Scrap Cording

Here is how to make fabric bowls: Take a bunch of too narrow to be useful fabric strips and either sew or tie or loop together into as long a strip as you can manage during the next step.

Next step: tie your fabric strip to the outside of a bobbin, put the bobbin on its winder, and then spin the strip into a twisted cord. Or, if you have a cordless drill and a helper, make a strip the length of your house and tie a knot in one end of the strip. Clamp the drill chuck on to the knot and spin, spin, spin a long cord. Roll this cord into a ball and then zigzag along the length of the cord. (This is a great way to use up old, possibly weak thread.)

Now you have a cotton cord that can be used any way you'd like. I like to hold the cord together in a tight spiral and zigzag it into a circle.

If you bend the resulting circle up as you continue to stitch around it, it will begin to form a bowl shape. Keep bending and stitching...another great use for unwanted thread.

Bright colored thread can make interesting designs along the sides of the bowl, and loops and beads can add interest too.