I use this EXACT same method, but instead of using adding machine tape I use store receipts. When I get home from a shopping trip, I save the receipt. I keep a pile of receipts in my sewing room so they are always ready to use. When I have accumulated enough scraps, I sew the strips onto the receipts in the exact same way. The store receipts are 3 1/8" wide, so just a bit wider than adding machine tape. I have made several fun quilts using these strips. I also want to add that removing the paper is so easy. Receipt paper is very thin! I simply start at one end, fold the paper back on itself and quickly RIP the paper from one side to the other as fast as I can. I comes right off! Thanks Karen for another great video. I always learn so much watching your videos!
@amyfalise I doubt that it is either one of those. If that was the case, how could they possibly be handing them out to everyone?? I recycled used dryer sheets as foundations for a niece's toddler quilt. Then I heard the "horror stories" about doing that. I felt guilty for a little while, but, my sister wasn't worried. My niece is fine, healthy, runs marathons, and has two healthy daughters. Somebody always has to rain on people's parades....🤨 Good idea to recycle your receipts.😊
Just finding you now. June 2023. I can already see why you have so many followers. Your voice, video, and instructions are all excellent. Thank you for taking the time to add to the beauty and knowledge base of life.
Lin Bloomfield - Wales UK Hi Karen - a massive thank you for you for 'being you' and sharing. I have sorted all my scraps into piles and made six strips in two days. I am loving seeing scraps that are up to ten years old becoming bright colourful useful fabric. I really enjoy and am truly motivated by your videos. I've watched most of them! Re watched several many times to be sure I've 'got it'. As a retired teacher I appreciate your carefully planned, clear explanations of your excellent ideas. Your voice is great (many more TH-cam video presenters should take note). Your upbeat attitude is a breath of fresh air. You are also so honest about your work and the little bits of 'You" that you share really connect with your audience and help us all feel it's OK to experience the fluctuations of life and being human. I intend to continue trying your other scrap busting ideas while I wait to see what you plan to do with your crumb strips. Braids next and after quilt back for my newest grandchild's first quilt. Brilliant!
Love this as I am a quilting novice and have inherited a ridiculous amount of fabric and fabric crumbs from my 82 year old mother who started sewing when she was a teen.
Mind blown! I watched this and got so happy! I've stayed away from quilting because it seems that there are so many rules and everything has to be perfect. Too stressful for me although I appreciate everyone's work. But this looks fun!! Everything you do is fun!
Ok I watched this video a few times. I was able to buy a single roll of 3” tape for a few dollars. I spent a few days getting my crumbs ready and I’ve got my two piles. My mom gave me a well loved pair of jeans that done fit her anymore. I’m using the strips to make a new bag. I’m recovering from spinal fusion surgery so my mom helped me with my sewing machine. I’m ready to go. Spending New Year’s Eve and day working on my project. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. ❤️
I really like your crumb method. You’re a great teacher, very easy to understand. I have to also tell you your natural hair is beautiful & makeup shades are perfect.
Not sure if anyone will see this, but I've got a tip about removing the paper that some might find useful. I love FPP quilting and my fav methods for removing the paper is to take a water brush, it's a paint brush that has a reservoir to hold water, and "paint" over all my seam stitches on the paper side. Sometimes if it's a slightly thicker paper, I'll paint it twice. Let the water soak in for a minute to soften the paper. Lay a ruler on the seam and tear the paper right along the seam. The ruler supports and protects your stitches and ensures that your tear is on the seam line so you can easily just pull away the paper on either side. I hope this helps make your quilting a little easier... Happy sewing!
I have been making strips with register tape for a while. It took me a while to catch on to the fact that leaving a quarter inch OUTSIDE the tape when trimming would really make my life so much easier. Also, I like your idea of cutting the paper to set lengths. I have several ongoing strips that I've left on the roll, just rolling up the sewn part as I unroll more paper. It gets pretty fiddly. Oh, and another thing I've tried is having a holiday scrap pile separate from my regular scraps, so I have themed crumb strips at the ready. LOVE your videos! It makes me want to start sewing RIGHT NOW. LOL
When the corporation closed our retail location, I rescued a box of adding machine tape and started doing this very thing. You’ve given me some ideas for improving the process. Thanks!
Thanks for the thumbs up, how are you spending your spare time? I love the outdoors including traveling and reading books, cooking, gardening and watching movies I’m from Ohio and you?
In the fall I switch from fishing to quilting. I have been binge watching your videos for the last 2 days. Some I've seen before and hit the like button and some I just had to go to my phone and put hearts in the comment section. But one thing I have noticed is you wear are the cuties earrings. I love them.
I love your adding paper idea and have a friend who gives me the cash register end rolls from her business now. They have the red warning stripes that alert her to the need to change rolls but there is quite a bit of residual paper left. Before this I tended to use printed, discarded A4 paper. Consequently I’ve made quite a few quilts with A4 sized blocks. Our local quilt specialty shop also sells cheap bags of the top and backing off cuts that are trimmed after machine quilting. As they come in strips it makes paper piecing and crumb stripping easy. Thankyou for you episodes. The best quilting club ever.
