If you quilt, you create fabric scraps, and eventually, storing them can become complicated. Accumulation often outpaces use. This leads to the question: Save or toss? Most of us would hesitate to discard a half yard piece of leftover backing fabric, but what about smaller pieces? What size, type do you keep and why? It’s easier to use yardage, pre-cuts or even newly purchased fabric, and that means scraps pile up.
Every quilter has their own threshold for what to keep versus what goes in the trash. Last night I was texting with a friend who’s planning to move in a few months. She was taking a good hard look at her stash and making tough decisions about what to keep.
You can spend hours, if not days on end, watching YouTube videos and reading blog posts about how to sort your scraps, but space is finite. Eventually, you run out of room to store them no matter how much thought, and work, you’ve put into organizing. That realization smacked me in the face this morning when I walked into my sewing room and was thinking about my friend facing her own stash decisions..
Once again it’s messy! 🙄 It gets messy because it’s harder than it should be to put stuff away. It’s harder to put stuff away because there’s too much of it.
So, I’ll start with the two areas that only need a quick rearrangement to look better and then slowly make the hard decisions about things that need to go.
I need to make sure I’m only keeping what I’ll actually use and let go of the “maybe” and “some day” fabrics among them.
It’s better to have a clean organized space that I enjoy, compared to one where I’m hoarding so much fabric that there simply isn’t room to “put things away”.
Time to Quilt 