From Small Things: Episode 3: Scrap Management
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Welcome back! This week it's all about scrap management. I have some tips for how I store and manage my scraps, to turn them into something beautiful and avoid waste. If you're interested in how to use fabric scraps, you can find some ideas here.
My methods this week include string piecing white and neutral fabric scraps for a border; foundation paper piecing in blue and white scraps (using Granny Nanny's and Quilt by Number papers); English paper piecing scrappy hexagons; and half-square triangles in blues and greens (using @thangles and @MissouriQuiltCo papers). All of these are great ways to keep building your scraps into larger units, which will be much more likely to become a quilt.
This episode features a completed quilt made with the Ocean Waves block (with a small change) using recycled shirt cottons, as well as a newly basted double four-patch ready for hand quilting. All scrappy, of course!
You can find me on Instagram @fromsmallthings509
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Great tip on pressing HSTs prior to removing the foundation paper. Thank you!
I am so happy I found your video. I am also a scrap quilter, and I loved seeing what you are working on.
The white string block border is a great idea.
Greetings from England! What a lovely video. I love all of your work. Can’t wait to see what else you make!
Love the double four patch with brown and tan.
Hello!! I just found your channel and wanted to let you know how much I enjoy it!! I too love to work with scraps and find your ideas pretty wonderful!!!! Thank you!!!
I'm so happy to see so many other scrap lovers out there!!
I love how you used string blocks as a border. Your blue quilt is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. I hope I can share some ideas to use our never-ending supplies of scraps.
I love your new channel! ❤….. Keep posting new content. 👍🏽
I, too, just found your channel and had to subscribe immediately. The ocean wave quilt is stunning. Love scrap quilts. Loved every quilt project you shared. The neutral quilts reminded me of the utilitarian quilts my great grandmother's made from men's suits. Those quilts were so warm and comforting. Looking forward to following your channel.
Show us how to do some of your work. Its all so beautiful. Especially the one in the beginning. Love❤ the fall colors. I'm new at this and Im Learning as I go.
Hi Sue ! Just found your TH-cam videos . Just wanted to say I love your TH-cam !! So many helpful tips . Thank you sooo much !! Please keep them coming . Now to go back to your other videos . Blessings
Thank you so much! I'm glad to share some of the things that work for me-- and I hope they work for you, too!
I started quilting in the 90's, quit but saved all my fabrics (which is quite a lot) and started up again last year. I'm 78 and have always loved scrappy quilts, but until recently I haven't saved small scraps. I am very drawn to your quilts and hope you will show more of them! I wished you had shown a bit more of your on-going projects, however I am going to check out your channel in the meantime. I have started hand quilting and love it also but am using a larger stitch.
It's great that you saved all your fabrics. Welcome back to quilting! I'm so glad you're enjoying scraps and hand quilting also.
I too am a scrap quilter - I love strings and small squares.
Me too-- use every scrap!
I love your double four patch quilt!!
Thank you! It turned out better than I had envisioned
I really love the tans and neutrals in the ocean waves quilt. Much different feel than a white background!
I had only started watching your videos for the first time, and I stopped and subscribed. I don’t want miss an episode! I love, love scrap quilting.
Thanks for joining my on my scrap journey!
I enjoyed your shar 33:21 ing your progress on many projects. I also work on a variety of things at a time. So fun!
I like to start the morning with some hand quilting, and then move to the sewing machine in the afternoon. It give my fingers a break, and it keeps things interesting.
Watched your video for the first time today - really enjoyed it! Just loved hearing your processes and love the wave quilt ❤
Thank you so much!
I love the Postage Stamp Stars. I have a lot of tiny squares. Maybe I will use a solid color for the Star points, though.
You are amazing.
I love your channel, and I am so inspired by your creative use of scraps! I'm so happy to have found your videos!
Thank you! I hope the scrappy creativity continues for all of us.
New subscriber. Excited to see your videos. Thank you for sharing.
You certainly do beautiful work. I love how you take shirts, etc. and use them for scrapping. Thank you for sharing. God bless.
Thank you for watching! Making these videos is more fun than I expected.
I'm only half way through your video and just had to comment. You are great in front of the camera. It feels like we are friends and you are sharing your ideas (which are great ideas). I've learned that I too will more likely use my scraps if I keep them all in the same color family. Also love your use of white scraps for borders. I'm always adding borders and this is a great way to use up the whites and the border won't be so plain. Now onward to the 2nd half of the video. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your kind words! I don't plan far ahead on anything, and find that using color families makes it easier to find a destiny for scraps.
I hand quilt all my quilts. Slow process but clears the mind. So worth it.
So happy to know others are hand quilting as well. It is my moment of zen! Keep doing what you love!
I wish I could but it hurts my hand now so I have to send them out…at least this way I can move on to the next one quicker. But I will hand quilt flannel quilts.
Thank you for the video and the many ideas you have given me for all of my fabric. I enjoy you wor, so much I had to save this video.
Thank you! The more you work with scraps, the more ideas you get from it.
Scrappy and recycled fabric is my favorite. Glad your channel came up on my feed. Just subscribed
It's my favorite too! I'm so happy to meet like-minded quilters.
I just found your channel while hand quilting tonight! I love working with men's shirts and thrifted sheets as well. Your Ocean Wave quilt is masterful. I hope you enter it into a quilt contest.
