Quilting Scrap Storage

hello and what a great day this has something wonderful I'm Kia with key of e and today we're going to be taking a look at a fun little project that I do every couple of weeks with all of my scraps in a video a few weeks ago you kind of saw my crazy basket of scraps well today we're going to be working on busting those up I love to use this scrappy project planner that I got that is from the quilter Laurie Holtz she designed this with it's so Emma patterns and it really breaks it down nicely it has lots of room for you to create your own projects with your scraps and then the thing that I like most about it it is a planner and so you've got a breakdown of weeks and days and to-do lists it makes it very nice he was kind of like the week at a glance this is nice because it you know you can lay it out but go further out of the planner and she gives you some really great tips one of my favorite tips is actually her breaking up her scraps and so she has these bins and you'll kind of see from this picture she has these bins where she divides them up by size I kind of as I got my hands on this last fall and kind of read through this I really adopted this idea of breaking up my scraps instead of having the cluster drawer a fabric that just collects and it is a mess um I started breaking them down and it was a hard thought at first because I thought oh my goodness once I cut it I can't make it bigger um and so you have to get past that and you can make some beautiful scrappy projects so after the scrappy project baskets then she actually goes into some more tips and tricks for you and lastly she has actual scrappy project um patterns in here so she takes lots of scraps and she gives you patterns that you can use with your own scraps home so I love this book let's take a look closer into how we break these up I'm going to do a few scraps with you and then you'll just kind of see me breaking up my other scraps if you have any questions don't hesitate to comment down below and I'll be able to answer those for you so let's take this one cut at a time materials that you'll need for this project are cutting mat I've chosen to use a smaller cutting mat than I typically do because it is rotating and using scraps I think that's really going to help me a lot so I just used a rotating cutting mat you'll need a ruler I use this cute cuts ruler by Lori Holt this is smaller it works nicely with my scraps and then you'll need a rotary tool and then let me show you a closer version of the scrappy project planner so like I said this isn't it so in the patterns planner and it has room for you too whoops don't want to show you projects it has room for you to create your own projects and make project lists and kind of drawings of your new quilts that you'd like to make and then here is our weekly planner portion and so this is really nice because it's one week per page and so you can create to-do lists and things that you would like to get done and then here is the thing that we're going to be focusing on and this is the idea of going ahead and busting up your scraps into certain sizes and and so this is this is what we're going to be focusing on here so this is all in a scrappy project planner you can pick this up at it's so Emma or fat quarter shop and it's it's well worth it I absolutely love it and there's no dates on it so it's not like you don't have to use it for just one year there's no dates on it you actually date it yourself the next thing you'll need is obviously your scraps y'all I'm so embarrassed by how many scraps I have but this humongous thing I don't know I have this wire basket that I got the target dollar spot and I mean it's just packed full of scraps from projects I have not done a scrap buster in months so I've got a lot to get through here don't worry you're not gonna have to watch me do all of it the next thing I picked up at my local store I think I got them at Target I think they were five four four dollars five bins for four dollars they're just these little bins I think they're Sterilite actually so they're small um here I could actually tell you the exact size they look like 8 by let's see 8 by 7 bins and they're deep and so what I've done is I've actually labeled each one of my bins with the UM what she suggests to bust up your scraps into and so I've labeled each one of mine I just kind of keep them under my sewing desk and I pulled them out for this exact project and so I can just throw my scraps in here you'll see I've got some um lots of things I've got Christmas fabric in here I mean I've just done a ton of projects I cut them up into these scraps and then when I know I'm working on a small pattern or a pattern with scraps then I know what bin I can pull it's really actually quite nice so what I like to do is I will pull out all of my bins and I'll line them at the front of my desk and that way I can see I'll line them from biggest to smallest and that way I can kind of just in my head keep the sizes that I know I want ok so let's take a look at the sizes flip open here ok so she actually suggests that you have a one and a half inch basket two and a half inch basket three and a half five and seven now I have figured out that I have a lot of two and a half inch scraps so I have two buckets for that I have one that is two and a half inch squares and then one that is two and a half inch strips we all have those jelly roll strips that are left over after we've done a project and so that's where all of mine get thrown in so you've got one in it two three four five six bins so that's really nice so I'll just take those out and I'll lay them in front of my desk and I will just start chopping let me kind of show you here an example I'm just going to pull for my pile here some of you may recognize this fabric I just use this fabric in our last tutorial of making a baby quilt for a sweet home school friend of ours who is