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Sew Your Fabric Scraps
The “Summer Scrap Elimination of 2023” was organized by Swan of swanamity.com, who hosted another summer of patterns to reduce your scrap fabrics with weekly guest designers who shared projects.
For those of you saving fabric scraps from those beautiful quilt projects you’ve made, you may find “THE PATTERN” from one of the postings listed here:
- www.SwanAmity.com/blog
- tamarinis.typepad.com
- https://www.karenbolan.com/blog
- https://patchworkbreeze.com/blog
- https://www.patchworkposse.com/blog
I am a scrap saver. I have totes of scraps sorted by color. I made a tote from fabric strips and another from fun prints. I made a landscape quilt with confetti-sized pieces. I now only save scraps 2 1/2″ square or larger.
Make the off-centered Diamond Table Topper
I made a table topper with 3 1/2″ blue and yellow fabric squares. I sewed them into Half-Square Rectangles.
Directions:
- (24) 3-1/2″ squares of color A scraps
- (24) 3-1/2″ squares of color B scraps
- Thread, 6″ squaring ruler, rotary cutter, cutting mat, thread
- Sew seams slightly narrower than 1/4″
- pencil or chalk marker
Process of making HST (half-square triangle) blocks:
- Draw one diagonal line on the back of the lighter-colored squares so the line can be seen (or use a chalk marker).
- Place one square of Color A and one square of Color B, right sides together.
- Sew a seamline slightly narrower than 1/4″ away from the drawn line. I feed each set of squares under the sewing needle at one time. Then I clip them apart and rotate the corners to sew on the other side of the drawn line.
- Cut the sewn square on the drawn diagonal line.
- Press the seam to one side.
- Trim each of the HST sets to 3″ square.
Arranging:
- Lay the HST blocks out on a table or work surface 8 rows across and 6 rows down. Try to keep the same-colored half-square triangles away from each other in the design.
- There are many ways the HST can be arranged. I’m showing only 3 possibilities below. Experiment and play around with layouts, and have fun. Stripes would be fun.
