Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Scrap Management

My little Ikea boxes are beginning to overflow with scraps.
(I really must find another solution.  Perhaps larger or more boxes?)

I decided to take the box marked "yellow/lights" and attempt to organize as suggested in crazy mom Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison's book Sunday Morning Quilts.  The pile I started with:
 And following their suggestion, this is what I ended with:

Much neater.  I also discovered that I have been mixing up Kona Snow and Kona White in my scraps.  I will have to assess if I am compulsive enough to separate them.  OK, so next question...what do I do with all these piles?  It doesn't seem right to put them back into the scrap box by color.  Should I start another system...2.5" strips (sub-organized by color or color saturation?), strings, snippets, etc., etc.

I know this is a much discussed topic so I plan to do a little on-line research.  Any suggestions or recommendations by the viewing audience are welcome!
Kathy


7 comments:

  1. I just save my scraps all lumped together. But they are in clear bins. If I can't see them... They aren't there! Unfortunately this also applies to leftovers in the fridge. If I had more scraps I would likely sort by colour only, not size.

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  2. WOW...you really are organizing. I like the idea of clear containers. To easy to forget what you have.

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  3. When you figure it out be sure to let me know lol. You are more ambitious than I was. When my boxes started overflowing I just bought bigger boxes (and I bought clear boxes too). One thing that I do do is I keep 2 "special" containers that I keep 2.5" squares and 5" squares in. I intentionally cut a few of every scrap fabric that I have as I'm putting it in the appropriate color scrap bin. Once my special containers are overflowing I make a quilt with them. The 5" I just piece together to make a lap quilt and the 2.5's I makes blocks with that I will one day piece together to become a quilt. It's a fun way for me to keep a piece of every quilt that I make with me.

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  4. I like to keep like sizes together so I store strips and squares in drawers and bins. Same with my strings. I have 2 bins of scraps that have accumulated over the last year... usually I cut them down periodically but I've decided to wait until next year in case I want to try some thing new with my leftovers. So I guess I have "snippets" for the first time. Since I'm such a nut for 2.5" strips and 5" charms I have those stored by color or theme.

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  5. I think you should make a scrap quilt! ;-}

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  6. Bet you found that they took up less space once they were ironed and cut into squares/strips! Would be interested to hear what you decide on.

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