Tips & Tricks: What to do with fabric leftovers?

Beautiful fabric leftovers?
Do you have a few centimeters of beautiful tweeds or silk fabrics left from your project? In this chapter a few examples of how to use small pieces of fabric to make beautiful and fun accessories.

Of course we know that the entire internet is already full of blogs from creative people with fantastic ideas with step-by-step guidelines to help you to make some lovely gifts for yourself or your beloved friends or family. We are not pretending to show on this website some unique projects which has not been around already.  But our ideas are unique as they are just small objects which you are able to create in order to match the jackets or the skirt.  When the jacket or the skirt is made for a client or a friend, it is a nice present as a personal "extra" and a very personal touch.  The jacket or skirt IS already something very personal, but a small gift extra, makes it even more luxurious and personal.

Apart from the fun of gratefulness when you give the little extra away, we are also very sensible for the idea of ​​being sustainable and not just throwing away expensive beautiful materials.
Tweeds, bouclé fabrics and Silk or other lining-fabrics are not always very useful to save for quilts or patchwork-projects. They are too thick, too much loose threads or silk; too delicate and difficult to match with other fabrics.

So we stick to some useful ideas to make wonderful accessories from our left-overs. If you have some ideas yourself or if you want to show your project; your wonderful bag, your beautiful laptop-cover or whatever; just send it to use and we will publish it.

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