Irishlady

Love those mini quilts. I usually keep my small pieces of fabric in empty ice cream containers, and because they are transparent I can easily see what is in them.

CarrieAnne

Great tips you guys! I used to love the International coffee mocha, havent bought any in a while, but it is so good!

drdolly

Another idea of reusing an item to store is baby food containers. My daughters have been saving the little plastice square clear ones for me.

mrs. fitz

An excellent idea and I hope the magazine prints your tip.

kkbrand

That is an awesome idea, you could also use those clear plastic containers from lunch meat (Glad-Hillshire Farms) if you wanted, then they would be see through and you could easily find what you wanted!

I never thought about cutting my scraps into 2" squares, I have lots of projects that I have scraps just thrown into a bin, that is a great idea and then could easily be made into a scrappy quilt when you have enough scraps!

pocoellie

Great idea! Thanks for sharing.

amandasgramma

GREAT idea!!! You've just solved a problem for me!

nwm50

Thought of that too but yours are in prettier tin containers and i liked the fact that your stood up and not laying down like mine. Have brought the Sterlite see thru container for the 2 1/2" and 4 1/2". Thanks your neat ideas

MoMoSews

Thanks for sharing :P

lab fairy

I use a lot of repurposed containers like that. A current favorite hold all my tool too and from classes too so they don't get lost (Nestles Quick, the yellow boxes). I covered one to take out in public, the rest are sorted on shelves holding a vast array of things. I just started thinking that I needed to put light colored scraps together...then dark... it kind of grew from there. These are great. They sit neatly on the shelf, hold a lot, are sturdy and FREE. What a deal. I guess I could dress them up with the color family of scaps they hold etc. when I start getting enough scraps to actually call them families.