Fabric

I’ve been working on cleaning up and organizing my workroom after a couple crazy months. One of yesterday’s projects was scrap management (snort, that sounds hilarious, but with the amount I sew, it’s a really big issue).  I try to not waste fabric but no matter how hard you try, scraps are just a part of sewing.

Top row (l to r): pink, red, orange, yellow
Middle row: green, brown/black/grey, purple, to random to actual sort plus silk and flannel
Bottom row: white, blue, selvedges

The small buckets are 30qt (16.8″ x 13.3″ x 11.3″) and the large buckets are 71 qt (23.3″ x 18.7″ x 12.3″).

Not pictured: the random 1/4-1 yard cuts that have no real use anymore… you know when all the other fabrics from that collection are gone and you still have a large cut of one print left?

It totals 119.8 pounds (102.3 in buckets, 17.5 in random cuts) .

One yard of quilting cotton is about 4.5 ounces.

My calculator tells me that if I put all these scraps edge to edge that would total 425.95 yards.  I hope I did the math wrong on that. I really, really hope I did the math wrong.

I wonder what I can make with all that.  Hmmm…

(and this doesn’t include my guesstimate of over *400* pounds on my fabric shelves… I hope Sean doesn’t read this…)

Japanese prints.  Eek.  So incredibly loveable.  I’ve been resisting the urge to splurge on them for almost a year… I have clearly failed now.

And a major blast from the past collection of Heather Ross prints.  I had to have them.  Yes, really, I had to.

Today Liam and I ventured to the wild, wild world of Winston-Salem, NC.

I  thought my 48.3 mpg on the way there was a fluke until I got 49.1 mpg on the way home.

Liam chilled in the back with a Wall-E book that he read over and over for 100 miles.  Not a peep came out of him … except for the random “WAAAAAALLLLEEEEEE!!!!!!” (And now he’s sitting in my lap reading the same book.)

So why Winston-Salem?  Doesn’t everyone go there on Tuesdays?

Nah, we had to visit Karen Gray Design’s new store.  I needed some new and different stuff for some upcoming projects and what she had was perfect.

Liam decided to start designing his own quilt with Pop Garden.

Great combo Liam!

I love her chandeliers.  I wonder if I could fit one over the kitchen table?

And I got some fabric while I was there too.

Whoops.

So that was our day.  If you’re in Raleigh, it’s a totally easy trip.  So go!  Have fun!  Drool at the chandeliers!

It doesn’t always help but at least it’s fun (I’m still fuming about my car.  Grumble…).  And I got to see my poor door about a million times as I went about my million errands today.

But while ordering some fabric for my Next Big Project, I saw this and had to get it too.  Eek!  I totally love Lucy.

As requested by John.  The ticking stripes are here on pages 2 & 3.  The selvedge of #6 didn’t say anything more than moda.  It is a mottled yellow/gold. I’m not usually this random with my fabric selections so hopefully it will turn out well!  I need to get a couple more prints to fill out the color families in the middle pic.