“Not even the cold can keep quilters from haunting their favorite fabric shop,” I mused as we browsed.

Then Beth and I discovered the shop owner adding fabric pieces to the scrap basket.  These were of various sizes, colors, patterns, and textures. 

“Some quilters who came in earlier nearly cleaned me out of scraps,” she said.  “But I found some more.”

Then we nearly cleaned her out once again as we picked up these pieces, for 35 cents each, ranging in size from 12 x 12-inches to one 6 x 36-inches.  Beth and I delight in these pieces for our various projects.  If we don’t know what we’re going to use them for at present, we’ll definitely find a use in the near future…or create a project just for that color or design.

                If your local quilt or fabric shop doesn’t have a scrap basket, perhaps you can convince the owner/manager this would be a good drawing card (of course, most quilters don’t stop with simply buying scraps).  Sometimes shop owners gather a number of scrap pieces and bundle them together into a plastic bag…then sell that amount for a specific price.

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Searching Through Scrap Baskets at a Quilt Shop

Now that I do my fabric art mainly for myself and gifts, I don’t have the excuse for collecting so much.  However, my daughter has quite an accumulation for her quilt art work….and I can always borrow!

What quilting or arts fabrics do you collect? 

*Some artists collect specific colors or color combinations. 

*Others look for fabrics with particular designs. 

One lady said she’s always looking for fabrics with cats and kittens.  Another likes nautical designs.  Perhaps you like desert scenes and the colors that accompany them.  I’ve also found fabrics interesting with Oriental motif and had great fun making my fabric postcard using this fabric and adding to it with embellishments.

Let me know what fabrics you enjoy collecting and working with.  It would be fun to share with other quilters and fabric artists.

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What Quilting Fabrics Do You Collect?