dumpster diving
Posted by trish on January 12th, 2006
I spent about 90 minutes tonight pawing through my box of scraps. This is about 14 years of scraps stored in a closet in a box about 20″ x 24″ x 28″ tall (not quite as big as a dumpster…) I’m hunting for scraps for my “Scrappy Spools” project in blues, greens and purples. I found some–the pile below
is only digging through the top 8″ of so of the box. Some pieces as small as 2″ x 2″. Some as large as a fat eighth. I decided to press and cut these before I dug deeper. There is a lot of old and ugly stuff, lots of calicos I probably wouldn’t touch these days, but we’ll see how it goes with scrappy. I also see much more blue and purple than green, other than a number of scraps from a purple and green vest I made about twelve years ago.
I also found some fabric I was using in a bow tie quilt that still isn’t finished from around 1992. I’ll have to take a look and see if this is enough to complete some borders. Part of the reason that project was languishing was I was running short of the matching fabric (it wasn’t scrappy).
January 13th, 2006 at 1:59 am
I have far too many scraps stored that way myself. Not very useful since I never use them. Good luck finding what you need. Maybe your unscrappy bow-tie needs a different fabric for the border - something to make it go wow?
January 14th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
I keep expecting a cat to pop out of all that fabric!
January 16th, 2006 at 12:56 am
I fully appreciate your box of scraps and your goal to hunt through them to find stuff for a project. I referenced you in a blog.