Originally Posted by Vicky K
Originally Posted by SewExtreme
It sounds like a lot if you were cutting each individual square out. I have participated in about 4 of the postage stamp swaps and have divised ways of making muitiple cuts pretty quickly. :-D
Ohhhh, do tell please. Would love a way to cut more faster. I joined the Summer Postage stamp. I would love to do 20 sets but am a little worried after last night.
I found a website that gave great ideas on cutting up scraps as soon as you aquire them into strips, squares, bricks, oddities, and strings. And quilts that she made from her scraps.
http://www.quiltville.com/
So I started to go through pile of scraps last night. I worked for about 2 hours. I think I ended up cutting 10 1.5" squares. It'll take me forever to cut 50 of them, let alone 1000. :) I really love her idea and think the initial scrap fest will be the hardest and then easy to keep up.
I tried to take a picture of my before to after but camera battery was dead. Will take pictures today before starting on it again.
Vicky, when thinking of my scrap pile I had to laugh... that would be daunting. What I do is cut several 1.5" strips when ever I am cutting fabric... I also cut 1" strips evey time I am cutting fabric. The 1" strips are for my log cabins that I love to make. The others are for whenever I am going to do a postage stamp swap.
I pile several (3-4) 1.5" strips carefully and cut every 1.5" until the strips are completely cut up. In a postage stamp swap, you are making ?number of sets of 50 different fabrics. So, if I keep up with cutting the length of strips each time I am cutting fabric for other projects, I soon have collected a variety of different fabrics and don't have to spend so much cutting all of those different fabrics all out at once.
If you are making this Stamp Block Quilt; not wanting any fabric duplicated and have not participated in a postage stamp swap... then, you might have to cut each one out seperately. There are a lot of variables here so it depends on what is important to you.
Hope this helps you and not confused you. :-D