Thursday 21 February 2013

Playing with leftovers!

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!

16 comments:

  1. I hate waste and can't bear to throw away any fabric but I never do anything with it! These are perfect pinnies!

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  2. They are both great but I love the little cube one. So tiny but perfectly formed.

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  3. I 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 :-)

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  4. What an environmentally friendly sewer you are! Jxo

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  5. Love your blocks and your stingy ideas. And yes that Christmas card is brill idea. May have to borrow that for next year!

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  6. I have 200 offcut HSTs from my xplus quilt all destined for a new life too - love what you have done xxx

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  7. You should come visit, you could prolly make a quilt out of my "just cant throw away" bits... lol

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  8. Love your blocks and pincushions! Amazing card, too!

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  9. The cube pincushion is lovely, I am not so sure I have enough of the magpie in me for the Christmas card though!

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  10. So cute! I save most everything too!

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  11. Yep that cube is soooo cute!
    I often wonder if we will ever see any quilters on those hoarding programs!

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  12. You are quite, quite mad ;o) Cute though!

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  13. Wow, those must be tiny little blocks! Isn't that Christmas card great!

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  14. Ha! How many little pinnies could we have? Room after room full!
    Love your blocks. They're so happy!

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