I discovered Kate early in 2020 when we were first confined due to Covid. One by one, my quilting friends joined me in watching past episodes and looked forward to new adventures Kate shared. In particular, Denise Newcomer enjoyed Kate’s talents. Denise had excellent skills quilting, cross stitching and most other textile work. Due to her pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis, Denise confined herself to her house once quarantines were suggested. We kept in touch with face time chats three times a week; and Kate’s latest videos were always a topic of discussion. Thank you, Kate, for helping us stay in touch during these last two years. Denise died yesterday, but she had received John’s note cards and Martha’s tea towels in the mail. They gave her a sense of connection and appreciation for your family’s warmth and kindness. ❤️

@lifeofjoy9404

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss! How nice that you and Denise could stay connected on the Lime Green Couch through our friend Kate. ❤

@connieacree4006

Жыл бұрын

So sorry for your loss. I think Kate is an inspiration to us all. I just love her and all her crafts and ideas. God bless. ❤❤

@cherivolner6220

10 ай бұрын

A beautiful yet sad story.

I use the thin strips for 2 purposes: to crochet with - I have made purses with and bath rugs AND I wind them and make decorative fabric balls to put in my wooden bowl in the dining room along with other decorative balls!

The skinny strios make colourful ties for your tomatoes and beans etc in the garden. It cheers the garden up no end.

What I have done is laid those tiny bits of "cabbage " on a piece of background, cover with mesh fabric and sew down with random stitches to create fabric or pictures. Note that I think scraps and leftovers need at least a year or two to ferment in order to spark "joy" again.

I use long skinny scraps for wrapping around clothesline, then stitch the colorful clothesline into bowls. I love all your videos so much! Thank you!

@pebblecritter

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea Holly! I've done that and it looks gorgeous! Plus, you don't have to wrap all the clothesline, you can just wrap parts of it!!! :)

@BAM-jc7uy

2 жыл бұрын

thats a great tip...idea! thanks😊

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

@wendypeckinpaugh1078

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@RebeccaTreeseed

Жыл бұрын

Good idea, thank you.

You could make up little plastic bags of the long narrow strips and sell them in your shop. They are ideal for junk journal paper crafters.

@vivsalittlebitcrafty4854

2 жыл бұрын

You've read my mind. I would be interested for sure 😊

@ilserosslee281

2 жыл бұрын

Amen , what a good idea, they will fly !

@annehayward3506

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea

@sonjadoyle2761

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great idea.

@conniesimonich2327

2 жыл бұрын

They would also be great for weaving. Too good to cut up

Another use for the narrow strips: I use some of them to tie my climbing plants onto their support sticks - then I can admire my beautiful fabrics all over again when I weed, water and harvest from my garden! (Then the Cotton fabrics biodegrade and make compost!) All truly unusable tiny pieces (including snipped threads and tiny pieces of batting) go into an empty pillowcase until the pillowcase is half-full, then that is donated to a local animal shelter. Or, the tiny pieces of batting go into stuffed toys which is fantastic because the toys are then washable.

@susanhawthorn4379

2 жыл бұрын

I love the plant tie idea. I may just do this 🥰🥰🥰

@kilodeltawhisky1504

2 жыл бұрын

Love it? I sew and make toys, and crochet. It's nice to find ways to use every scrap of yarn, felt, and fabric.

@ingfig1

2 жыл бұрын

@@kilodeltawhisky1504 … yes! Me too 😊

@ingfig1

2 жыл бұрын

@@susanhawthorn4379 … haha - here’s another crazy idea: I might make Pom-poms (yo-yos) out of the fabric strips and just dangle them from my plants (my friend’s little girl thought of that one!)! Another Commenter suggested donating little baskets of scraps to the birds for their nests - isn’t that priceless?!

I enjoyed watching everything you do, Kate. Even sorting fabric. I think a weaver would love to try weaving mug rugs with them. (Also known as coasters).

I watch Just Get it Done Quilts a lot, Karen is a lot of fun to watch.

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

I was just laughing to myself as I remembered how I first began crafting. I've said before, I'm not a quilter, but I really enjoy watching every type of crafter at work/play...I began paper crafting, crikey, must be 15 years ago now...I began by taking my 'things' in a carrier bag to a crafting get-together each week. This soon became a small cardboard box, followed by a larger cardboard box, then a pull along crafting trolley...which then led to me needing a 'desk', and some storage...then even more storage...I began shopping at craft shows and online...but I needed 'somewhere' to do my crafting by now, so I put my desk and drawers in the space underneath the stairs...which I soon outgrew, so I took over the spare bedroom...and somehow ( 🤔🤔😆 ) there appeared a craft shed in the garden!!!😆😆 Which took me forever to get everything as I wanted it, oh and naturally I needed heating, and electricity in there, some Ikea storage cubes (with fabric inner cubes), a comfy chair, larger 'desk', ooh I 'needed' a daylight lamp for when the dark nights came...Oh for goodness sake...now I needed folders to store all my cutting dies in, and a rack to store my alcohol pens/inks, and something suitable for my glues, glitters, embossing folders, quilling supplies, paper clay, beads, etc etc etc....................and you think you have a problem with your gorgeous fabric scraps Kate, it's an obsession 🤣😂🤣😅🤭🤭 but I have no wish to be cured 😜😜 xx Thoroughly enjoyed seeing in the New Year with you and everyone else on the lime green sofa xx

@lauralinash5341

2 жыл бұрын

Please don't cure my obsession with quilting. There's a song by Aurora "cure for me" Our crafting obsessions fit that song well.

@SH-Amina-vx4jk2kt1m

2 жыл бұрын

У меня так же, сначала был уголок для творчества в гостинной, потом появилась комната, но мне стало тесно.

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

Do you know anyone with a loom? I made a lovely rag rug with those long, skinny strips of scrap while I had access to one. Incidentally, I just built my own little loom with an old picture frame and am back at weaving while tuning into your channel! It was such a blessing to discover you this past week! You're my cup of tea, dear Kate!

Kate thanks for your wonderful videos. So inspiring

I love how you highly value the Liberty scraps. It is such beautiful fabric.

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

I wish I had a scrap bin of liberty fabrics like that 😁. Maybe with those long thin ones you could plait together and make a lo ng cord and sew a trivet or bathmat or something like that.

I watched Darlene Michaud doing a crazy quilting series a few years ago, and I was hooked. No rhyme or reason, just pieces, and that makes fabric to make something else.

@sewmanythings8616

2 жыл бұрын

I love Darlene Michaud! That was her “Crumb Quilting” series..really fun!👍🏼 And addicting😂

@susangoodwin7241

2 жыл бұрын

@@sewmanythings8616 Yes! Darlene got me going just sewing bits together and making some great ten inch crumb blocks. I have enough now to make a double-size quilt, and yet I still love just mindlessly sewing little pieces together. Very relaxing and a break from more complicated projects

@kadams9738

2 жыл бұрын

Darlene sells scraps as well.

@susannahleggatt939

2 жыл бұрын

I love Darlene, I did actually make a crazy quilt after watching her.

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

My mom collects all the scrap fabrics from my sister. She has a quilting business and turns out lots of scraps. So my mom pairs her fabric with all the scrap pieces and made 15 quilts this Fall. Mom makes beautiful quilts with scraps . She said she always felt like God takes us which are like scraps and turns us into something He can use.

I use the very thin strips in my garden to tie up plants. They add a bright colour in the garden before plants come into bloom.

@ingfig1

2 жыл бұрын

😂 great minds think alike - I had already posted my very similar reply before I saw yours. I’m leaving my comment in, because it helps the channel with the YT algorithms ..

@BAM-jc7uy

2 жыл бұрын

same here in to tie up my tomato plants to poles and/or chicken wire fencing. albuquerque nm

@nancyzimmerman1982

2 жыл бұрын

I do too.😀

@jucarafaissalpatchwork

2 жыл бұрын

This is a very good idea. I’ll do that. Thanks

@wendywilson1736

2 жыл бұрын

If the strips are too narrow for seam allowances, you could just zigzag stitch the strips next to each other, leaving raw edges, to a foundation fabric to make quilt blocks, and maybe lay them out with strips going alternate directions. Even quilt as you go , by stitching them directly on batting , butted up close to each other.

