Quilting and Patchwork

Swatch Portraits - One Way to Use Leftover Quilt Fabric

by Mary Emma Allen on June 3rd, 2007

Quilters and fabric artists often have what seems like tons of leftover fabric they plan to use for a future project.  Or they purchase fabric then don’t find a way to incorporate it into any of their projects.

At Layers Upon Layers, I discovered an ideal way to use your leftover fabric…swatch portraits.  Cyndi seems intrigued by this idea, too, which she found at The Purl Bee.  There’s even a tutorial at that site for creating wall art from your fabric by using embroidery and quilting hoops of various sizes. 

As I looked at the fabric portraits displayed, I also could envision them decorated with fancy stitching and embellishments.  There seems to be no end to the ideas  creative people can come up with in the fabric art world.

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