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| Scrap Basket Project #2 |
One of my many goals this year is to make a dent in my stash. I have so many fabrics! I have started trimming leftover fabrics into 10 inch and 5 inch squares, and 2 1/2 inch wide strips, and then putting them in boxes for use later, but that still leaves plenty of other usable, but less regularly sized pieces. I have several plastic shoe boxes full of those pretty little scraps, so I have decided to start working on those.
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| These are the first two boxes I pulled! |
I admit that when I make lists, I usually add in something I have already done, so I can check it off! So, the first project from the Scrap Baskets will be the two pillow covers I knit up right before Christmas from long skinny scraps and selvedges. I had posted about my ambivalence about these in December, but now find that these pillows are growing on me!
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| Scrap Basket Project #1 |
My first project for 2017 was to attempt (for a second time) to make a scrappy baby bib. I used the concept of a
slab or vortex quilt block that Amanda Jean at Crazy Mom Quilts does so well. Rather than making a quilt, I planned to make the fabric for a cute little one of a kind baby bib. When I started looking for bib patterns, I saw that this is not a novel concept.
The Nana Company site has a nice tutorial and pattern for a piece work bib.
I attempted that pattern, but decided to get "fancy" and quilt the bib pretty heavily. So, while the bib is pretty darn cute - it is also pretty darn small. In fact, way too small to go around a baby's neck! I used a work friend's baby as a tester. It was a fail!
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| So cute - so tiny! |
I don't have any handy babies around, so I recently picked up a bib at the local Walmart, mostly to check for neck sizing.
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| Store-bought bib. |
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| You can see the difference in the neck sizing. |
I used the neck of the store-bought bib, and have been tweaking a pattern with some curves. I used old file folders for the templates.
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| This patter incorporates a 1/4 inch seam all around. I traced this on the back of the fabric, and then sewed to a piece of terry cloth (which I washed twice to reduce surprise shrinkage down the road) |
I needed a bib as a gift for a baby boy, so instead of the slab, I started with some 2 1/2 inch strips sewn together to make patchwork squares.
Then I also made a slab from the same and some other fabrics.
I find that making these slabs (about 10 by 12 inches) goes pretty easily without any ironing until the end and can be worked on while watching TV or a Netflix movie!
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| Slabs in progress |
I also tried my hand at a bib, using the same pattern, with just a single piece of baby themed fabric. I like how that turned out, as well.
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| I have since tweaked the pattern to get rid of the uneven neck pieces! |
Even though I have now made about a half dozen "slabs", the scrap pile is still pretty big. I may pull together a baby quilt from these, as well. In the meantime, Scrap Basket Projects 1 and 2 are done.
Here is another look at the two pieced bibs. I quilted in the ditch once down the middle and once across on these two bibs, but didn't quilt as heavily as the teeny pink ones I had previously made!
After a green Christmas, we are now being bombarded with snow! Enjoy!
Take care and stay warm!
I am linking up to
Crazy Mom Quilts finish it up Friday.
Gretchen
