December was apparently a 'blue mood' month because all my scrap sewing was done with fabrics I pulled out of the Dk blue scrap bag when I needed to do something that didn't require a lot of thinking.
First up was this walker bag that I'd been commissioned to make for a friends 91 year-old dad. Made w/o a pattern, but based on approximate measurements that she gave me and how I normally make my bags. This finished at approximately 12" square and 2 inches wide. It has batting in it. All fabrics were out of my scrap stash, lining was a remnant. Straps for hanging were the cuffs I'd cut off of a shirt that I repurposed.
Front shown here, with the two outer pockets.
Back view of the bag.
While pulling the scraps for the walker bag I went through and pulled all of the short pieces, and those that were narrow or weren't prints that I hadn't used in forever to do string piecing on adding machine tape. I measured the length in the strips shown in this picture and total pieced length is almost 960 inches.
These strips finished off all the oddball scraps, and there is between 350 and 400 inches in these. I think I might have enough for a couple of quilts....lol.
Still to be done is to trim these strips down to a consistent 3" or 3.5" width and figure out what I want to do with them. I do have an idea for these, but need to do some sketching to see how things would look before sewing.
I've also gone through the light blue and teal/turquoise blue scraps and pulled out the small scraps and strips. And they are now sew together now.
Don't forget to check out what everyone has done this month -
Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,Nóilin, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa, Lynn, Tierney and Hannah
Gratitudes:
1. For the house I inherited, even though the more I deal with things in the house, the more my plans on what I need to do to be able to live there change. Good to learn to flexibility in planning!
2. For the blessing of friends who have helped so much in working on the house.
