Scrap busting challenge - The Old Button playmats

My playmats are rather good for using up little pieces of fabric left over from my bigger makes.  Which is great from an environmental perspective, as well as keeping costs down for customers.

For toy CE documentation purposes I have always been good at keeping certified fabrics separate from vintage or unknown origin fabrics, but it was getting harder and harder to find the "right piece" from the overflowing bags and boxes of jumbled colours. So I kept cutting into new yardage 😬...

So I bit the bullet yesterday, grabbed a coffee and started sorting into colours..... Half a day later, and I have this glorious collection. 

The top row are sorted by main colour - I have lots of reds and pinks so the other rainbow shades can share. And the bottom rows are the multi-colours scraps or very "themed" prints.

I'd been using these boxes and the open shelving to store other sewing resources (including an ever expanding collection of sewing patterns 😏), but decided they could go in the cupboard instead. Time will tell how many things I forget about because they are behind the door!  

Next up was the box of Christmas fabric scraps.....

.....and there are mountains of vintage and dressmaking scraps to go through sometime.  Ahh well, there's always next year. 

 

 

In the meantime I am inspired by the colour coded boxes and have designed some little I-Spy mats - that double up as play activity toy as well as a very useful placemat.  Reversible like many of my makes so they can be used all year round as well as at Christmas.  

 

 

My I-spy playmats are available to buy through my Etsy and Folksy shops.

The Old Button Play On The Go © Play Scenes - are also available to buy on Etsy and Folksy