I was thinking...my mother used those thin strips( or tore some herself) of 1" and crochet them into rugs or whatever.. Love your time with us..( and I purchased that book a poem a day on your recommendation.. love it)

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

Great sitting with you this afternoon. It's cold and raining here in Maine. I made a cuppa tea and had a nice visit with you. There should be a LOVE this button beside the LIKE one! ... have a great week. Hugs from Maine.

there is also confetti or collage quilting. You draw a design on some fusible material, use your tiny bits to create form and shadow on the design. You have the fusible side up, Place the bits of fabric on the top and then once you have a solid coverage, you iron the bits to the fuseable fabric. then you place a layer of fine netting over the top and quilt about every half inch.

@susanlamb7431

2 жыл бұрын

Also make paper with it

@patriciaroth4659

2 жыл бұрын

Also, arrange on a low volume rectangle say, and then attach w fmq sewing. There are options of gauze or netting on top to stabilize, or there are products you can buy to sew through to hold scraps in place without catching on your foot that dissolve in water. These abstract marvels can then be used for diff ideas - cards, cut up as hearts, birds etc, collages, fun with kids….. have fun❤️

@marvellamatthisshelton7238

2 жыл бұрын

To past your talents is the best advent ever. Watching me and my self becoming is the most important thing I received this advent. Sorry if it reads as abstract.

@HRHDMKYT

2 жыл бұрын

This is the exact project for which I am saving all of my tiny clippings after cutting out fabrics for 1/2” hexies. (Using a Teflon pressing cloth so as not to gum up my iron). This, and using modge-podge (glue paste) to do a sort of “papier mâché” - I guess it’s going to be a “fabric mâché” - on Dollarama clear bowls and plates as decor items such as jewelry, coin or key bowls.

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

I’m lusting after your Liberty scraps!! I save my tiny ones for 1/4” or 1/2” hexies. Your long skinny strips can be knitted or crocheted, mostly for bag making.

I tend to get bored and/or frustrated when I get to a difficult point in a project, and the creative juices are always flowing, so pretty new things catch my attention! I really have to hunker down and force myself to complete a project. I admire people that complete 1 project at a time. I strive to do that.

@katehenry2718

2 жыл бұрын

com plete? what is this word???

@lauralinash5341

2 жыл бұрын

@@katehenry2718 verb 1. finish making or doing. "he completed his Ph.D. in 1983" Similar: finished ended I have a hard time accomplishing this state of things.

I live in central Texas and work at our antique shop a few a week…Well, we always talk quilting with customers and this last month a couple with their son traveling came in and I asked where they were from….they were from your area! She quilts and was so excited to learn about you! Then another new customer brought a spinning wheel in to sell and as we visited…I mentioned you…and your channel and she said,” OH YOU WATCH KATE AT THE LAST HOMELY HOUSE!?!?” I said YES! Anyway you are quite popular across the world and TEXAS!❤❤

I use the little strips when wrapping gifts. I made the decision a few years ago to not buy new fabric. I use what I have or buy recycled fabric. I look forward to seeing what you make,

Someone should come up with a national fabric swap library…. Send in your scraps…. Get some new exciting scraps to make new projects! No waste 🎉

@susanlamb7431

2 жыл бұрын

Clever idea

@judithburke1539

2 жыл бұрын

You do have to be careful about sending scraps to other countries because the recipient will have to pay customs fees on what you sent to them.

It is so nice to hear you use inches so easily! Mostly here in the USA we still use inches even though gradually centimeters are creeping into the daily language. I’m too old to change now! lol!

Am a scrap happy weirdo and loving the life while making something beautiful..those strings that seem like throw aways..if you garden.strips excellent for supporting tomato plants..all together now.. LETS STRING ALONG FOR MENTAL HEALTH..🇨🇦

The tiny pieces can just be sprinkled like shredded cheese on a layer of dissolvable interfacing. Then another layer of that interfacing in laid on top and pinned in places just keep the sandwich flat while it gets randomly sewn on a machine like scribbles to hold the bit of fabric pieces together. Then a good rinse in warm water removes the interfacing and leave a textured fabric.🦌💌❤️📚🙏

Long strips… ribbon or braid and sew into baskets etc. So happy to se you this Sunday. All the very best of health and happiness to you and your fam for 2022. 💕❤️💕

The long strips are good for twisting into cord.

@dcinrb8538

2 жыл бұрын

I've been using selvage strips to tie my plants to sticks. Cording would be even stronger. Thank you for your suggestion. 🍄🍄

I love going through my scraps because I see fabric I didn't know I had and so they are to me, just like shopping for new fabric. My problem is doing something with it besides just lookin at it.

