Scraps...

 
Mystery Quilts Anonymous  



I am very interested in how you store your scraps...if you use them and the sizes you cut your larger scraps down to. I keep a bin of crumbs, a bin of anything under a fat quarter, plastic shoe boxes with my 2-1/2" strips and squares by colour, and that doesn't include the fabrics between a quarter yard and one yard.  I am very keen to hear what you do. I need help organising this large selection of scraps! I make every quilt that I put on our Facebook page and others as well....I have SO MANY SCRAPS!


Show me pics PLEASE! 

I need help!!
Deb
 

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  1. Nancy6 Jan 2020, 07:30:00

    If I can get a 6 1/2 piece that is what I cut to. then a 5 inch piece 3 1/2 and 2 1/2. nothing smaller. I also cut 1 1/2 inch strips and 2 1/2 strips if there is enough but no shorter than 12 inches. I also cut a lot of 2 1/2 inch square which I use a lot of as beginners and enders. The 6 1/2 and 5 inch pieces I make pinwheels or hourglass combined with a solid background fabric, the scrap pile never seems to get any smaller and I belong to two guilds and both know I love the scraps. When making a half square triangle I sew two lines and cut between the sewn lines and the smallest piece I also use. nothing smaller than a 1 1/2 finished piece. They all make beautiful comfort quilts.

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  2. Ann Marie @ 16 Muddy Feet6 Jan 2020, 07:32:00

    Anything smaller than a FQ gets cut up into strips, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, what ever I can get out of them. If I have weird shape pieces I cut into squares, same sizes. I have a 9 cube unit, and each cube has a size to it.

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    1. Mystery Quilts Anonymous6 Jan 2020, 16:18:00

      My plastic "shoe boxes" are all labeled, but I went overboard on the 2-1/2" things!! I really need to just breathe and get more shoe boxes!

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  3. Diane larson6 Jan 2020, 07:41:00

    ahh scraps, how we have a love/hate relationship with them! I use Bonnie Hunters scrap saver system. sorted by size,,for me I put everything narrower than 1 1/2" into my string bin, then sort every 1/2" i.e. 1 1/2', 2', 2 1/2', etc to 5" then 6 1/2" and over 7" when it's big enough to be a FQ I store with FQ's if bigger than 1/2 yd. I put it back into my yardage cupboard

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    1. Mystery Quilts Anonymous6 Jan 2020, 16:18:00

      I love it!! Explained perfectly...love/hate relationship! I love to use them, hate to sort and cut them!

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  4. Pam6 Jan 2020, 10:10:00

    I usually cut in 2.5 inch squares. Am working on a “heart” quilt. Each block has 45 - 2.5 in squares and 4 - HST. Dark colors are the heart. Light colors around the heart

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    1. Mystery Quilts Anonymous6 Jan 2020, 16:19:00

      I love this...thinking I can use this an leader/ender blocks because I can just pull from the scrap bin!

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  5. Bptor10926 Jan 2020, 16:05:00

    OMGosh! I have a muliplicity of textile remnants and discards. They have taken it upon themselves to reproduce even in the darkened and enclosed spaces of totes, bags and a closet. After I work on a scrap quilt the little b-----ds never go into their original home but seem to cling to every available surface in my sewing room. One cheeky one found his way to the store by hanging to my shirt! The nerve!

    If you find a miracle for living with these little creatures I implore you to let me know.

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    1. Mystery Quilts Anonymous6 Jan 2020, 16:21:00

      I have had such a busy day and you just made me laugh out loud and relieve the stress build-up! This explains my dilemma so well! Thank you for your insight and fantastic explanation! You'll make me smile for days with this one!

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