What shapes and sizes do y'all make your scraps? Do you find certain widths best for strips? How do you organize them? My scraps have been "organized" by being thrown in one huge bag and, once long ago, sorted by color--dark, medium and light. But the other day when I wanted to do a scrap quilt in strips, by the time I got 2" strips cut I was out of energy and time! Now I think I oughta cut them into useful sizes as I go and then they'd be available when time and energy converge. But, what's most useful? I do machine piecing and no appliqué, if that matters.TIADogmom

Most useful depends on the size of scraps you USE. *grin*I have three bins of scraps. One is 6.5" squares (you baseball swappers know why I have that size), one is 2" x 3.5" rectangles, and the other is 1.5" strips. I don't sort by color or value (hey, it's too much fun to paw through all those pieces! LOL)

Marcia at Quilter's Cache sells pattern for similar quilt: PAThfw wrote:

Scrap Shapes and Sizes?

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Pat in Virginia 19 years ago

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hfw 19 years ago

Thanks, Pat! Marcia's is actually a bit different. I understand how to do *those squares, but the other one (I think it's called Island Sunset?) splits two sides, and I'm convinced there must be some tricky way to do it that makes it less painful than sewing seven (or 8?) individual patches together.

--Heidi

Plattsburgh (UPstate) NY

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