Making Rosettes Out of Scraps!

From this...

...To this

 Oy Vey!  I save everything in my sewing room, including the thinnest of scraps. Luckily, so far, my hoarding is limited to only sewing stuff in my sewing room!

These "rosettes" started when I cut off the edges of a piece of muslin to square it off.  Making rosettes are my forte. I've been doing them for years. I would make them when we used to go on car trips, as a way to make the time go by. I also used to get car sick, so reading was out of the question. I now take motion sickness pills so I can read my iPad or iPhone while on the road.

Anyway, I as I said, I make many of these rosettes. I use a needle and thread to keep it together as I make it. I'm going to be using them for a very small art quilt that I'm working on. The muslin that I was squaring off is going to be  used for the front of the small art quilt.

Rosette #1

The only thing I've accomplished so far, is my sewing room being extremely messy, while trying to figure out how I want my small art quilt to look. I have muslin, and all kinds of different fabric scraps all over the place. I also have beautiful storage boxes strewn all over the floor because that's where I keep a lot of my ephemera to use for the little art quilt. I don't want to keep getting those boxes down from where they are at. So, at this time, it's easier to trip all over them, then to continue to take them down and put them back where they belong.

Rosette #2

I take one end and wrap a couple of inches on to itself; then twist for flip the "ribbon" under once as I continue to wrap.

As I continue to twist or flip the "ribbon," I sew the bottom sew that it stays wrapped.

"Voilá!"