Bags of Scraps

Finished Product!

The organization of my sewing room that started over a year ago has picked back up.  Last night, while watching TV, I went through a whole bunch of fabric that I'd stuffed in bags.

Each time I sew something, for some reason, I keep every tiny little scrap, put them in a plastic grocery bag and they ended up on a shelf in my sewing room.  The volume of scraps was overwhelming.  I didn't know what I had because on top of that, I'd done the same thing with little projects.  I picked fabric and notions and put the whole thing in--you guessed it--a plastic grocery bag.  Consequently, I had way too many bags on my shelves,, didn't know what I had and what to do with it, so I started emptying out those bags and going through them.  I separated everything back where it belonged and measured fabric out by yards.

So this brings us to last night when I brought all the scraps out to the TV.  I started going through the bags and reluctantly throwing out any piece that was less than 12".  I know.  That sounds like it's not a big deal, but I look at the beautiful fabric and I think about making crazy quilts, or hot pads, or, or, or . . .

The truth is, I could have made all those things and used up the fabric once and for all, and today I'm regretting my cut throat mentality last night, but ultimately, at best, it would have been an ugly quilt that I would have spent way too much time on trying to save fabric scraps I hadn't looked at in years.

What a mess!

Look at the shelves full of bags!