I ran out of machine tape awhile ago and I will not buy more... instead I am cutting strips from dress maker interfacing to the size I need and am using that .... added advantage is NO RIPPING OUT PAPER. I just leave it in the quilt top.
Love your videos, Karen. I had over 35 years of crumbs, orphan blocks, and random bits so I sewed a king sized quilt during lockdown. Not only does it reflect years of memories, but it’s one of a kind. When dealing with crumbs I looked into buying paper tape, but found them surprisingly expensive. Then I realized I could use store receipt tapes and they’re free! Also, they are very thin and easy to remove. Granted the lengths varied, but I could sew finished tapes end to end and cut or rip out stitches as needed. Just one note: sew on the back side of receipt tapes because the printed side turns dark when you iron. I had meters of crumb tapes which I used in blocks, borders and on the back. Perfect!
I enjoyed your first tutorial on scraps and crumbs and even started your "adding machine tape" method on my overgrown scrap box! Thanks for this in-depth session on how to organize, sew and Just Get It Done!
Drowning in scraps and crumbs, I started out making 4 1/2 inch squares because my smallest ruler is 4 1/2 inches. A whole set of curtains for the sunroom later, (8 windows!) I am about half way through my scraps and crumbs. Not even a dint into the official stash but the curtains as smashing - no repeats at all! Wish I could send you a picture!
Smaller than crumbs, I call them skerriks, can be used, along with the clipped threads, plus/- wadding off cuts for stuffing in ottomans, toys, roll mattresses. It used to be mixed in with kapok in the olden days for bedding. Everything has a reuse.
In watching this for the first time I knew I had to gather my scraps and get organized. I've been quilting for over 30 yrs. and I have the scraps to prove it. The sorting process has taken all summer. This past weekend I found paper rolls to sew my crumbs on. In the past I made string blocks on cloth squares to use up some scraps. There is no paper to rip out. Thank you Karen for bringing quilters everywhere a new level of organization to our quilt making process. I feel more productive already!
I LOVE scrap and crumb sewing. It’s my most relaxing time at the machine. I never thought of using adding machine paper. Thanks for this great idea for keeping those unruly pieces under control !
When I retired and got rid of my office, I gave away a whole box of adding machine tape. Little did I know it would be useful one day in my new quilting hobby. I was a court reporter for 45 years. Back in the days when we used paper in our steno machines, that paper would have been perfect for this. It's slightly thinner than adding machine tape and would have been premeasured by the folds in the paper. If I had only known then what I know now!
Crumbs are my happy place. I think part of it is seeing the fabrics from all the projects I have made...and of course all the colours randomly put together. I am happy to share this technique. And I guess there will be another to come as I put it all together. I hope you grab you coffee and enjoy. The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/justgetitdonequilts09211
This is absolutely wonderful. I don't have scraps or adding machine paper, but thank you for all your terrific ideas, and for sharing them with us. It's all very inspiring.
Good afternoon! It's nice to hear from you. A very beautiful voice. I don't understand the language very well, but I listened anyway. And a lot was clear. Thanks for the material! Sincerely, Marianne.
I think this technique would be wonderful for making some blocks, strips for the fidget quilts for dementia patients. Thank you for sharing your talents with us!!!💖
I loved this episode, because i am the church group who takes all the crumbs from friends, etc. I make blanets for a children's organization with a group of my friends. We take in doations and I'm the lucky winner for the scraps. They call me scrappy!
I'm so happy that I saw this. I have inherited all sorts of material and scraps over the years. Now I wish I had taken the case of adding machine tape from work that got tossed.
I now save all those too small pieces to be a crumb for the birds, in Spring. My granddaughter and I make little twig boxes in winter using string to tie the twigs together into odd shaped boxes. Then we stuff the little pieces of fabric into the center of the boxes and hang them from branches, inthe early spring. It is fun to find the nests in fall and see the bright colored bits of fabric interwoven into the nests.
I do this with leftover short snippets of yarn from knitting or needlepoint projects. I just bought a metal suet-feeder (where you put in a block of fat during the winter when the birds needs the extra fat). In winter, I use it for what it's designed for -- fat mixed in with high-quality birdseed, then pressed into a block to fit the feeder. In spring, when there are plenty of grubs and insects for them to feed on, I switch to using it for nest-yarn scraps. When all the leaves fall off the trees in the autumn, you can see little colorful nests in bare trees all over the neighborhood. And probably beyond!
Adding fabric, yarn or string or any human woven material is actually harmful for birds! I didn’t know either until thankfully someone told me. I researched it and it’s true!😱 it’s best to fill with natural fibers like the dried moss nest-looking stuff for the wire hanging baskets or window sills, dried grass clippings, but only if positive that it’s not sprayed with any chemicals etc. I hope this helps.
