mollymunchkin

I am on vacation and plan to spend some time organizing my fabric. Last year I bought some fabric at a yard sale $5 for a large yard size trash bag - sight unseen. The lady was a dress maker so there are lots of cut pieces with curves and points.
I was thinking of squaring everything and sorting by 6 1/2 to 2 1/2, 12 1/2 to 6 1/2, then wrap larger pieces on boards.
How do ya'll sort?

omacookie

With a lots of courage and time and a few bad words. PATIENCE !!!!

Terri D.

I mostly sort by theme: Christmas, '30s, batik, neutrals, solids, etc. Good luck with the trash bag!

alikigirl

I do agree with squaring everything up. Search around for some quit patterns you might want to make, and start with the sizes need for it. Have you seen Bonnie Hunter's scrap users system? It works very well if you tend to use pre-cut strips.
http://quiltville.com/scrapusersystem.shtml

bearisgray

I'm one for sorting by color and washing the pieces (even when small!!!!)

Then leaving the pieces as large as possible and storing them by color or theme until a project comes up for them - THEN cutting to size.

dunster

I do the same as bearisgray. I keep them stored in plastic shoeboxes so they stay fairly flat. When I decide to make a scrap quilt I start cutting pieces to size.

Jeanne S

Me too. I know some advocate for cutting into strips or squares but I prefer to leave all pieces as big as possible until I know how I am going to use them. Sort by color.

Tartan

Yardage goes onto mini bolts. Fat quarters I keep in a drawer. Any scraps smaller than a fat quarter I throw in my scrap box.

toverly

I only sort my batiks and then it's by color. Everything else (I'm slowly getting rid of it) goes into tubs. As far as scraps, I fold them but smaller scraps are kept in ziploc bags. 2 1/2 sq, 2 sq, 1 1/2 sq and then for mini log cabin blocks, anything more than 1/2 inch wide.

daisydawg

I used to save all my scraps but now I give them to a lady that uses them instead of just storing them like I used to.