When does a piece become a scrap
#12
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Join Date: May 2017
Location: Sunny Florida
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You can ask for the cardboard bolts left over from a cutting counter. I have a few pieces of yardage (10 yard bolts) that are left on the bolt. I stack these bolts in an upright clothes hamper for storage. I also store long cutting dies in another one.
https://www.containerstore.com/s/ste...ppins%20hamper
#13
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Gaylord, MN
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I am 75 years old and like making scrap quilts with my fabric but I am working on downsizing also. When I was cutting fabric for my last strip quilt, I put scraps smaller than 2 1/2" in a bag and when full, it goes in a large zip lock bag. I then drop it off at a thrift store and am told by clerks, those bags are gone the first day they are put on the shelf. So I know they are wanted and used. Anyone doing applique loves small pieces. Gives me a good feeling too.
#15
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Location: kansas
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I have any yardage (down to about 1/4 yd) in an old china cabinet to keep dust off it; all potential strings/strips go into a couple bags in the closet for next string quilt; a wire basket of solids only(those aren't small, most FQ size or larger) and then a plastic drawer storage container that holds scraps from 6" sq up to FQ size--but that recently was very depleted making 8 doz. face masks--I figured I used 21 yds total as I was making them for a medical center and they required 4 layers each.
#16
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Indiana
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Well, that's really a matter of opinion...
For me, usually, a piece of fabric is a scrap when the project I bought it for (if there is one) is finished. There is no size cut off. I try not to add too much to a scrap bin. I mostly keep reds with the other reds, blacks with the other blacks, Kaffe's with each other and so forth.
Sometimes I add long strings or itty bitty pieces to the scrap bin, but mostly I do this if either I have some scrap projects in mind or I'm trying to clean up some other bin.
For me, usually, a piece of fabric is a scrap when the project I bought it for (if there is one) is finished. There is no size cut off. I try not to add too much to a scrap bin. I mostly keep reds with the other reds, blacks with the other blacks, Kaffe's with each other and so forth.
Sometimes I add long strings or itty bitty pieces to the scrap bin, but mostly I do this if either I have some scrap projects in mind or I'm trying to clean up some other bin.