Ready for some real life?
I've decided to go through my fabrics and do some scrap management.
You see, recently I was gifted a bunch of fabric from a couple of different people. I had the job of going through it, refolding, (keeping what I wanted) and then figuring out what to do with it all. One kid notably asked "Is this what we're going to have to do when you die?"
Now, I have no plans on dying anytime soon, but it did get me thinking that really, my craft/fabric stuff is pretty chaotic. And whenever I work on something, I often wish it was more organized.
So to that end I started cutting up some scraps this past Sunday.
They have been stuffed in a small plastic box since *
this project*.
I'm pretty much using
Bonnie Hunter's method. But really, its just cutting scraps into usable sizes and shapes. i.e. squares and strips.
We have an unattached garage with a finished upper room. It holds a ping pong table, a foosball table, some chairs and a couple of couches, lots of boxes, and 90% of my fabric.
Not all the stuff pictured here is fabric. But most of it is.
So I've started going through it all. Since I took this picture, the yellows have been kicked out of this box to make room for more reds.
I'll need a whole bigger box for blues, soon.
Other random piles. Pinks, greens, black and white, stripes, fruit. I don't have a great system yet, but I'm just getting started. Also pictured is a random ping pong paddle and Lego creations.
This is my growing pile of scraps to be cut down. I decided to organize all the fabrics, pulling the scraps along the way. Then the fabric will be organized and I can cut scraps as I have time. Every time I go up to sort fabric, my definition of "scrap to be cut down" changes. Bigger, smaller, how much I like it, what I think I'll use it for....
Old man Ajax joined me upstairs for a while.
He's a good companion.
And just how am I supposed to classify fabric that looks like this?
How do you deal with scraps?
