I’m taking a break from knitting and painting to do a little sewing. Some may recall my brief panic the day I realized what happens to my studio as a consequence of quilting.
Crazy Out-of-Control Scrap Heap
After spending time perusing other quilt blogs to find out how other quilters deal with this situation, I found part of the solution in the form of quilted buckets. This lesson comes to us from Christina Cameli and Bluprint.com.
https://shop.mybluprint.com/quilting/classes/free-motion-quilted-gifts/673670
So yesterday I started on my first of three fabric buckets that (I hope) will contain my fabric-waiting-to-be-used. This project is also an opportunity for me to practice free motion quilting while adding color and style to my studio. Her are my fabric choices for the first bucket.
I’m quilting dimensional triangles for this bucket. Here is the first step done.
The next few hours were spent happily quilting. Eventually the first basket was finished.
I have to admit that I sewed up the wrong sides of the baskets, so my basket is actually two inches longer than the one in the lesson. This turned out to be fortunate. The revised dimension held lots of fabric and fit nicely into the allotted space on my shelves.
I used the Kon-Marie method of folding the fabric and filled the bucket with the folded fabric pieces inserted on edge. It was amazing to see how much fabric this little bucket holds. Each fabric piece remains clearly visible and easy to grab.
So my plan now is to make three more buckets to use in storing 1 yard and fat quarter size pieces, and to make some smaller baskets for the various colors of scraps.
I highly recommend Christina Cameli’s class. She is delightful instructor. Each of her projects can be made in an afternoon and would make wonderful gifts.
Daily Fiber 
Your fabric basket looks beautiful!! Functional and gorgeous to look at – good job! 🎨👍
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Thanks. I will make more baskets as I have time. It’s a good use for small pieces of fabric.
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Hi Laura, Teresa was here today and she is interested in your blog. I tried to bring it up but got all kinds of spots except yours. Please send her the blog so she can follow along. I am not sure of her email address so I hope you have it.
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I can’t send her an invitation without an email address. She should be able to see it at dailyfiber.wordpress.com. She will need to establish a WordPress logon to participate.
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Such a cute basket, so colorful and how fun to create a project to help organize other projects! I admire quilters, something I would never have the patience for 🙂
Jenna
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Yes. I am new to quilting and haven’t attempted a full-sized quilt yet.
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Listen to you….”I’m taking a break from knitting and painting to do a little sewing.” You are so inspirational! Creative people often are. Once again (I sound like a broken record) I want to break into so many different creative spaces I can’t keep track of them all. But you are proof that you can indeed spread your magic in many directions at one time.
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It’s kinda dangerous to get lots of projects going at once. It can create stress, which is not compatible with creating. So tread carefully, my friend!
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I hear you there. I get frustrated sometimes with just one project. But I am trying to schedule them out like connecting blocks, one hook at a time.
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