Aurifil and Free Spirit Fabrics are collaborating to bring small bundles of coordinating scraps and thread together! As an Artisan I received one of these wonderful packs and I had a great time trying to decide what to make with them, sewing with brightly coloured scraps isn’t something I generally do so it was really fun.
In our kitchen we have a record player and a jungle corner, and my husband despairs when the leaves drip on to his prized possession (it’s normal, its called guttation!) so I had the idea of making some rope coasters with the scrap fabric. In the spirit of not buying anything to make these I utilised some macrame yarn I had leftover from that very short-lived hobby and after some trial and error where I realised I had to double the yarn up and pre-wrap it using glue first I succeeded in making two coasters to catch the drips! I used the 50wt thread from the packs in black (2692) and hot pink (4020).
Even after that I still had a lot of scrap leftover, so I decided to try something else new. On Great British Sewing Bee they made fabric confetti bags and it looked so effective. Again using what I already had, I chopped up the scrap strips into smaller pieces and sandwiched them between old wadding and organza and quilted it in an irregular grid using the coordinating 50wt thread in hot pink (4020), lime green (5017), purple (2540) and black (2692) . I then turned these two panels into a pouch using the Essential Pouch pattern from By Annie. It worked so well! This pouch will be with me at the Festival of Quilts and it will be holding my fabric stamps to swap. There is a meet up to swap stamps on the Aurifil stand on friday 2nd August at 4pm, but unfortunately I have a workshop at that time. I will be there at 2pm with some of the other artisans if you wish to meet us though!
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