Slash That Stash!

That's my motto for the next couple months.  I am taking time each week to organize my fabric stashes into manageable bits and pieces.  In 2019, momma wants to make some quilts and she wants to use what she has on hand.  There is a million free (and bought) patterns for precuts that I'm dying to make.  So the idea is to chop up my existing fabrics into pre cut bits so that I can make these patterns more usable for me.  You are more than welcome to join me in a Stash Slashing party for encouragement if you'd like.  So here are the rules I've made for myself as I tackled my first bin...green fabrics.

Any fabrics 1/2 yard or bigger where pressed, neatly folded and placed back into the container.  All fat quarters were also placed back into the container.

Any scraps that were salvage to salvage wide where placed into a pile to be cut into 2.5"xWOF strips.

Things that were not salvage to salvage wide but was larger than 5" was placed into a pile to become 5" squares.  The stack on the left became 2.5" strips and on the right 5" squares.

After I had my piles, I could use my Go! Cutter to super quick cut up my precuts.

I've had this Go! Cutter for several years now, but found myself not using it.  Let me tell you, it is worth it's weight in gold for cutting up scraps into precuts.  There is a bit of waste, but it was totally worth the time savor.

For bits of fabric smaller than 5", I chopped them into 2.5" squares and placed the misshapen parts into a bag to use as crumbs.

Full disclosure, it took about a week to work my way through the tote of fabric.  I would grab a pile and work on ironing and cutting when I could steal small chunks of time from other things.  

I placed like cuts of fabric in bags together so that I could easily grab them later.

Here is a little before and after photo from my cutting secessions.  Once I have tackled all of my totes of fabrics, my goal will be to store all like precuts together in one container.  I will separate them into bags by color to make grabbing and going much easier.  I have a shelf that will be prefect for sorting fat quarters by color...I get chills just thinking about it.   

I'm going to ride this scrap busting high as long as it is here.  It is a project I've wanted to tackle for some time now...now is the time.  If you decided to join me in cutting up those piles of fabrics just laying around, feel free to tag me on Instagram or use #slashthatstash