I should show you pictures of my garden…my flowers…my completed book work because truly that’s what I’ve been working on…but a Monday morning post is suppose to be more about what I’m working on in the fabric department.
So…here goes. Â There’s not a lot to show. Â Kelli brought me a box of scraps that I’ve been trimming up and sorting.
While I’ve been doing that…A BIG package came in the mail. Â Goodies galore! See??
Well in with all the big pieces of fabric are quite a few smaller pieces that need to be sorted and taken care of. Â While I have all the stuff out, I’m going to just keep trimming.
This box came anonymously. Â I have looked and looked for a name. Â All I know is that it came for Charles City, Iowa. Â Hm…I keep wondering if I can think of anyone that I know??
I’m going to keep at my trimming and not think about the projects upstairs that are calling to me… Â There’s a big line up. Â All are screaming “finish me! Â finish me!”.
I’m not sure what I’m grabbing next. Â All I know is that for now, I’m going to concentrate on getting the scraps handled.
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I always enjoyed the pictures you posted when building you new home so I would love to see pics of your garden & flowers, also, Jo!!
What do you do to tame the scraps you get? I try to follow Bonnie Hunter’s scrap user system. Larger pieces are cut into strips. The smaller pieces I’m never sure if I should cut down to blocks & bricks or just throw into a pile with strings. They seem to big to be there. I’ve had lots of scraps given to me which I’m grateful, but at a loss how much time I put into cutting into useable pieces and how to determine what sizes to cut. Thanks!
I am working hard this summer to get scraps under control, but it is so hard. And if I am cutting fabric for a specific quilt, does that make it a UFO? But it seems silly to me to cut fabric and put it away to sort it all back out again to make a quilt. . .I have some scrap collections that all go together, so I am finding a pattern they fit and cutting them to those sizes. It does take a lot of time to scrap manage the piles from BEFORE I knew about Bonnie’s User System.