Fabric ribbon/garland/snippet roll using fabric scraps in a fun way

I have been checking snippets rolls on line for a couple of years now hoping to at some time have the necessary inspiration to give it a go.  For my current set of Christmas cards I found inspiration in a little Christmas on a tag created my sewing strips of stitched fabric scraps to the tag using a triangle shape.  The little fabric pieces made me think of snippet rolls and so I got started.  I dug through my stash of green "other fabrics" and trimmed a small piece from everyone piece in the box and the cut each of them into smaller pieces with irregular shapes about 1" x 1.25 or so.  I used a 1.5" x  60" strip green polyester fabric with both sides folded to the center as my base.  I used a decorative stitch on my sewing machine which produces a wavy stitch line and then set the widest stitch width and the longest stitch length so that I had a very decent wavy pattern to stitch my "snippets" to my base. I used  dark green thread for both my top and bottom thread. I simply folded the first snippet in half and started stitching and kept adding folded snippets under the presser foot as I went keeping them well overlapped so I covered the base pretty much completely.  It was a very fun process and I simply picked up pieces from my little stack without too much thought.  I did not stitch two of the same next to each other.  I almost finished the full length of my base with what I had cut so to finish it off I cut up a few more snippet pieces. It was a fairly substantial decorative piece by the time I was done and it could easily have been used as a ribbon to wrap a gift or garland on a wreath, tree or banister.  

 So I was very impressed with the end product though it does not resemble very closely the snippet rolls I have found on line I think it would be very fun to make one of these up for home decorating.  I can certainly see a red and gold one for a Christmas tree, orange and purple for Halloween on a front door wreath, etc.  As a ribbon for wrapping gifts it would make an awesome statement with kraft paper gift wrap.  This one will be turned into Christmas cards which makes it very versatile!!  

Therese