I just watched your video on adding machine scrap quilting and I just thought it was darling. You are darling. You have a fun and comfy personality that makes a person want to watch to the end although that person has way too much to do. Keep doing what you're doing you are right for the job!
I have recently bought 3 large ziplock bags of scraps at one of our thrift shops. 50 cents a piece. Nice to add a little extra fabric in with my crumbs. I love this project. Thanks!
You are so clever. I am building up quite a crumb stash, which I would like to use for some of my doll quilts and borders for some small wall hangings. I love that the crumbs could be any shape, allowing for mini crazy quilt effects or randomly colored strips of the same shape in different sizes. Thank you
I've seen these rolls at thrift stores. Now they will find their way home with me. Taking the discarded paper - one could make other paper by adding flower petals etc. Make cards etc. I did this several yrs ago. A dishpan of water and a piece of screening. I am sure TH-cam can help us with instructions. Thank you.
I use a lot of interfacing... one popular brand comes wrapped with instructions on a strip of tissue paper. This tissue is 5 inches wide, and generally the printing is a perfect 90 degrees and you can use this a guide to keep things straight. The tissue is so easy to tear off! Your technique makes quick work of my scraps and one 17" strip gives me 3 - 5 1/2" squares. Waste not, right! Thanks for this great tutorial!
Thank you for the 1/4” tip so the sewing together is not over all the paper and fabrics. Can’t wait to try your method. So well thought out and helpful as all your videos and interviews are. You are a GEM.
oh man I learn this trick with the machine tape yrs ago. I got a gillion rolls of it. u can find it alot in goodwill and 2nd hand stores. It really helps keep your fabric strips straight. I just start sewing pieces on in any random mannor. I dont cut paper pieces. I put my roll of paper in a little bowl on the side of the machine or even sit it below me on the floor and I just keep sewing fabric pieces on the paper. Then if I want to make a a square patch quilt or a strip quilt, or even bag or place mats or anything i got it all sewn and can cut it how ever I want. Its great! sometimes I will just sew on scraps in a certain color theme or just solids. Its how ever you want to use your scrapes. Its not complicated or needs to be perfection. Its all about fun not work.
Hiii, I'm inspired by your effort to sew and explain. Years of sewing does have a toll on health. Good to get up and go to the iron now and then. Keep up the good work.lv from Hyderabad, India.
Using the paper is genius! Thanks so much for the tip! I started with note book paper to just try making a strip. It is perfect. It made organizing my scraps so much fun. HOpefully I will send you a picture of my quilt finished. But very excited to use my scraps and love the many colors that show in yours! Thanks again for the great tutorial.
If you shorten your stitch length while sewing the crumbs to the tape, it helps with removing the paper later. I usually go down to 1.8 for stitch length.
Thanks for the thumbs up, how are you spending your spare time? I love the outdoors including traveling and reading books, cooking, gardening and watching movies I’m from Ohio and you?
I saw something similar to this on tiktok (although I think she used something else for the back). Although instead of making strips like you she just had a continuous line of crumbs! I wish I could find the video again, but how convenient that you came out with something similar that I can refer back to :D
I enjoy your tutorials, you are so much fun to listen to, and so smart. I just have to say, keep on teaching, you are a whiz at it. Thanks for this one! Very clear.
I have been waiting for this video. Oddly enough, adding machine tape (in Ohio) was expensive! Meeting you and hugging you is one of my UFOs. Thank you for all you do!
Estou encantada com seus trabalhos são lindos e criativos, suas idéias em aproveitar cada pedacinho de tecido é muito amor envolvido, é terapia pura. Muito obrigada em compartilhar conosco este dom que Deus ti capacitou. Você é uma benção de Deus.
I have a shoebox full of crumb strips with calculator tape. It's packed and have made couple pillows for some friends' pets. Super easy to launder. mine have zipper closures. Some of the pillows have larger scrap for the opposite sides of the pillows. I also use old zippers.
I used my strips as sashing between crumb blocks. I just used low volume scraps on the adding machine tape to make a contrasting pattern. I also used a bright fabric( one that I did not use in the in the crumb blocks) in all the corner stones where the sashing intersect.
I've been making 5" crumb blocks for years. After seeing this, I loved the idea but didn't want to go buy the adding machine tape 😅. I've used other papers that I've cut but have also found a lot of receipts are 3" wide and long enough to get 18" out them. Or I'll tape them together. I've also found if I make my stitch length just a hair smaller, the paper will tear out easier. Thank you for this idea!! I need to make something with mine... bags sound fun 😂
Karen- I love your videos! I am thinking everyone has a last year's telephone book! Tear a page out trim to desired size! A lady at guild makes string blocks and she said the inkfrom most telephone books in US do not smudge and get on fabric.
I love this tutorial. I have some of the receipt paper I purchased on amazon a few years ago. Just to do this. But your technique makes it doable. I have seen some reference to a trash quilt in the comments. I checked that out and it is also a crumb/scrap quilt, however it is the technique of using scraps or crumbs. So although that is another great tutorial it is separate of the receipt tape idea. Both scrap and crumb usage, just different techniques to try.
