Here is a cute and easy project to jazz up your kitchen for the holidays. Fabric trimmed towels add a little bit of a homey feel to your clean up routine. They are very simple to make. You can use them to dry hands, dishes or just leave them in place as a kitchen decoration.
Here is what you will need to get started:

Scraps of fabric
A hand or dish towel
Trim materials such as rick rack or ribbon

To start you need to measure the width of the towel and cut the fabric strip to the same width plus an inch. It’s up …read more

My daughter, fiber artist Beth A. Mastin,  is forever using up her scraps for her quilting and fabric art projects.  For this quilt, she started with a blue background piece she had put together previously from strips of various shades of blue.
As she dug through one of her bags of scraps, she found other snips and pieces of fabric to create the rest.  The blue portion is postcard size, with a border around to enlarge it.

Beth Mastin Image

What have you created from scraps? Large quilts or wall hanging size fabric art?  Or even postcards and inchies?
(See more of Beth’s work at Meandering Threads.)