I really enjoyed this quarter of an hour with you, Kate! I've missed you here. Love Liberty. You are so inspiering. I came to think: What if quilters exchanged fabric (scraps) instead of buying new fabric themselves? Wouldn't that be a good idea?

@yoshiew05

2 жыл бұрын

feel good fibers where people destash and others can buy it.

@veliaantila1099

2 жыл бұрын

Guess U have nothing better to do.

@lottesroom

2 жыл бұрын

@@veliaantila1099 excuse me?

Most of the quilts I make are scrappy quilts. Love them.

Oh Kate, you are such a glorious inspiration. I do agree with you about being bored with fabric we have so we buy more. We just get tired of looking at it. Whatever the reason, all of us quilters do it. We are fabricholics as you said. Much happiness, health and continued successs. Always looking forward to seeing you. love, Sherrie x

As a life long quilter, I of course had amassed a very large stash of scraps. Well, during covid last year I learned to make twined rag rugs, and what a great use for all that fabric! One Saturday I sorted all my fabrics and made lots of strips for rugs. I had to go out and left everything in a big trash bag. When I returned I couldn’t find the bag and asked my husband who looked (appropriately) stricken-he’d gone to the dump and taken that bag 😩 Lesson learned: don’t store fabric in trash bags!! (Just as much my fault as his…)

I would use the long strips that are half an inch or less wide to wrap presents, like ribbon. Also a KZreadr called “MadeByMarzipan” makes drinks mats (coasters) with pieces thinner 1/2” using an item called silky, don’t know what it’s called in U.K. but there must be something similar available. Loved the live stream Kate.

@playme129

2 жыл бұрын

Using it as ribbon works well.

Those long narrow strips would be beautiful as a rag rug - either woven or crocheted. That would use up WAY more than saving them for postcards

What a lovely surprise to see you today. I loved this video. It's somehow more like your old videos.... impromptu and relaxed. Just you doing what you do and taking us along just because. No appointment necessary. Thank you so much.

The long strips could be used for rug making by put holes in the end and join then, then crochet them into a round square or oblong rugs. I’ve seen these made from old sheets as well. Thank you Kate your a charm.

@lw3396

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I do! It goes very fast!

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

You are right about being bored with fabrics we already have. Sometimes we just can’t see a project for them. It costs nothing to store them though, and one day you will get a lightbulb moment☺️

Happy New Year Kate. Another you should check out is Tiffany's Quilting Life. She lives in Arizona and works with scraps most of the time, even tiny blocks. She is an amazing teacher and quilter , and a great friend too.

The skinny strips could be used for packages instead of all that tape. Love the scraps; I love to run my hands through material scraps.

@katehenry2718

2 жыл бұрын

AHhhhh. thread in the veins ))))

"If you were all here with me"...what a dream! I would LOVE to sit with you, a cup of tea, and all those scraps. Would you ever consider hosting a follower for a few days when the world returns to normal. Is there a B&B nearby a viewer could stay in if you ran a class or just "A Visit With Kate" event)? You provide joy to many who follow you.

I love every one of your videos, Kate, and when you occasionally miss a week I am both worried about you and frustrated. Hahaha! You are definitely a part of my 76 year old life! About those long skinny Liberty scraps, I scatter little piles of them around my garden on the shrubbery and low limbs of trees. The birds find them and use them in their nests. Then it blesses me to come upon a nest with a bright streak of blue or pink. This actually was my husband’s idea to help me whittle down my Mt Scrapmore a bit. I can’t wait to see what you do with this. I am going to buy me some paper rTolls and join you! Thanks so much for all you share. ❤

I love it that you don’t throw away Liberty fabrics!! I am new to quilting so I only have small pieces of Liberty, and I am always on the look out for people who carry Liberty here in the USA. I like your idea of tying cards with the long, skinny strips. I also wonder if you could crochet a small mat with them? I bet there will be lots of ideas in the comments. I loved watching you doing this so please don’t think that anything is too small to do a video. Happy quilting………………..

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

Ideas for the thin strips you may want to try. Covering wire clothes hangers by winding round them, use as stuffing for cushions or anything that needs a little bit of padding. See onto plain fabric to make abstract art.

I love to use skinny scraps for tying up bundles that I have already sorted or sometimes as a bookmark in my craft books. Like you I can't bear to throw away anything that may come in useful. It's the Yorkshire women in me😄

Thanks for keeping me focused on my appliqué project while you sorted Liberty!

