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Something (almost) completely different: I had a bunch of scraps of my “hero” fabrics left over from bag making so I cut them into consistent-width strips and zigzag sewed them together, then sewed the strips together vertically (I did NOT let myself get neurotic about the same print touching itself, it was very difficult, please clap) then I did some math on an existing skirt I like and now I have a new skirt.
@swachter Very cool! Any tips for attaching all those scraps together like that? Seems like a hassle to pin and sew those!
@bammerlaan I cut the fabric into consistent strips (so I had a pile of 1” strips, 1.5”, etc) and then cut the long ones into shorter segments (like six-ish inches long max). I didn’t pin them, I just held the pieces with about a quarter inch overlap and fed them through my machine on the widest zigzag stitch. I also didn’t worry about backstitching since I was going to go over the seam when I sewed the strips together.
The zigzag stitches mean that the raw edges are enclosed for both the top and bottom pieces and there’s no seam sticking out. It was a lot of short seams but it wasn’t too bad!