I don't have adding tape HOWEVER I have tons of $1 kids drawing tablets! This is very cheap paper lol and tears easily (I also use it as stabilizer for redwork on my embroidery machine!) of course it's 8 x 10 paper, so I simply cut it to your adding machine tape size :) works fabulous. LOVE LOVE your ideas and simple fun methods to sew. You TRUELY add fun to sewing!!
I use receipts from my grossery store or clothes shops for this they are already cut if they are too short I just overlap two a little. That way you can make a long strip or a short one
Another project could be bookmarks, I started making a few as experiments. I had some leftover strips I sewed together, put some interfacing on both sides, sewed them together, turned it inside out and top stitched
Thanks for this. I really enjoy improv piecing, but don't usually use a foundation. The adding machine pieces would be great as sashing around plain, solid blocks...Reverse the way we usually think of quilts.
OH NO! you just gave me a new obsession! LOL. I also, cannot seem to NOT save "decent sized scraps" Oh I'll find something to do with them... well, here I go... thanks!
You are AMAZING! Your imagination is something to be desired, AND I love your down-home demeanor! I wish I had an Aunty just like YOU🥰. Oh!…..and I love your newly renovated sewing room. I’m so jealous! My sewing sewing area is all of three feet by eight feet😔.
I use this EXACT same method, but instead of using adding machine tape I use store receipts. When I get home from a shopping trip, I save the receipt. I keep a pile of receipts in my sewing room so they are always ready to use. When I have accumulated enough scraps, I sew the strips onto the receipts in the exact same way. The store receipts are 3 1/8" wide, so just a bit wider than adding machine tape. I have made several fun quilts using these strips. I also want to add that removing the paper is so easy. Receipt paper is very thin! I simply start at one end, fold the paper back on itself and quickly RIP the paper from one side to the other as fast as I can. I comes right off! Thanks Karen for another great video. I always learn so much watching your videos!
Receipt paper is carcinogenic or screws with your hormones. Can't remember which.
Please verify your source information. I'm dying to know which I'm going to die from--cancer or screwy hormones.
🙄 MYOB
@amyfalise I doubt that it is either one of those. If that was the case, how could they possibly be handing them out to everyone?? I recycled used dryer sheets as foundations for a niece's toddler quilt. Then I heard the "horror stories" about doing that. I felt guilty for a little while, but, my sister wasn't worried. My niece is fine, healthy, runs marathons, and has two healthy daughters. Somebody always has to rain on people's parades....🤨
Good idea to recycle your receipts.😊
It’s true. The new “paper” receipts are cancerous. Notice most shops ask if you even want the receipt. I say no. Mostly.
@@Friggsdottir This has not been supported by science or research. Please see my comment with the link rebutting this myth.
Just finding you now. June 2023. I can already see why you have so many followers. Your voice, video, and instructions are all excellent. Thank you for taking the time to add to the beauty and knowledge base of life.
Voice and sound quality! ❤ 💯
Karen, you are looking good ...keep doing what you enjoy doing at your own pace and Stay happy, and healthy always..
Lin Bloomfield - Wales UK
Hi Karen - a massive thank you for you for 'being you' and sharing. I have sorted all my scraps into piles and made six strips in two days. I am loving seeing scraps that are up to ten years old becoming bright colourful useful fabric. I really enjoy and am truly motivated by your videos. I've watched most of them! Re watched several many times to be sure I've 'got it'. As a retired teacher I appreciate your carefully planned, clear explanations of your excellent ideas. Your voice is great (many more TH-cam video presenters should take note). Your upbeat attitude is a breath of fresh air. You are also so honest about your work and the little bits of 'You" that you share really connect with your audience and help us all feel it's OK to experience the fluctuations of life and being human. I intend to continue trying your other scrap busting ideas while I wait to see what you plan to do with your crumb strips. Braids next and after quilt back for my newest grandchild's first quilt. Brilliant!
I’m a new sewer here. I cannot get myself to throw away “crumbs”. You are a lifesaver for my OCD crafting mind :) thank you!
Love this as I am a quilting novice and have inherited a ridiculous amount of fabric and fabric crumbs from my 82 year old mother who started sewing when she was a teen.
Mind blown! I watched this and got so happy! I've stayed away from quilting because it seems that there are so many rules and everything has to be perfect. Too stressful for me although I appreciate everyone's work. But this looks fun!! Everything you do is fun!
Ok I watched this video a few times. I was able to buy a single roll of 3” tape for a few dollars. I spent a few days getting my crumbs ready and I’ve got my two piles. My mom gave me a well loved pair of jeans that done fit her anymore. I’m using the strips to make a new bag. I’m recovering from spinal fusion surgery so my mom helped me with my sewing machine. I’m ready to go. Spending New Year’s Eve and day working on my project. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. ❤️
I really like your crumb method.
You’re a great teacher, very easy to understand.
