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Well, I wanted this post to be made last night- so everyone could read it first thing this morning – but alas, that was not happening! I'm shocked that I got as much done yesterday as I did – being my 1^st day off and all – I tend not to get a lot done that requires a lot of thinking. But, it worked!

I got inspired last week by all the fabrics in my quilt … and thought that I had some scraps left over, that I should do something with them! There really wasn't much I could do – in terms of a functional sewing project. So, I thought of using it as paper! (using the sewing machine mind you – since it just looks cool!!)

So, I'll try and do a step-by-step!

Materials needed: (for puzzle piece)

• Pieces of scrap fabric – and at least a 6X6 square (for the main base)
  
• Sewing machine – with a contrasting thread as the fabric
  
• Mod Podge – I used the gloss – but bought some satin finish to see what would happen (never did use it though)
• Scissors – ones that cut pretty good at the tip
  
• 2 sided tape – REAL strong stuff – either in cut off pieces, or a runner
• Iron on infusible web – this makes sewing the pieces onto the fabric sooo much easier!
  
• And of course! An Iron (and if you have 2 like me, not the good house one for clothing – use the crappy one of the 2 in case you get glue on the poor iron)
• Foam brushes to brush on the mod podge
• Puzzle pieces – these ones are about 4X6 – give or take depending on the shape – the pieces I used were from a child's big 3X2 foot puzzle I got at Wal-Mart – the pieces are great to use for little projects and gifts (I make mine into magnets btw)
  

Step 1 – Cut the large piece of fabric that would cover the whole puzzle piece

Step 2 – Layer your fabric pieces over the base piece – for an idea of how many you'll need to sew on

Step 3 – Put the pieces of fabric on a piece of infusible web – iron them on to bond the adhesive (so, for this step, I covered a 6X6 square full of small pieces of fabric – to use as much of the infusible web

Step 4 – peel off the backing to the webbing – and then cut off the individual pieces of fabric – trimming away any of the webbing that was left on the sides – this saves and extra glue getting on the fabric – AND the iron (hahaha)

Step 5 – arrange the pieces onto your base fabric again – Iron them in place

Step 6 – using a zigzag stitch on the machine – go over the pieces.

Step 7 – On the white side of the puzzle pieces (yes, this matters – since the pink piece I did I used the printed side, and it looks pretty ucky!) – put a generous layer of mod podge

Step 8 – Cover the back of the fabric with mod podge – layer over the puzzle piece – press in place

Step 9 – generously cover the top with even more mod podge

--- Let this dry to a bit tacky ---

Step 10 – add another layer of pod podge (I found the more layers, the nicer finish to the finished piece)

--Let this dry to almost totally dry –

Step 11 – cut away as much as the extra fabric as your sicssors allow

Step 12 – for the rounded bit to the piece that the sizzoers have a hard time getting into – I did this (See the picture) – putting some REAL good tape along the edge of puzzle piece so when folded back, the pieces of fabric would stick in place – it works great, less of a head ache trying to Exacto knife the pieces out.

Step 13 – So, depending if you want to make this as a magnet – put your stick on magnet stuff on the back. If not, you have a great piece to go into a scrapbooking page! Definitely fun!! I love the look of them! I'll probably doctor them up a bit, by adding some bling here and there, and maybe adding a color along the edges of the puzzle)

So, I said a give-a-way today! I'm sending a random commenter one of the magnetic pieces! Either the orange, or the yellow one! (the pink one turned out like crap - so I'm not even posting that one!)

Okay – so having posting issues – it deleted a whole section of this post! UGH! So here's a simple picture of what else I made with the scraps – It's great!! (For the record, I'm going to have to find a plan B for posting step-by-step instructions online. I still find using my good Web Page programs better than this - but this works in a pink)