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Old 01-13-2011, 06:04 AM
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Yesterday I took my scraps to our quilting get together..and I cut all sizes of squares..put them together in groups..what was left I cut into strips for my strip quilt..now ready to make some charity quilts..you girls have me on a roll..lol
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Old 01-13-2011, 08:33 AM
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My strings are stored in gift bags according to color, squares and rectangles are in a drawer sorted by size. I use my strings as enders/leaders and store those blocks in a boot box.
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Old 01-13-2011, 08:36 AM
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I cut my scraps into 2 1/2" or 3 1/2" strips by color, roll all that type of color up together & tie it with a tiny long scrap strip. They are in a matress covering bag, zipped up so I can see all the different colors by sizes. I don't applique, only strip quilt, so this works for me! The bad is BIG & wonderful to look in through the plastic.
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Old 01-13-2011, 08:46 AM
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I tend to cut my scraps into 2 1/2" strips, and store them in sandwich bags. keeps them from fraying and I can sort through them without getting tangled up. Anything less than 1/2 yd gets this treatment, anything more than 1/2 yd goes back on the shelf.
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Old 01-13-2011, 10:32 AM
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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
Mine is similar to this site. I have bought photo boxes for my scraps starting at 1.5", half inch increments to 6.5 and then go to a larger storage unit. When a photo box gets full I make a scrappy quilt to help empty the box. Right now I am cutting down some of the 3.5" and 4" larger sizes to 1" to 2" strips for my scrappy strip quilt. My 2.5" I do not cut down.
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Old 01-13-2011, 12:38 PM
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Hah! We had to build an addition onto our house so I could have a place to store all my quilting fabric/embroidery machines and supplies/sewing supplies. You are just getting started, Luv! I keep the fabric in see through tubs and in a six fioot six-drawer chest. I like the see through tubs the best, and I organize them by the size of the cuts they contain. I had always thought I would do it by color groups, but the farthest I got with that was my collection of FQ's.
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Old 01-13-2011, 12:50 PM
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I use plastic sandwich baggies then I put them in flat storage boxes. I Paper Piece & most of the blocks only need 5 or 6 inches of scraps.
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Old 01-13-2011, 12:58 PM
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I have a rubber maid tubby full of scraps.
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Old 01-13-2011, 01:04 PM
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The totes that I use are for Christmas wrap & I have 5 of them. Plus I have more in RubberMaid totes.
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Old 01-13-2011, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
AWW, honey, you haven't got much at all, considering what some of us have in boxes, bags, baskets, bales and hidden here and there so no one can actually tell what we have. And even we don't remember where we put most of it some of the time!!
Hi everyone: thanx for your tips on the "rag quilt sure helped,, getting to "sraps "I have a 1/2 dz of the storage bags you use a vaccum and it "shrinks" down to nutin, they hold lots I also have uhum (last count) 4 tubs full, my husband said if this keeps up he'll go sleep in the den.. guess what .. I have the bed to myself.. I don't think I'm evil,, yes he came back.. lol ;-)
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