I have to also tell you your natural hair is beautiful & makeup shades are perfect.
Oh thank you!
Not sure if anyone will see this, but I've got a tip about removing the paper that some might find useful. I love FPP quilting and my fav methods for removing the paper is to take a water brush, it's a paint brush that has a reservoir to hold water, and "paint" over all my seam stitches on the paper side. Sometimes if it's a slightly thicker paper, I'll paint it twice. Let the water soak in for a minute to soften the paper. Lay a ruler on the seam and tear the paper right along the seam. The ruler supports and protects your stitches and ensures that your tear is on the seam line so you can easily just pull away the paper on either side. I hope this helps make your quilting a little easier... Happy sewing!
I have been making strips with register tape for a while. It took me a while to catch on to the fact that leaving a quarter inch OUTSIDE the tape when trimming would really make my life so much easier. Also, I like your idea of cutting the paper to set lengths. I have several ongoing strips that I've left on the roll, just rolling up the sewn part as I unroll more paper. It gets pretty fiddly. Oh, and another thing I've tried is having a holiday scrap pile separate from my regular scraps, so I have themed crumb strips at the ready. LOVE your videos! It makes me want to start sewing RIGHT NOW. LOL
God point. I have a collection of flour sack strips. I didn’t think of holiday.
I like the idea of themed strips. Space is very tight in my craft room so I sadly don't have many small scraps. How do you store your crumbs?
@@ellenhartley4998 I have fabric "buckets" on my cutting table---one for catch-all scraps, one for holiday scraps, and one for selvages.
@@JustGetitDoneQuilts Po co szyjesz te paski ze skrawków materiału ?? Czy potem robisz z tego jakieś konkretne projekty ? Pozdrawiam
I too have made the adding machine strips. I've done one for Quilts of Valor also. What a great way to use your scraps.
When the corporation closed our retail location, I rescued a box of adding machine tape and started doing this very thing. You’ve given me some ideas for improving the process. Thanks!
Many great minds
Hi Mrs.McDonald, how’s your day going with you?
Thanks for the thumbs up, how are you spending your spare time?
I love the outdoors including traveling and reading books, cooking, gardening and watching movies I’m from Ohio and you?
In the fall I switch from fishing to quilting. I have been binge watching your videos for the last 2 days. Some I've seen before and hit the like button and some I just had to go to my phone and put hearts in the comment section. But one thing I have noticed is you wear are the cuties earrings. I love them.
Thank you 😊
I love your adding paper idea and have a friend who gives me the cash register end rolls from her business now. They have the red warning stripes that alert her to the need to change rolls but there is quite a bit of residual paper left. Before this I tended to use printed, discarded A4 paper. Consequently I’ve made quite a few quilts with A4 sized blocks. Our local quilt specialty shop also sells cheap bags of the top and backing off cuts that are trimmed after machine quilting. As they come in strips it makes paper piecing and crumb stripping easy. Thankyou for you episodes. The best quilting club ever.
I ran out of machine tape awhile ago and I will not buy more... instead I am cutting strips from dress maker interfacing to the size I need and am using that .... added advantage is NO RIPPING OUT PAPER. I just leave it in the quilt top.
Hi Anna, how’s your day going with you?
So like a real good idea.
Good idea thank you🎉
I mean you really could use anything thats rippable and lightweight.
I think ladies used to use newspapers as patterns. They aren't as ubiquitous anymore
I'm anxious to see a finished quilt made from these.
Coming soon
Love your videos, Karen. I had over 35 years of crumbs, orphan blocks, and random bits so I sewed a king sized quilt during lockdown. Not only does it reflect years of memories, but it’s one of a kind. When dealing with crumbs I looked into buying paper tape, but found them surprisingly expensive. Then I realized I could use store receipt tapes and they’re free! Also, they are very thin and easy to remove. Granted the lengths varied, but I could sew finished tapes end to end and cut or rip out stitches as needed. Just one note: sew on the back side of receipt tapes because the printed side turns dark when you iron. I had meters of crumb tapes which I used in blocks, borders and on the back. Perfect!
Something to do with the mile-long CVS drug store receipts! Thanks!!
that is a fabulous tip about using the back side of the tape due to the ink transfer. thank you
I've got a heafty scrap stash (gifted to me from my grandmother) and I've been wanting to do these!! So excited for this tutorial to drop!
Hi Erin, how’s your day going with you?
I enjoyed your first tutorial on scraps and crumbs and even started your "adding machine tape" method on my overgrown scrap box! Thanks for this in-depth session on how to organize, sew and Just Get It Done!
Drowning in scraps and crumbs, I started out making 4 1/2 inch squares because my smallest ruler is 4 1/2 inches. A whole set of curtains for the sunroom later, (8 windows!) I am about half way through my scraps and crumbs. Not even a dint into the official stash but the curtains as smashing - no repeats at all! Wish I could send you a picture!
I wish you would send a picture. I bet they are lovely!
My goodness you are the most informative quilter on TH-cam that I’ve found! Thank you!!!!
