#what do I do with scrap fabric

[the-confused-little-anomaly]

People I need advice. I have lots of old shirts and other clothes and I don't want to just throw them away.

I usually just cut them up and make them into rags, but you can't do that with every piece of clothing and I have random burst of motivation to do something so any ideas?

Rn I can only saw by hand, but I'm pretty decent at it... I think...

[tj-crochets]

I had exactly enough purple scraps left from the starry purple quilt to make a baby quilt! Well, the quilt top isn't exactly done yet, but pretty close, just one more round of ironing and sewing left

[hidefdoritos]

Using a salvaged jar of paint and the brush from a nail polish to refurbish the logo on this INCREDIBLE old shirt that I thrifted.

[ID: A green t-shirt with a white wind turbine printed on it. Around the turbine is written, "Renewable energy? I'm a big fan!" End ID.]

[thebookworm0001]

I have some thoughts about why some of veilguard’s writing is the way it is and it comes down to development hell and corporate meddling which is perhaps too generous for some problems but also feels right for a Lot of the things I think

Thoughts in the tags

[copiawife]

his outfit is (pretty much) done!! he looks so cute 🥺🥺

[lokh]

slowly. but surely. cleaning out. my fucking room.

[bmpmp3]

(guy who just sewed like a hundred small squares of scrap fabric together for hours with no clear goal) why does my everything hurts

[ut-scatteredextension]

What's the worst reason you had to reset?

"..."

"I HATE HOTLAND."

[tangled-brain]

I've been really inspired by the visible mending ideas on @wastelesscrafts page, and decided to give it a shot on my cat-scratched couch.

Details on the process below the image description for anyone interested.

[Image ID: Three pictures of the back right corner of an olive green suede couch, each image from a slightly different angle. There is a hole in the fabric just below the back of the armrest, roughly the size and shape of the sole of a shoe. The hole has been patched with a cream-colored fabric with a thick, textured weave. The surrounding area of the couch has loose threads from cat scratches. End Image ID.]

This corner of the couch is their absolute favorite scratching spot, and they made a hole down to the wood that was bigger than my hand. I didn't bother making the edges pretty because I expect that they'll have this destroyed soon too, though I'm considering adding vines & flowers if it holds up well over the next month or so.

I used scrap upholstery fabric in a color I thought looked nice, and embroidery floss (3 strands, not 6, too hard to get through fabric) that matched the couch. I would list what stitches I used but honestly there was absolutely no method to the madness. Some combination of determination and desperation seemed to do the trick though.

Even with thimbles this was murder. The thick fabrics + the upholstery padding made this really tough, I wouldn't recommend this if you have issues with finger mobility, strength, or sensitivity.

Funky project, would spend a day on it again, but only after my fingers heal.

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

I woke up in a cold sweat yesterday morning, scared I'd not have enough patches for the bad idea/patchwork/leftovers dress.

Then I counted my squares, realized my extreme reusing of cutoffs had me in a nice and cozy spot and descended into a haze of mindless sewing until I got here.

I put new cones on my overlocker when I started this project. The only other one I did was 4-yo nephew's knight coat. I may have trust issues when it comes to patchwork fraying with wear, and foundation piecing is not gonna lay them to rest.

I just finished panel 10 out of 14.

I can't feel my right wrist or upper spine.

This thing still needs a hem finish and it might have to be binding or a hem facing, because none of it will take kindly to turning over.

I wanted to have this done by Tuesday evening.

I desperately need a pep talk that I can finish this.

[tj-crochets]

Scrap management! This is all the little scraps from the pride quilt; I do have slightly bigger scraps but I think I’ll use those for something else?

What color or pattern of fabric do you think I could use as a backing fabric for a quilt made with these blocks?

[scatteredcloud]

Going on yet another rant about “merch”

If you did not screen print that shirt yourself, you did not make it.

You made the design on it, which I’m sure would be a nice poster or sticker perhaps? Which of course you didn't print yourself, that sounds hard! An embroidered design? Maintaining a 12 needle embroidery machine capable of producing a design with that many colors for the number of orders being received is a lot of work, that's pretty impressive! Not to mention maintaining proper tension on the frame working with a hundred stretchy t shirts, which idk came from somewhere who knows! Your repeating pattern looks very nice on a skirt that you did not make and was mass produced by some Vietnamese person getting paid pennies so that ~50 gay people on the internet could pay for international shipping for a design you “made”. Wow that mug is awesome didn’t know you got into sublimation printing! And have a cylindrical heat press to be able to do not just mugs, but tumblers too! Woah your sublimation set up can do bed sheets (any size)? And shower curtains? And three different shapes of throw pillow stuffed with poly fill, which will never decompose and isn't comfortable to begin with?

Your poorly digitized vector art looks lovely as an enamel pin now that someone else (Who? More like who cares!) cleaned it up for you and then created moulds for and maybe even hand injected the enamel into only for you to sell maybe seven or eight of them. Aw damn your design got ripped off? Who could have guessed that with the distribution power of an entire manufacturing plafffnt that has hundreds, if not thousands of moulds sitting around that they might have used your mould to make themselves a profit for a change! Those money grubbing Chinese bastards! After all, you were there every step of the way, casting the negative of the mould, running the injection of liquid metal into that mould, mixing each color of enamel, and precisely filling each segment of the design, which you refused to simplify! You just can't compromise with art.

Ohhh I see they’re made to order so its more sustainable. So this factory (Guatemala? India? The Philippines? Pakistan? Could you point to it on a map? They just don't teach you this stuff in school!) Anyways this factory in some poor country has to keep your design on file, oh and for your enamel pins they have to keep the mould too! Ahh right but it’s sustainable, because it's a limited run. You’re the 100th person this week to place an order, and they're only printing 50 of your design, you should complain to the manufacturer about how slow your orders are being filled.

I love supporting small businesses - it’s just you after all! With all the hard work you’ve put into fiddling around in procreate who has time to figure out material acquisition, and production runs, and printer calibration, and inventory management, and machine maintenance, and payment processing, and international shipping, and packaging, and

[squirshie]

thinking about fashion and twst again

[copiawife]

was full-on hysterically screaming and sobbing for about an hour earlier because i've been severely depressed lately but then i downloaded a pattern from etsy and made a little rat friend out of fabric scraps so that helped a little

[hollowmorgve]

no matter how many times i sew them the absurd amount of fabric you need to make ruffles always baffles me

[hero-is-back]

Me, covered in bite marks, miserable, just finished having a mental breakdown, on the verge of another one, but I remember plushies exist and I could make one