Studio Scrap
Elisabet Schwartzkopf
Another in the series of Marie Bostwick and Deb Tucker collaborations, Garden Dance is a magnificent medallion quilt designed as a companion quilt to Marie's novel Ties That Bind. It includes some applique, plenty of piecework, and no stars! Something unusual for Deb and maybe for you, too. So, choose a focus fabric, some coordinating prints and have fun making your own Garden Dance project!
This initial pattern for Deb's Corner Beam ruler is a beauty, and easy to boot! You'll be making three different sized blocks, and each block is just four units. Deb used one medium and one light fabric with lots of darks to get a more traditional scrappy feel. You can do the same, or make the lights and mediums scrappy, too. Or just use one dark, one medium, and one light. It's up to you!
This incredibly snazzy quilt was designed by Pam Goggans of Sager Creek Quilts & Yarnworks and is constructed using only Split Rectangle units! The pattern emerges with the combination of scrappy left and right slanting units strategically placed to create the large diamonds. And for a little extra bit of extra pizzazz some of the Split Rectangles units have double diagonal seams to add a dark pop of color to the diamond centers. Using the Split Rects you will have great success with the fun and interesting design.
This beautiful quilt was designed in collaboration with New York Times best selling author Marie Bostwick as a companion pattern for her recent novel Threading the Needle. In the book, a simple quilt is enhanced with embellishments by a long time friend. The combination of their work creates a magnificent quilt rather than one that is simply OK. Friends really are the spice of life!
We usually associate a Diamond Rectangle unit with a traditional Storm at Sea design, but think again! Sea Glass is a great example of what else you can do with this simple unit. Choose a focus print, pull some coordinating fabrics from your stash, mix everything together with a light and a dark and you're headed for a great looking quilt. As always, your units will be made oversized and then trimmed to perfection with the Diamond Rects tool.
This duo, wall quilt and table runner, are certain to enhance the look of your fall decor. Both projects include a favorite Leaf Block and Flying Geese strips to create their overall design, and both are perfect scrap projects. Deb's Wing Clipper 1, Corner Beam, and Square Squared tools ensure perfect units for easy quilt construction and so all you need to do is add those beautiful fabrics.
Create the illusion of stars floating over the surface of a quilt and casting shadows below using your Wing Clipper 1 tool. Deb was inspired by a Judy Martin block and then varied the star sizes, the layout and the border to create a unique design. Instructions are for a wall quilt, but suggestions are included for larger size projects.
This spectacular quilt uses three of Deb's tools: Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star for the stars in the center section, V Block for the pointy units in the pieced borders and Square Squared for the diamond square units in the pieced borders. Together they'll make this quick, easy and successful for everyone! It'll blow you away!
This web site features one-of-a-kind sculptures created by South Dakota sculptor John Lopez. Lopez's work is welded together using scrap iron found on neighboring ranches. See if you can find all the hidden treasures in each piece.
Telling the story of life on the prairie is incomplete without the bison, the main resource of generations of Native peoples who called this region their home. The Grand River once knew vast herds of bison, unconfined by fences, as it now knows cattle and sheep that are moved from pasture to pasture by ranchers on horseback.
My friend Kenny Tomac and I dug through the ruins to find so many plow discs that the Friesian ended up with eight, giving it a more unified feel than the other horses in the Grand River Series. I used the hames for the muscles in the neck and hind leg, a pitchfork in the neck, steel scoop shovels for the shoulders, and real horse shoes on the hooves.
Expect to see this piece in person at the Kokomo Gallery in Lemmon, South Dakota. "Custer's Last Stand" is a focal point sculpture you can see in person when you visit the Kokomo in Lemmon, South Dakota. Bus tours welcome. This piece is a perfect example of Hybrid Metal Art Sculpture. "Hybrid Metal Art Sculpture" is a style of sculpture that consists of a fusion of scrap iron and cast bronze. The term has come to identify the unique sculpture style of John Lopez.
