the fairy dolls sound magical! and they certainly do not take up much space. Sounds like a fair compromise, and in this case the value to you might be worth Mr. J. Case.
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@jbeany - our quilting group makes dog beds for the local shelter by taking old sweathirts, cutting off the sleeves, sewing up the waist, then stuffing them with scraps of fabric and batting (and the sleeves of the sweatshirt!). When full, sew up the neck. I have just made several - emptying 2+ 5 gallon buckets of scraps. Delivering them today!
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@pkilmain - That sounds like a great use for all the strays! I couldn't find anyone around here who was interested in the tiny scraps. Anything fat quarter size or so, I donated, but I had bags of teeny bits. Justin C was living large in my little craft room!
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I process all my stray bits of cloth into squares or rectangles 4 inches high and anywhere from 2 to 5 inches long. Anything that's too small to generate such a bit gets thrown out. Then I sew the bits together along the 4-inch side, generating a long roll of 4-inch wide scrap cloth. If you roll carefully and tightly, the fabric presses itself. This cloth can then be used for a strippy quilt, as bars, edging, whatever. The rolls take up a lot less space than bags of loose scraps.
I processed 20 years of scraps this way. I could sit in the living room, cutting board, ruler, and Olfa cutter at hand, and watch TV while I processed scraps. It was fun to sew them together. I sorted by color and sewing together blue wheels, brown wheels, everything wheels (with lots of white and black), and my fav, the blue-purple-red wheels. Lots of fun mixing up the scraps and picking which to put next to each other.
Now I have a bunch of scrap wheels to use up ... :)
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