I
have had trouble in the past with actually using my stash and scraps (yardage
and small pieces) because I am so controlling.
No, I don’t mean I am an aggressive woman! Just trying to be so matchy-matchy with
fabrics and not knowing how to use bits of “this and that” has been my mental
stumbling block. Not that my quilts
aren’t pretty, I just want to make more donation quilts (the need is so great)
and maximize use of what I have.
I
don’t have much of an organized system for scraps. I have:
- The Box: this is where I throw leftovers after I finish piecing a top or quilting it.
The Dream: doing away
with the box and putting pieces away in the right place the first time … lol.
- The Bucket: this is where I throw tail ends of bindings – all strips are 2.5 inches wide but are still ironed in half when I throw them in here.
The Dream: cutting these
into useable 2.5 inch squares
- The Basket: this is where I throw pieces that are less than 2.5 inches but more that 1 inch wide.
The Dream: making string
quilts from these, but in actuality I usually end
up donating these to true scrap quilters when this gets full.
- The Drawers: this is the yardage, the fat quarters, the collections, the panels, the misc
The Dream: to make this
ALL useful and make lots and lots of donation quilts
for children and Veterans.
- The What-in-the-World?? yes, it’s true I have lost control over this mess. No, I don’t really know what-all is in there. It is the first dumping place if I don’t walk around to get to The Box that is behind the longarm (an arduous trip of at least 6 steps)
The Dream: this has GOT
TO GO – it’s in the way (I have said this for months
years)
The
saga will continue tomorrow as I s-l-o-w-l-y ease into the scrap thing – and
yes, you'll see tomorrow that there is a method to my madness!
2 comments:
you are doing great ! At least you have the courage to post photos - I am afraid I am over the point where I can show the world the mess.............. I am sewing like a maniac, and the scraps are diminishing, but oh so very slowly, like moving the Mohave desert one grain of sand each day ! Good luck to you.
Hmm, yes. That dream of organizing. I dream it too. The big stuff is. The little stuff is in two tubs and a bag. Oh, and I still have a "box." It is for the stuff I finished with and needs to be sorted and returned to the appropriate tubs. something always needs to go to the bottom of the column of three tubs, it seems. So I didn't get rid of the box.
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