Happy New Year to you and your lovely family Kate. I know why you (and I plus many others) collect scraps etc. It is generational- we were taught to keep everything because nothing new was coming along soon . We are the post-war generation, and certain things were still rationed when we were born. To this day, I cannot throw anything away, without offering it to someone who might need it, and I think this approach to what is actually re-cycling at it's best, is the best way forward, but with kindness, generosity and thrift thrown in. Keep flying the flag Kate!

Crumb quilts are great to use up your small pieces in that card making pile 😀

I have 7 boxes along top of my fabric shelves. As I quilt I put leftovers right into the the box with that color. Periodically I sew the pieces together by color around a small white scrap. I trim into squares and put them together. they are my kids favorite quilts. Lots of memories of other quilts.

Yes, yes! I'm with you there Kate. How well I relate to that: 'I am a scrapaholic' So good to have found my tribe :-)

That seems like a job Vienna would like to help you with 😊 You could have a try at making fabric twine with those long scraps, my bestie made me a gorgeous bag for Christmas and she used handmade fabric twine as the drawstring, it's so lovely.

I have seen many who use the tiniest scraps as stuffing for pet bedding. I have also seen those who fill up pillow cases with the tiniest of scraps, sew closed and donate to pet shelters for bedding. Always a use for fabric, no need to throw out :) Love going through the scrap bin and making the strips on the machine tape. Can be used to add to quilts :) Lovely job Kate. I just love your visits.

@lauralinash5341

2 жыл бұрын

I one bought a pet bed at a charity event and took it apart to wash the canvas outer shell only to find that the person who had donated the pet beds was a quilter and their idea of a discard scrap is bigger than mine. I preceded to wash everything and sort it out like Kate is. I am obsessed with little scraps. I love the half square triangles left over from sewing across a square and cutting off the excess. I have plans for all those hst's! Yes sure I do...

@SH-Amina-vx4jk2kt1m

2 жыл бұрын

Я тоже не выбрасываю, маленькие лоскутки. Из самых маленьких лоскутиков делаю текстильную пиццу.

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

Being a weaver, I use my long narrow strips for weaving rag rugs. In fact I generally cut off the selvedges and will make a rug with just selvedges. Over here, we refer to that as a Hit & Miss rug. It’s all great fun to see how all the pieces play together.😉😌

I love to watch anything you do with fabric! In fact, I feel a kinship of a multitude of mutual interests! Quite wonderfully satisfying and reassuring 😂🥰

The tiny little pieces that can’t be quilted can be used as stuffing for certain projects.

@janicejames9350

2 жыл бұрын

Erin Halvosen has a great video for this. It is called: ‘Recycle Fabric Scraps to make colorful twine fun and easy’. I really like this twine.

@BAM-jc7uy

2 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean.. my very tiny bits and pieces I make small and large pillows for animal or person using waverly home dec fabric from walmart...LOL BUT pillows are "heavy" and cannot be washed in the top loading machine...that's the only downside.

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

Kate watching you do anything makes me happy! I’ve been cutting all my scraps when I end a project. I save them in a box, my goal has been to make a postage stamp quilt, with 1 1/2 inch squares. I work for a couple minutes or a couple of hours. Finally I have enough to start making small blocks. It’s exhilarating for sure.Can’t wait to see what you are going to do with your scraps.” A journey starts with one “stitch” at a time”

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

This happens because it is part of the creative process. Sometimes we want controlled palettes and sometimes scrappy ones. New fabrics inspire new ideas and going back to scraps brings back memories. All is good. My goal is to get through my mom's fabric and mine and try not to leave a big mess for my daughter to deal with in 20-30 years.

Hi Kate. I watch you from SW Lower Michigan, USA. Thank you for all the inspiration you give to your friends, sitting on the Lime Green Sofa. I am doing the Grandmothers Flower Garden with 1” hexies. I do love the relaxing nature of EPP and spending time with you. Thank you again😊

Actually, I think that we are addicted to scraps. Those leftover bits of cloth challenge our creative ingenuity to craft something out of almost nothing. There's a wise saying here in the U.S. (and maybe other places): "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Good on you, Kate!

Love beginning the new year with new ideas! I had no idea there were so many things to do with scraps of fabric.

