In my sort of recent post, Preparing for Quilt Retreat, I shared that I was preparing for an upcoming quilt retreat with my long time quilting friends by pre-cutting blocks from the book Tula Pink’s City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks for a quilt, and saving them in individual packets so I’d be ready to work on each block at the retreat:
Well, cutting the fabric for 20 – 6.5 inch by 6.5 inch blocks made a lot of tiny scraps, especially since many pieces/parts of the blocks were 1.5 inch x 1.5 inch or a little larger.
Here is my little bucket of scraps:
Most of the pieces were too small to use in anything, and I already have a collection of “leaders and enders” for sewing on my machine and did not need more.
So I decided to use the scraps as stuffing for some pincushions I needed to finish up, sitting in my WIP pile. The tops for the pincushions were paper pieced (see posts Paper Pieced Pincushion and Another Paper Pieced Pincushion & Amazing Thrift Shop Find), the bottoms cut and I needed to sew the strips around the middle, stuff them and put on the buttons.
Here is one of the pincushions getting stuffed with scraps:
And here are a couple images of a finished pincushion, all stuffed with tiny scraps (and thread clippings) that could have ended up in the trash (then landfill!):
I was feeling quite eco-conscious after using those tiny scraps (and thread clippings) to stuff the pincushion!
tierneycreates 
Love, the idea…especially that the scraps live another day, invisible to the naked eye!
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Thanks I was pretty pleased with myself 🙂
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Thanks for the idea. I will have plenty of 1.5inch scraps leftover from my stamp quilt and now I know what to do with them. 🙂
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I am glad this was helpful! As I mentioned in other replies, I cannot believe I did not think of it before. Your postage stamp quilt it amazing per the photos I saw on IG! Well you just amaze me with your prolific making!!!!! 🙂
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That’s a great idea! I have lots of scraps that are really too small for a scrappy quilt.
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Thanks and I am surprised I did not think of it before! I could have saved a lot of little scraps from the landfill. Oh well, going forward… 🙂
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Scraps make really good stuffing!
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They do and I cannot believe I did not think of this already 🙂
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What a great idea!! And very cute pincushion!!
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Thanks so much and it is motivating me to make a couple more to get rid of more little scraps in a good way 🙂
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Great use of your scraps!
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And besides being eco-conscious they’re really cute!
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Thanks so much I’m on to make an a couple more to use up those tiny scraps 😀
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