Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Scrappy Fun



Created for Project Quilting Season 8 Brighter the Better challenge.

I've been making things from shreds for a long time.  Shreds are the smallest strips of fabric, often left at the end of a piece or when squaring up a piece of fabric. Selvages and anything narrower than 1 inch is a shred.

For this project, I used squares of black fabric as foundations. I simply laid down shreds and top stitched them in place, then put all the squares on another piece of fabric and top stitched around the edges of each square.  I decided it needed a little more fun, so I cut out circles and either rotated or switched them and top stitched the whole thing onto another piece of fabric.



Finally, I layered it with batting and backing and quilted it together with a few lines of stitching, then put it in the washer and dryer to make the edges fuzz up a bit.




Created by Diane Lapacek near Poynette, WI.
17" x 30"

2 comments:

  1. Wow! I really like this. Shreds....interesting term...thought I was the only one who hated throwing those little pieces away!

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  2. I love how you put them on a black background. Such a cool project!

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