Originally Posted by
Snooze2978
I tend to make piles for each project I'm working on at the time. I hang my strips on hangers above or near the cutting table so easily found when needed. As I make scraps when cutting I throw them into a pile at the end of my cutting table. If I think I might be able to use them in another future project, I place them in a special pile with the quilt pattern. I'm thinking though I need to start putting them in a plastic container so I can put them onto the floor next to the cutting table as I'm getting too many future projects piled on one end. After each project is done, I put all the excess from it away and vacumn as I like to throw the thread cutoffs on the floor since I tend to miss the trash can most times. Then I start again with the next project. I don't care for clutter either but sometimes it just happens as we work.
Suz I think your ideas for organizing are great. I can't concentrate if I don't clean the work area. My DD bought me a super-dustbuster which I love - don't have to drag out the vaccuum which might have old dog hair or dead Christmas tree smell (DH hates to change the bags, wierd cheap hangup!). I pile up all the scraps for a project with the unused fabric for the project, and fold and bag it at the end, and it goes in the stash as a unit. I bought some of those little briefcase-sized plastic containers from JF and try to contain a project in one, or in one of my plastic stash drawers.
Now I had to move into my 'winter location' in a corner of the kitchen so we don't have to heat my real room, I am super-paranoid about being neat. Even though no more dog, still worried I'll do something dumb and combine cooking with quilting activity and end up with spots or greasey fingerprints on fabric!