Hi Megan, how’s your day going with you?
Smaller than crumbs, I call them skerriks, can be used, along with the clipped threads, plus/- wadding off cuts for stuffing in ottomans, toys, roll mattresses. It used to be mixed in with kapok in the olden days for bedding. Everything has a reuse.
Hi Genevieve, how’s your day going with you?
In watching this for the first time I knew I had to gather my scraps and get organized. I've been quilting for over 30 yrs. and I have the scraps to prove it. The sorting process has taken all summer. This past weekend I found paper rolls to sew my crumbs on. In the past I made string blocks on cloth squares to use up some scraps. There is no paper to rip out. Thank you Karen for bringing quilters everywhere a new level of organization to our quilt making process. I feel more productive already!
I LOVE scrap and crumb sewing. It’s my most relaxing time at the machine. I never thought of using adding machine paper. Thanks for this great idea for keeping those unruly pieces under control !
You are always so timely with your videos! That's going to be a happy quilt when you assemble it. Thank you and thanks for being so upbeat.
I've used the results of a similar crumb method to make hexies, I love the combination of the very regular hexies and the chaos of the crumbs!
Hi Katie, how’s your day going with you?
When I retired and got rid of my office, I gave away a whole box of adding machine tape. Little did I know it would be useful one day in my new quilting hobby. I was a court reporter for 45 years. Back in the days when we used paper in our steno machines, that paper would have been perfect for this. It's slightly thinner than adding machine tape and would have been premeasured by the folds in the paper. If I had only known then what I know now!
Hi Roxanne, how’s your day going with you?
My definition of a crumb is anything smaller than 1 and a half inches. I enjoy the challenge of working with scraps that other people throw away.
So beautiful. Your quilt will be a wonderful work of art. Please let us see it when you're finished.
Crumbs are my happy place. I think part of it is seeing the fabrics from all the projects I have made...and of course all the colours randomly put together. I am happy to share this technique. And I guess there will be another to come as I put it all together. I hope you grab you coffee and enjoy.
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Thanks for your tutorials!! Crumbs are a very, happy place...like a drug....very, very addicting!!
Omg! I just finished a stripes on the angle. I have a box of small angle pieces. Have to make a crumb quilt now. It never ends. 💝 it.
This is absolutely wonderful. I don't have scraps or adding machine paper, but thank you for all your terrific ideas, and for sharing them with us. It's all very inspiring.
Good afternoon! It's nice to hear from you. A very beautiful voice. I don't understand the language very well, but I listened anyway. And a lot was clear. Thanks for the material! Sincerely, Marianne.
I think this technique would be wonderful for making some blocks, strips for the fidget quilts for dementia patients. Thank you for sharing your talents with us!!!💖
Can’t wait for the final video! Looking forward to watching you put it all together. 🥰
Hi Carmen, how’s your day going with you?
I loved this episode, because i am the church group who takes all the crumbs from friends, etc. I make blanets for a children's organization with a group of my friends. We take in doations and I'm the lucky winner for the scraps. They call me scrappy!
That's a beautiful idea. Good job.
I'm so happy that I saw this. I have inherited all sorts of material and scraps over the years. Now I wish I had taken the case of adding machine tape from work that got tossed.
Hi Lori, how’s your day going with you?
I have already watched this three times. It already answered a few more questions I had.
Hi Michelle, how’s your day going with you?
I now save all those too small pieces to be a crumb for the birds, in Spring. My granddaughter and I make little twig boxes in winter using string to tie the twigs together into odd shaped boxes. Then we stuff the little pieces of fabric into the center of the boxes and hang them from branches, inthe early spring. It is fun to find the nests in fall and see the bright colored bits of fabric interwoven into the nests.
I do this with leftover short snippets of yarn from knitting or needlepoint projects. I just bought a metal suet-feeder (where you put in a block of fat during the winter when the birds needs the extra fat). In winter, I use it for what it's designed for -- fat mixed in with high-quality birdseed, then pressed into a block to fit the feeder. In spring, when there are plenty of grubs and insects for them to feed on, I switch to using it for nest-yarn scraps. When all the leaves fall off the trees in the autumn, you can see little colorful nests in bare trees all over the neighborhood. And probably beyond!
Adding fabric, yarn or string or any human woven material is actually harmful for birds! I didn’t know either until thankfully someone told me. I researched it and it’s true!😱 it’s best to fill with natural fibers like the dried moss nest-looking stuff for the wire hanging baskets or window sills, dried grass clippings, but only if positive that it’s not sprayed with any chemicals etc. I hope this helps.
this is genius !!!
@@betsyhada2936 i love this so much
I just watched your video on adding machine scrap quilting and I just thought it was darling. You are darling. You have a fun and comfy personality that makes a person want to watch to the end although that person has way too much to do. Keep doing what you're doing you are right for the job!
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I follow Dave's Craft Room and he used this method too. He follows you too. His creations are really something. Thank you for sharing!
