Many years ago I purchased stacks of colorful wool felt from Commonwealth Felt. The rich colors and ease of stitching the felt by hand lured me in. But when you work small you end up with a lot of odds and ends that are too wonderful to throw away. So during the month of September, I’m giving away a bag of felt scraps with each order placed in the Artfabrik Store.
As I assemble the gift bags of fabrics I keep thinking, “I wonder how people will use them?” So I gave myself a challenge and set aside one of the bags to improvise a design. (I must admit I chose a bag with colors I liked.)
So far my little bag of scraps has yielded a yellow house on top of a bridge. I used some of the fabric shapes like the 2 green dots and the pointy tree as they were without trimming. Other shapes like the roof and bridge were trimmed from the waste fabrics or remnant fabrics from cutting with a die cutter.
I kind of like this simple design and am excited to move on to my favorite part, hand embroidery!
If you’ve received your little bag of scraps from ordering from Artfabrik, I hope you enjoy improvising a design too. Let me know what you come up with.