Improvements to my Scrap Storage System

I have been wanting to spend some time making some changes to how and where I store my scraps.  I recently had some incentive to finally get it done!

I still use my color coded buckets right above my cutting table so as soon as a scrap is made, it is instantly sorted by color. I think it is the most crucial step for my scrap sanity.   I may not need these any more with the changes I have made but for now, I will leave them there.

 What drove me to making these changes now, was I had the opportunity to buy some old wire gym locker baskets.  I cleaned off a shelf unit which is right outside my sewing room.  So no more walking down the hall to get to my scraps.  I have a total of twelve and they are really convenient to grab when I need a color.

I still have my old scrap bins down the hall but they now hold my larger chunks of scraps (smaller than a fat quarter) - all folded and standing on end.  They used to be stored in large drawers with multiple colors in each drawer.  But now each of these bins are a single color, I can easily grab a bin or a fabric and take it to my sewing room.  Because they are on edge, all of the fabrics are visible.

I use these fabrics when I don't have scraps that work in my wire baskets.

I always work with the smallest scraps first.

Then I moved the large drawers to under my cutting table.  Before I made this change, I had multiple overflowing bins under this table.  Now, I just have my low volume and a "Specialty" bin that I use to collect a certain type of scrap temporarily.  Right now it is collecting Kaffe Fassett scraps.

I am a bit embarrassed to share what is in these drawers.  These are all bags of sorted various scraps just waiting to be made into a quilt.  Some of them are certain collections - like Charlie Harper, Tula Pink or Parsons Gray.  I also have bags of certain types of scraps - holiday, patriotic, vintage.  There are even bags of orphan blocks in there.  I would guess there are at least 25 bags in each bin and both drawers are stuffed full.  That is over 50 quilts! 

Before these changes, these bags were overflowing their baskets.  At least now they look tidy!

Hmmm....Maybe I should start pulling a project out of these occasionally.

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This past week I have been sewing up the last of the Australian fabric into quilt number three.  I pretty much only had strips and bits left so I thought I would make some simple string blocks.  Are you surprised?!  I wanted each block to have two thin black strings as shown in the block above.  I did have to pull some older black/tan fabrics from my stash to accomplish this.  But the rest of the blocks were made from the Australian prints.

I hope to get them sewn up into a quilt top this week.

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• This linky party is for any scrappy project - It can be in-process or a finished piece.
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Quilt Number Two

Have you been following along to see how many quilts I can create out of this bin of fabrics given to me by a friend?

The tub measure about 12 x 14 x 5. 

 I shared the first quilt I finished here.  Now it is time to share the second finish!

I had a combination of both small pieces and larger chunks available.  I decided I would start by turning the small pieces into 9 patches.  I liked the idea of using them to create a diamond shape so I then cut the chunks into rectangles to finish off a pattern.

The soft colored areas were actually made using two different fabrics.  I didn't have enough of just one print so I faked it and used two!  Most people won't even notice it.

Can you believe it?  I was even able to create a backing and binding out of the bin too.  So that means two entire quilts so far out of that bin!

I have to admit, I am not a big fan of snakes...So this quilt needs to find another home!

For the quilting, I decided to just create some fun texture by quilting in "explosions" - or at least that is what I call this quilting.

So there is quilt number two!  100% of the fabric came out of the bin.

Will there be quilt number three?

You will just have to wait and see.  I might just share a few of the blocks soon.

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