No I'm not serving up a pot luck stew to the children! I meant leftovers of the fabric kind!
While making the X+ blocks for Emily this week I thought as a Bee a Brit Stingy Bee member I should use up the bits that get cut off! Yes I can be that mad sometimes.
So as I was making my blocks to form the X bits I just stitched another line back across my 2" squares and made some tiny HSTs!
Here is what I first made using a couple of vintage sparkly buttons
And here is what I second made
And the moral is .....don't throw those leftover triangles away or you could be missing out on a pincushion! Just think how many of these we could have been making over the years?? Hahaha!
And if you think I'm mad take a look at this! Now that is stingy taken to a whole new glorious level!
While making the X+ blocks for Emily this week I thought as a Bee a Brit Stingy Bee member I should use up the bits that get cut off! Yes I can be that mad sometimes.
So as I was making my blocks to form the X bits I just stitched another line back across my 2" squares and made some tiny HSTs!
Here is what I first made using a couple of vintage sparkly buttons
And here is what I second made
And the moral is .....don't throw those leftover triangles away or you could be missing out on a pincushion! Just think how many of these we could have been making over the years?? Hahaha!
And if you think I'm mad take a look at this! Now that is stingy taken to a whole new glorious level!
I hate waste and can't bear to throw away any fabric but I never do anything with it! These are perfect pinnies!
ReplyDeleteThey are both great but I love the little cube one. So tiny but perfectly formed.
ReplyDeleteI did exactly the same when I made the x + for my bee, although my little HSTs ended up as a mug rug. Seemed a terrible shame to waste those little triangles :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat an environmentally friendly sewer you are! Jxo
ReplyDeleteI love your stinginess!
ReplyDeleteLove your blocks and your stingy ideas. And yes that Christmas card is brill idea. May have to borrow that for next year!
ReplyDeleteI have 200 offcut HSTs from my xplus quilt all destined for a new life too - love what you have done xxx
ReplyDeleteYou should come visit, you could prolly make a quilt out of my "just cant throw away" bits... lol
ReplyDeleteLove your blocks and pincushions! Amazing card, too!
ReplyDeleteThe cube pincushion is lovely, I am not so sure I have enough of the magpie in me for the Christmas card though!
ReplyDeleteSo cute! I save most everything too!
ReplyDeleteYep that cube is soooo cute!
ReplyDeleteI often wonder if we will ever see any quilters on those hoarding programs!
You are quite, quite mad ;o) Cute though!
ReplyDeleteWow, those must be tiny little blocks! Isn't that Christmas card great!
ReplyDeleteLovely blocks and fab use of scraps!!
ReplyDeleteHa! How many little pinnies could we have? Room after room full!
ReplyDeleteLove your blocks. They're so happy!