A great use for clip clothes hangers
 

I've been doing a lot of strip/scrappy quilting making quilts for kid's in cancer units our KEYS program visits. While it's a lot of fun, I was frustrated because I couldn't keep my strips neatly sorted. After just a few minutes they become a mumbled jumble of sizes and colors all mixed up.

I recently purged my closet and had several clip hangers with nothing to hold, so it occurred to me to use them to hold my strips! I, once again, sorted them by length and this time I clipped each section to a hanger. My shelf has a short rail so I hooked the hangers over that.

Now I just unclip the length I want to use, pick out which color I want and then clip it back on the hanger. The stack of strips stays neat and sorted for easy picking of the next strip. I finished another top and my strips stayed neat the whole time!!!
First photo is my hangers with strips and the second is the top I finished today! Sorry the fabric behind the hangers makes it hard to see very well.
Some of you who have shared scraps and orphan blocks with me might recognize some in the quilt top. I am putting all those to good use! This is my 4th top finished. After the 5th one I will layer and quilt them all.
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I use those hangers to organize my little quilts that I have for each month. I can hang three on each hanger. so four holds the entire year.

What a great idea and quilt!!

Those skirt hangers (and pant hangers) sure make neat storage . I do the same for WIPs that are ironed.

I recognize the turquoise doggie with bowls . Nit sure I gave it to you but I’ve used it. Your quilt is so wild and crazy fun !!! Eye candy!

Smiles, I didn't buy that fabric so 'someone' sent it to me! Thank you again if it was you!!!

Creat ideas for hangers & strips. and Great quilt.

Wonderful idea for your strips...it looks like it’s working great for you. Love your scrappy quilt.

What a great idea!! Thanks for sharing

As I starch my fabrics beforehand I use these hangers to hang up my starched fabrics to dry. I attached a large dowel rod over my sink down here in the basement sewing room just for that purpose. I also use a folding laundry dryer rack to hang a bunch of strips. This is that old time wooden rack with rods going across on both sides. I started using it when I made my 1st and only bargello as there were plenty of space to put each row in order. Now I've got it out to hold various sections of whatever quilt I'm working on. Folds up when not in use.

That is a great idea for strips also. My mother had one of those wooden racks and I don't know what became of it. Probably went in a yard sale or something. Unfortunately, my sewing space is so small I don't have room for a rack like that even if I found one so it wouldn't work for me. But great idea!

Great idea. What I have used is a folding wood drying rack. Some of you youngsters may not even know what that is but it works for me.

I purchased a couple of plastic jelly roll containers from Hobby Lobby with 40% coupons. I keep all my partial unused jelly rolls in one. I separate the different jelly roll leftovers with an index card. In the other one I store opened unused jelly rolls until I find a project for them. Each container can hold several jelly rolls.

great idea!!

That's a great quilt! I like your solution for this project.

What a delightful quilt--some child will enjoy it.

Love your idea. I have been working with a lot of scraps lately and I have a mess. Going to try your way, Thank You.
Love your quilt to.

I hang my cutting mat from one when not in use.

A friend usues large safety pins and a regular hanger to hang her strips until ready to use. Instead of undoing the pin to get them off she just cuts them off near the pin as she uses them. She has many bundles hanging from the same hanger.

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Brilliant! What a great idea. And I absolutely love the wild and scrappy nature of that quilt. It's fabulous! :)

This is what I use too. Sometimes things fall off.....

Both of these ideas are so clever!

Thanks for all the ideas! Love that scrappy quilt:thumbup:

We use these hangars if the top swivels to hang our quilts at our local Fall Quilt show. We hang them on PVC that has been made for our quilt display, so easy to set up and take down our show now. We have been using them for about 3 yrs. we use 4 for most large quilts, no more pins for us.