I have a big bag full of scraps, lots of trimmings and little leftovers from various projects. Occasionally I would tip everything out on the floor, looking for some particular colour, but really, it was a mess, and I was getting sick of it.
Full to overflowing
So one fine day, I took the bag out to the patio table, and tipped it all out, it was high time for a sort out. The colours were all separated, and it was easy to tell that the neutrals were by far the largest pile. My aim was to see how many 2.5in strips I had, so that I can start making some baby jelly roll quilts. Sadly most of the strips were less than 2.5in, maybe I can make string blocks instead.
All those neutral strips can be put to good use making some more of these cream coloured string blocks I'm using in another recent donation quilt. This will be a good leader and ender project.
There are plenty of strips to make more of these
The neutrals were put back into the big bag, and the other scraps were bagged into colour groups, ready to be utilised. I was amazed at just how much fabric there was, all those bits and pieces certainly add up, don't they. As I used to tell Robin, I'll never run out of things to do!
All bagged in colour groups
3 comments:
That was a job worth doing. It makes you more inclined to use them now they are sorted.
A good sort out can be very inspiring. I'm sure you will use all of those bits and pieces.
Those neutrals are lovely with the contrasts, I also have LOTS of small pieces, but the other day looked for enough reds or browns to go into the " En Garde" Canadian Goose project and there wasn't enough of any one colour!!!
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