Originally Posted by
pollyjvan9
I got an e-mail from Martingale this week and they had a tip from Gayle Bong on how to organize your scraps in 3 steps. I think I am going to give it a try. I have always sorted by color but agree with her statement that she never uses just one color so she organizes by size. I'm not sure if she cuts them into specific sizes, I am not going too, just trim up scraps to a neat size and put them in a tub labeled with largest size I can cut, does this make sense? I really don't know, going to try it anyway because my scraps are definitely OUT OF CONTROL, but I just can't part with them.
One day, while my granddaughter and a friend were visiting, I gave them a bin of scraps to play with. When they finished, I gave them 3 large paper grocery bags and asked them to figure out a sorting method. They chose: long, skinny strips; fat strips/rectangles; square-ish. It's worked well for quite a while. I split further into pieces large enough to cut more than one 5" square vs too small for that; triangles; really big chunks. Since I' m a batik person, I keep batiks and flannels separate from cottons.
Now, if making blocks and quilts from one bag really depleted the bag of scraps, I'd really be in "control".