These are left over from projects I've made for personal use or gifting as well as remnant pieces from items I've made for my store. Some of these strips and squares are really quite teeny. But I can't quite bring myself to get rid of them.
I don't want though to just collect them. I make variety packs of these fabrics for my shop, but the scraps in this basket are too small for that. It has been a real quandary and I didn't have any great ideas for using these scraps.
And then I bought this cookbook and took a nap. But before I fell asleep I was browsing this recipe.
As if by magic, when I woke up I knew what I wanted to do with at least some of the scraps. I hadn't made the recipe yet, so I don't think it was the flavor that inspired me, but rather the colors on the page. I cut and sewed some of the bits together with the cookbook open to this recipe.
Maybe it wasn't the colors on the page, but the nap that clarified for me what I should piece the scraps into. It could have even been the oreo cookies I ate after my nap. I don't know, but I feel like I've made a dent into that basket of scraps. Just a little dent, though, more like a ding.
Wow, Malka. Your eye for color is so enviable! I think it's so neat how your pillow matched that photo! I love to see your scraps, too. Just more evidence of your impeccable color work.
ReplyDeleteAmazing. =)
ReplyDeleteHow fun to make your inspiration alive! great color combo. OK, I am off to take a nap... :)
ReplyDeleteAmazing what a nap and an oreo will do. Love the application. The scraps look like the piecing in Freddy and Gwen's new book More Collaborations. They look ready to sew together just as they are.
ReplyDeletebeautiful!
ReplyDeleteIsn't that cookbook so beautiful? It's a cook book and a look book!
_Rossie
Great pillow. A scrap has to get pretty small for me to throw it out!
ReplyDeleteHey Malka -- Is that the cookbook you were going to tell me about last weekend?
ReplyDeleteIt was good to see you and get a bit of a chance to chat. Lovely pillow too.
-- s
Love it Malka!!
ReplyDeleteYou are an inspiration!!!
A ding? I love it. Now I know what to do with my scraps. Bless you for having such creative dreams. Mine are usually nightmares about what the heck to do with all my fabric. Dream on.
ReplyDeleteI am absolutely in awe of your work! How truly inspiring your are!
ReplyDeleteMmm - I love that cookbook and find it very inspiring, but its never inspired a quilt. Impressive.
ReplyDeletecookies and naps=heaven! the pillow is adorable! pretty backing fabric too.
ReplyDeleteThis proves napping is a good thing!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I dreamed a quilt years ago. I totally believe in sleep and creativity. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is so great to find inspiration in a cookbook (or a nap)! I love to read cookbooks, as much the imagery as for the recipes. Such a clever way to use your cherished scraps in patchwork.
ReplyDeleteWonderful. I love that your inspiration is food and the you can accomplish it in a day! Some time in the future. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteLovely pillow & that curry sounds good too. (Is it kosher? Curries can be, but I often see sour cream added...)
ReplyDeleteMalka...I think I need to check out more cookbooks and take more naps....Love your inspiration and your pillow.
ReplyDeleteSimple square shaped pieces, but your fabric turns it into a rockin' artsy pillow. Love the fabric on the back too.
ReplyDeleteI was going to say you can send those scraps to me!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love scraps!!!!
I also like the leaf printed fabric you used in the back of your cushion!!! Great!!!
Mmmmmmmm napping plus Oreos do wonders!!!!!!
and that recipe..... will have to have a closer look!!!
Next time you're in a quandary about your fabrics, email me!!!!!
You just hang on to your basket of wonderful wow-factors. All you need is more time to make more pillows and most deserving of those little scaps to be the wows in your wonderful designs.
ReplyDeleteI love scraps and love what you made with your scraps. I always hit the scrap bucket at our local quilt shop.
ReplyDeleteHeres an idea if you get over run with scraps..
http://store.annamariahorner.com/scrapbags1.html
I wouln't mind purchasing a bag from you. ;-)
About the recipe, the curry does call for some kind of dairy product though I don't remember what. We don't eat meat, so I used some fake chicken tofu thing.
ReplyDeleteOh, that is just awesome! And, I love the fabric on the back. What is that? Did you make that one too?
ReplyDeleteI love it!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous as always! You can also sew the smaller skinny strips into tiny, improvisational log cabins.
ReplyDeleteAnd hey, no throwing away commercial scraps! I am a scrapper and I use everything, down to 1" square. Give them to me!
drool!!
ReplyDeleteFood as inspiration - more of us should do it. Gorgeous use of colours.
ReplyDeleteThat looks great! I had been keeping small scraps, but I was building up a pile. I started cutting out 2 inch blocks from them if it was enough, and throwing out the smaller pieces. This is probably the only way I will use them.
ReplyDeletecurry anything is my favorite meal. so i am sooo not surprised that it inspired such a luscious quilted pillow. :)
ReplyDeleteI love your blog post! It is a fantastic example of how you can take a great image and use it to create a different work of art through texture, colour and the senses / emotions that it evokes. This will be a great intro to a wearable art lesson for my Year 12 Home Economics class. Thank you :)
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