before you sew. Of forge ahead like I did.
Top stitch along the sides to make nice clean edges. Fold the bottom raw edges up inside the ‘tube’ to create a clean edge and topstitch to seal it all in. Then you have one nice ruler shaped piece of fabric that you can wrap around your head and tie at the back.
For my blue headband I just carefully trimmed around the pre-existing stitching. Why make more work?
Then I cut the ends on an angle just to had some interest to the ends. Fold the raw edges inside and top stitch around the whole thing.
There you have it, a lovely new headband that was half made already!
Posted in DIY, repurposing, scraps, tutorial-ish, vintage
Tagged accessory, DIY, floral, headband, linens, pillowcase, repurposing, sewing, thrifting, tutorial, vintage
Remember my swapping friends to make sure your package is mailed out by today!
Here’s a peek of something I sent out. Don’t worry I have 2 partners so it’s still a mystery where this one is headed! I’m sneaky like that. Please share what you get/make. I’ll post some scrap busting ideas in the next little bit to give you some ideas of what to make with all your new fun fabric bits.
Well I was going to take a cute video and have my kids run into the room each with a name in hand and match us all up in a fun and silly way. But Nate’s been sick all day and went to bed at about 6:30 looking very exhausted and hubby put Wesley to bed about a half hour ago. Ooops.
Soooooo using the very high tech system I used last time I have written our names on tiny slips of paper and pulled them out in pairs at random to match us up!
Sara & Barb
Annabel & Leela
There was a name left over so I’m very sad to say I think I’ll play twice.
So go ahead and chat with each other, maybe give a few details that might help make a package for you, if you have a son/daughter, certain project on the go or anything else. Make sure there’s 10 ounces of fabric and anything else you want to toss in is just bonus. Have fun and make sure to post your goodies in the flickr pool I want to see what everyone gets!
Sure it’s only been a month since I recieved my lovely package of fantastic fabric scraps and surprises in the mail but I can’t wait any longer, I want to do it again! So who’s with me?
Sign up here, I’ll take names until Wednesday March 16th . Leave your name and some contact information and I’ll pair us all up. Be ready to commit to shipping your scrap bundle by the end of the month at the latest. This will be open to everyone everywhere so please let me know if you object to international shipping and I’ll match you with someone in your country. Last time we confirmed shipping works in mysterious ways (something I’ve learned running my shop) so if you’re shipping across a border keep in mind it might take a bit.
Ok, so:
– scraps must measure at least 2 inches by 2 inches, there is no maximum size but it is supposed to help you destash your scrap bin so sending fat quarters probably won’t help with that.
– scraps must be clean, and in usable condition
– scraps can be new fabric or vintage reclaimed pieces
– fabrics should be of relatively the same weight, cottons/linens/light canvas so allow for quilting and use in the same project
– send 10-ish ounces to your partner mailed by March 31st
Feel free to add some other goodies or random items if you wish. Check out blogs or shops to get to know your partner, send an email and be friends, most importantly have fun!
I whipped up some more tea and sweetner cozies over the past little bit. I’ve still got a few sitting here waiting for finishing touches and a photo shoot. Also still need to list these.
Add pretty ribbon to my growing list of new addictions.
Posted in embroidery, fun finds, scraps, sewing
Tagged cozy, embroidery, japanese ribbon
I stumbled across Zaaberry and found this neat little tutorial on making little weights to hold down your patterns while you trace and cut. Bye bye pins. Luckily I had previously cut a bunch of my scraps into little squares so they were perfect for this project. It’s a really simple project, just sew squares of fabric together, fill them up with someone that has a bit of weight to it and sew them shut. I filled mine with some flax left over from my eye pillow making. There’s even some lavender bits in there too I think.
Tagged pattern weights, scrapbusting, toys, tutorial
