Do you have any fabric in your sewing room? A little? A lot? If you are anything like me, you have no "room" in your sewing room because it is full of fabric. I have a decent system for storing yardage, kits, and in-process projects in my sewing space, but I am overrun by scraps!
A basic philosophy of my life is that I like to do a minimum amount of effort and see a maximum amount of results. This hardly ever works, but when I try to manage my overflowing scrap bins I pull out the largest pieces first and try to cut them into chunks that are 9"x22" (fat eighths). I roll them into little bundles and call them Cuties.
I see a lot of black and white Cuties in that drawer that will probably turn into a quilt soon.
I design patterns for the Cutie Collection (patterns that use 16 fat eighths) and use my scraps to test patterns and make scrap quilts just because I like them.
My Cutie drawer has produced several Cutie Quilts:
Fenced In:
Squared Away (Halloween prints):
Squared Away (leftovers from a Fig Tree & Co. kit):
Sweet Tooth (light):
Sweet Tooth (dark):
Vintage:
How about you? Do you have scrap pieces large enough to cut fat eighths? Which Cutie Pattern might show them off best?
A basic philosophy of my life is that I like to do a minimum amount of effort and see a maximum amount of results. This hardly ever works, but when I try to manage my overflowing scrap bins I pull out the largest pieces first and try to cut them into chunks that are 9"x22" (fat eighths). I roll them into little bundles and call them Cuties.
I see a lot of black and white Cuties in that drawer that will probably turn into a quilt soon.
I design patterns for the Cutie Collection (patterns that use 16 fat eighths) and use my scraps to test patterns and make scrap quilts just because I like them.
My Cutie drawer has produced several Cutie Quilts:
Fenced In:
Squared Away (Halloween prints):
Squared Away (leftovers from a Fig Tree & Co. kit):
Sweet Tooth (light):
Sweet Tooth (dark):
Vintage:
How about you? Do you have scrap pieces large enough to cut fat eighths? Which Cutie Pattern might show them off best?
2 comments:
Wonderful!!!!
What a good idea. However, my scraps are always smaller than a fat 8th. Your quilts are lovely.
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