8 Easy Steps to make Beautiful and Balanced Scrap Fabric Yardage

Your guide to taking your own scraps fabrics and making pretty, balanced projects that look gorgeous! These simple steps make scrap busting fun and take away lots of the typical frustration and time consuming mix/ match.

A couple extra tips-

~Make sure your fabrics are pressed!
~pay attention to fabric print directions
~press open seams after you sew them
~use straight edge and rotary cutter

Here are some links to the products I use...

[SaraH-ztek]

This is the first time I've seen this video. I'm so glad! Over the past 50 years (yikes!) I've hoarded scraps to end up throwing them out because I didn't know what to do with them. I will never throw out another scrap. I'm sure the landfill workers will be so proud 😂

[hera]

So glad I found this. How exciting to find a purpose for scraps. Can't wait to try this!!!

[quiltgram]

Your idea about taking scraps and prepping them together as if I was to do a fabric pull for a quilt and then storing in a baggie or container is definitely a 12 thumbs up idea.

[EuphemiaGrubb]

This is a real eye opener! My scrappy quilts etc., always look just that - Scrappy!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

[janehill]

Love the ideas you mention about mixing the colors and the scraps. Thank you

[claudettemonty]

Wow! The explanation was very clear! Thanks! When I will have more scraps, maybe I will be good. I don’t have scraps!

[wenncarne]

This is the most fantastic tutorial, you are a wonderful teacher ☺️
I always wondered how to get the balance right with different designs some being busy and others plain. Thank-you so very much for sharing this technique with us, I can’t wait to watch more of your videos 🙏🌷

[mariahammons]

Off all the ideas of making scraps into yardage i like your the best and simple. Thank you i enjoy your tutorials

[fatherpie]

Wow! I am so excited to try this. Thank you.

[catstitchstudio]

Thank you so much for this! It's two years after you posted this video. I decided to make my first quilt a couple weeks ago and was searching for a way that would utilize hundreds of scraps from my mask making effort. Your method is perfect! I've just made a practice block, and I love it. I need more practice combining colors and textures, but this gave me a good base to start from. So happy to have found you!

[genedevlin]

Not tried patch work quilting before, my mum did us a patch work cushion for Xmas. If my mum can do that at over seventy years of age I think I can. You explain everything so well, I am enjoying getting back to sewing.

[ruthhurley]

Thank you for great ideas. I always save scraps and have bags and bags. Now I think I will sort by colors and make some fabric like you do to use for projects.

[Tilas]

I tried so hard to find fabric that you used in this. But in the process I have accumulated a lot of Thank you for sharing your ideas here. Now I’m off to making my

[pampelly]

Best tutorial on improvising I have seen, which I actually think I can do after watching your fantastic directions! Before, it was a mystery to me. Thank you!

[lynnries]

This started as a hot mess but ended with a unique and usable piece of fabric. Well done!

[ColoradoKrone]

Fantastic! Thi is how my grandmother made quilts. Really fun!

[jacquieumberger]

first time watching you. I like what you did with your scraps, I have made a lot of crumb sqs which I used for quilt backing or projects this gives me another way to use my scraps for other blocks.

[therobinmasterstheory]

Good job, love how you seperated the fabric into 3 piles by type. Good idea. :)

[pinkiesingh]

Awesome 👏 really loved it.will definitely try doing this. Great guidence, thankyou.

[elizabethsawyer]

I like the idea of laying out on a portable board. I usually make blocks for a quilt with my scraps and stitch together randomly but I like your idea. Thank you I loved your new fabric!