After finishing off my 4th project of the year, my 3rd and final baby blanket, I realized I had a ton of scrap fabric.  I didn’t really feel like doing a completely new project including picking out fabric at the moment (apparently that is too much cognitive load at this point in time), but I could piece meal something together.

A side ‘project’ was to make a little ‘bumper’ for the rails on Will’s new toddler bed.  His crib was recalled and we didn’t feel like using it with the brackets that they give you that ‘fix’ it.  The toddler bed is working great, but the his pacifier would go flying out the small slats in the head board.  So, I used some left over fleece and just tied it onto the headboard.  Nothing extravagant, but it solved a problem and didn’t cost me a penny.

It felt great to use some scraps, so I flipped through some different ideas to see if I had enough fabric of the right kind to do another project.  Mark also got me a new sewing book for Mother’s Day too.  So I’m making a couple small things from Amy Butler’s In Stitches.  I’m not sure how much I’ll really use them, but I only need some ribbon and grommets.  I got everything cut out and felt like I had hardly used any of my scraps!

My mom thought this was great use of the scraps (and wanted to give me a bunch of her scraps that I unfortunately don’t have space to keep).  She mentioned that I could find ways to use some of my scraps as coordinating pieces in some crafty projects, like pockets on a bedside organizer.  I hope to make some good use of this idea.

Note to self: time to lay off the Amy Butler patterns and find some diversity.

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