I’m the same way with my Batik scraps. I have a few fun and funky ideas for the smallest bits but one idea is to add It to my handmade papers. Add some fun color for my to do lists.

Hi, Kate. I have a neighbor who is a quilter and has her own long-arm machine. She gives me all her fabric scraps. Even the thin small ones. I place them onto fusible Pelion, place a piece of parchment paper on top and iron them onto the Pelion. Take it to my sewing machine and zig zag along edges. You then have a piece of fabric - however big you want it - and you can make sachets with it, journal covers or pages or whatever you would like. The possibilities are just about endless. It is very relaxing to do and fun to see what you come up with. I also make snippet rolls with them. Loved watching your process. Happy New Year! ❤️😘🤗💕

Hello Kate! I think the tiny strips would look amazing added to the pulp in handmade paper! Stay well! Muskoka ON 🇨🇦

Happy New Year Kate! You can use the long skinny strips to make rope bowls or coasters! Good luck

I love all your videos and your cat love the roses. love and light sent your way.

Behind you, hanging on the door, is one of my favorite projects that you've shared with us. The tutorial was a 9 patch using scraps of Liberty. Can't wait to see what's next in your de-stash journey!

Glad to see you back and looking well. I know all too well about scraps! I have taken to making yoyo garland with mine that and tinie tiny paper pieced pin cushions.....

I can see Agnes putting those tiny scraps on your design wall. My daughter loved to do that when she was little. I'm in Saskatchewan, C anada and a subscriber of Karen 's also.

@paulinechapman5669

2 жыл бұрын

Hi fellow Canuck from vanc island..daughter in SK..isn’t this amazing woman such fun..🇨🇦

hi Kate. this was the first of your videos that I've seen and since I watched it I've been bingeing. I know you must get this all the time but far out you are food for the soul! I'm completely addicted to your lovely soothing voice and smile xx

Those very thin strips would make lovely large tassels that could be hung on door handles or curtain tiebacks etc.

So pleased to have you back, dear Kate and looking much better. Loving your hair too. Take care.x

Happy newyear Kate,I'm very glad to say you are looking a lot better after being poorly last year.and I love your hair a touch longer,pretty colour.anyway ..stay safe.xxxx

‘Hi, my name is Kate, and I’m a scrapaholic’ - I just roared when I heard that. It made my day!

Oooh, Liberty... When you asked about a scrap - I was right there with you - YES! :) Scraps are good - they remind us of projects past, they inspire us to do new and different things because we're not working with fresh, shiny 'perfect' fabric... I know whatever you create it will be amazing! xx

Happy New Year, Kate! If you don't want to get rid of all those too-tiny bits, they can be used for stuffing in case you want to make any more stuffed toys. I do feel sad that there is nowhere to recycle textiles like that. I used to keep anything down to 1" x 1". Now I do minimum 1.5" x 1.5". It is a joy to revisit scraps, and look at all the fabrics. So it's good to stop when the joy stops, and then go back to them another time.

@paulagrnsy

2 жыл бұрын

In the US, Goodwill used to recycle fabric. I think they still do, but I haven't verified recently.

@anthonymorgan4510

2 жыл бұрын

👋 i hope you're safe over there? I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace 💞❤️🕊️🕊️ all over the world 🙏🌍 I'm originally from California currently living in San Francisco and you where are you from if i may ask?

I went over to ‘just get it done’ quilts and someone left a great idea. Make a box made from twigs tying it with the scrap strings. Then put the tiny pieces in side and hang it in a tree in the spring. In the fall you will see pretty colors in the birds nest. Brilliant.

@marlanedows7049

2 жыл бұрын

A word of caution because it also makes them an easy catch for predators.

@kilodeltawhisky1504

2 жыл бұрын

I just bought a twig basket at the thrift store for this. I'm going to crochet loose bag, I think, to put scraps in. It's really windy here so there will be some trial and error to see what works. We have predators here, but not on my deck... I can hang the basket near the suet blocks. I love watching the birds.

@fraukehth8451

2 жыл бұрын

I do this with my wooly leftovers from knitting and it works ;) Not too bright colors, but the ones you could find in nature anyway. so fun to see the nests in fall and winter!