I have recently bought 3 large ziplock bags of scraps at one of our thrift shops. 50 cents a piece. Nice to add a little extra fabric in with my crumbs. I love this project. Thanks!
Hi Mary, how’s your day going with you?
I just ordered adding machine tape, excited to use up my crumbs. Thank you for this video! 👍
You are so clever. I am building up quite a crumb stash, which I would like to use for some of my doll quilts and borders for some small wall hangings. I love that the crumbs could be any shape, allowing for mini crazy quilt effects or randomly colored strips of the same shape in different sizes. Thank you
Looking forward to seeing your projects with these crumbs.
This is such a good idea. I’m jumping right into scrap busting and tidying up my stash. Thanks so much Karen
Hi Diana, how’s your day going with you?
Fabulous tutorial! Can’t wait to see the finished quilt! Thank you 😊
I've seen these rolls at thrift stores. Now they will find their way home with me. Taking the discarded paper - one could make other paper by adding flower petals etc. Make cards etc. I did this several yrs ago. A dishpan of water and a piece of screening. I am sure TH-cam can help us with instructions. Thank you.
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I use a lot of interfacing... one popular brand comes wrapped with instructions on a strip of tissue paper. This tissue is 5 inches wide, and generally the printing is a perfect 90 degrees and you can use this a guide to keep things straight. The tissue is so easy to tear off! Your technique makes quick work of my scraps and one 17" strip gives me 3 - 5 1/2" squares. Waste not, right! Thanks for this great tutorial!
Thank you for the 1/4” tip so the sewing together is not over all the paper and fabrics. Can’t wait to try your method. So well thought out and helpful as all your videos and interviews are. You are a GEM.
Hi Chris, how’s your day going with you?
Love this idea. I also have some leftover adding machine tape. Recycling at it's best. Thanks Karen for another great idea. 👏
oh man I learn this trick with the machine tape yrs ago. I got a gillion rolls of it. u can find it alot in goodwill and 2nd hand stores. It really helps keep your fabric strips straight. I just start sewing pieces on in any random mannor. I dont cut paper pieces. I put my roll of paper in a little bowl on the side of the machine or even sit it below me on the floor and I just keep sewing fabric pieces on the paper. Then if I want to make a a square patch quilt or a strip quilt, or even bag or place mats or anything i got it all sewn and can cut it how ever I want. Its great! sometimes I will just sew on scraps in a certain color theme or just solids. Its how ever you want to use your scrapes. Its not complicated or needs to be perfection. Its all about fun not work.
Hiii, I'm inspired by your effort to sew and explain. Years of sewing does have a toll on health. Good to get up and go to the iron now and then. Keep up the good work.lv from Hyderabad, India.
Now for some quilt ideas Karen! I have made lots of strips but not sure what to do with them now!
Love this method. Amazing
Using the paper is genius! Thanks so much for the tip! I started with note book paper to just try making a strip. It is perfect. It made organizing my scraps so much fun. HOpefully I will send you a picture of my quilt finished. But very excited to use my scraps and love the many colors that show in yours! Thanks again for the great tutorial.
Hi Jane, how’s your day going with you?
I love the look of your strips. I’m excited to try this!
The one we've all been waiting for! 😂 I love this, I can't wait to try it. Thanks, Karen!
Have fun
If you shorten your stitch length while sewing the crumbs to the tape, it helps with removing the paper later. I usually go down to 1.8 for stitch length.
Hi Nancy, how’s your day going with you?
Thanks for the thumbs up, how are you spending your spare time?
I love the outdoors including traveling and reading books, cooking, gardening and watching movies I’m from Ohio and you?
I saw something similar to this on tiktok (although I think she used something else for the back). Although instead of making strips like you she just had a continuous line of crumbs! I wish I could find the video again, but how convenient that you came out with something similar that I can refer back to :D
Brilliant! All the tips are so practical. But that's a lot of scraps you've got there.
I enjoy your tutorials, you are so much fun to listen to, and so smart. I just have to say, keep on teaching, you are a whiz at it. Thanks for this one! Very clear.
Hi Carolyn, how’s your day going with you?
You are one organized lady!
I have been waiting for this video. Oddly enough, adding machine tape (in Ohio) was expensive! Meeting you and hugging you is one of my UFOs. Thank you for all you do!
Check out Thrift Stores, as mine has boxes of the stuff for super cheap!
And sometimes old stationery stores have a stash on a bottom shelf!
Estou encantada com seus trabalhos são lindos e criativos, suas idéias em aproveitar cada pedacinho de tecido é muito amor envolvido, é terapia pura. Muito obrigada em compartilhar conosco este dom que Deus ti capacitou. Você é uma benção de Deus.
Love making crumb blocks. Thank you for your tutorial. Can't wait to give this a go.
Hi Judy, how’s your day going with you?
That is a brilliant idea. I will definitely keep all my scraps of fabric now.
Hi Emma, how’s your day going with you?
Thanks I love scraps 😊👍🏻🪡🧵
I tried the tape for scraps before and it was an utter disaster. Thanks for showing me how to make it work. You are so smart.
