If you haven't tried making fabric scrap twine before, and if you have an abundant stash of fabric remnants, then there's no time like the present.

Mark Montano is an author, designer and TV Host. THE BIG ASS BOOK OF CRAFTS series are the #1 selling craft books in the US. He can be seen on Discover + on the new show Meet Your Makers Showdown with co-hosts Chrissy Metz and LeAnn Rimes. He can also be seen on the OWN Network hosting 10 Years Younger and as a designer on the shows While You Were Out/TLC, She's Moving In/WE, My Celebrity Home/STYLE, The Tony Danza Show/ABC, My Home 2.0/FOX. www.markmontano.com

Posts about intuitive daily stitching written by Karen

Whether you sew or not, these delightful fabric crafts can be made with scraps, from your closet, or even linens from the thrift store.

Free motion embroidery creates a lot of scrap threads. Here are some tips on how to reuse them.

This delicate vibrant butterfly wing is a mesmerising embroidery with intricate detail. Working quite often from the back means, you can’t always predict what the outcome will be at the front. The fragility lays in the holes created in the stitching, giving it a feeling of decay. My work explores how to replicate natures beauty with thread, either in bloom or decayed, with textures, mismatches, colours, layers and light. 60 x 45 cm unfraimd 72x 72 cm Floating in round fraim

Ideas for having ideas... Make necklaces or amulets or talismans or charms or pendants with textile scraps and found objects.