I found a box of scrappy leftovers of shirt fabric, that is my next project for scrap cutting. It weighed 9 pounds 13 ounces. I am trying to spend my time at Friday sew, once a month, to cut scraps.
I did manage to get last month's scraps combined with previous cuts. The piles are growing.
This month, I cut 1 pound 4 ounces before quitting. That is 4 yards of useable fabric. The total for the year is 16 1/2 yards.
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| box when I started this time |
If there is a pocket on the shirt I cut straight across under the pocket and cut around it for pieces. Many times I can get a 10 inch square from the bottom piece. This month, I had a bigger stack of 5 inch squares, and last month, I had a bigger stack of 10 inch squares. I must be getting down to smaller pieces of shirts. I still think it will take 2 more months to empty the box.
I'm trying to minimize strings by cutting small squares, but by the end of the session, I am throwing more in the pile.
