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Quick Tips: Turn Your Scraps into Strips
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Make your scraps work for you with this tip from Mary Beth Temple. After completing a larger project, save the scraps and get more use out of your beautiful fabric. By cutting your fabric scraps into strips anywhere from ½”- to 1”-wide, you can prepare them into usable pieces for other projects. Mary Beth suggests using these scrap strips for crumb quilting, string quilting, or craft projects, such as wrapping them around rope to create a bowl.
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Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And if you're anything like me, you find yourself with scraps all over the place and clearly you loved the fabric or you wouldn't have used it in the first place. One of the things that I like to do is take my leftover bits and bobs and trim them into strips that are anywhere from a half inch wide to an inch wide. And they could be as long as the piece of fabric you have left over. There's a bunch of great uses for these.
You can use them in crumb quilting. You can use them in string quilting or you can use them in craft projects like this. I used all these little strips, wrapped them around some rope and made this adorable bowl for my keys and my change.
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