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DIY Fabric Remnants Ideas

5 July, 2012 8:00 am , 14 Comments ,

Updated.  Originally Posted 6/2/2011

I am a fabric freak.  The fabric store is my favorite place to be!  Love it, love it.  It makes me happy!!  One birthday, my best friend went to every fabric store in our area looking for discontinued fabric or fabric books they were going to throw away.  She presented me with boxes and boxes full of material.  Oh my gosh!  I have a whole closet full of containers filled with fabric.  (Filled with possibilities!)

The pictures below are things I have made at one time or another. Most of these projects take very little fabric, a Fat Quarter or less.

So start sewing!  Remnant fabric pieces can be used for so many projects.  And these projects make fabulous gift ideas…  Purses, Key Fobs, Cell Phone/Gadget Holder, Tissue Holders, Doll Quilt Blanket, Crayon Roll-up, Valances, Runners, Place Mats, Fabric Coasters, Memo Board, Pillows, just to name a few.  The possibilities are endless.  It will keep me up at night just thinking about them! ha!  Hold on to your fabric.  You never know when a piece of fabric will inspire you to get creative!

I don’t sew with a pattern, I wing it as I go.  There are tons of free patterns on-line, though.  Sew on!

DIY Fabric Remnants Ideas

Hip Bag and KeyFob

DIY Fabric Remnants Ideas

Tote Purse

DIY Fabric Remnants Ideas

Cell Phone/Gadget Pouch

DIY Fabric Remnants Ideas

KeyFobs

DIY Fabric Remnants Ideas

Patchwork Pillow

DIY Fabric Remnants Ideas

Doll Blanket and Pillow

DIY Fabric Remnants Ideas

Business Card/Mini Wallet

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Thrifty Art

3 August, 2011 9:40 am , Leave a Comment ,

I’m redoing my sewing/craft room for umpteenth time.  Not that I particularly like to paint over and over again, but the room feels blah and I want it to feel happy and be a source of motivation and inspiration.  I know it’s a lot to ask for a little room.  So much expectation! : )  But here I go again…

My goal is to redo the room for as little money as possible.  Not that paint and accessories are all that expensive, but it kinda is when you are me and paint and revamp so many times.  I think the room is actually getting smaller because of all the layers of paint!  So I’m redecorating on the cheap.  (My hubby will dig that!)  I have oodles of fabric and found some that were embroidered.  I picked up some bargain price Ikea frames and voila…  instant art for very little money!  I think they look groovy!

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Fabric Remnants Ideas

2 June, 2011 4:04 pm , Leave a Comment ,

 

I am a fabric freak.  The fabric store is right up there with Lowes for me!  Love it, love it.  It makes me happy!!  One birthday, my best friend went to every fabric store in our area looking for discontinued fabric or fabric books they were going to throw away.  She presented me with boxes and boxes full of material.  Oh my gosh!  I have a whole closet full of containers filled with fabric.  (Filled with possibilities!)

So start sewing!  Remnant fabric pieces can be used for so many projects.  And these projects make fabulous gift ideas…  Purses, Key Fobs, Cell Phone/Gadget Holder, Tissue Holders, Doll Quilt Blanket, Crayon Roll-up, Valances, Runners, Place Mats, Fabric Coasters, Memo Board, Pillows, just to name a few.  The possibilities are endless.  It will keep me up at night just thinking about them! ha!  So hold on to your fabric.  You never know when a fabric idea will inspire you to get creative!

 

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