I’ve had LOTS of stash enhancement over the week…
I got a wonderful box of goodies from Angela.
I also got another box from Nancy in PA.
I already used about a half yard of the bright blue for a binding for a charity quilt I was working on this week. Â I’ll show that off sometime this week once I get the binding finished.
It is so kind of you gals to think of me when you’re sorting through your stash and reorganizing. Â I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it and what a joy it is to get the packages. Â I am hoping to get some time this week to get them all sorted through and organized.
When I showed the goodies to Kelli she was excited and said she thinks we need to reorganize some of my fabric. Â I keep telling her I want to wait until we move….It’s getting to the point that I don’t know if I can wait that long.
Right now I have my Civil War and similar fabrics in a scrap savers system sorted by size and my brights are sorted by color. Â I think I want the brights sorted by size…I am always changing my mind. Â All fat quarters are kept separately.
How do you sort scrap??
Thanks so much ladies for thinking of me with your scraps. Â I love scraps no matter the size…no matter the color…no matter the condition. Â Scrap quilts a my favorites…
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Thank you Jo for helping me de-clutter my sewing room by sending all my scraps your way. The long strips of fabric that are cut from the backing after a quilt is finished seems too much to toss. I have my CW fabrics in one area….by color. My regular fabrics…calico, etc. are on shelves and another office max cupboard all by color also. I keep the solids or the fabric that looks kind of solid all together but grouped by color…don’t have many of these. I have everything folded like Bonnie Hunter showed on her blog…love that method…works on any size shelf…just have to measure. My wide backings are rolled with a piece of fabric tied around and marked the size. I purchased a few backings at a quilt show and that is how they had them…works great to stack these together. It took me a full week to press and fold all my stash but I am so glad I did…it looks so neat and organized. I have one drawer in the plastic stackbins that is marked “Jo’s scraps”. Thanks for helping me get organized, Nancy
I’ve got all my scraps sorted by size: 3.5″, 2.5″, 2″, string, selvedge, crumbs. I’ve got my precuts in a drawer, FQs take 2 drawers, and now 2 bookcases of yardage. All of my fabric is organzed by colour family – except the scraps. I keep thinking I should sub-divide them by neutrals/colour/novelty but haven’t tackled that yet…maybe at Christmas break. Then again, if I keep sewing maybe I’ll have used enough more to not worry how it’s organized :)