Scraps, where do I begin to organize
#23
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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Originally Posted by pippa
Originally Posted by lclang
Then I started a telephone book quilt...
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Pippa
You just take an old phone book and cut the size block you want to make. Then you take strips beginning with diagonal corners and keep adding them on both sides of the center strip. Uses both longer and shorter strips and odd corners as you go. They are kind of like crumb quilt blocks but mine are about 8 and a half inches square. They can be sewn together in several different configurations. Don't tear the paper off until they are all sewn together. Then spray paper side with water and give a minute and then the paper just comes right off.
#25
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Milan, Italy
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Thanks. Clear now. Just have to steal an old phone book from the office. LOL. Over the weekend looking for something else we came across a box containing scraps put away from my dressmaking days and need a project to use them.
Pippa
Pippa
#26
Your helpers (?) make me miss my two. They were sisters born a litter apart, one black and one yellow. I lost both of them about 12 years ago and still miss them.
I just reorganized my sewing room and went through my scrap baskets yesterday. I was so overwhelmed, that I finally threw most of them in the trash after deciding I would never make all the quilts that I had planned. I had given away much of it before and thought about it again, but postage has become too prohibitive .
I just reorganized my sewing room and went through my scrap baskets yesterday. I was so overwhelmed, that I finally threw most of them in the trash after deciding I would never make all the quilts that I had planned. I had given away much of it before and thought about it again, but postage has become too prohibitive .
#27
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Dothan, Alabama
Posts: 914
Yes, the smaller pieces of fabric are the hardest to keep organized. My piles seem to be always leaning one way or the other. I try and keep them in color piles. And as you can see, if I leave the door to the cabinet open by mistake...My helper arrives!!
#29
I am chair of the guild's community quilt project. When I got all the fabrics I started sorting on the living room floor and furniture. (I don't have any pets - travel to much). Larger pieces were sorted by color. Smaller pieces also by color in zip bags but in a separate container for scrap quilts. I have them in clear totes (not to big they get to heavy) to be able to see what is in them.
This makes it easier for me to put kits together for the ladies to take home.
This makes it easier for me to put kits together for the ladies to take home.
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