Batting, Batting EVERYWHERE!

I'm so excited to be involved in the Spring Clean Your Studio blog hop again this year!

I've been working hard on improving my studio space this year.

Being a WonderFil thread designer, I own a lot of thread:

No, reallly -- a LOT of thread:

This is only the thread that's on display.  There's so. Much. MORE!

I've kept my cutting table clear for most of the year:

I've added a new sewing machine and a design wall to my studio:

I love my design wall more than I can possibly express.

I'm a high-volume quilter and I have been for many, many years.  I make a lot of samples of my Cutie Quilt Patterns.  I make a lot of quilts as gifts.  I make a lot of charity quilts. I have developed systems to deal with my fabric scraps and I'm 80% (ok, 75%) on top of them.

But there are other scraps produced by high-volume quilters -- batting scraps!

I use many types of batting and have bags of leftovers in various locations in my sewing room.  I try to join my scraps by hand stitching, machine stitching, or fusible tape and use the "Franken-batts" in charity quilts.  A few years ago I started sorting my batting scraps by type, but then I ended up with a bag of wool scraps, a bag of cotton scraps, a bag of polyester scraps, etc.  The bags were taking over!

Pet beds to the rescue!  I sorted through my scrap bags of battings and filled several pet beds with the small pieces.  The animal shelter is happy, and so am I.

I gathered all of the remaining large batting scraps into one bag:

I hope to keep making pet beds from my batting scraps so that my batting always fits into one IKEA bag.

I now store that single bag under Sergio, my suave and debonair Handi Quilter Simply Sixteen.

But what shall I do with all of the empty bags?

Thanks for visiting my studio today.

Check back daily for my Spring Cleaning inspiration!

May 1 - Teri Lucas - www.terificreations.com
May 2 - Tammy Silvers - www.tamarinis.typepad.com
May 3 - Emily Breclaw - www.thecaffeinatedquilter.com
May 4 - Amalia Morusiewicz - www.FUNfromAtoZ.com
May 5 - John Kubiniec - www.bigrigquilting.com/blog/
May 6 - Debby Brown - www.higheredhands.blogspot.com
May 7 - Melissa Marie Collins - www.melissamariecollins.blogspot.com
May 8 - Delve MIY - www.fronddesignstudios.wordpress.com
May 9 - Misty Cole - www.mistycole.com
May 10 - Sam Hunter - www.huntersdesignstudio.com/blog
May 11 - Dale Ashera-Davis - www.dalead.wordpress.com
May 12 - Sara Mika - www.mockpiestudio.blogspot.com
May 13 - Sarah Trumpp - www.Wonderstrumpet.com
May 14 - Carma Halterman - www.beanstrings.blogspot.com
May 15 - Jessica Darling - www.jessicakdarling.com
May 16 - Lisa Chin - www.lisachinartist.com
May 17 - Sally Johnson - www.sallysquiltingcorner.blogspot.com
May 18 - Mandy Leins - www.mandalei.com/blog
May 19 - Shruti Dandekar - www.13woodhouseroad.com
May 20 - Jane Davila - www.janedavila.com
May 21 - Ebony Love - www.lovebugstudios.com
May 22 - Cheryl Sleboda - blog.muppin.com