Using my Left-over Knit Scrap Fabric to Make a Hoodie!

When I see a pile of left-over scraps like this
or 
that drawer of saved scraps,

I see possibilities!
Yeap, that is one of my personal style traits:
Using those little bits
that others would throw away! 

I just finished making my granddaughter 

some new summer clothes that 

are mix- and match with

similar color tones...watercolors.

While cleaning up my sewing room, I began to think 

of how I could incorporate these

scraps into a shirt.

The fabrics are 220 gram cotton/spandex 

and they feel so soft yet durable.

So, I didn't want to waste an inch.

The shirt front features a log cabin square, 

and this sets the tone of soft watercolors.

Each sleeve has 4 or 5 color-blocked

layers of prints, stripes, or a water-color print

that feels like a solid more than a print.
And it turned out like this:

So many wonderful 
color-blocks
that just need 
a bit
of fabric.

I used a larger
scrap of the back, 
because your eyes
need a break
when you use so many 
different prints and stripes.

 

YUMMY




So much fun to make that I just 
had to make another
scrap shirt. 

So that is my
Personal
Style

Use those left-overs
and keep 
your money in the bank.




The dinosaur scrappy t-shirt turned out better that I imagined, but what to wear with them? Scrappy shorts with Dinosaur footprints on your butt, of course. I appliqued the dinosaur footprints onto a piece of the original black fabric from the panel, 
then cut out the shorts back.