How good are you at THROWING AWAY????
08-10-2011, 09:00 AM
#103
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I'm getting better at it. I just recently tossed a pile of miniscule scraps that I couldn't work with.
If you have trouble letting go...you may want to ask around to see if there's a quilter who loves to do crazy quilting.
I had an elderly cousin who took the tiniest scraps and hand-sewed them to make tiny teddy bears to give to children. She gave me one and it's one of my treasures.
It could be a great activity for those in assisted living. With that said, I need to save my scraps again. :)
If you have trouble letting go...you may want to ask around to see if there's a quilter who loves to do crazy quilting.
I had an elderly cousin who took the tiniest scraps and hand-sewed them to make tiny teddy bears to give to children. She gave me one and it's one of my treasures.
It could be a great activity for those in assisted living. With that said, I need to save my scraps again. :)
08-10-2011, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Becka
I have a hard time throwing things away, and I don't just mean in my sewing room. But the stuff from my sewing room does find a home. I know people that weave rag rugs and crochet doilies out of those strips too small to measure, and that do fabric mosaics with the 1 X 1's, etc. My kids laugh at me because I throw the crumbs on the floor as I'm working, then sweep and sort it all out, and end up throwing very little of it away :)
"When I'm dead and gone there ain't anybody goin' to think o' the floors I've swept, and the tables I've scrubbed, and the old clothes I've patched, and the stockin's I've darned…But when one of my grandchildren sleeps on one of those quilts, they'll think about me, and, wherever I am then, I'll know I ain't forgotten." from 'Aunt Jane of Kentucky' by Eliza Calvert Hall
08-10-2011, 09:07 AM
#105
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Originally Posted by Beachbound
Seriously, how good are you about throwing away those strips, orphan blocks, scraps, crumbs, etc? I usually carefully put everything in bins and about once a year decide to try to use some of it up. Right now I am making those mug rugs and I can't tell if my stash is getting smaller. About now I feel like the guy who tries to finish the internet...it just isn't going to happen! :lol: So...do you throw this stuff away, do you keep it until you use, do you close the door & don't worry about using it?
I do sweep the floors most days!
08-10-2011, 09:09 AM
#106
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Originally Posted by Beachbound
Seriously, how good are you about throwing away those strips, orphan blocks, scraps, crumbs, etc? I usually carefully put everything in bins and about once a year decide to try to use some of it up. Right now I am making those mug rugs and I can't tell if my stash is getting smaller. About now I feel like the guy who tries to finish the internet...it just isn't going to happen! :lol: So...do you throw this stuff away, do you keep it until you use, do you close the door & don't worry about using it?
08-10-2011, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by jmabby
I only keep things that are even strips or squares, no scraps
08-10-2011, 09:18 AM
#108
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Originally Posted by Lv2sew2011
I'm keeping all the scraps and when I'm feeling bored or just bored with making blocks, I will sew some of them together to make more fabric, I call it my scrappy fabric right now I have about 1/4 yard sewed together and some day will make more blocks with it...LOL
08-10-2011, 09:20 AM
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I keep scraps that can be used for scrappy quilts especially log cabin. I am trying to use up fabric (most of it is fat quarters) but never notice a decrease in the pile. Always need a color I don't have, so to the store I go and any left over pieces go back into the scrappy bag. Process never ends.
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