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Fabric Scraps
I save my fabric scraps. In fact, for the longest time, whenever anyone on PR talked about their "stash" I thought they were talking about scraps! ;)
Why? Who knows... I find it very difficult to throw away any pieces of fabric that I love or pieces of fabric from a meaningful project (i.e., made for someone I love). I tell myself that there is enough left to make something... (True, if that "something" is a bikini for a Barbie doll!)
Maybe it's not my fault. Have the researchers on the human genome project said anything about a "pack rat" gene?
You may be thinking that the above picture doesn't look so bad. Well, as long as I'm confessing... When I opened my closet door to take a picture of my "scrap stash" I was so embarrassed that I cleaned it out first! Here are the rest of my scraps:
How about you? What do you do with your fabric scraps? Do you have a minimum size requirement for keeping scraps?
4 comments:
Hmmmm...good question. Silk fabric or something else really expensive I'll save all but the smallest of pieces.
Other pieces would have to have about a 1/2 yard left, but I could possibly save something smaller.
I used to save everything, but stopped. When I start sewing more I might save more since "you never know if you might need a small piece of some fabric".
No. Unless it is really good or expensive like silk, or there's about 1/2 yard left, or it is from the children's clothes so that I can make repairs. I'm with Claire.
I keep all of mine, except for really small pieces. Sometimes you just need a small piece to make a co-ordinating garment. Great for trims etc.
I have a habit of often buying fabric without any particular pattern in mind, just because it really strikes my fancy. So in that case, often I'll end up with something like a yard left. I generally find it difficult to throw out any scraps that are a quarter yard or more, just because they're large enough that I could actually do something with them! Not that I often do come up with something, but this week it came in handy to make a purse for an upcoming wedding that I'm in. I'm on a kick of finding a way to use these things up without throwing them out, though, since I don't want to put them in the landfill, so I have a plan in the back of my head for a project that may enable me to use up quite a few of them.
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