For the month of April I have taken up Frédérique's Quilting Patchwork and Applique challenge to blog daily (except Sundays) on a quilt topic related to a letter of the alphabet.
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Oh, how we quilters love our Fat Quarters!
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Neutrals purchased at Pineapple Fabrics in North Carolina in December. |
While the charm square is the original pre-cut and Moda's "Jelly Rolls" and "Layer Cakes" have taken the spotlight in recent years, the Fat Quarter still holds its own in the pre-cut pantheon.
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| Free patterns using pre-cuts can be found at the MODA Bake Shop. |
After all there is nothing like a fat quarter bundle purchased or -- in the case of these two -- won!
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| There were more in that "Boro" bundle but I've already used many of them! |
Ever since I started quilting, I've stored my fat quarter stash in one of those generic white shoe cubbies.
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| My "Studio" at our previous apartment. |
When we moved in 2011 and my "quilt studio" had to be housed in the dining room, I always planned to mount it on the wall. I was excited to see a blog post that talked about decorating a dresser with selvedges for a sewing room. Well, if you can do it for a dresser, why not a shoe cubby? So I did this:
....and the Fat Quarters are secure! However, even when it's open, I made sure to position a few reassurances for my day to day quilting life:
Do you like to buy Fat Quarters or prefer other pre-cuts? Have you used them for sewing room displays in addition to putting them in projects?
Linking up with Frédérique and the other Challengers at Quilting Patchwork and Applique. Bonne journée!
4 comments:
Lovely shoe cubby ;) I store my fat quarters by color, with yards. Only the scraps are stored separately, but always by color. I love your selvage decoration!
Hi Vivian, I really love fat quarters. When I visit a quilt shop, that's usually what I buy because then I can afford to get a few. When I buy online, I usually buy from the clearance section, so those are usually a whole meter (or yard). That's a lot of fabric so I often look for fabric that I can use as a backing. Since I don't make many large quilts, I prefer diversity. Sometimes I buy 3 or 4 packages of batik pre-cuts to make quick lap quilts. For the price you get lovely fabrics that all play nice together!
I really like your shoe box idea with the front quilt. Take care.
I haven't met a pre-cut that I didn't love. Sometimes I will get what is available for a particular fabric line and figure out the design elements later.
Organizationally, I have been keeping them in the plastic shoe boxes, that I found in a $1 store. Then those overflowed, I couldn't find the same size and now, I am rethinking - maybe put some 3-drawer units in a closet?
Love seeing your daily musings and the cubby cover!
That is a nice way to store your FQs!
I don't buy a lot of fat quarters now. I'm trying to reduce my fabric stash, so nowadays I only buy for special purposes, and then I usually need more than a quarter.
I'm really enjoying this trip through the alphabet.
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