ScrapHappy - Mending with scrap Fabric
- drjanmartin
- Jun 15
- 2 min read
June 2025
by Jan
After a long absence from ScrapHappy posts, I’m pleased to say that we are back. If you do a bit of exploring , you will see that we have a shiny new website; it’s still being polished and added to, but this will be our permanent home from now on – hurrah!
Anyway, on with the real purpose of this post… a recent ScrapHappy project that saw me mending with scrap fabric. This is one that differs from my usual activities in that it involves a quilt, so all you expert quilters out there will have to cut me some slack.
Last year I acquired a commercially made quilt from my mum – she no longer wanted it, but I thought it would be great for protecting our bed or sofa from marauding dogs! We used it for a while, but claws being what they are, it started to get ripped in a few places. I looked at replacing the fabric pieces individually, but didn’t feel it was worth all the time required. My fix, therefore, has been simply to remove the damaged top, and the wadding if that was damaged too, and simply stitch a large, hemmed cotton patch over the top. I’ve inserted a square of wadding when necessary too.
Since the original quilt is a design based around squares, I think my patches look ok. Of course I didn’t have fabric exactly the same as the original, so a good rummage through the scrap collection here and in the shop produced a few pieces to do my first set of mends. Subsequently, I’ve had some more pre-loved fabric arrive in the shop and so I’ve now put together a bundle of pieces to use for future mends. The wadding too is scrap – left over from someone else’s project.
I suspect that, eventually, the majority of the top of this quilt is going to be covered with my replacement patches and, to be honest, I think I will like it even more then!
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On the 15th of each month a group of bloggers share their ScrapHappy activities, encouraging others to get creative with scrap. You can check them out by following the links: Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen, Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti, Viv, Karrin, Alissa, Hannah and Maggie
Super that you're back among the scrapsters, and with this rather excellent and shiny website, too. As a quilter, I see no problem with what you've done, it's in the best tradition of 'use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without'. I hope Daisy appreciates your efforts!
I am so happy to see you back again! If Daisy enjoys the quilt, then no other "expert" is required!