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I love that you reused the thread. I also subject myself to the pain that is delicately unpicking a garment to salvage those little scraps.
I've wanted to try adding an underarm gusset to my bodices as I think they would help with arm mobility since my current bodice and sleeve blocks fit weirdly at the hinge of my shoulder.
By the way, have you seen the community Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste?
I haven’t, thanks for the link!
Yes the gusset works really well for movement. If you’re making use of every scrap it’s also good for longer thinner pieces that might not have another use. I think it’d look pretty cool in a contrasting colour too. (And if I had to make a garment bigger I might run a strip right from the end of the sleeve to the hem)
I have a family member who runs sewing workshops and she keeps all the scraps (serger threads, fabric bits too tiny to sew with) for filling living room poufs. It works really well for a dense and compact stuffing and apparently they’re nice to sit on.
She encourages students to make the pouf first then add sewing scraps to it as they work on other projects.