Liberty Scrap Quilted Pouch Tutorial

My Liberty scrap quilted pouch combines a couple of sneak peak topics mentioned in my welcome post – first, my love of Liberty London fabric and second, what to do with fabric scraps. This project can be done with any small fabric scraps you have on hand. This is not a full tutorial post as I do not cover how to sew the pouch because there are so many wonderful tutorials out there here and here. Also check out my other fabric scrap projects here.

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I started off with some Liberty lawn fabric scraps.

A majority of the pieces were already cut into strips so I randomly picked different prints and sewed them together on a piece of muslin using a zigzag stitch. I used Scotch glue stick to temporarily stick the scraps on my muslin before sewing so I didn’t have to use pins. You can also use spray adhesive or fusible web although I’ve not tried using either of these products.

After sewing all the strips I cut a piece of Warm and Natural Cotton Batting batting the size of my muslin and used my glue stick to keep the muslin and batting from shifting during quilting. My batting was leftover from another project but you can use any quilt batting. I used my universal walking foot with a quilt guide to sew a diamond pattern.  If you don’t have a walking foot, you can draw the diamond pattern on the batting but it is much easier to sew with one.

To quilt my diamond pattern, I like to draw a diagonal line along 2 corners of my fabric and then use that line as the starting point for my quilt guide to start quilting. I used decorative thread on the top and bottom bobbins with a stitch length of 3.0 to make the stitches stand out.

When you are done your quilted fabric should look like this.

Here are a few closeups of my Liberty scrap quilted pouch. I hope you liked this fabric scrap project idea and decide to make one for yourself.