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Last week a student chose all of the floral fabrics that she could find in the scrap box to create a floral garden wave landscape patchwork piece.

Endless fabric scraps in many different sizes. I decided to make a 4 seasons series of one inch magic fabric pieces. So I sorted them into one inch pieces according to the 4 seasons. These fabrics can be framed and used as art pieces as is, or can be used as fabrics to create other products, bags, pouches, fabric bracelets or necklaces and can even be used to create pockets, collars and cuffs on shirts and jackets.

I have many wave landscape patchwork pieces. Some are for the exhibition which I will be having with my students and many are samples for classes. Most of them I gift but sometimes I use the quilted patchwork fabric to create other products. I had that large 4 season piece which I had not yet quilted and backed and I decided to make something practical, 2 zippered pouches out of it. Zippered pouches are things that one can never have too many of. I find hundreds of use

I needed something in pink shades to complete an outfit. Some sort of accessory. I already have a button necklace but wanted something a bit more boho and casual. A t shirt necklace is what I wanted, so I went to the remnant pile to see what size of t shirt remnants I had in pinks.

I tell my students that the most important thing when choosing colors to my mind is not the color wheel, it is what they feel. Text book jungle colors can be different shades of greens and browns. I went to a search engine and asked for jungle colors. I found certain palettes but I also found childrens books and there the colors were different, reds and yellows and many shades of greens and oranges as well.

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

What I enjoy doing the most is working with scraps. So I tell myself do what you do well! Working with fabric scraps. Giving them a new life. Creating techniques that simplify achieving appealing results.

This week's experiment is a wave landscape patchwork piece with stretchy fabric. I am not normally working with stretch fabrics when creating wave landscape patchwork quilts, but the pieces are so beautiful so I will try. I have the perfect purple thread in my stash.

To create another piece, just for the sake of creating? I have a few ways of dealing with this. The first is to take a break. I don't go near my studio, I read a book, go for a walk, watch a movie. Those are some of my options. But when in doubt, I just dance. Just to dance. I have my playlists, plug the earphones in and rumba and lambada around the house for about an hour. I am a different person after that.

t was interesting to work on it. It is not exactly a flow of a the 4 seasons piece. What I see is leaves and flowers through the 4 seasons.

I always create challenges for myself. When I completed the 4 seasons series I had many scrap pieces left over. I wanted to make one piece with merging all the 4 seasons flowing through each other using only the scraps left over. The palette was limited so the first thing I did was to sort the fabrics into the seasons.

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.

Working with my winter fabrics this week. Crumb patchwork is so versatile - using the small pieces to create new fabric I first sort scraps according to the seasonal colors

After spending a few weeks on these pieces the series is completed. This was a challenging project as I limited myself to using only what I could find in the scrap box. This box is made up of all the remnants that accumulate during the week. I put offcuts in there and the students put all their random pieces in there too. I began by going to the scrap box and pulling out all the pieces that I could find in a division of the four seasons.

Working on the 4 seasons series using only pieces from the scrap box was challenging. Winter was the final one in the series. All the seasons have all the colors, as they do in nature, but in different depths of color. I took out all the colors that had a flat, grey overlay for that winter feeling.

I am working on the final pieces for the Wave Landscape Patchwork exhibition and decided to do a set of the 4 seasons. Four individual...

That is really ridiculous with my sewing ability and the amount of fabrics that I have on hand. And so I decided to sew a patchwork tea cozy. I stitched a crumb patchwork rectangle

I provide most of the fabrics, upcycled sheets and clothing but they have to bring a few personal pieces to incorporate into the quilt. They have 2 options, they can either stich a rag quilt with flannel batting, or a squares quilt with a fleece or flannel backing. Not so classical quilting.

I still use classical quilt techniques but modified to my style especially when I teach sewing. I use the log cabin block and call it a magic square when teaching sewing. The first project of students is to create a square and then a pillow cover from that square. They get to use scraps availabe in the scrap box that week to create their squares and pillow covers.

People ask me if I do classical quilting. Yes I do, specifically to gift or if I need another patchwork blanket. My focus today, is on teaching and creating art quilts. Today I sorted some of my photo albums, I am making an effort to digitalize my photos and I found an album with photos that I had taken at an exhibition that I had given 35 years ago. My go to was the log cabin pattern. I have always used upcycled fabrics and always had strips and odd small pieces of