Re-organizing my Scraps the Bong Way
#11
I have three big plastic wash tubs that I sort my scraps into darks, lights, mediums. These are ready to be cut into strips or squares. Honestly if spent all the time needed to keep my scraps organized by color and size, that would take all my quilting time.
#12
I agree Sierra, I am not going to cut my scraps into any certain size - What I have pulled out so far is left overs from other projects. They are already cut into strips. The larger chunks I am only gong to trip off the weird pieces attached to the larger piece.
#13
Yes, I am a quiter, re: Scraps the Bong Way
I admit, I am a quiter. I haven't even sorted scraps for two hours and got so bored and tired that I decided to sew together some of the really skinny strips and very small pieces. You know what? I am not bored, I am not tired, and I think I have done pretty good for less than an hours time. I have a length 6" wide and 52" long, and that includes trimming and pressing time. Think I will use my own system, sorry Ms Bong.
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That is perfectly okay. I AM an organizer and feel I save much time looking for stuff if I know where it is. I can't keep track of it, if it isn't organized. And Yes, the picture of the drawers are my main stash, not my scraps. My scraps I keep in smaller boxes. The church scraps I also organize the same way. I do NOT cut my stuff ahead to specific sizes, it's mostly just leftovers. The church comfort quilt scraps ARE cut to specific sizes. Just put 8 kits together lickety-split from precut pieces. Could NOT have done that had it been sorted by color or value.
>>Think I will use my own system, sorry Ms Bong.[/QUOTE]
>>Think I will use my own system, sorry Ms Bong.[/QUOTE]
#18
Hi Gayle, I am going to start from this point sorting scraps from each project by size and see how it goes. I have so many scraps it is just too intimidating to start now. Will let you know how I do. This is what I have done with some of the scraps so far. I am trying to get into the 'improv quilting technique' but I have very few solids, will just use what I have.
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For me, it's too much work to cut up all my scraps "ahead of time".
Like others have said, I just sort leftovers by color. This way I can keep pieces of same fabric together, whether they are the same size or not.
I may "kick the bucket" before I get to all of them, and don't want to look back and got more scraps cut, than quilts made
Like others have said, I just sort leftovers by color. This way I can keep pieces of same fabric together, whether they are the same size or not.
I may "kick the bucket" before I get to all of them, and don't want to look back and got more scraps cut, than quilts made
#20
I got an e-mail from Martingale this week and they had a tip from Gayle Bong on how to organize your scraps in 3 steps. I think I am going to give it a try. I have always sorted by color but agree with her statement that she never uses just one color so she organizes by size. I'm not sure if she cuts them into specific sizes, I am not going too, just trim up scraps to a neat size and put them in a tub labeled with largest size I can cut, does this make sense? I really don't know, going to try it anyway because my scraps are definitely OUT OF CONTROL, but I just can't part with them.
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