Scraps...
 

They just keep multiplying! A friend and I are doing a scrappy block exchange to try and use up scraps. I'm having a great time going through mine finding fabric long forgotten. But......how in the world did all that fabric get in that box??? And how is it going to go back in? I seriously don't need to buy fabric for a long time I need to use what I have. How do you keep your scraps tamed?

Sad to say, but I don't and they're running wild in my basement!

I made 2 scrap quilts that took 4 yards of scrap fabric each. Needless to say, I still can't get the lid on the box.......

Keep making those scrappy quilts and only buy to fill in or buy a large piece backing, I know its hard because they scream "orgy" when the lid snaps on.

I wish I could keep them tamed. Seriously! And there is no such quilt pattern that will ever be a "stash-buster" despite their names! I am still using bits of fabric purchased over a decade ago.

Welcome to my world!

I cut my scraps into strips,sewed them together and donated 19 quilt tops. I emptied the whole bin in January. It is growing again and I use a lot of left over fabric on the quilt backs. Moral of story: scraps multiply!

Face it, it is impossible. :( Just try to do you best. Maybe ask friends who could use some of them.

At least you were smart about it and have scraps left from other quilts. When I started to quilt I loved scrappy's so I went out and BOUGHT scraps. Which now, looking back, was stupid. I should have started with a quilt or two and made scrappies AFTER. Oh well.....I am trying to get into the challenge of finding fun patterns for the same materials so they all look different. That is the biggest or hardest part for me. After a while I just want to start on something new and not look at "oh....THAT fabric" again. Live and learn for me!

I do string blocks and crumb blocks but I don't like to cut scraps into exact pieces. I think it takes too much time. I use my Go to cut a pile of scraps into squares and hst but then I have a pile of them just like the scraps. LOL