Scrap Re-Cap - Off the Wall Friday

I love New Year's.  It means  a new day  - a new start - the beginning.  In that light, I tend to clean up, throw out and organize.  A good place to start with was Wrapping Central, aka my studio.  It took me a couple of days, but  it is now back to normal.  With the clean up, I finally got time to get my scraps under control.

How do you organize your scraps??

WHAT I WANT TO GET

As you can imagine, after 20 years of quilting, a girl can accumulate a lot of odds and ends, bits and pieces.  Originally, I stored them all away in gallon size zip lock baggies - sorted by color.  But, they would get all scrunched together - plus they were hard to sort through.  So for the last year, I've been trying to come up with a new system.

Finally with the help of pinterest (the motherload of good ideas!), I did.  I asked my husband to make me a set of these custom size shelves to hold baskets just for my scraps.  But his to-do list is long and I've been waiting months!!

So in the mean time, I bought this organizer from work.  Finally, a way to get my scraps under control. It might not be super big but its moble and colorful.

 As I sorted through them, I could see the love affair I had this past year with the color brown.  I had so many brown scraps that they didn't even fit into a drawer and still had to be relegated to the ziplocks. I used gray and red the least - or at least they had the fewest scraps.  Maybe that's telling me something.

The rest  filled the drawers fully but neatly. They're all still a little scrunch but a lot easier to get to than the bags. So as a short term solution these will do nicely.


I'm still working on my design for my next project.  Something about the original sketches, "I'm not feelin'  " (as a friend from work says).   I promised myself a final sketch by next week, so we'll see!!

So What have you been up to creatively?