Comments on: A Week of Organization

By: The Discher Family

The Discher Family — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:37:40 +0000

I know what you’re talking about in regards to getting a lot done when you only have your younger ones home! I also have experienced this phenonemon! The exception of course would be when a little one includes a 4 month old 🙂

So, what do WE do with fabric remnants? Save them of course…for “a quilt”…”someday”…! I do try to make it into a basic square or rectangle, but I love the idea of precutting it right there on the spot and storing it with instructions. Hmmm…I think I will assign that to somebody.

Beth

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:03:31 +0000

Oh, I meant to add (as if it wasn’t long enough!) that this was my response to a question you posted on my blog (don’t know if you check back or not):

“Yes, Elisabeth, they do stay together, unless some over-enthusiastic little person tries to cram too many leaves into one “picture”! Then the wax just gives up trying to hold the whole thing together!

Since we are planning, the Lord willing, to go back up to “Arkasouri” for Christmas (the whole family together for the first time in years!), I plan to gather all the makings together for another project. This time, it will be stained-glass windows, with crayon bits framed and pressed between waxed paper.

We loved these easy, inexpensive crafts when my children were little, and it has been a fun time renewing those memories by teaching them to the grandchildren!”

Bonnie

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:58:27 +0000

Elisabeth, I have been a seamstress since my grandmother taught me as a child, over 50 years ago. I love to get every bit of use out of a piece of fabric. When my children were little, I made their clothes and doll clothes of my scraps and those my mother-in-law gave me. We love to make Christmas ornaments out of scraps, depending on the decor theme — rustic, country, dressy, etc.

When I was in my 20’s and we visited my dear grandmother, she showed me a quilt top she had been working on since my mother was a girl, probably for more than 30 years at the time. She took her time showing me the (very small) strips that had been sewn into squares. Each one represented something she had made with love for a family member — my mother’s graduation dress and later her wedding dress; a tie for my grandfather, who died when I was 5 months old; a shirt for my uncle missing in action in WWII; playclothes for a baby uncle who died at age 2, and on and on.

All this (sorry so long!) to say I think it is worth making a quilt from tiny scraps as a reservoir of memories for your family. Everyone I know who has a quilt made with love cherishes it.

So glad your family is back together!

Bonnie