What to do with scraps?

I think I'd eye those upholstery scraps and think about throw pillows. You could even do a random patchwork, good place to play with your decorative stitches and use up any trims and such you have from other projects. Upholstery fabric would also make fun patchwork vest fronts.

Val

If you have the time, cut up the scraps into 6 1/2" pieces (or 2 1/2" pieces if the scraps are small and you want to save them.) I keep these blocks handy for "scrappy" quilts. Seems like these sizes work in most patterns.

Hi Sunny JoAnn's and Michaels both have "wood" sections. They have some fabulous little footstools there, and they're only about 5 bucks. Paint or stain, then put a piece of nice, thick foam on top. Sew all those little upholstery squares together and cover the foam and staple underneath. I made a bunch of those (but not with patchwork) for gifts one year, and everyone loved them. If you feel like making it really "she-she", hot glue some upholstery beads around the bottom and let them just dangle. Really cute!!

Patti in Seattle

Howdy!

First put them into a tub, stick that tub in the closet and let it "ripen" for a while. Hey, works for me! You can buy/beg/filch fabric of similar weight to complete a project, whatever that is. Our guild has a call list for a "fabric dig" at a local drapery shop; all kinds of odd shapes and sizes of scraps, mostly triangles w/ one lonnnnng pointy end. I made curtains out of a bunch of scraps that look good together, using some remnants from a NewYear'sDaySale long-long ago, nice fabric, cheap prices; covered 3 full-length windows. One of the quilters brought a wallhanging to a "dig", made from a bag of scraps, just gorgeous.

Good luck!

Ragmop/Sandy-- hey there little Red Riding Hood, you sure are lookin' good!

Sunny,

My parents owned a furniture store for 54 years, we had bunches of those pieces like you are speaking of and one thing mother did with a few of them was to put them in those type of frames that you can put collectibles in. She used small ones and put the fabric around the small round card board that came with them and put mementos in them, things that Dad and her's class rings are in one, something that my grandfather always carried in his pocket in one, a silver dollar that someone special gave her. Her metals from band and other metals she and dad won over the years. We have them hanging on the steps going to the basement.

Now there was still boxes and boxes of them left. We took them to the school for art classes and they appreciated them, because we all know that art is one thing that gets funding cut for when things are short in the school budget.

Just a few thoughts from a person that also used them to cover switch plates that matched the bed spreads and drapes in the rooms.

Jacquel>I stopped at an estate sale (bad Sunny, bad....) and ended up paying $4

Sunny mix those with 4.5' squares with heavier weight cloth like denim, velvet, and such. Make yourself an afghan sized quilt, without batting, and back it with something yummy soft like flannel. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I used some heavy fabric samples to make chenille bath mats. 10" squares are a good size. Stack up 4 and sew diagonal lines about 3/8" apart. (They look better if the top square in each stack is more or less the same color.) Slice with a chenille cutter. Trim to uniform 9" squares. 12 of these will make a nice small mat. Assemble using 1" strips of fabric: First make 3 rows of 4 squares. Attach 2 fabric strips RST on the front and back of the 1st square. Attach the next square RST to one strip, fold under the edge of the other strip and stitch down. Put the rows together the same way, making sure your squares line up. Roberta in D

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