adopting a baby so I'm going to look at this scrap I can see um very easily that there is selvage edge on here and so I know that my measurement cannot include that Salvage edge so I'll actually go ahead and cut it off and then whatever size this strip is closest to for my bends that's what size I'm going to cut it so for example let me see here let me go ahead and cut this off a little bit so this is obviously like where I was maybe piecing the back of the quilt so I'm just gonna hack that up there we go I'll work with one piece at a time here okay I'm going to line up my selvage edges here and again line them up so I'm cutting actually four layers at a time and then I'm going to cut that selvage off really simply throw that out okay now I'm going to line mine up with that straight edge over to the side of my ruler or my cutting mat okay now I'm going to look and see what is the closest basket that I can get and for this particular one it's three and a half so I'm just going to chop at three and a half make sure I'm all lined up here three and a half and three and a half we're good to go so that's why three and a half inch strips I'm not going to worry about cutting this up even further I'm not even going to worry about making these lines straight because as I'm using this with with anything whatever I use it for I mean I'm going to cut that up anyway I'm gonna re straighten it and so there's my three and a half so I would fold this up and I would throw it in my bin that is three and a half inch scraps throw it in there and move on to the next one let's see a different piece this one's a little bit smaller there in my opinion is no scrap too small I can reuse whatever this and I mean these are one and three-quarter inch half square triangles I used them I made a quilt for my niece out of this and I use the half square triangles later for an iPad case I mean I use every last bit of my scraps so same thing for this I'm just going to fold it up now if you have something like this where one side is definitely more wide than the other you want to go off the skinnier edge because you really don't want to a too mismeasure so I'm going to straighten up an edge here just like this scoot it over to the side here like this and I'm going to look to see what what size is that closest to so this is a two and a half okay line it up chop it off get rid of this tiny little bit so that in my two and a half inch bucket y'all kind of getting the hang of it okay now this is a much larger scrap if it's a fat quarter or even really a fat eight with it which this is probably a set eight and I won't cut that down any further but for the sake of showing you a seven inch scrap I'm going to go ahead and do that so what I would do here is I mean this is a pretty big piece of fabric okay it's already straightened on one side here so I'm going to line that up and this is actually eleven and a half inches wide so I would probably leave this but I'm going to go ahead and chop it up because I know when I'll use it for and I can break that down so I'll line it up at the seven okay chop that up so this part goes on my seven inch bucket or basket whatever you want to call it now look we've got this huge piece left I don't want to throw that away obviously I can make more scraps out of that so I'm going to move it to the side here line up my straight edge on the edge of my ruler the closest one to me is going to be three and a half so I will line it up again and cut the three and a half inch mark now this is up to you this is not quite a hat an inch which is our small or small bucket is an inch and a half sometimes I'll still keep these in my scrap bucket because maybe I need leaders or Enders on my sewing machine these are great for that so I'll just throw them in the bottom of my scrap bucket to have those so then this goes in my three and a half inch basket okay let's talk about directional fabrics really quick so this piece right here I love this fabric and I have seriously used the devil out of the fat quarter that I had of it and so directional fabric can be kind of hard and especially you've got like this choppy angle here so use your discretion on what you'd like to do with this for me I'm just gonna leave it as it is throughout the bottom of my scrap bin I don't forget about this fabric because I love it so much so it's safe for me just to throw out my scrap bin I'm not gonna forget about it okay the next thing I pull out is I threw all of my extra binding in there you'll notice that this is the binding from a video that we did of for that same quilt for that mom and so I'm just going to throw all of my priest binding strips in my two-and-a-half inch strip basket and these are so great I saw somebody on Instagram tag the other day that they love keeping their binding because on on scrapping projects you can do a scrappy binding you just connect like you would if you had another strip of this and you were making you would connect them at the diagonal with the bias and then just keep using that I can't wait I haven't done that yet and I cannot wait to do that because that just seems like such a fun idea so when a scrappy quill scrappy binding can be great alright I think you all have the hang of it I'm going to go ahead and finish cutting up most of my scraps and I'll see you back here when I'm finished [Music] [Applause] you [Music] I love and empty scrappin it is wonderful it just makes my little organizational heart happy and so I've got all of my scraps busted up they're all in there coordinating bins and that way it's easy for me to find as I'm project planning for scrapping I hope that you all enjoyed this tutorial today and it's helpful for you and we will see you next week thanks and have a great day [Music]

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Id: FajrY3zqSHg

Length: 15min 43sec (943 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 09 2017