🎉🎉Happy New Year 🎉🎉 Be sure the adding machine roll is not thermal paper. Regular paper is still available, especially at thrift stores, at low cost. When I couldn't use my sewing machine due to my broken right foot, I hand sewed 8 lengths of 6 foot long strips. Years later, I machine sewed the strips together to create "fabric" for bucket hats. Because of the numerous short seams, each hat piece was lined with medium weight sew-in interfacing (minus the seam allowance). Like for a waistband. Quilting swirls were stitched through each hat piece for strength. Lightweight denim was used for the lining. Pinwale corduroy would also work. The hats were a nice change from quilts and no two were alike. 🍄🍄

I was thinking the long skinny pieces could be used like twine when wrapping a parcel. How unique and special that would be. Love your channel.

My sister has this bumper sticker,”She who dies with the most fabric wins”

@ilserosslee281

2 жыл бұрын

Very wise woman 😇

@sewmanythings8616

2 жыл бұрын

😄

@veliaantila1099

2 жыл бұрын

This is from the fifties!!!

@rsplatt100

2 жыл бұрын

Wins what?

Note … there’s a ‘ruler’, a measurement tool right there on the mat, in front of you, on which you’re working 😉

@fimuseum

2 жыл бұрын

I do the same thing. Work on a gridded cutting mat and then pick up a ruler to measure things with. It's just crazy.

Wow, so special to see you show various fabrics there at the end. May we all pace ourselves with projects.

I love watching you playing with fabric, I also set my timer on days I have too many things that need doing, so 30 minutes housework, 30 m sewing, 30 m in the garden and hanging washing, 30 min knitting, or whatever the chores/ projects are that need doing. Now it's time to spend 30 min in the kitchen, will watch another podcast while making Roast kumara salad, for my lunch guests.

Could you use the liberty strips to tie up packages? Maybe braided together? Such beautiful fabric; I can see why you can't part with any of it. 💜

I’m trying to organize my scraps too. You and Karen have both been very helpful and I’m looking forward to more

"Sorting" is the word of the day!!!!

Hiya 🌞 Kate,I use those "impossibly useless" skinny "threads" to knit up as padding for inserts into pets pads etc; while the "teeny,tiny, bits" become ideal for all sorts of things when appliqueing small scenes-flowers/ plants/insects/house doors and windows/clouds/boats/ cups- anything that your mind can conjure up,as well as in carding and projects with children.Always have several projects on the go as ideas seem to come from the "serious big projects" ha!ha! So I'll squeeze in on the end of your lime green setee and listen to everyone's chat,thankyou- so happy 😊 to have stumbled upon your delightful channel.Best wishes,J.I.M.K Mrs. Australia 🇦🇺 😀 ❤

Oh thankyou - you helped me figure out all my leftover triangles from flying geese to make a boarder on my daughters birthday quilt.

You are right - scrap work is addicting. On my last scrap project I sewed little tiny pieces on to used fabric softener sheets and made a quilted laundry basket.

Nice spending time with you sorting your scraps

I love keeping yarn scraps, and knitting scrappy socks out of them

Thankyou for clearing that up. Get bored with material. Love this video while I’m sewing masks.

This was great. Thank you, Kate. I was smiling when you talked about buying new fabric (bored with the old). ☺️

Hi Kate, I really enjoy watching your quilting videos, thank you for taking the time to make them. I once had a lot of long thin liberty scraps which I couldn’t part with and I made them into a set of beautiful pattern weights. I bought some large metal washers from B&Q , sandwiched 2 together and then wrapped the liberty strips around them as if I was making a fabric Pom Pom. They turned out great! Tracy

@patriciaroth4659

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, tfs

I have never had the privilege of having or actually seeing liberty fabric, you introduced me to liberty perhaps one day I will find some :)

I do the same thing, Kate. Even if it's bitterly cold (yesterday's high was -13ºF) I have to get out and walk and breathe. Thank you for this lovely little video. It makes me happy to know others struggle to let go of tiny bits of useful scraps.

Kate. Wonderful scraps to fill up the mini clear openable Christmas baubles, all ready for the 2022😮Xmas boxes. That would be so cute. I've done that with yarn scraps after a completed crochet project ends.

@catherineb6565

2 жыл бұрын

Or postcards for 2022 Christmas boxes, YES PLEASE. 😁

I use my tiny pieces of fabric to stuff a little pillow tucks and pin cushions. I like the solid feel it gives them.

Какая красота. Обожаю перебирать тряпочки, это мой релакс