Got Scraps?

My scrap storage situation has been bugging me for a long time. Every time I want to make a something with scraps they are all over the place. I used to just drop them all into this very large hamper.

Except this little guy thought it was a cool place to hang out and despite the lid, he would slip in there anyway! So between cat hair and the bottomless pit it seemed to be, I pulled them all out and dumped them on our dining room table and sorted them like so by color

While this was much, much neater, it also put them into my fabric closet out of sight, which to me usually means out of mind. And maybe too organized for scraps! So when I needed something from the bottom bin there was lots of shuffling and sitting on the closet floor. I needed something, just wasn't sure what... I have a bar height table that I use for my cutting table, and store big bins underneath with projects and yet another scrap bin of recently used fabric scraps meant to be filed into those bins above. 

So then I had an idea. At Ikea they *used* to sell a table, I think it was a kitchen island, with lots of drawers. So I thought I could replace my cutting table with that island, and that would solve the problem. Except they don't sell it anymore....Back to the drawing board. Then I came up with this

A ClosetMaid Cubical system! Bought at Target for like $50. Then decided to get the matching bins for $12.99 for a 2-pack. Problem solved, and the color matches my table and there's even room on top for my selvedge bin and a couple of project bins. And there's still room behind it for my fabric dyeing supplies and that tub of recent scraps. Since I now had all that room in my fabric closet, I got another Cubical and put it in there to keep that a little more organized, too, of course I forgot to take a photo before writing this post, but you get the idea ;)

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