The Seashelly Tales

Hello!       Just thought I would catch up with what's been going on during my Scrap Quest as I transition from Tax Season to Uber driving.    Craft time still remains a wee bit limited.   I do need to earn money to pay the bills and save up for my ultimate project - a tiny tudor house to go to wars and long weekend events. So, Let's get started! This: has grown into this: Hmmmm,  there may be a bag or two hiding underneath others. There isn't much left to that pile of squares/rectangles I had set aside to make drawstring bags out of.  Those that do are telling me to turn them into something else.  What?  At this time, I'm not sure.  But that pile has grown considerably smaller. Then there was this: That grew into these: The smaller ones are stuffed with barley I had saved from a leather bottle making project done as a Canton project.   The other large one used some leftover fiberfill I had found in my stash.    I still have barley for mo

Ok, let's sum up a wee bit.    Last time I showed you the large pile scraps: And the container of smaller scraps: Well, I went through the small scraps bucket and with some pattern pieces for making some small balls, weeded out suitable fabric, cut out pieces for the balls, and put the even smaller scraps into a bag.  I thought I would use those for stuffing the balls.   Thus I ended up with this: and these: Some of which became this: Which did use up every single scrap in the tiny scraps bag to stuff that with.  Which got me to thinking, woah, how am I going to stuff all the balls I have pieces cut out for?   Then I remembered the leather bottle I made (A Canton of the Towers project) and that I saved the barley that was used to stuff the leather bottle during the stretching stage, and I thought I may have some fiberfill leftover stashed in the craft room. So, I did a little digging and found the barley and the fiberfill: Whew!  At least a few