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Old 01-09-2010, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by BKinCO
Can't help you at all, but I sure am eager to see others responses. I have the same issue with scrapbooking papers, and I've yet to find a good solution.....I'll be watching!
Color. With the exception of these categories, everything is color.
Novelties---
Christmas. Halloween. Angels. Cats and animals. Multicolor (for really really busy, prints) Kitchen, sewing themed, celestial, Landscape and architecture (rocks, wood planks, water, clouds etc)

These catagories came about because I have so much of them that it made sense. Your categories could be very different.
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Old 01-09-2010, 04:07 PM
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Thank you all for your input! I have spent all day today folding and sorting and arranging my fabric-and I am still not done :-(
I think I am going ot sort by color and also category as I do have a lot of landscape and novelty prints.
Thank you all again!
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Old 01-09-2010, 04:09 PM
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I sort by type of fabric; batiks, flowers, solids. Then I have a seperate tote for Christmas and one for red, white and blue.
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I have certain pieces for quilts i intend to make together. Everything else is throwed together.
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Sort? What are you people talking about?? LOL! I have a clear bin with scraps or all kinds and then bins with each UFO in it and you DON'T want to know how many of those I have on the go!!!
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Old 01-09-2010, 06:45 PM
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I usually sort by color, but if I have a collection of fabric I might put that together.
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Old 01-09-2010, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by JJean
I sort by color. But I'm starting to collect solids and may keep them separate. At some point I intend to make a quilt with all or nearly all solid colors. I don't have a huge selection of Kona solids. I am labelling them, in case I want more of a particular color.
I do keep my solids separate from the rest of my stash. I have plans for making miniature quilts and for making an all solids quilt and if I don't keep them separate I'm liable to use them up. I also keep all my kiddie fabrics separate. I don't have a lot of them yet so I haven't had to resort to sorting them by color. Just about the time I think I need to someone else gets pregnant and needs a baby quilt and I end up using what I have. (I've made 4 baby quilts in the past 2 months!)


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Sort? What are you people talking about?? LOL! I have a clear bin with scraps or all kinds and then bins with each UFO in it and you DON'T want to know how many of those I have on the go!!!
We can have a competition if you'd like. Come on, share how many UFOs you've got! :thumbup:
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I sort by color and keep my holiday separate.
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Old 01-09-2010, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by kat112000
Sort? What are you people talking about?? LOL! I have a clear bin with scraps or all kinds and then bins with each UFO in it and you DON'T want to know how many of those I have on the go!!!
We can have a competition if you'd like. Come on, share how many UFOs you've got! :thumbup:[/quote]

1 binding to sew on

3 quilt tops to quilt

1 baby quilt to finish putting together

1 nickle quilt from oh 7 years ago to finish

1 jelly roll to quilt to finish

1 quilt top called migration to finish

Then the kits I have purchased and not done yet totals 6 I think
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Originally Posted by kat112000
Originally Posted by kat112000
Sort? What are you people talking about?? LOL! I have a clear bin with scraps or all kinds and then bins with each UFO in it and you DON'T want to know how many of those I have on the go!!!
We can have a competition if you'd like. Come on, share how many UFOs you've got! :thumbup:

1 binding to sew on

3 quilt tops to quilt

1 baby quilt to finish putting together

1 nickle quilt from oh 7 years ago to finish

1 jelly roll to quilt to finish

1 quilt top called migration to finish

Then the kits I have purchased and not done yet totals 6 I think
I've got 80. Want to trade? ;) I did have about 100 but last year I got a number of them done. Yay! I'm hoping this year I can reduce that number by at least 12 and get rid of the largest ones. I've got a king sized log cabin that turned into a UFO about 17 years ago. :oops: Looking at your list I feel like I really should head downstairs and get busy.
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