When my daughter was in the second grade I made a quilted skirt for her.  She simply loved the skirt, and when she wore it to school three of her friends wanted one just like it.  I ended up making three more skirts!  The quilted skirt looks like this:



Quilted skirts are very simple to make:

1.  Cut the skirt pattern pieces out of muslin, or a white cotton fabric.  (I used a basic A-line skirt and put the front and back on the fold).
2.  Using scraps from your scrap bag, cut various size pieces and pin them onto the muslin skirt front and back, overlapping the pieces.
3.  Sew around the scrap pieces using a satin zig zag stitch.  Depending on whether the scrap pieces are light colors or dark colors will determine whether you use white thread for the satin stitching or a darker color.

NOTE:  Do not mix types of fabrics for this project.  In other words, don't use cotton/polyester, woolens and knit scraps.  For best results use cotton / cotton polyester fabric scraps.

Just writing about this project has made me want to pull out the scrap box and make TWO quilted skirts - for Sarah and Sienna (the girl part of our now 4 year old quadruplet grandbabies)!

You can also check out numerous other "quilted" scrap projects at Patterns2Go in the "Sewing" and "Quilting" categories, including the following: