As I move one or two Community First! projects to the flimsy stage (or better yet, to completion), I like to create a kiddie top for Sleep in Heavenly Peace. After the previous haul of novelty fabrics, I felt there were finally enough heart fabrics to create a top.
While ironing the accompanying baggie of scraps . . .
I had seen this in the harvest scraps as well, and I suspect somewhere there's an adorable hexie top made of pieces from all the garments Gramma made her granddaughter(s).
My group gets upset about oddly shaped fabric so I keep quiet about my own novelties that have had hexagons cut from them or even (horror) have circular holes. Unless I die in the night, they don't need to know.
ReplyDeleteIt would drive my mother crazy when we'd ask for some fabric for a project, then cut a piece out of it from the very center (kids!)
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Scrap-quilting forensics! I've had vintage prints cut out as garment pieces.
ReplyDeleteI recognize garment-cutting remains from years of creating them (the garments AND the remains) myself. Since I enjoy making scrappy tops, I'm usually able to cut nearly every square inch of the weirdly-shaped donations into sizes and shapes that I use most. It's not unlike deconstructing a shirt for use in a quilt--lots of strange angles and curves to those pieces too.
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