Prism99

I'm not planning to turn my entire stash into precuts, but I am going to start cutting up a lot of the older fabrics I have that I really do not know what to do with. I enjoy making log cabin quilts and strip quilts, so I'm going to cut lots of 1.5", 2" and 2.5" strips. For the strip quilts, I am going to select a few specific patterns to make sure that I am cutting the right strips.

Another thing I plan to do is to create pre-cut kits for myself. I have some bins of fabric I bought for specific patterns. (For once I had the sense to store the pattern with the fabrics!) I'm going to pull those out and cut them up so they are ready for sewing when I need a project.

There are quite a few websites and books with ideas for organizing a stash into precut shapes. Here's one book:
http://www.amazon.com/ScrapTherapy-C...dp/1600853331/
and one website:
http://themennobrarian.blogspot.com/...ric-stash.html

I haven't seen this book, but it looks interesting. If I liked most of the patterns in that book, I could see cutting my stash into the shapes used in it:
http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/pre-...p?page_id=1568

charsuewilson

I wouldn't do that. I never know what I'm going to make next. So, if the fabric were all cut up, that would severely limit the possibilities of what I could do.

justflyingin

Her advice has a lot of merit. I have 5 kids and the youngest is now 15. Now I have time--nr. 4 is leaving home this summer to go to college.. In times past I had a limited amount of time to sew, but it did fly quickly. Unless your stash is somehow bothering you, only cut up the small, odd shaped things until you actually know what you want to do.