Originally Posted by omak
This is a phenomenon I am unable to comprehend.
I have many, many, MANY totes.
I have taken a tote and just started working through the scraps, making something between a crazy quilt and the crumb thang so capably introduced to me on this list.
I will work for DAYS on scrap blocks ... I will cut for DAYS ... I will neatly fold and not let go of a piece of fabric until all that goes into the waste basket are slivers!
ANd, I fill up a tote with my scrap blocks ... and STILL find the tote isn't any less full, even though I have separated, catalogued, moved things around and the quilt is on its way out of the house ... and STILL the tote is full!
I think it has something to do with letting air get to the fabric. Am not sure, but that is what I think. I have even gone so far as to put the scrap blocks into a different tote ... the original is more full than when I started.
Something is not right here ... and, I am thinking that science isn't so exact that it can explain it all.
Me, too.
I can get obsessed with a scrap quilt. Why is it so much more fun/interesting/challenging to try to use those scraps than to cut into a large piece of fabric? (God - and a few others - know I do have BIG pieces to cut into/up)