i'd love to find time to do that.... great job!

This is one thing that I love about this group! Y'all never fail to inspire me. I am having surgery in the morning so I think I have found what I will be doing during my recovery!!!!

This is what I want to do with mine also. just haven't got the get up and go yet. I bet that really feels good.

How neat. I was just thinking that I need to get my scraps organized and you have inspired me. I hate to waste anything. Fabric is expensive. Thanks for your inspiration.:thumbup:

I'm organizing my mom's fabrics now- I'm not a quilter. what do you do with the cut squares? Make quilts with random fabrics? sorry to be so dumb, but she had over 500 of these packets pre cut matching fabrics. Is there some place in the Chandler az area I could donate her fabric leftovers to?

very cool!!!!!!

Check with a church in your area -- many have sewing circles and make quilts. Also most quilt guilds would be thrilled to have fabric donations as they make many charity quilts. Wish I lived closer -- I would love to take them!

I need to do this. My boxes are way out of hand.

I have a big plastic tub sitting under my cutting desk and I put everything in there as I do each quilt...when it begins to fill up, I know its time ....I press everything and I cut the largest square I can from each piece....then I store the pieces in seperate plastic boxes (from Sams with cookies in them originally) and I have 2 1/2 inches up to 7 inches....when this plastic cookie box gets full, its time to do a scrappy quilt using all that size blocks......I feel like these scrappys are FREE quilts, as it didnt cost anytihng for those squares.....Ialso have a couple of the plastic boxes that I put strips in.....2 1/2 and 3 and 3 1/2 width strips and again, when a box gets full its time to make a quilt with it.....

I have recently started "taming" my scraps the Bonnie Hunter way. Mostly I have cut strips into different widths and some sorting light and dark. Not sure what I am going to do with them yet, just trying to find a new/better organization method. Nothing has worked very well so far.
Good luck to you.

I guess it is just my brain block but to me scrap = small odd shapes not sized patches. I save the odd scraps for foundation piecing. If I have a large amount of fabric left over it is trimmed even on the edges and folded for future use.

Well done to all who save scraps.....there's a lot of money tied up in scraps and turning those scraps into quilts is basically the "foundation" of the quilting movement. Bravo everyone and just think of all the amazing quilts that will come of this.

So nice and neat! Great job, I'm totally inspired. Here's another thing that you could do...If you are tired of those fabrics, you could always join a swap and trade them in for some fresh, new stuff.

~ Cindy

LOL, I know what you mean about needing treatment ;)

This video regarding scrap sorting made the most logical sense to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zsofdI96Ws
Think about the size of pieces you use most often. 2-1/2" strips and squares are used a lot. Unless the strip is kind of short, I will leave it as a strip until I decide what to make with it. I can easily take several 2-1/2" strips and cut it down to squares, but I can't go the other way and turn my squares into rectangles or strips.

Anything wider than about 7-8" doesn't get cut up. I've got two plastic tubs for my initial sorting. One tub has the pieces of fabric that could be big enough to cut several quilt blocks out of it, but not quite enough fabric to wrap onto a foam board. The other tub has all of those little scraps in it. I keep those snipped snowball corners to use for string quilts. I have measured strips of 1-1/2", 2", 2-1/2", 3" and 3-1/2". Strips less than 1-1/2" simply go into a bag for string quilts.

If I have pieces left from quilts, I will put them into a zip bag and write the size on a piece of paper that goes in the bag. I hate having to re-measure any previous pieces of fabric.

By keeping your scraps sorted by strip width, you don't need to have 50 different storage tubs to accommodate all of the different scraps. If you have left-over 2-1/2" X 6-1/2" pieces, put them in a zip bag with the exact cut size and store them with your other 2-1/2" strips.

My scrap bin used to be just one massive mess until I watched this video and realized that sorting fabric by strip width made it much quicker to tame those scraps.

Great job! Wish I could get up the gumption to do mine.

nice way to keep scraps organized!! I gotta do that!

I use Bonnie Hunter's Scrap management. And boy has that helped me.. BUT I get scraps from all my friends too, and I pick up bits & pieces on the Free Table at Guild mtg. too. BUT I'm a scrap quilter at heart so these blocks look beautiful to me.

Good reminder to tame the scrap bin! The way I do it is 10 inch squares, tumblers, 2 inch square, 2 1/2 inch squares, and 5 inch squares. Scrappy quilits and also filler squares.

A very good idea.

I try to do this after every project as well, but I don't cut them into shapes. I gather them and lay them out flat so they don't have to be ironed again, saves time there, and put them in totes.

Your squares look great and so much better than tossing them. Look at all that fabric you saved!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: When we spend up to 14.99 and more for fabric throwing in the trash just does not appeal to me:(