Buttons and Bobs

It's time for me to stop buying fabric and to use up some of the stash.  Today I have decided to start bysorting  the scraps, throw some out  and to search for ideas online to use up the rest. Well I have cut out four children's purses, a sunhat and a tooth fairy pillow.. Are you the same - when I look at examples on Pinterest I admire the colour combinations the sewers have achieved but when it come to looking through my pile of bits nothing seems blend?  Although I have made sunhats before this time proved a bit of a nightmare as I went ahead and started cutting out pieces without actually measuring if I had enough fabric. My wish to use two fat quarters turned in to using three fat quarters.. To finish the brim I  had to cut out one layer at an angle and shorten the width. I was working from memory when I could get a sunhat out of less fabric - my tired brain had not registered that the child has grown a lot! Here are links to patterns that I have decided to use:

One for Mummy using free pattern - Elbe Sorrento Bucket Hat . The pattern is available in four sizes: 21 – 24 inch head circumference. Two for the children using the Oliver + S pattern . The pattern used to be free but that appears no longer to be the case . It is available in sizes up to 8 years. T here is a very good illustrated tutorial on the site that would be useful whichever bucket hat pattern you choose.  Hats are hard to photograph without heads in them! Update Note: There are now  lots of free downloadable bucket sun hat patterns linked to videos on YouTube.   A couple more hats: I will stick to making bucket hats. I tried drawing out a "tulip" pattern but I followed instructions written in Japanese.   I should have learned the language first!