#scrap management

[tj-crochets]

In an effort to curb the mountain of scrap, I sorted through my fabric strips and organized them by color. I think I’m going to make two things, one rainbow, one trans pride, but should they be baskets or should they be braided rugs?

[tj-crochets]

Hiiiii I was browsing through your scrap management tag and was wondering if you still use the same size guides for your scrap squares/strips now that you’re doing fpp as well

Your method’s really inspiring me to go through and cut my stash to size lol. I usually wait to process it until I need something specific, though that keeps it in a state where I don’t feel inspired looking at it. Nice neat stacks of cut blocks do help spark that for sure though lol

Hi! So far, yes, I am using the same size guides for scrap squares and strips even though I'm doing foundation paper piecing; I figure I will pretty much always have more scraps to use up and I've only made the one paper pieced pattern, and I genuinely really really like scrappy patchwork quilts. It's also really nice to have someone mention their preferred color scheme for a baby quilt and be able to flip through my stacks of squares I cut out a while ago and have like two thirds of the pieces cut for the quilt already, it saves so much time and makes me so much more likely to get the quilt done It is a tradeoff, because cutting scraps to specific sizes does limit what you can do with it, but it helps me a lot with keeping my scrap fabric pile from being overwhelming For anyone reading this who is curious but doesn't want to browse the tag, I cut my scrap fabric to a range of sizes that can all fit together in scrap quilts. Those are 3.5" squares, 5" squares, 6.5" squares, and 2.5" strips. I also sometimes cut 6" squares, because my big quilting ruler is 6" wide so that's the easiest size to cut a bunch of squares really quickly, which makes it my default plain baby quilt square size and I usually end up with a few extra squares. The 2.5" strips I usually end up using to make 12" finished blocks, but I sometimes just use as jelly rolls for a jelly roll quilt pattern or for basket making, and the 6" squares don't fit with the rest easily so I just use them by themselves. Recently I've also been making 9" square finished crumb quilting blocks and I'll eventually be making those into another scrap quilt with some of the 3.5" and 5" squares, at which point I'm going to have to make a decision because there are only so many scrappy rainbow quilts I can reasonably use lol

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[tj-crochets]

I am only realizing now that I took the first photo from the wrong angle to show what I did, but here’s before and after pictures of the scrap batting I processed! I cut it into 2.5” strips for future basket or rug making and diced up the smaller pieces to use as stuffed animal filling (probably for that giant whale shark lol)

[tj-crochets]

Crafting update! I did sew the goose prototype body but one of my friends is sending me some fabric scraps which means I need to clear part of the scrap mountain, so I spent some time cutting scrap fabric down to usable sizes (and doing some crumb quilting, which is not in the photo)

I’ve got some 6.5” squares, a bunch of 5” squares, one single 3.5” square, and a bunch of 2.5” strips. I definitely still have a bunch more fabric to process but I’m going to call it good for today lol

[tj-crochets]

Scrap quilt update!

Nine and a quarter hours in over five days, and I have twenty eight blocks completed! I spread them out so I could see how it looks and oh my gosh I love this!! There were a few fabric scraps I wasn’t sure would work with everything else but when you have enough random scraps any random scraps can work!

[tj-crochets]

Okay I’m getting kinda sore from ironing and cutting fabric so much, but I don’t want to stop working on my scrap quilt, so it’s cleaning time!

I have a bad habit of putting scraps in a container (cardboard box, usually) and then when the container is full I put it near my ironing board and think oh I’ll process it next time I iron something, and then I don’t. This is not helped by me buying scrap bags of fabric from quilt shops or other quilters (or my friends send me scraps, which I love and appreciate so much) and then it just builds and builds until it’s a little overwhelming

So! I’m going to sort scraps into small enough for crumb quilting or large enough I should cut them into squares, and probably sort them by color as well. If I’m feeling energetic after that I’ll get some ironed and cut down to size, but my main goal is getting this giant pile of scrap organized so it’s not taking up my entire floor (now that I pulled it out of its somewhat precarious tower near my ironing board. It’s years of scrap fabric accumulation)

[tj-crochets]

New day, new scrap quilt WIP post! I worked for about another hour and a half, bringing my total work time up to around 5 hours (but I did use some half-done crumb quilting pieces I made a while ago, so let’s call it six-ish hours) and I now have 12 blocks done! Two of them are the other patchwork options I’ll be using instead of just the crumb quilting, but I’m 1/4th of the way through sewing the blocks for this quilt!!!