As y'all know, there is a great lot of stash around the place. Clothing fabric stash, some of it ripstop and the like, zipper stash, quilting fabric stash, bead stash, embroidery thread stash...so much. But various projects are either about to begin or under way to use up the things.
One project that has been done a few times now was found on the blog A Spoonful of Sugar which is hosted by an English lady. It is a fabric bowl made from circles of fabric.
The blue-and-orange one was made first. I used some fabric from a blue blouse and some quilting fabric. The next bowl got a spiral of quilting on the bottom of the bowl to help it sit stably on the table.
Then the bowl became a project for our Sewing Club meeting.
This was an in-progress look at the gathering. The lower round of fabric is an un-gathered bowl.All of the demo bowls were made from leftover seersucker that had been used for a dress years ago, combined with quilting muslin for the inside.
This was one of the in-progress bowls about to get its top binding. On this one, instead of using an on-grain strip of quilting fabric (that worked very well!) I got lazy and tried using a piece of bias binding from the stash. It works better with the on-grain fabric, IMHO.
The completed demo bowls (mostly finished off at home), with a bit of rickrack included in the binding seam on the one in front.The rickrack worked out very well.
As with many of the sewing club projects that have been done, the two at the back have found their way to a new home. The one in front, as it's my very first time with rickrack, is going to the next meeting for show and tell.
Each bowl in this (about 4" across) size takes up 2 8 inch circles of fabric and one of thin batting.
They make great wine bottle coasters and containers for odds and ends on the night stand.
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