Eleventh Hour Scraphappy Day- July 2023

Having told Kate (one of the organisers of Scraphappy) that I wouldn’t be participating this month because I don’t seem to be making anything lately that produces the sort of scraps I like to use to make new things with, if you get my drift,  I got a hold of myself, remembered that I used to be a more organised person (well, ish) and have a parts department with cotton fabric cut into squares and triangles and sometimes even circles.  (A possible entry there for the longest sentence of the month).

Anyway, I am waiting for the arrival of buttons so that I can get on with my Merchant & Mills Quinn Trousers I told you about in my last post.  Why is it, I wonder, that I have jars, tins, boxes and cards of buttons yet never have a) the right colour b) the right style or c) the right size or if I have any of those three, never in the right quantity.  It makes me want to get rid of all those buttons – think of the space I’d have – to the excess button recycling centre which every town and village must certainly have and just buy the ones I want when I want them.

Eventual positions of elusive buttons.  Always nice to slip some Liberty lining into a project even though nobody will know it’s there but you.

So, two years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, I did a Scraphappy post where I’d made some reusable cleansing pads made out of a ‘pre-loved’ flannel baby sheet and some of the squares from my parts department.  They have been in use every day since so I thought it might be time to make some more.

This time I used a ‘pre-loved’ hand towel for the backing because I thought towelling would work better when I use my facial soap, whereas the flannel fabric seems to work better with cleansing milk or micellar water.

So easy to make and so quick.  Just cut pairs of squares in whatever size you fancy, one out of flannel or terry towelling, and one of fabric.  With right sides facing, sew around the edge leaving an inch or so open for turning.  Trim the corners then turn right side out.  Stitch around the square close to the edge so that you catch the opening and, there you go.

Some might say ‘why don’t you just use a face cloth and be done’ but that wouldn’t be any fun would it?  (Plus. you wouldn’t have an entry for Scraphappy Day.)

Also I make nice little lined waterproof pouches to put them in so you can keep the clean pads in the outer pocket and zip the used ones up inside, then pop the whole lot in the washing machine.

My daughter took the one I made her on her New Zealand trip and it was universally admired and coveted.

Well, that’s sort of what she said.

 

Scraphappy Day is organised by Kate & Gun for anybody who wants to make new things from scraps of any kind – doesn’t have to be fabric or yarn.  Here’s a list of participants – both regular and occasional – if you want to have a look at the sort of things you can do with scraps.

Contact Kate or Gun (first names on the list) if you want to join in.

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy,  Tracy,
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Edith
Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Debbierose, Nóilin, Viv, Karrin,
Amo, Alissa, Lynn (me), Tierney and Hannah