03/09/2026
A tiny treasure made from scraps.
At Flower Farm this year, Arty Farty Annie came along with some of her friends. On the Sunday afternoon, sitting in the shady slow stitch corner, Annie made this pin cushion from some of the vast array of scrap fabrics we had spread out there. She was trying out a new thing — for one of her up and coming YouTube videos. We all admired it!
What luck!
She gave it to me, saying,
“You can have the pins in there too because they look so beautiful”!
A tiny gift from a scrap of fabric, stitched in a fragment of shared time. For now, so that I can admire it, it’s next to my singing bowls on the window sill. They sit together well with their good vibrations!
We prepare inspirational scrap bundles or “scrap bags” as we call them, full of beautiful bits of left over fabrics, rescued from the clothing manufacturing world in India. Each bag is different, sorted into various colour ways. If you would like to see some of them being unravelled take a look at Arty Farty Annie’s You Tube channel. I’ll share it in the comments. She has many videos of our “treasure”, as she calls it.
All our scrap bags are available on our website, but also we will be taking a good selection of them to the Knit+ Stitch Show at the Alexandra Palace, next month.
Just think of all the great things you could make — and if you can’t think of anything to make or how, Annie’s videos are also full of ideas to inspire you!
