scrapping the scraps

Doing Patchwork and creative sewing for about 15 years, creates boxes and bags of scraps!!!

And like I am a real recycle, up cycle and upgrade junky

I hoard them like treasures, going through them to reorganise and categorise, than starting to mix them up again to see which ones are working together...

...always creating a mayor mess around my workspace, but just feeling happy 

discovering another snippet of a long ago used up fabric.

But know I found the ideal way to give a lot of my fabric scraps a chance for glorious show up.

Years ago I got from my German cousin a bale of white cotton, lots and lots of meters...

great to count on for my project:

I cut the cotton in 4 to 6.5cm wide stripes

grap what ever comes of my scrap box and cut the fabric bits roughly equal

than I sew them in an garland to a cotton stripe, cut them with scissors and sew the opposite side to another white cotton stripe

now I match them with similar wide fabric bits to a longer patched stripe,

white cotton stripe on either side and on and on it goes...

There is only one rule to this work:

No concession in matching colours!!!

everything counts...and if it gets a bit crooked, the livelier and better....

Hope you have a nice weekend ahead.
I will go for some material shopping in Barcelona tomorrow....

Talk to you soon
Silvana

Jeans recycling "la vida es bella"

I love the blues!!!
their textures, their seams, pockets, buttoms...
I like to wear them new, used, tattered
and I go mad recycling them
actually there is hardly no other fabric inspiring me the way
denim does.
I have a big box of old jeans and scraps of them
and often I just open, go through them, cut bits and pieces here and there
and start creating.

Here one of my " La vida es bella" projects, a huge, heavy stuffed reading cushion
for my lovely nice Rosalie