Happy Scrappy New Year!!

I’m so glad 2019 is here. The new year is such a great time to get myself organ­ised, motiv­ated and mov­ing! Par­tic­u­larly now that my hus­band has returned from his year long deploy­ment and the renov­a­tion is pretty much done. I’m look­ing for­ward spend­ing a lot more time quilt­ing in 2019! 

I’m really hop­ing to focus on using some of my extens­ive scrap fab­ric col­lec­tion this year. I already have a couple of pro­jects in mind. The first of which I’ll be basing on this one made by Alis­on Har­ris of Cluck Cluck Sew. Allis­on has a great tutori­al if you’d like to try one your­self. You can find her tutori­al by click­ing here.

Over the last couple of years my scraps have gone from a fairly man­age­able to an explos­ive mess that needs a lot more sort­ing and coordin­at­ing. I still use my fab­ric bins to col­lect scraps while I’m cut­ting new pro­jects. But, these days, I need to reg­u­larly sort the scraps into a more man­age­able and visu­al system.

I keep my fab­ric in col­our coordin­ated stacks. So, it just makes sense to col­our coordin­ate my scraps in the same way. I wish I had end­less room for stor­ing scraps but I just don’t. With that in mind I pur­chased a few of these tubs from Kmart Aus­tralia. I use them for my good sized scraps. That is, pieces of fab­ric that are lar­ger than 10″ x 10″ square but smal­ler than a fat quarter. Being stack­able and light­weight makes the tubs easy to move in and out of my fab­ric cupboard.

And, because the tubs aren’t too big it’s easy to pop them up on my cut­ting table so I can select the pieces I need for my next scrap friendly project!

I don’t usu­ally keep teeny scraps of fab­ric. My min­im­um size is about 3″ square and/or long strips. These smal­ler pieces get lost in the tubs with the lar­ger pieces so I figured anoth­er sys­tem was needed. Since I don’t have as many small pieces I find its easy to keep them tied up in col­our bundles. 

Once tied its easy to throw the bundles into my scrap bins. They are then ready to use when I’m cut­ting out smal­ler pro­jects like these Lovely Lav­ender Bags which I need to make some more of!  You can view the free tutori­al and make your own by click­ing here.

So, goal for 2019… Make a dent in those scraps! Next week I will have the first of hope­fully many scrap pro­jects for you to try. Hint: Grab out your red and pink valentine themed scraps.

If you’re look­ing for more Scrap Quilt inspir­a­tion you can find a whole heap of eye candy on my Scrap Quilts Pin­terest board…

And finally, if you’re in the midst of a sew­ing room clean out and are look­ing for more hints and tips check out these posts by Andy of A Bright Corner from last year. They are awesome!

• Sew Organ­ized Part 1: Tips for Stor­ing Quilt­ing Tools and Rulers
• Sew Organ­ized Part 2: Tips for Stor­ing Pat­terns, Magazines and Books
• Sew Organ­ized Part 3: Stor­ing and Organ­iz­ing Fab­ric and Scraps
  
• Sew Organ­ized Part 4: Quilt­ing Pro­jects and WIPs

Have a great week!