Scraps
01-12-2011, 10:12 PM
#101
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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
http://quiltville.com/scrapusersystem.shtml
01-12-2011, 10:17 PM
#102
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Originally Posted by vjengels
I store mine by color in those opaque shoe boxes,selveges, and 'strings' left after squaring up go into a bag ; I use those for tying in the garden, the future selvege quilt I have planned, and a wrapped clothesline bag I want to make... but before they go there, they lay in a pretty pile on the work top until all my blocks are made for that project.
01-12-2011, 10:43 PM
#103
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I seperate mine by lights, medium and darks. SOMEDAY I will go back and redo same as well by size. String verses squares. I do not have enough to hide either, my sister in law owns a shop and last summer she gave me quite a few scraps and then I dug through her garbage for what she was throwing out !!!!! I beg her to save for me haha....
01-12-2011, 11:28 PM
#104
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I have a cartoon on my refrigerator. Two farmers are talking with a silo in the distance behind them. One farmer is pointing to the silo, and the other farmer says, "Grain? No, that's where my wife stores her fabric!" Makes me chuckle when I stop to read it. I only wish I had one, as it would be a great place to store it:-)
01-13-2011, 02:20 AM
#106
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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....
Do ya'll store them by color or type of piece or just jumbled together and when you need something you just dig through till you find it?
Do ya'll store them by color or type of piece or just jumbled together and when you need something you just dig through till you find it?
01-13-2011, 04:34 AM
#107
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Originally Posted by Char
I'm planning to chop my scraps up with the accuquilt go and then sort them into boxes by size.
01-13-2011, 04:37 AM
#108
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Oh gee whiz! I just gave away, to a church group, 3 garbage bags of scraps. I felt guilty giving it away but it needed a home. I figure by the time a make an entire scrappy quilt I will have enough scraps again. Hope they enjoy them, and good luck with your scraps.
01-13-2011, 04:43 AM
#109
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Do you make scrap quilts? If so, when you get an acumulation of scraps its time to make a scrap quilt.
If you do not make scrap quilts, theres no reason to save them.
Sell/trade to quilters who make scrap quilts.
If you do not make scrap quilts, theres no reason to save them.
Sell/trade to quilters who make scrap quilts.
01-13-2011, 04:45 AM
#110
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Rubbermaid bin...I even took the time to iron and fold each piece to neaten it up...didn't last long when I rumbled thru it trying to find pieces for Applique...back to a mess...There's got to be a real solution to scraps you can never use them up I've tried. Even made a Crazy quilt (King size) and tons are still left...
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