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Old 03-24-2013, 09:48 AM
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Prism99
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I'm not planning to turn my entire stash into precuts, but I am going to start cutting up a lot of the older fabrics I have that I really do not know what to do with. I enjoy making log cabin quilts and strip quilts, so I'm going to cut lots of 1.5", 2" and 2.5" strips. For the strip quilts, I am going to select a few specific patterns to make sure that I am cutting the right strips.

Another thing I plan to do is to create pre-cut kits for myself. I have some bins of fabric I bought for specific patterns. (For once I had the sense to store the pattern with the fabrics!) I'm going to pull those out and cut them up so they are ready for sewing when I need a project.

There are quite a few websites and books with ideas for organizing a stash into precut shapes. Here's one book:
http://www.amazon.com/ScrapTherapy-C...dp/1600853331/
and one website:
http://themennobrarian.blogspot.com/...ric-stash.html

I haven't seen this book, but it looks interesting. If I liked most of the patterns in that book, I could see cutting my stash into the shapes used in it:
http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/pre-...p?page_id=1568
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