5 Ways To Use Fabric Scraps To Make Your Own Fabric

5 different ways to turn your leftover fabric scraps into new pieces of fabric to be used in easy sewing projects, quilt blocks and more!

Materials Needed

– Sewing Machine & Thread – Scrap Material – either scraps of fabric in different colors or selvedge edges (see different methods for exact materials required). – Light weight fusible (for method 1) – Adding machine tape (for method 2 and optional for method 3) – Quilt batting scraps (optional for method 3) – Rotarty cutter and ruler – Acrylic template (optional for method 5)

#1

This tutorial is all about how to make pieces of fabric from oddly shaped scraps of one fabric or several fabrics in the same colorway.

Irregular Shaped Scraps of the same Color

#2

A fun way to use thin scraps is to group them into a color family and sew them to adding machine tape to make scrappy strips.

Sewing Scraps to Adding Machine Tape -Scrappy Strips

#3

This way to make fabric from your selvedge edges can be done in strips with adding machine tape similar to the method above or it can be done quilt-as-you-go style straight onto quilt batting or another type of foundation.

How to Make Selvedge Fabric 

#4

A fun way to use thin scraps is to group them into a color family and sew them to adding machine tape to make scrappy strips.

Crumb Quilting Tutorial: No Scrap is too Small!

#5

Use your tiny pieces of fabric to have a play and make these small improv quilt blocks. Actually, you can make them any size you like but mine are 3.5" square.

Mini Improv Quilt Blocks

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