A patchwork rag doll

If you are like me and love fabric, I’m sure your drawers and craft boxes are full with pieces of fabric!

Over the years I have accumulated quite an impressive stock. Some are so old that they are Vintage!!!

And guess what : I saw all those beautiful new collections for spring and summer that I’m dying to get. But I try (and sometimes succeed) to be organised and a bit reasonable. No I won’t order any new fabric before I’ve used, not all – a life time job !- but some of what I have already in store.

And there starts THE question: which one shall I use? I have those that I liked only the day I bought them, and ignore them since then.

There are those that I love so much that I never use them, waiting for the right project for them- no idea when this will be.

And the rest.

I made a selection from the 3 groups (yessss) and ended up with 10 fabrics in the blue and green shades.

I cut a ‘slice’ of it: not too much of those I don’t like, and not too much of my favourite ones either! Then ironing of a stabilizer on each piece and there I go, assembling them all together.

All right, now I’m ready. First I decided to make a small pouch – almost a cube- to store small sewing items while on the Go, and a pincushion quite bigger than the tiny small we usually see, so we can have more than 20 pins!

After this I decided that instead of using what was left for a scissor case, I would prefer a rag doll. Well the piece of patchwork left was long and narrow, so the doll is VERY tall and VERY slim! It is in my Etsy boutique here!