WIP: using fabric scraps

My Mom is encouraging me to move toward paper piecing to use scraps of fabric. In fact, she has been encouraging me to try paper piecing for a while. A couple of days ago, Mom sent me the link to a video about paper piecing, and I'm sold. It's on my "new project" list.

My Mom is amazing.

So far, I've been saving some of my scraps for postcards (thanks Monika! http://mysweetprairie.blogspot.ca/p/classes-i-teach.html) and cutting some into one-inch pieces.

For the next few weeks, I must focus on filling my fusible grid project box. In a few weeks I hope to be visiting with some of my favourite nephews and perhaps one of my best nieces; I hope I can get them to be creative with me.

fusible 1 inch grid

Placing a piece of fusible grid on a table and a box of cut squares next to it, seems to invite group participation in the same way that leaving a large puzzle on the dining room table does.

my grid project box needs a refill

In the past, when I left a photo, a grid, and lots of fabric squares on the dining table, my honey would gaze at what become our project and add and/or remove a few squares almost every time he passed near the grid.

I hope my nephews and niece will get interested in this project. I'll let them make a design. I'll sew the grid together and see if they wish to embellish their design with other things. (Note to self... organize some embellishments.)

Maybe they'll create individual name plates to hang on their bedroom doors. Maybe we'll create something larger.

Maybe... I need more boxes of one-inch squares.