Fabric is expensive! Since most fabrics are now at least $9.50 per yard, those bits and pieces we pitch are literally money we're throwing in the garbage can. That's why I've been working on "reclaiming" scraps that I have saved but not "organized."
At the top, you'll see my finished stack and the bottom picture shows the pieces I started with on the left. I used Judy Martin's Scrapmaster to cut the triangles--it worked really great.
Now here's what that finished stack of about 180 triangles is worth--$3.25! I calculated the square inches of the triangle; used the number of 1512 sq. in. in a yard of fabric and divided it by the triangle area, giving me the number of 536 triangles per yard. Then I divided $9.50 by 536 to get the value of each triangle--1.8 cents.
Plus I have the beginning of a "snowball" quilt because all these triangles will be perfect to sew on the corners of squares. 180 will do 45 squares. I'm working on more green scraps. . . and saving my "green" while I'm at it.
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