Today’s post is one that I wrote for my Substack Sewing With Numbers which I started in April of 2024. If you’re not familiar with it, Sewing With Numbers is a newsletter about sewing, math, design and how to draft your own sewing patterns. Through simple pattern drafting exercises, I show how fun, useful and empowering math can be. ✂️ Every 8 to 10 weeks, I feature a different drafting project, with each lesson building upon the learnings from previous ones. Posts older than 3 months are archived for paid subscribers. But is subscriptions aren’t your thing, I also have PDF Booklets for older projects are also available for purchase here in my shop. You can browse through the booklets currently available below.
Now that we have that background info out of the way, let’s dive in to today’s tutorial!
As a follow up to the virtual I Love my Fabric Party a couple of weeks ago, I thought I’d share how I go about sorting and organizing my fabric scraps. While I’m working on a project, I tend to just throw all my scraps into a basket and ignore them for a few months. Then, when the basket becomes particularly unsightly, or I have some motivation to tidy up, like the virtual party, I will set up tackling the scraps. In this video, I share some ideas on what you can do with your scraps, how to sort through them efficiently and share tips for how to store them later.