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Every time I create a new piece of fabric art, I'm surrounded by a delightful chaos of fabric scraps. Each tiny piece holds a story waiting to be told, a color to be connected, or a design just waiting for its moment to shine. Throwing any of them away feels like a loss, so over the years, I've developed various techniques to transform these remnants into beautiful creations.

Whenever I work on a project and inevitably end up with piles of scraps I tend to expand my repertoire of techniques

I have been working in pinks and creating a pink progression of art quilts in the last week. They are each 25 x 30 cm.

I have been sharing their pieces bit by bit. They have been noticed. I was asked last week to create 30 small textile art pieces

The first piece in the series that I am creating around combat colors I will call The Remains.

It is as though there was a reason that I had kept all of these remnants for the colors of my now.

A few years ago I had photos of my wedding and never saw myself as a person who needed to take the dress out to relive the occassion. It was important for me to do something meaningful with the dress. I kept it in a box for a while and when I began teaching children how to sew I realised that I could accomplish a twofold purpose, the first and more important one was to teach as many children as possible the long forgotten skills of handsewing and the second purpose was

Last week I worked in spring colors creating some boho fabric. I had a selection of spring colored strips and decided to create more scrapfabric.

I have made 5 different styles of fabric bags this last week and also decided to create a new carnival fabric. I don't purchase anything, not fabrics, or threads or notions. There is that supply that never ends. The Carnival boho fabric has lots of texture to it. I saw a colorful piece with lots of trims and detail.

Ideas are endless. Don't throw your scraps away, follow and come and create with us using our tutorials - for all those scraps

Its the #IGQuiltFest2023 day 10 #upcycling Recreate. reduce, reuse, recycle, rework, rewear. I do keep all the scraps and even the threads when creating projects and upcycle and reuse them to recreate even more projects.

I am being influenced by my students. One of the children last year walked around the room and collected loose threads from everyone's scraps. He ended up with a huge pile and we made beads from them. The same thing happened to me today. You know that pile of threads that gets entangled in your scraps? Well today instead of throwing them away I collected them and this is only a small part of what I found. My progression of neverending fabric scraps

I have been sewing many art quilts in the last month and as a result have been left with a huge pile of fabric remnants. I spent today sorting them according to seasons and sizes for working on future projects. Winter was the last one that I worked on and as I sorted I noticed how many different shades there are of winter. I decided to do a sub sort of the really tiny pieces which I use to create ScrapFabric and fabric beads.

I am making some crumb patchwork pants and saw when lining up that I was creating so many scraps. I put them in a bowl as I work and saw that the pile was growing and that the mix created a pleasing visual effect.

Following on from this post https://www.priganart.com/post/do-what-feels-right I have been working on my production line according to plan. Such a lot of inspiration. Last week I worked in greens created a wave landscape piece for the exhibition and of course had lots of scraps left over.

I have been thinking about writing this post for a while now. I can look at a product and after a few minutes I manage to analyze how it was

This morning a friend on facebook asked in a post what our obessions are. I was just thinking about that! Standing with a cup of coffee in my studio and looking at all the things that I have created this week. Making new fabric from scraps is what I would call my obsessions. It is the technique that I connect with the most.

Every time I create with small pieces I wonder how I can work so small and then I work with even smaller piece

I am working on a new tutorial for fabric buttons. Everytime I create I work on a number of different projects in parallel I looked at...