This life-size moose will be permanently installed in New Hampshire the summer of 2017. You can expect to see this peace in person at the Kokomo in Lemmon, SD July 7, 8 and 9th 2017 before it goes to NH.
They brought the unexpected gift of several of the actual tools used to dig Sue twenty years before, along with a cast miniaturization of the original skull of Stan, the second-largest rex ever. Of course, I took great pleasure in distributing these items throughout the body of the sculpture.
The collection of materials in this life-sized horse created an obvious stir in Hill City, South Dakota, after the local arts council purchased the sculpture for the town. Passersby still stop to identify the farm and ranch implements that, from a distance, give the impression of a beautifully conformed horse. The impression is so strong that cowboys who drive by pulling horse trailers have reported that their horses actually whinny when they pass Iron Star!
John has sculpted 12 life-size presidential monuments for The City of Presidents project in Rapid City, SD. Some of the presidents include John F. Kennedy and John Jr., Grant, Carter, Harrison, Coolidge, T. Roosevelt, and Garfield.
Studio-Scrap is photo creation software, both very powerful and easy to use. It is the ideal tool for carrying out all your graphic projects, from scrapbooking pages to photo albums, including announcements and leaflets.
Studio-Scrap is the software that will allow you to create your layouts with ease. You will have at your disposal: Studio-Scrap 9 includes: - fully editable page templates - quality papers or digital textures (plain, patterned, creative papers, etc.) - embellishments to decorate your pages - character fonts.
These fabric scrap bowls were a quick project I made to use up some of my fabric scraps and some cording rope I was given. I really enjoyed choosing the coordinating fabric strips, and I found the repetitive wrapping and sewing motion a relaxing afternoon project.
Wow! thank you so much! Actually, I was not aware these are all over the place but I certainly do appreciate you taking the time to put together this list of resources. Love how your bowls turned out.
I have been wanting to make these fabric bowls for a long time. Not only do I have a boatload of fabric scraps but wanted to make these for gifts for my quilting gal pals. Thanks so much for this tutorial and connected sites.
Your second bulleted item makes no sense whatsoever. It would be helpful for you to re-word this. I want to make an Easter basket for my granddaughter, but am finding mostly people who have found something they can make, but cannot teach. I fear my idea of an East basket for this year is going down the drain.
I have been making the bowls for quite a while, one thing I do that helps me, when you get to the end of a strip I use fabric glue to hold the end in place, when I start another strip I put fabric glue on the end and overlap the end of the previous one and hold it in place with a clothes pin, I keep winding the cord this way until I have enough for a bowl then go back and remove the clothes pins.
The drawstring bag that I added will be helpful if I need to take off the cover, but my zipper opening is too small for it all to come out at once so I will still need to take the scraps out little by little. Oh well! At least I can wash it once someone around here spills something on it.
It has been a busy month for me, with family visits, and babysitting duties. With all that excitement I had totally forgotten that my scheduled post for the forum was due until the other day. What to do?
Stitching, was as Ruth suggests, in a circular pattern starting around the outside edge, and working towards the centre. Then further stitching in a spindle/spoke pattern to further secure all the pieces. All the pins are now removed and nothing is moving! Then I made some small circles all over the piece in a different thread colour.
Thank you Capi, yes it was definitely a moment, when I realised that a post was due! It is a great way of using up pieces of felt, and also random lengths of yarn. Does not matter how much yarn is used either. It was fun, and I enjoyed it very much.
Glad you enjoyed the tutorial Marie. It is a quick project and can be made in so many different ways depending on what your scraps look like and what thread you use. I like the circle effect and look forward to seeing if you go larger!
It's been a little while since the last post in our scrap-busting series so we're excited to be sharing this post today! These statement earrings not only vacuum up fabric scraps, but they also make use of all of those buttons you've collected over the years that are currently languishing in a jar or drawer somewhere.
We're constantly writing down ideas for this series, and when we saw these earrings that were recently released as part of Rachel Comey's Fall 2019 collection we were inspired to make our own variation. While the fabric pieces you use can be any width or length, we chose to cut out mostly rectangular pieces.