This little bag weights 11 kilo…or 22 lb….this is what I call some of my scraps, they sort of go in here, as they are just too big to chuck out….!!!!!!!
and this…well they are just ‘leftover’ charm squares…
and this…. just bits and pieces, not sure why these sit on my cutting table!!!…but they do….
now I do have other ‘spots’ that have really old fabric, colour sorted, I like to do that…then I have 'fabric stories’ that all sit together, and I like to keep my fat quarters together (only the current ranges, no old stuff that is colour sorted) and then you have all the other bits and pieces!!!, you know kits, backing fabric, leftover backing fabric which is more than a metre ……. I really am hoping you know what I mean here…
Only a few photos have been shown, as I do not want you all to think I have a fabric problem!!!!!
So why am I doing this post, I just want to know if I am NORMAL………
please tell me your story…
Happy Sunday, take care, keep safe,
Peg
You make me feel so much better Peg, because you are just like me. I have a very similar sorting system.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly why I've been making so many scrappy quilts lately! I've had a similar problem! LOL
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, Peg... you are totally normal! I have so much fabric stuffed in my tiny house that as you drive down the street you can easily identify my house. . . it is the one with the bulging walls!
ReplyDeleteI have mind all cleaned up finally. I have some very nice boxes that I bought and when I am done a project I cut them up in 2 1/2 in or 1 1/2 in pieces and so on in different boxes. It does make it alot easier. It took me days to get it cleaned up.
ReplyDeleteRemember the old Medibank Private ad? I feel better now!
ReplyDeleteI am so pleased to see that I am not the only one with a "bits and pieces, can't chuck it cos I might need it," problem. You've restored my faith in being a sewer. I love to have it all clean and tidy, but next project it's all out again!
You are oh sooooo normal Peg,I have just as many piles/baskets/bags of scraps as you do LOL :) Barb
ReplyDeletelol we are all the same Peg,lol,enjoy your Sunday my friend.xx
ReplyDeleteLOL Peg........making me feel very normal here! I must get me one of those fold up baskets for scraps too (the box I have is now overflowing!)
ReplyDeleteI have baskets like that! and right on my sewing table too. It's like you came into my house and took pictures. thanks!!!!! I feel ever so much better.
ReplyDeleteNormal? Not everyone can have organised chaos like quilters! Of course we're NOT NoRMaL.. we are SPeCiaL xx :)
ReplyDeleteI so agree with Cheryll - we are "special" not normal. Who wants to be plain old normal anyway? My sewing space looks like a bomb has hit at the moment, then every now and then I sort and tidy it......and then another bomb hits. I like to think of it as a natural cycle.
ReplyDeleteOH no its only you! HA!
ReplyDeleteWe all have our stash of small bits of fabric.
I read a blog where the gal takes her small bits of left over fabrics from projects and either cuts strips of 2" or 3", or squares. Then chucks the slivers.
I started this process and it works well for me. I now have a drawer of 2", 3", and another od squares. When I start a new project I see if any of my strips are good with this project.
It seems that I moved from a basket of "Stuff" to drawers of "Strips of Stuff". For me its an improvement. I like to make scrappy quilts.
What will your basket of "stuff" become?
Good heavens Peg of course you are normal.... so that makes me normal too hooray. My box of scraps sit on the floor next to my machine so every now and then I make string blocks so hopefully they will all turn into quilts in the end.
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OMG Peg I have never seen so much material in one place I am sure you will get through it all soon the speed that you make things.Happy sewing.
ReplyDeleteHugs Mary.xx
I have scrap fabric envy!
ReplyDeleteThere is very limited space at my place so I have to keep 'stuff' to a minimum.
I do keep little scraps in a box. They come in super handy for hexies.
I think you are definitely our kind of normal.
Now I am not admitting to anything mind you but you may call me twin sister.......I feel better now:-)
ReplyDeleteyep you not anlone and ttally normal! My scrap containers all all sorted by colur and are all full with some just refusing to close. I am now trying to sort a better way to store them. Do I buy bigger containers. Someone suggest that I make fabric containers for them - from my scraps - great idea just need the time. Enjoy your scraps :o)
ReplyDeleteat least your scraps are organised! some of mine are...and the rest are on the floor at the moment, because I'm trying to use some of them up....but they are endless!
ReplyDeleteYep, your definatley normal Peg, you could make some great scrap quilts with all that fabric. Have fun.
ReplyDeleteScraps multiply when you're not looking. Not your fault really!
ReplyDeleteLove all those scraps you have 'organised' there.
Enjoy the company of like minded friends.
I have lots of fabrics and scraps. Ranges are kept together. Kits are sitting in a cupboard. Colour
ReplyDeleteco-ordinated fabrics are in plastic boxes. I could go on and on but I think I've said enough. You are definitely normal Peg.
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ReplyDeleteI just started creating my new craft room. Of course that meant I had to go through my old craft room. BUT, I decided I needed to be TOTALLY organized in my new room. How many crochet hooks do I REALLY need?? If I have them in an organized manner..just one of each. My fabric, well what there is of it will all be ironed, folded and sorted by color. I have a few scraps and they are in a little drawer. Nothing like your wonderful scrap factory you have going on there LOL. I would make a wonderful crazy quilt with all of that!
ReplyDeleteThank you Peg,
ReplyDeleteI have admired your productivity for so long, and marvel at the tidiness of all your photo shots, so to see that you organize your scraps the way I do, by stories, etc. made me feel so much better. I used to feel bad about the amount of scraps I had, but I ended up being retired from my career a year ago, and with a much smaller income now, I am loving the free fabric! It makes it possible to continue the charity sewing I used to do, and since it was great fabric the first time, it is part of some great looking projects now. Don't despair- it is one of the benefits of quilting. Keep inspiring-Roxanne
Somebody needs to start making some super scrappy happy quilts to get rid of all those scraps - it should be your next challenge - rip your credit cards up, ban yourself from shopping and get making!!!
ReplyDeleteI need to take my own advice really - i started making some quilts using my vast amount of scraps - but found myself cutting into fat quarters for more diversity of colours etc I still haven't finished them!! Naughty me - I have baskets full of scraps that just never seem right for the next project I want to work on.
Normal .... please tell me what is normal..... Love the scrap pile(s)... go girlfriend
ReplyDeleteYep. I have cupboards full of fabric and baskets full of scraps. Occassionally I make a scrap quilt or block and whittle the scraps down a bit, but not much! I don't have any fabric colour sorted. It's just in the cupboard! My scraps are colour sorted though. I am in a couple of bees and the monthly blocks we make are generally from scraps so the colour coding makes bee block making easier.
ReplyDeleteI think you are normal. Really, you need lots of fabric. What if one night you can't sleep and there's no fabric to start a new project? See, people like us are always thinking ahead.
Oh Peg reading this I think we are all normal...perhaps it's just everyone else *grin* xo
ReplyDeleteI hope someday to be as 'normal' as you Peg. Sharyn:)
ReplyDeleteglad to see I am normal too LOL.....and I don't even have a sewing room LOL~!~
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