Scrap Strategy #1 - Sorting Scraps

Nothing spells retail therapy for me like a brand new bag of scraps!  Call me crazy but I actually buy scraps by-the-pound off the inter net.  I like the diversity!  And there is nothing more fun than sorting a new bag of scraps.  It’s like Christmas morning for grown-ups! 

Once the scrap bag is opened and decompresses you can see the bounty.  All sorts of fabric treasures await my discovery!

 Generally I dump the scraps on the floor and start by smoothing the strips and patches out and placing them into piles according to style and/ or color.  This particular scrap bag had an abundance of batiks.  Nice generous strips ranging from 1” to about 5” wide.  

Then I get out my fabric baskets and put the scraps in their new homes.   This bag went into the following categories.

 

1^st row                               miscellaneous               large batik strips                 solids

2^nd row   batik patches        kid fabric’s          holiday fabric       oriental      Geometrics

These are by no means all of my scrap basket categories but when I want to put my finger on something specific I usually only have to thumb through a couple of baskets to find it. 

This is just the beginning of a scrap adventure full of fun and lots of sewing.  Yeah! 

Cheers, Claire W.