Scraps tamed!
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I'm organizing my mom's fabrics now- I'm not a quilter. what do you do with the cut squares? Make quilts with random fabrics? sorry to be so dumb, but she had over 500 of these packets pre cut matching fabrics. Is there some place in the Chandler az area I could donate her fabric leftovers to?
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I'm organizing my mom's fabrics now- I'm not a quilter. what do you do with the cut squares? Make quilts with random fabrics? sorry to be so dumb, but she had over 500 of these packets pre cut matching fabrics. Is there some place in the Chandler az area I could donate her fabric leftovers to?
#49
I have a big plastic tub sitting under my cutting desk and I put everything in there as I do each quilt...when it begins to fill up, I know its time ....I press everything and I cut the largest square I can from each piece....then I store the pieces in seperate plastic boxes (from Sams with cookies in them originally) and I have 2 1/2 inches up to 7 inches....when this plastic cookie box gets full, its time to do a scrappy quilt using all that size blocks......I feel like these scrappys are FREE quilts, as it didnt cost anytihng for those squares.....Ialso have a couple of the plastic boxes that I put strips in.....2 1/2 and 3 and 3 1/2 width strips and again, when a box gets full its time to make a quilt with it.....
#50
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I have recently started "taming" my scraps the Bonnie Hunter way. Mostly I have cut strips into different widths and some sorting light and dark. Not sure what I am going to do with them yet, just trying to find a new/better organization method. Nothing has worked very well so far.
Good luck to you.
Good luck to you.
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