You are a very positive person. Learning a lot. Thank you
Hi Nancy, how’s your day going with you?
You have some fantastic ideas. I didn't have that paper so I used a roll of freezer paper that i have had sitting there doing nothing for years.
Another great tips & tricks video of yours! Thank you Karen.
Hi Deb, how’s your day going with you?
Thank you for sharing this great idea, Karen! I love watching your channel!
Going to take my "new" featherweight to the coast on holidays and my scrap pile and the adding machine tape that is in my supplies!
Hi Helen, how’s your day going with you?
You are a wonderful teacher.
I love scrap quilts, try putting a black ,white, black strip between the scrap blocks. You will love the contrast.
Unfortunately, I’m not a person that likes high contrast. I have my eye on an Essex linen
Karen!!!!!!
Absolutely LOVE this idea!
Thankyou!
Hi Connie, how’s your day going with you?
I have a shoebox full of crumb strips with calculator tape. It's packed and have made couple pillows for some friends' pets. Super easy to launder. mine have zipper closures. Some of the pillows have larger scrap for the opposite sides of the pillows. I also use old zippers.
I used my strips as sashing between crumb blocks. I just used low volume scraps on the adding machine tape to make a contrasting pattern. I also used a bright fabric( one that I did not use in the in the crumb blocks) in all the corner stones where the sashing intersect.
Hi Sylvia, how’s your day going with you?
yaaaay I missed videos like this! Awesome
Yay! Thank you!
I've been making 5" crumb blocks for years. After seeing this, I loved the idea but didn't want to go buy the adding machine tape 😅. I've used other papers that I've cut but have also found a lot of receipts are 3" wide and long enough to get 18" out them. Or I'll tape them together. I've also found if I make my stitch length just a hair smaller, the paper will tear out easier. Thank you for this idea!! I need to make something with mine... bags sound fun 😂
Great tutorial. So Glad I found you. Very concise, to the point and easy to follow.
Karen- I love your videos! I am thinking everyone has a last year's telephone book! Tear a page out trim to desired size! A lady at guild makes string blocks and she said the inkfrom most telephone books in US do not smudge and get on fabric.
Great ideas! Hoping for part 2 to this video! Thank you 😊
Hi Terri, how’s your day going with you?
Absolutely love these scrappy crumbs...
Plus your channel is Crumbfastic...😂 ❤
Thankyou for giving so much inspiration ... 🙏❤️
You ARE OH SO ORGANIZED!!!! Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
I love this tutorial. I have some of the receipt paper I purchased on amazon a few years ago. Just to do this. But your technique makes it doable. I have seen some reference to a trash quilt in the comments. I checked that out and it is also a crumb/scrap quilt, however it is the technique of using scraps or crumbs. So although that is another great tutorial it is separate of the receipt tape idea. Both scrap and crumb usage, just different techniques to try.
Hi Anna, how’s your day going with you?
I love your channel. Brings happiness to my day. I've used many of your tips. Thanks so much.
Hi Susan, how’s your day going with you?
I don't have adding tape HOWEVER I have tons of $1 kids drawing tablets! This is very cheap paper lol and tears easily (I also use it as stabilizer for redwork on my embroidery machine!) of course it's 8 x 10 paper, so I simply cut it to your adding machine tape size :) works fabulous. LOVE LOVE your ideas and simple fun methods to sew. You TRUELY add fun to sewing!!
I use receipts from my grossery store or clothes shops for this they are already cut if they are too short I just overlap two a little. That way you can make a long strip or a short one
I'll never have that many crumbs, but still enjoyed watching the process.
If you don't have that many you could do smaller projects like bookmarks, coasters things like that
I never get tired of watching this video. 😻
Really enjoy making crumb/scrap quilts
Another project could be bookmarks, I started making a few as experiments. I had some leftover strips I sewed together, put some interfacing on both sides, sewed them together, turned it inside out and top stitched
Thanks for this. I really enjoy improv piecing, but don't usually use a foundation. The adding machine pieces would be great as sashing around plain, solid blocks...Reverse the way we usually think of quilts.
Hi Dorothy, how’s your day going with you?
OH NO! you just gave me a new obsession! LOL. I also, cannot seem to NOT save "decent sized scraps" Oh I'll find something to do with them... well, here I go... thanks!
Wow! This is a really genius idea! Thanks so much! I will use this method for my scrap table runner I am currently planning as a border.
Hi Elin, how’s your day going with you?
You are AMAZING! Your imagination is something to be desired, AND I love your down-home demeanor! I wish I had an Aunty just like YOU🥰. Oh!…..and I love your newly renovated sewing room. I’m so jealous! My sewing sewing area is all of three feet by eight feet😔.
Hi Linda, how’s your day going with you?
Thank you. It’s a great tutorial. Looking forward to seeing how you use these strips
Hi Sue, how’s your day going with you?
Have begun my tape rolls of fabric scraps! 🙏