I can get empty copy paper boxes from work. They have sturdy lids and I sort my scraps by color, then mark the box. They stack quite nicely in my extra closet. O.K.....I do have to sneek new scraps in so my husband doesn't see. He thinks one day the house will be overtaken by scraps !!!
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Originally Posted by pamkasperi
Yeah I figured I didn't have much yet - but I'm sort of neat and stuck in a corner to work (I have 5 kids and our house isn't really big) maybe I'll make a bag to store them in and feel better about what little I have....
I started sorting my material by color in plastic bin stacked on top of each other. I have one little bin for scraps. But it is overflowing. |
Lol! I love scraps! I have 2 full size laundry baskets under my cutting table, FULL! I occasionally sort through them and take larger pieces and cut them into 3 in squares up to 8, and use the smaller pieces for mug rugs, crazy quilts, potholders, etc. I LOVE my scrap baskets! When $$ is tight, DIG!!!
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I have my scraps sorted by color and stored in large ziploc bags with the bags stuffed into a 5 drawer storage container in the extra closet in our bedroom (the spare bedroom closet is already full of totes of yardage stash!!). My goal is to slowly take over the entire house for my quilting habit. My DH can have the half of the garage where my car isn't parked for his hobbies, but only if he wants to leave his car in the driveway!
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I store all of mine in big see through Tubs , darks and Mediums
together and lights in different ones. I don't have all that much not like some here do, I try and cut out 5" or 6" squares from allot of it and store in big Ice Cream Plastic containers that are easy to stack in closet's. Hope you can get yours the way you'd like them to be. :D |
That's not much at all :lol: .
I don't have mine organized at all. I have TONS of them and I keep finding them...lol. I keep them in drawers(the plastic cabinets) and bins, where ever I can fit them. |
Originally Posted by charmpacksplus
Here's a great way to organize scraps and since you're just starting you can get it right from the start. I've got several large bins full and some drawers full as well. It will take me forever to get them all sorted out.
http://quiltville.com/scrapusersystem.shtml I think I'm just fidgety tonight because I didn't feel like working on my tube quilt or penquin quilt I'm WIP'ing.... |
Originally Posted by ssnare
Originally Posted by pamkasperi
Yeah I figured I didn't have much yet - but I'm sort of neat and stuck in a corner to work (I have 5 kids and our house isn't really big) maybe I'll make a bag to store them in and feel better about what little I have....
I started sorting my material by color in plastic bin stacked on top of each other. I have one little bin for scraps. But it is overflowing. |
Scraps? You mean those tiny little smigins that are too little to fold? Little squiggly corner pieces. I can't stand keeping them around. I keep them cut up into squares, triangles, or make crumb blocks. I can decide what to do with the cut pieces later, but at least they are ready to be productive. I don't have room to store a bag of left overs that look like "junk" to the unbeliever.
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Thanks everyone - this is cool to hear - I was getting nervous that I was hoarding material rather than having something useful....my husband saw me responding a minute ago and asked if I had confessed that I had material stashed under every table in the house that could have a table cloth over it to hid what was under...I asked him if he wanted to sleep on the couch...and then figured I'd confess anyway....
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