Using My Scraps to Create New Fabric

[Music] hi everyone its Julia today I'm I'm creating new fabric from my fabric scraps I do a lot of applique work and so I have a lot of itty-bitty pieces of fabric and I keep them sorted in bins by color I have my I have three bins I have one with more of my pinks and oranges and then I have another one with my greens and my blues and then I have a third one with more of my neutrals with my blacks and grays and then cream colors and browns in it and I'm going to insert a picture of my totes so you can kind of see what I'm talking about when I get to a certain point where my drawers these drawers don't even close anymore I like to create with them and I use a foundation piece first and I put bits and pieces on top of it and I'm gonna show you my process a lot of this I'm gonna speed up but I'm going to kind of explain what I'm doing a little bit first and then also at the end of this video I'm going to show you several projects that I have created using my new piece of fabric for each one of my my creations I do start with a foundation piece and I start with about this size this is like approximately 12 inches by 14 inches I don't like to get any bigger than this because it's just a little bit too hard to work with underneath my sewing machine and on top of the foundation piece is where I'm gonna be building my kind of like a fabric collage of all my bits and pieces I also use a lot of my trims and I kind of have my trim sorter the same way as my fabric or this is more of my more of my pinks and my oranges and then I have another band with my greens and my blues and another one with more of my neutrals so I will be adding some of my trims to the top of this also some other and I put like a lightweight fusible interfacing on the backside of my foundation piece for the foundation piece a lot of times I'll use just a muslin color but you want something that's not super busy these would work well for foundation pieces this is just like a black with a little bit of a design in it this one shoe would work as a wonderful foundation piece with again a black one just like a little colorful slub in it or sole would work well for a foundation piece once I get on my little pieces on top I will be adding a piece of this is like a solving bicep and it's by the company sulky and it's like a stabilizer that completely dissolves in water so once my little creation is done I will be washing this and then this top film will completely disappear this film I cut the same dimension as my foundation piece so I'm going to speed through this and I'm gonna kind of show you just how I'm building my my creation I will be taking this after it's all done and after I put my little film on the top I will be taking it to my sewing machine and we'll be free motioning all over it and adding possibly adding some decorative stitches and just kind of having a lot of fun with it and just kind of creating a new piece of fabric one more thing I wanted to mention you're gonna see me removing like a white piece on the backside of this this is heat and bond when I do my applique work I work with heat and bond and so I will be removing I will be removing all the paper and placing it so that the heat and bond is facing down on my fabric and I think that's all the kind of explaining I need to do at this point and you can watch me I'm like I said I'm going to speed through this part and you can kind of see it's just going to be kind of a mess but I it's just a lot of fun you you it's almost to where I want it now and I'm going to be adding a few little words that I stamped just on muslin and I stamped I'm using my distress if this is a Tim Holtz but this is the permanent mixed-media ink palette so it's permanent and I also used some pigment inks and colors and stamp these little little flowers so some of the words they say celebrate sweet dream laughs I'm just gonna scatter these and it doesn't matter if they're upside down or which way they're going I'm just gonna lay these on here and then put my piece of Solvay on top and I'm gonna be heading over to the sewing machine with with this pinning first and I'm just gonna run a bunch of pins kind of just through I'll just hopefully hold some of this into place to get it under my sewing machine I wanted to show you my sewing machine I am using my like what I call my little sewing machine that I kind of take with me to places if I'm going on a retreat or or if I if I want to sew like mine at my little flea market shop this is a sewing machine I use and it is just a small Elna and very basic there isn't there's a few utility stitches on it but really nothing fancy and you can do free motion with pretty much any sewing machine you you do have to disengage the feed dogs and you do have to use some kind of like a darning foot or sometimes they're called an embroidery foot this machine did not come with one of those foots but when I purchased my machine the the dealer that I was going through helped me pick out the right foot for like a darning foot so that I could do my free motion and I'm going to show to you a little up close I'm going to move my heart my tripod in a little bit but I do want to mention that I am just using like a bobbin thread in the in the bobbin case and it is bobbin thread is like a little bit thinner than just regular thread and it works well when you're doing any kind of fancy stitching it just because things like that the stitches just lay a little bit better and I'm just using thread that I had in my stash and this is a hundred percent rayon thread and it's like a pink color and when I used to have a fancy embroidery machine this was the thread so that it's like 100 percent rayon kind of embroidery thread so I'm just kind of using like a like a fancy kind of thread on top assumed way and so you can see what my foot looks like it has a spring on the top on it and it kind of sits above my my own fabric and I have so many different layers on this fabric on this piece that I'm working with because there's so many different layers of fabrics I'm on some of the yarn is on top of different you know some three or four different layers so this spring kind of it kind of helps and just kind of keeps everything going through them through my machine I do have my feed dogs dropped and on this machine there's like a button back here that I can I disengaged my my feed dogs with so they're down and see if there's anything else I can tell you um I think that's yeah it's you're gonna notice that when I start my stitching I kind of go back and forth just a little bit it's very subtle and then I can just take off with my free motion stitching I have a lot of pins in this piece so you're gonna see me just kind of stopping every so once a while and putting my my pins my pins away I'm just gonna speed through this and you can kind of just watch how I do my free motion [Music] I have all the stitching done now and you can kind of see my free motion stitching it's just all over you can see it in the back too and now I kind of take a look at it and see if I want to add anything more I still have this solve e on the top so the film is still on the top this works so nice is it tubes just so on because nothing gets caught underneath my presser foot I'm able to really glide over it when I am you doing my free motion even with all the strings and the fibers and all the pieces of little pieces it really holds everything in place and holds it down I kind of been digging through some of my stash and I found this cording and I think I might add some of this to the top of it and I'm just gonna sew it right on top of the saw v probably either either free motion it on or maybe even do just a really tiny zigzag and I'm also thinking about adding a decorative stitch I want to add a little bit more of just like a off-white or cream color so I'll use my cream color thread and because I have my utility sewing machine only and I don't have a lot of decorative stitches I'm thinking I'm just gonna probably just do a feather stitch and then just kind of meander stitch a feather stitch in here somehow too so I'm gonna go and go and do that and then I'll be back and kind of show you what it looks like I hope you can see some of my stitching I did a little bit of the feather stitch I also found I think it's like a zigzag scallop stitch on my sewing on this particular little utility sewing machine and I kind of went over and around with that also and then added the trim right on the top of the film or that the Solvay really enjoying how this turned out I think it's gonna be so fun to use in little projects my next step is to take this to my sink and I'm going to be just soaking it for a while in hot top tap water and then from there I'm going to throw it into my washing machine with a load of towels and then into my dryer I like to completely use my you know the hot water the washing machine and the dryer because I want if this is going to shrink and if anything on its gonna shrink I want it to do it now instead of when I put it on a projects because I think I am gonna use a little bit of this to embellish just put a little embellishment on like a t-shirt or something I haven't quite decided I'm gonna I'm just gonna be creating with this and I'm gonna show you some pictures of some of my finished projects so I will be cutting pieces of this and using pieces of it in other craft projects so I hope you enjoy this video and I hope this gives you some ideas on how to kind of rework some of those scraps and maybe just to start saving your scraps and putting them into bags or totes or whatever by color thanks so much for watching and we'll catch you later bye you

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Keywords: fabric scraps, fabric collage, creating fabric, sewing tutorial, free motion applique, sewing techniques, how to free motion applique, Water Soluble Stablizer, Sulky Stablizer, Elna Sewing machine, craft projects, diy, Boho Style, Boho Accessories, water soluble stabiliser scraps, using my scraps to create new fabric, fabric from scraps, making fabric from scraps, make new fabric, make new fabric from scraps

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Length: 14min 59sec (899 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 30 2017