Welcome once again to ScrapHappy Day!
It’s the day my friend Gun in Sweden and I host ScrapHappy, a day for showing something made from scraps.
After last month’s highly successful and so far, much complimented scrappy fabric necklace, I eyed the remaining triangles of batik from the Floribunda quilt with a much more assessing eye. And this is the result. A Christmas hemi-wreath, decoration, whatever you’d like to call it. I call it pretty, and hung it on a door. I love those colours!
ScrapHappy is open to anyone using up scraps of anything – no new materials. It can be a quilt block, pincushion, bag or hat, socks or a sculpture. Anything made of genuine scraps is eligible. If your scrap collection is out of control and you’d like to turn them into something beautiful or useful instead of leaving them to collect dust in the cupboard, why not join us on the 15th of each month? Either email me at the address on my Contact Me page, or leave a comment below. You can also contact Gun via her blog to join. We welcome new members. You don’t have to worry about making a long term commitment or even join in every month, just let either of us know a day or so in advance if you’re new and you’ll have something to show, so we can add your link. Regular contributors will receive an email reminder three days before the event.
Here are the links for everyone who joins ScrapHappy from time to time (they may not post every time, but their blogs are still worth looking at). The list below is the most current one I have, so if you’d like me to update something, let me know in the Coments.
Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jill, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Jule, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera,
Nanette, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol,
Preeti, Debbierose, Nóilin and Viv
Beautiful and so creative
Thats an awful lot of triangles
It is, but all I had to do is poke a hole in each one and thread them onto the wire, while I listened to a podcast. Mindless work, pretty result!
Maybe it was simple, but I would never have thought of it – credit to your creative mind
😊
Fantastic scrappy wreath, love the colours.
Aren’t they gorgeous together? I’m really pleased with it, and also the suggestions for making this seasonally appropriate with other ‘baubles’.
So ingenious, what a pretty demi-wreath it made, especially with that flash of the purple glass ball!
The bauble is what really makes it, otherwise it’s just a bunch of fabric on a wire. But I agree, the colour is perfect!
Scraps + season = festive decoration… you could swap the bauble for a heart in Feb, and an egg at Easter…
You’re absolutely right, and a skull at Halloween. I must remember to keep it out!
Ooo! yes – fun to ring the seasonal changes
I guess you could also celebrate summer with a beautiful seashell, and autumn with a cute baby pumpkin…
that’s a very effective use of scraps, Kate, fabric looks like autumn leaves from a distance
Exactly what I was hoping for! You’ve said all the right things… 😊
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I love it – the fabric gives a hint of leaves. I am joining in this month with one of my favourites – rust! https://daffodilwild.wordpress.com/2022/12/15/scrap-happy-baubles-2/
It’s very botanical, isn’t it? And the colours are quite autumnal, despite being basically pink, green, purple and yellow.
Just a note – Eva’s link isn’t working.
Yes, I’ve spotted that. I think I may have to do a severe pruning for the front end of the list, since many of them never seem to participate any longer, but they came through Gun, so I haven’t wanted to interfere. I think it’s time, though…
Very clever!
Thanks! Easy, too…
Clever and spectacular 👌
Maximum impact for fairly minimal effort. I love how it looks!
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very festive and just your colours. That is a lot of little pieces.
It is, but it’s still not the end of the triangles! I have one more purpose to find for the remainder, and then I shall consider it a job well done.
Brilliant colours. You have given me an idea for my craft room. Happy Christmas.
Do share it with us in January’s ScrapHappy!
If it is completed I certainly will.
It looks so “intended” – not at all as if it is made from scraps. Beautiful.
I suppose that’s the sign of a successful scrappening; that it looks ‘meant’!
What an enjoyable use of scraps Kate! I just love the creative scrappiness you come up with!
I do hate to see fabric go to waste, and if it’s pretty or expensive, even the tiny snippets get a use if I can think of something.
Love it!!! God Jul och Gott Nytt År!
Gorgeous is what I say!
I’m so glad you like it!
What a fun way to display all your favorite pieces of fabric. I would think you could keep it up all year round if you chose too do that. Very creative use of scraps.
I knew I’d kept all those tiny triangles for a reason! There are very few left in the bowl now; I shall have to come up with one more project to use up those last bits.
I love that
Glad you like it!
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