{"id":4967,"date":"2014-04-16T22:51:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T02:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:25:37","slug":"ideas-for-quilt-fabric-scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/quilted-ornament-tips\/ideas-for-quilt-fabric-scraps\/","title":{"rendered":"The CUTEST way to use up your quilting scraps."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions I am asked most often about my <a title=\"quilted ornament patterns\" href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/no-sew-quilted-ball-ornament-pattern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quilted ornament patterns<\/a> is:<\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;I have tons of scraps and fat quarters left over from my bigger quilting projects. Are these pieces big enough to make quilted ornament projects from?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">The answer is, absolutely. In fact, quilted ornaments are a <em>perfect <\/em>way to use up your fabric scraps.<\/h2>\n<p>Each ornament takes less than a quarter yard of fabric. And, not only that, your fabric will be cut into small rectangles, and then layered onto the ornament, so you&#8217;ll be able to use up your smallest of scraps.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s such an awesome way to make sure all those little pieces of fabric don&#8217;t go to waste&#8230;whether you make an ornament using only a couple of different fabrics, like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"quilted ball ornament instructions\" href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/being-crafty\/quilted-ornament-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4968\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/holly-christmas-ornament-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"holly-christmas-ornament\" width=\"737\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, whether you make a &#8220;scrappy&#8221; style ornament, with all sorts of different fabric pieces, like one of my customers, Terri, did here (how cute is this?):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4971 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/patchwork-ornament.jpg\" alt=\"patchwork-ornament\" width=\"252\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best part of an ornament like this? It is completely unique. No two will ever look alike.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some <a title=\"Quilted Easter Egg instructions\" href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/being-crafty\/quilted-fabric-egg-pattern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quilted Easter Eggs<\/a>, which I made from fat quarters:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Quilted Easter Egg instructions\" href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/being-crafty\/quilted-fabric-egg-pattern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4129\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quilted-easter-eggs-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"quilted-easter-eggs\" width=\"737\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never made these before, you can see all of the different patterns I&#8217;ve got available right <a title=\"quilted ornament instuctions\" href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/no-sew-quilted-ball-ornament-pattern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>. Just be careful&#8230;they are addicting! :)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/OG-Game-7-e1477333286414.png\" alt=\"og-game-7\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7047\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions I am asked most often about my quilted ornament patterns is: &#8220;I have tons of scraps and fat quarters left over from my bigger quilting projects. Are these pieces big enough to make quilted ornament projects from?&#8221; The answer is, absolutely. In fact, quilted ornaments are a perfect way to use&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[179,203],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quilted-ornament-tips","tag-ornament-patterns","tag-quick-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}