Ideas for Fabric Scraps

If you sew and are anything like me, you hate to throw away fabric scraps. Here are a couple ways I use mine:



1) Make little primitive bags by sewing three sides of identical sized fabric together - don't even bother hemming the top! Tear a strip of muslin, homespun, or whatever you have to tie the top of the bag closed.

Uses:

*I often put great smelling potpourri in them and enclose them with my Ebay dolls as part of my buyer's thank you gift.

*Put them in underwear/sock drawers, hang them in closets or put them in a box with your writing paper. Your notes will smell sooo good!

*Put little trinkets or homemade candies, cookies in them and use them as hostess gifts

*Great for children's parties! Throw in a couple little rings, party watches, etc.



The size of your bag doesn't matter; large or small, make them to fit your needs.







2) Use them for appliques! If you don't like sewing appliques but enjoy the look, iron a piece of double-sided fusing on the scrap before you cut it, then simply iron it onto your project! I put them on my grandkids' craft aprons, vests, tote bags, etc.

Originally Posted by CraftyGardener

You can use scraps of material to decorate flower pots. I use a mixture of white glue and water. Coat the pot in glue mixture and then layer the scraps over the pot and cover liberally with the glue mixture. When it dries it has a nice shine to it.



If you can cut your scraps into lengths, you can tie them around a wreath form to make a rag wreath.



I've seen plain brown paper gift bags decorated with scraps of material, buttons etc. for a nice gift bag for the crafter.

3) Cover a lightswitch!



4) Make little barnyard animals for a baby.



5) Cover a small photo album



6) Make a jar lid cover! Makes a nice touch for homemade that come from your kitchen!



7) Make little pillows in different shapes - hearts, squares, stars, etc. - and put them in a basket or bowl for a country decorating accent.



8) Make ornaments!





I know there are many other uses out there - if you respond to this post with yours, I'll add it so we'll have them all in one place!

well sher- you are gonna get me to lookin at that pile of shirts with the missin buttons in a whole new way!!! even though i am challenged with fabric doins of most any kind, some of these ideas really caught my fancy cuz i don't haveta sew 'em. thanks for doin this- gives me somethin to look at tryin as winter is about to hunker in on us, but don't worry - the world of doll-making is so far beyond me. some of these ideas, though, are within even my scope of trying [img]images/smiley_icons/oh yes.gif[/img] [img]images/smiley_icons/friends.gif[/img]

[img]images/smiley_icons/friends.gif[/img] Oh-Boy... after reading this you got me going. I have a drawer full of scraps. Thanks for all the info. I'm sure to get busy now. [img]images/smiley_icons/angry.gif[/img] Oh-NO...more work????? But should be interesting to see what I come up with. First is the flower pot idea. Thanks so much for sharing. [img]images/smiley_icons/flowers.gif[/img]

[img]images/smiley_icons/friends.gif[/img] Well I'm back on this page. Just had to tell you I used scraps of material with white glue mixed with water and covered an old lamp shade with the material. C [img]images/smiley_icons/smile.gif[/img] ame out so cute I may do another one for a friend.

I used some of my fabric scraps to make mug coasters. I put some spice mix in muslin between the 2 layers, so that it smells nice when a hot mug is put on top of it.