oksewglad, I'm trying to sew down to de-stash. I made my first quilt at 12, 47 years ago. I've been seriously quilting since quilt magazines were black and white newsprint-early 80's (some of which I still have.) I've been collecting fabric for over 35 years. 12", 1/4y, FQ, 1/2y, onsie-twosie yards of stuff I "liked". Easily 200-300 yards, and the old ones are, of course, mainly calicoes. Late summer, I took a good hard look at it. There wasn't enough of any one piece to do a whole bed quilt (and the calicoes are dated. (I still like them, but I'm not buying them any more.) I took a look at my bucket lists, of pictures and patterns I have been saving. In the spring, I bought an accuquilt set from this QB. Go cutter & 19 or so dies. I've since bought more dies.
Before I purchased the accuquilt go, I started a yellow/pink with contrasting navy/white calico quilt. It is almost pieced. So much for the pinks & yellows.
I set aside the reds (not many) and the blues (lots) and am cutting for a red chisel spinner against a blue calico background.
I made a "cut down plan" list of quilts
I am doing "charm" quilts, 1 fabric each:
Flower Basket of florals on yellow
square in a square
applecore
tumbler
Plus Quilt
Hashtag (need 80) on white
Also in my cut-down plan
Florabunda-Bonnie Hunter (florals)
granny square 5" charms
card trick of striped fabrics
totally scrappy:
striped chisel (light/dark)
Judy 2009 Mystery (Light/Med/Dark)
2" strip Log Cabin dark/light
Chevron - on point bricks, not HST Dark/Light
Divided Square - 2 HST divided by a strip all scrappy color
Undecided-Pineapple
Kite-Planned scrappy colors on a consistent background of kites & borders
I've been working a few years on a stamp quilt 1-1/2" so I'm cutting for that as well.
I figure these quilts will take about 100 yards. There's something like 18 in this list, but I'm really cutting for 22. I have little bins for each quilt, once it gets to full, I will move it to a shoebox, then larger as I need.
THEN, I made a cut down chart for the fabric
The quilts are on the right, and the fabric types are across the top. Bold florals cut first for the basket and Florabunda then kite, then stamp, then square in a square, etc. Then small florals, then red, then stripes, then Dark Blues, then light, then dark, then medium. The fabric column is numbered which quilt I cut for first.
I need 67 9" squares of blue for the red/blue quilt. After I cut the 9" from the blue fabric, it goes into a dishpan. When I have all the 9" cut, then I will set up the to cut the next die, applecore, tumbler, strips for the plus quilt, strips for the log cabin, until each fabric is gone.
I've cut about 15 yards of fabric so far. It is very satisfying.