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How To Organize Your Fabric Stash

May 19, 2015 by Sarah J. Doyle 2 Comments

My fabric cabinet(s) are filled to the top of most shelves with fabric of all sizes and yardages.  I just can’t seem to walk by those fabrics in the stores that are “calling out for me!”  I love fabric sales and it never fails – I also find regular priced stuff I just can’t live […]

Filed Under: Crafting, Sewing Tagged With: fabric, fabric remnants, fabric scraps, fabric stash, organize fabrics

Seamstresses and Alterationists – Bring Out Your Scraps!!

September 11, 2014 by Sarah J. Doyle 1 Comment

We’ve talked about fabric scraps previously and the need to save them and categorize them for easy access.  Today, we’re going to talk about two craft items that can be made out of your scraps — to be used by yourself, given as gifts, taken to a craft fair or put on ebay.  Anyway you […]

Filed Under: Crafting Tagged With: fabric remnants, fabric scraps, fabrics, sewing with fabric remnants

Decorating With Scraps

November 15, 2012 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

Trims by the yard and large-motif trims are great for use in making Christmas ornaments, greeting cards and gift items. A burlap wall hanging or a greeting card made out of construction paper can have candles of woven-braid trim, each topped by a flickering flame (a single notch from gold rickrack makes a perfect flame).  […]

Filed Under: Crafting Tagged With: Crafts, crafts from scraps, fabric remnants, fabric scraps, scrap decorating, Sewing

Flowers from fabric remnants

August 23, 2012 by Sarah J. Doyle 5 Comments

If you’re like most of us in the sewing business field, we tend to accumulate boxes and drawers full of fabric scraps.  A few months ago I made up my mind that those scraps in the boxes and drawers were NOT making me any money, and decided to put my thinking cap on to see […]

Filed Under: Project of the Month Tagged With: craft project, fabric flowers, fabric scraps, project tutorial

Holiday Sale & Yard Sale Goes Hand in Hand

November 23, 2009 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

I have just figured out another GREAT way to sell your craft items – get rid of some of your fabric scraps and make some extra money! Do you live in an area where you hold yard sales or garage sales from time to time?  Or if you live in a subdivision perhaps you can organize […]

Filed Under: Business Information Tagged With: craft show, Crafts, fabric scraps, holiday sewing, Sewing

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

April 22, 2009 by Sarah J. Doyle Leave a Comment

Today is Earth Day, and what better way to celebrate than to figure out ways we can reduce, reuse and recycle — not just in our businesses, but in our homes as well.If we all determined to do a little more recycling of things we’d normally toss into the trash can, we could literally “save […]

Filed Under: Sewing Tagged With: fabric remnants, fabric scraps, recycle, recycle fabric, reuse fabric

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