When I finished my Cotton Blossoms quilt last year, of course I bagged up all the leftover scraps (except for the tissue holder and ipod case I made).
Yesterday I dug them out and started working on Journal Covers using this tutorial.
The only thing I had to buy were the buttons to cover!
...and the backs
I used all those triangles cut off my original quilt to make the itty bitty pinwheels (2 1/2 inch finished).
If I scrounge, I might have enough supplies to make one more!
Not sure if they will be birthday or Christmas gifts.
The only change I made (on the advice of Amy of Diary of a Quilter) was to square up the quilted piece to 10 1/2" by 16" rather than 10 1/2" by 15 1/2".
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Well, now I know where you have been for the past week.... and here I thought you were sitting in the sewing room counting all your wins!! LOL
Love the covers. I need to check out that tutorial...
Darn cute! Nice use of scraps.
You journal covers look great. Beautiful use of scraps.
VERY nice use of leftover pieces of fabric. You did a great job.
O.K. when I was waiting for your blog to come up and I saw your header picture, I was in complete amazement! That is a wonderful quilt!!! I love your thimble blossom project too. Isn't it fun to make something out of those tiny scraps. I'm working on one right now like that. Thanks for stopping by my blog and entering the giveaway!
Love these!!! I have a thing for little pinwheels from leftover corners, and these are absolutely perfect. Perfect!
Pretty!
Mary they are perfect. Is that a hair thingy for the button holder?
Wow these turned out beautifully! Great use of scraps.
How NICE! My Punkie Pie would love a special journal like this. I'll have to look into making one for her.
I love them Mary and I need one for my Japan trip. Thanks for sharing - Hugs Nat
Very nice. I have made some journal covers before with a different pattern.
These are so cool and what a good use of your left over fabric. PERFECT
I love journal covers and yours are wonderful! And, to think you made them all from scraps.
How gorgeous, what a great use of leftovers and they'll make terrific gifts. I love journal covers.
Mary, so cute and perfect for scraps. Thanks for the link of the tutorial.
I love your journal covers! Every one of them- they are so sweet!!!
Some relly good looking book, I have to say. Great work !
How adorable! Such a clever thing to do. i haven't even thought of pinwheels yet! I'm so happy I didn't throw these little triangles away. I'm beginning to get really excited about using them. Thanks so much for sharing!
Great projects!! Yes, those little pieces of fabric cost just as much as the larger pieces right!!
wow I love them, what great gifts they would make!!!!! thanks for sharing these!!!
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