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From: Sherri
Date: 07-17-2006, 09:17 PM (1 of 7)
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I have a tonne of scrap. Anybody have any new interesting ideas for me in how I can start using them up. Sher My website
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User: Sherri
Member since: 02-07-2001 Total posts: 357 |
From: Tummy
Date: 07-18-2006, 12:10 AM (2 of 7)
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ME TOO!!!!! I have been thinking of using my diapering scraps to make nursing pads and mama pads (if big enough).. but the pile scraps that are not worthy of the above seem to be getting bigger and bigger! |
User: Tummy
Member since: 06-03-2006 Total posts: 81 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 07-18-2006, 07:00 AM (3 of 7)
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When I pack to move next month I'm sending mine to Texas!! I've started tossing a lot of them out when I finish the project. I find they are just clutter. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: stephi
Date: 07-18-2006, 08:45 AM (4 of 7)
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I give my D mine if they are too small to do anything with. SHe wraps them around barbies and makes her own clothes. But you could just start trying to piece them together and make a "raggie quilt" I know senior homes and childrens hospitals love getting stuff like that for thier patients. If they are big enough you can sew them onto kitchen towels and wash clothes and give them away as house warming or thinking of you gifts. I call them pretty rags. OR...you can tube them kind thick and make bracelets out of them (another one of my Ds things she does) If you have an embroidery machine put initals of flowers or something on them. You know little girls and haveing stuff with thier names on it. 
Stephi
"No body knows what it is that I do until I dont do it" "if you do what you have always done you will get what you have always gotten" |
User: stephi
Member since: 03-17-2006 Total posts: 361 
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From: pucktricks
Date: 07-18-2006, 04:56 PM (5 of 7)
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Here's what I use my scraps for: 1. doll clothes- I have a niece who'll take whatever I make her. 2. Accents on different outfits, sometimes that small scrap makes the perfect contrasting pocket or collar on an outfit. I've got some scraps that I'm going to use to trim a dress that I have that has rather boring coloring. 3. Appliques on different things. 4. baby blankets- it may not be enough for a full outfit or a full blanket, but you patch several together and you have a very cute blanket, and I have lots of friends having babies right now (another just announced her pregnancy, and I've been looking forward to her having a baby for a while). Ticia |
User: pucktricks
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 570 
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From: carman
Date: 07-18-2006, 05:37 PM (6 of 7)
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http://www.quiltville.com/ check this site out, she has MANY ideas, they are under free scrap quilts |
User: carman
Member since: 04-17-2000 Total posts: 692 
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From: Sparky
Date: 07-19-2006, 11:11 AM (7 of 7)
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If you don't have a use for them and don't quilt, what about giving them to someone who does? Do you have some kind of Senior center? You might call them and see if they have any quilters who'd be interested. Or you could offer them on Freecycle. http://freecycle.com/
Sparky
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User: Sparky
Member since: 03-13-2005 Total posts: 94 |
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