Scraphappy – apple fabric scraps
YES!
Graziella is getting a new dress…
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scraps
…made of scraps…
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Apples
…starting with this scrap of cotton fabric with a small apple core print (from which someone has been cutting hexagons I think)! I used it for the bodice and a faux apron.
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Gingham
There isn’t quite enough of the apple core fabric to make a whole Hitty dress, but it is so cute, I had to figure out how to use it, so I made the skirt of the dress out of this scrap of red gingham.
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Pinafore
This photo shows one of four pinafores I made from the four corners of a linen hanky…
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Pinafore Hanky corners
…but every hanky I make into pinafores generates four scrap triangles, which I made into sleeves…
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Threading
…and with an accent of red thread in the faggoting…
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Sweet Apple
…I made a scrap happy dress for my scrappy doll!
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ScrapHappy is a group of bloggers using up scraps of anything – no new materials…Anything made of genuine scraps is eligible, and posts come out once a month on the 15th! If you like the idea and want to join the group, contact Kate or Gun who devised and run this group. Their blogs are the first two links below:
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Quimper Hittys 
How adorable! What a lovely coming together of precious little bits and pieces for a dear little doll 🙂
Thanks so much, I had such fun piecing, sewing and making smaller scraps!
What an applesolutely darling dress! I love scraps so I’m with ya’ on that! I’m not quilter so am happy to find a use for those bits and pieces I can let go of.:)
Thanks Diane, I had fun making all the scraps dance together nicely! Bits and pieces ebb and flow in this household!
Lovely scrapples!
Thanks! Scrapple is a great word…but I couldn’t fit pork meatloaf into the story
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It was supposed to be a mix of scraps and apples. 🙂
An excellent word!
I just ADORE clothing like this-a bit of this and that. Graziella looks very sweet in this little master work. Your work is always so crisp and cheery. Thank you for this bit of autumnal cheer.
You are very welcome! Graziella loves her new outfit, and I loved making it up out a bit of this and a bit of that!
adorable! the sleeves give it a peasant look and the red rick rack is perfect. Graziella looks proud and happy.
I do like Graziella’s sweet optimistic face…it is a pleasure to sew for any Hitty, but she does seem extra appreciative! I like how the linen sleeves look too.
That is such a pretty dress! Graziella is clearly loves it and which Hitty wouldn’t?
I would love to join the ScrapHappy group but fear I am too disorganised to even run a blog, let alone to be sure of finishing a scrap project each month. Perhaps when elder and childcare is a little less strenuous, if the senior centre reopens and when the littlest person is older I may be more eligible.
As the administrator of ScrapHappy, I can assure you that you would be eligible right now if you’d like to join us. There’s no obligation to post monthly, every few months is enough. The only requirement is that the project is truly scrappy. Let me know if you’d like to hear a bit more about it.
I would like to encourage you too, Trumblesmum…it is such fun to have a little goal once a month, and sometimes they are very little goals…in progress is totally acceptable! It is so nice to see other people’s efforts at using up scraps! And a couple of the other scrapsters live relatively close to you!
I hope you do!
A great combination of left-over pieces! I think Graziella thinks so too.
I think you are right Graziella is very pleased at getting her very own new dress to wear! I do wonder where the apple core hexagons have gone…
Oh, that’s gorgeous! She looks wonderful, and the sleeves are such a clever solution.
thanks! I have been looking at all the triangles of linen for so long, and trying to think of how to use them up too after the pinafores get made up! Finally inspiration struck, and I am pleased with the results.
How utterly beautiful 😍
Thank you so much! I love turning scraps into pretty things…fortunately these dolls are only 6 1/2 inches tall, though even a tiny scrap sometimes needs to be supplemented with other tiny scraps!
fabulous, and great use of a linen hankie!
Thanks so much! We love linen Hankies, and their various uses for dollies and humans!
I love this. Thank you
Thank You! It is always so satisfying to eke out one more thing from a good scrap!
so ingenious and so cute! She looks so pleased with her new ensemble That apple fabric i really special!
Thanks! Little Miss Graziella is feeling very cheerful in her little outfit – just a jolly temperament all over!