Scrap Happy Day March 2026

I've been all out of whack with my blog posts lately, including my Scrap Happy Day posts.  The theory is that I will get better!  

In the last couple of months, I've made eight small baby quilts from scraps of fabric leftover from making Days for Girls menstrual health kits.  We use new fabrics - flannel for the pads, and cotton for the shields - and there are often scraps that aren't big enough to include in the kits.  So a number of us have made baby quilts from those scraps.  

Recently I backed a quilt for a grand-nephew with one side of a doona cover I picked up at the op shop.  The other side of the doona cover divided nicely into four for backing for these baby quilts.  The rest of the backing fabrics are from my stash.

Bindings are all from the Days for Girls scraps or from my basket of leftover quilt bindings.  Still lots left in the basket for more quilts.  

Each quilt is machine pieced and quilted, with bindings sewn down by machine.  Battings are mainly polyester (preferred for our recipients.)  The quilts are 30" x 36" each.  

ScrapHappy is open to anyone using up scraps of anything – no new materials. It can be a quilt block, pincushion, bag or hat, socks or a sculpture. Anything made of genuine scraps is eligible (including food). If your scrap collection is out of control and you’d like to turn them into something beautiful or useful instead of leaving them to collect dust in the cupboard, why not join us on the 15th of each month? Contact Kate on katechiconi@gmail.com and she'll add you to the list.  We welcome new members. You don’t have to worry about making a long term commitment or even join in every month. Regular contributors will receive an email reminder three days before the event.

Here are the links for everyone who joins ScrapHappy from time to time (they may not post every time, but their blogs are still worth looking at).

Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, 
Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, 
Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Viv, Karrin,  Alissa,
Hannah and Maggie