It started innocently enough. I was working ahead on the rainbow scrap sampler quilt and didn't have much purple. I've been a user of Bonnie Hunter's Scrap Users System for many years.
When sorting my scraps recently though, I just didn't feel like cutting them all up. I seemed to be needing sizes that I didn't have on hand and having to cut down bigger pieces anyway. So I just sorted my scraps by color and left them together in some nice little baggies. It was so handy to pull out the purple bag and start rummaging for some appropriate pieces to make a nice little 6 inch block. But the bag was small and it occurred to me that there were more purples in the 2.5 inch drawer, and some in the 2 inch drawer, and wait, I almost forgot about the 3.5 inch drawer. My purple scraps were segregated by size and I was having to dig through all of the drawers to find what I needed. Wouldn't it be easier to have them all together by color?
So this is what happened next. It looks scary, doesn't it? But it is always darkest before the dawn. Check out the poor little purple block left abandoned on the cutting mat. Not abandoned, just waiting patiently.
I now have ROYGBIV drawers. Doesn't it just make you smile? Look at all the rainbow projects sitting and waiting to escape from storage. They want to be liberated, I can tell.
Some colors needed bigger drawers. Kind of wrecked my rainbow theme, but these colors are bigger than the others. Pink? Really? Who would have thought I had that much pink?
I'm not abandoning the scrap users system. I think it is an awesome approach to organizing scraps. However, I have been working on a more color schemed approach since the rainbow scrap challenge, and I think this will work better for me.
How do you sort your scraps? Any good tips and tricks to share?
When sorting my scraps recently though, I just didn't feel like cutting them all up. I seemed to be needing sizes that I didn't have on hand and having to cut down bigger pieces anyway. So I just sorted my scraps by color and left them together in some nice little baggies. It was so handy to pull out the purple bag and start rummaging for some appropriate pieces to make a nice little 6 inch block. But the bag was small and it occurred to me that there were more purples in the 2.5 inch drawer, and some in the 2 inch drawer, and wait, I almost forgot about the 3.5 inch drawer. My purple scraps were segregated by size and I was having to dig through all of the drawers to find what I needed. Wouldn't it be easier to have them all together by color?
I'm not abandoning the scrap users system. I think it is an awesome approach to organizing scraps. However, I have been working on a more color schemed approach since the rainbow scrap challenge, and I think this will work better for me.
How do you sort your scraps? Any good tips and tricks to share?
