Half Yard Pieces of Fabric
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Half Yard Pieces of Fabric
Been organizing my stash and putting everything over a half yard piece on comic boards. Noticed I have a lot of half yard pieces of fabric. Not too many patterns call for this amount. Besides cutting them all up for scrap quilts, how else can I use them. Most of my fabric is organized by color. So far, I am folding the half yard pieces as I fold fat quarters and lining them up in drawers in my sewing room. Everything else, will be lined up on shelves in cabinets in the basement where I have my batting. Need ideas for use of these pieces.
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I did the same until I realized how much space all those comic boards were taking up. Then I removed the boards and stand my material on it's side, to look like books. I fold all pieces smaller than 1 yard into the size of fat quarters. My whole top shelf in my cabinet is for smaller pieces. Just hold onto them and you can use them for scrap quilts! You'd be surprised just how little you'll need for scrappy quilts!
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Organized scrap quilts... use a variety of 'reds' when the pattern calls for red and so on..
otherwise, small baby quilts and applique or even "Fat quarter" quilt patterns..
otherwise, small baby quilts and applique or even "Fat quarter" quilt patterns..
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I would use them in fat quarter patterns. I find most of those quilts are like lap size and I prefer something slightly larger so you can enlarge FQ patterns. Or join a FQ swap on the QB or somewhere else. Cut those half yards in half and you have two FQ, one to swap and one to keep.
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I finished a quilt about a month ago called Southern Comfort. I used 1/2 yard pieces for the body of the quilt. I used tone on tone cream colored for the non- color area. Like you I seemed to have lots of less than a yard pieces. I like this pattern a lot for the bigger not quite scraps .
http://charismascorner.com/?p=13884
http://charismascorner.com/?p=13884
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I am always looking for fabrics to match a new fabric I have bought and so many times I turn to the half yards to use with them. They have come in handy for so many patterns that I need a little more than a fat quarter. When ordering bundles I usually order half yard's instead of fat quarters.
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Several of the Jaybird patterns by Julie Honeyman call for half yards. I think Chopsticks does, as well as Ballerina. Another quilt pattern designer who seems to call for half yards fairly often is JEnny Pedigo, with Sew kind of Wonderful and quick curve ruler designs.
#10
For storing, I don't use the boards on less than 1 yd pieces. Instead, I fold them with my 4" ruler. They stack neatly on the shelf (until I pick thru them!)
I like to use them for the back of quilts. On the back of the log cabin in my avatar pic, I've got them in a brick wall type layout. I think for this quilt I cut into 16x32 rectangle and used the rest for strips & scraps.
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I like to use them for the back of quilts. On the back of the log cabin in my avatar pic, I've got them in a brick wall type layout. I think for this quilt I cut into 16x32 rectangle and used the rest for strips & scraps.
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