15th September

Doing so much sewing recently makes me realise how much I enjoy it. I love the feel of achievement that comes from taking a pice of flat fabric and turning it into something with shape and form, something three-dimensional.
And I love the creativity of it as well - it's been more fun than I thought it would be, taking the left-overs and seeing what talks to what, which fabrics I can put together when there just isn't enough of one remnant to make something.
This time it's the same pattern as last time, and the same 6 month size. The batik was pyjamas for one of my nieces, the chambray was left over from a skirt I made for myself that was a total disaster on :(
And this time I photographed the fabric first, with a metre ruler on it to give myself some idea of how much was left.

This one went to friend for her daughter - though I need to make the skirt longer next time! She's a long, leggy baby. Bodice was fine though.

10th September 2014

After I'd used up these left over bits, I realised I should have taken a photograph of the pieces before I cut them up!
This was the offcuts from some clothes I made for a friend's daughter, back in 2012 (so this fabric isn't as old as the sheet).
I used this pattern, on the 6 months size.

And I cut up all the little left-over bits that wouldn't make anything into 1 1/4 inch wide strips, in the hope that if I manage to cut enough of them, I'll get round to making a full-size log cabin quilt. We'll see...But these bit of left-over fabric is now out of the cotton scraps box!

September 7th

Okay, so August isn't a usual month for making resolutions! But I looked at my box of bits of fabric left over from many years of making clothes, and decided it was time to Use Them Up! Like, I was getting to the stage where I was going to need another box marked "Cotton Scraps".
And then I decided that I'd have a better chance of doing just that if I kept a diary of the process - and, who knows, it might inspire someone else to do the same...So I started with a bit of left-over sheet, that I'd used to re-cover the ironing board about a dozen years earlier - and re-covered the sleeve board that had once belonged to my grandmother.
Come to think of it, the 6 feet by 7 inches left-over strip of rather nice cotton twill sheet was from a sheet that also belonged to her. She'd have been proud of me!