I've been a member of Spoonflower for quite some time now, and I've managed to amass quite a number of little swatches. For anyone who hasn't designed fabric at Spoonflower, the swatch is a small 6 inch by 6 inch test print of your fabric design to test colors and other elements on the fabric.
I can never bear to throw anything away, let alone something I created, (It feels like I'm abandoning it, and, yes, I am overly emotional about my work.) so these little swatches started taking over my studio. I decided I needed to find some alternative uses for them and thought that perhaps other Spoonflower designers might have the same issue, so I wanted to share my ideas.
First up are small ornaments. I had a couple of swatches that had a large image featured in the swatch (well, large compared to the 6 inch size of the swatch), so I just cut out the image, cut another piece of fabric the same shape, sewed the two together with a small ribbon loop, filled it with stuffing, and viola! Something useful out of a bit of scrap fabric. Huzzah!
The Humpty Dumpty ornament comes from this fabric, which is intended to be a cafe curtain:
And the unicycle-riding flea comes from this fabric:
