Fabric from Scraps Project
This is a project I've been wanting to try out for a long time and due to Covid, I finally found the time. This is the finished piece of fabric which is 19" x 19" after adding lots of fabric scraps to some muslin fabric I dyed and painted last summer. It was so much fun, I can't wait to try another one!
This shows the addition of fabric scraps on my painted/dyed fabric before I started stitching.
I used any fabric scraps I found left over from creating art quilts and sewing projects. Most were cotton, but I also added some specialty fabrics. I cut them out in organic shapes with no real theme in mind. I arranged and added a tiny bit of Misty Fuse to the back and pressed to keep pieces in their place. I added some 100% cotton batting (center) and up-cycled cotton fabric from a pre-used men's shirt (backing) to create my quilt sandwich.
This is a close-up when I started free-motion quilting. This is great practice for improving free-motion quilting skills. I love free-motion quilting because its so intuitive and freeing - almost like meditation! There is so much creative freedom with this process - choose any fabric, color palette, thread and sew, sew, sew.
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