Thank you! I've never entered a show and I don't plan on it-- I feel my work is not precise or "correct" enough to be show quality.
Beautiful ocean waves quilt !
Thank you! It's one of my favorite patterns to make.
I am new here and just am amazed at all your scrap projects. I also love working with scraps. What lovely quilts you have made out of shirts. I will be excited to see what you come up with in the future. The strip piecing for borders is an excellent idea that I will be doing. thank you for sharing your ideas.
Thank you! I'm glad you are getting some new ideas. I just started using my small white scraps that way because I had so many, and now it's become a go-to use for them.
I just found your channel! I subscribed, of course!! Thank you for sharing your content. I recently needed a bunch of 10×10 papers, so I went to the local newspaper office. They GAVE me an end roll containing a tremedous amount of paper!
Hi, just found your channel, and I’m now a subscriber. I love your ocean waves quilt, and that it’s hand quilted. Looking forward to your future shows.
Thank you! It's a fun pattern to make.
Hi Sue! I’m in Selinsgrove area!!
Great advice! You are a natural speaker!
Thanks, it feels so unnatural to me!
Fun to see what another scrap quilter is up to. Thanks for sharing. Your blue ocean waves quilt looks great - the back too. I'm always adding creative panels to my backs to make things fit nicely.
Thanks! I enjoy putting little surprises on the backs, and now the people I know are a little disappointed when one of my backs is solid.
@@fromsmallthings509 Ha ha yes my friends now immediately turn over my quilts to see what I did on the back. Sometimes it's just a strip of various scraps to connect the 2 pieces of the back but it always generates positive remarks:)
Great ideas! Just subscribed.
I’m in SE PA, too, and love scrap quilts too! Just subscribed!
Aren't we lucky to live in a region with so much quilting history?
Enjoyed your video and all your lovely projects. great way to manage your scraps for sure. I have some of mine in boxes as well. Just have to get some time with the sewing machine to get going. I live in western NJ just over the Easton, PA bridge by 9 miles.
Really enjoyed and hope to see more of your projects. You seem very sweet and genuine. I followed you on Instagram.
Thank you! I started this Instagram just to keep all my quilts in one place. My old page had lots of nature pictures mixed in.
Hi Sue, I have just found your channel and subscribed. I have sewn clothes and craft items for many years having learned to sew in high school. I also do cross stitch but during Covid I decided I wanted to learn to quilt. I did this via a TH-camr who quilts and does cross stitch. She did a beginner online class and I have not looked back!! I might make a suggestion for the basket block without the handle. It would be fun to use lots of your buttons from your jar to add to the top area of the basket so they look like a basket full of flowers. Then you can add a border and make it into a small pillow to put on a shelf or in a basket. It would be adorable. I loved seeing what you were working on during your house sitting time. I do enjoy scraps too but I don’t have tons of scraps yet since I am newer to quilting. I also like to use paper as a square template to sew strips to. It is especially fun to do when I don’t feel like having to study a new pattern or cut fabric. I have only done hand quilting on a few small pieces but I do love handwork so I always sew the back of my quilt bindings by hand instead of my machine. I look forward to seeing more videos from you. I think the quilt from the blue men’s shirts is so pretty. During Covid I purchased a lot of fabric online since I was not going shopping anywhere, so I have not used shirts yet as I need to use up the fabric I have. There is a TH-camr I watch who uses her tiny scrapes that can’t be sewn into anything by making her block layers and then she sews on a front layer of what I think was like Tulle or a netting over her quilt block leaving an opening so that she can place her tiny scraps all over the top of the quilt block. She spreads them all over it in many layers of the scraps and then sews the Tulle closed. Then she quilts all over the top of it in narrow lines so it winds up looking like a quilted block, so pretty. Happy quilting with your scraps!!
Thank you for the suggestion for using buttons on that basket block! I hadn't thought of that, and it would be cute. I hope you are loving quilting! I have seen the process of using the snippets of fabric with tulle on top, and it's a great use for scraps, but haven't tried it. Once mine are below 1" I generally throw them away, at most I use those to stuff cat toys! Happy quilting to you, too!
You Can appliqué handle for the basket
Or embroider one.
Good idea!
I do love embroidery!
Putting the dog ears in a jar makes quilters jam! I have several. Taste great on toast!
Haha! I would love to see them!
I’ve seen those dogs ears and other thread or too-small fabric pieces saved and used as stuffing for fabric toys or small pillows. I thought it was a very keen idea!
Is there a pattern for your 1” square star quilt block?!!!! I love it! 🤩 How will you finish it in a quilt?….. 🌟🌟🌟
Use the basket block as a quilt label. Write your information where the basket Handel should be. I love your Ocean wave quilt.
Thank you for the suggestion! I think I will do that-- it will be very cute!
Typically the block that you didn’t like has a handle appliquéd onto it to make it clear that it’s a basket
What size are the four patch blocks in the tan and black quilt. I really like it
Is it possible that the sheet you decided not to use was a 400 count fabric-or higher?
I found out some cotton is now sprayed with Teflon to make it wrinkle free….
Thanks for the info. I wish they wouldn't do that...
I look forward to seeing how you use up your scraps. How do you manage and store your scraps. I love how you used your low volume scraps especially into borders. Thank you very much for sharing.
I will be sharing how my scrap system works for me. I don't have hard and fast rules, and I hope it can help in your sewing room as well. Sometimes how I process my scraps can depend on which project I have in mind.