Originally Posted by Gilla
Where do you get enough bins to put them in?
Usually at Wal-Mart, though if you watch places like Joann's Fabric or one of the other stores (Ben Franklin's or Hancock's) for when they are on sale you can sometimes get a great deal on them.
I have bags and bags of scraps. I am known around my guild as the Scrap Lady and over the past few years I've managed to convince a wonderful group of ladies to donate their scaps to me. <drool> It's funny, I was drawn to the
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul block and loved two-toned quilts, but I couldn't afford to buy so much fabric at once. When I first started quilting I would buy a fat-eighth here or a fat-quarter there and I was sort of forced into being a scrap quilter. Now...now I find two-toned quilts to be a bit boring. (No offense to anyone!) My motto seems to be
'The More Fabric the Better!' When I get a bag of scraps, I set aside any substantially large pieces. I'm often amazed at what some people conside scraps! :shock: Then I cut down the smaller pieces. I don't chop them all up but leave them in the largest pieces possible. I have a postage stamp quilt (a quilt made of 1-inch squares) planned in my future and I collect scraps that are an inch or larger, so I have no shortage of small sized scraps. I keep them separated by size, but currently I don't have enough bins to store them in. I have them in shoe boxes, labeled on the outside. Many shoe stores will be more then happy to unload their empty shoe boxes on whomever would like them - for free. They make great storage bins for smaller projects as well as various sized pieces.
I'm looking forward to seeing the quilts that you ladies (and gentlemen) make from your scraps. :thumbup: