First….free patterns. I wanted to let you know that I have added a page to the blog showing the free patterns I’ve written for AccuQuilt . You can see the tab just below the header. If you receive the blog via email, you may have to come directly to the site to access them.

I’ve had this bin of vintage scraps hanging around for many years. I’ve made quite a few quilts from this pile over the years, and I have an idea for another one. I decided that it was time to find the bottom of this bin while I was at it.

I decided to cut using these two dies for my AccuQuilt Studio Cutter.

Here are all the diamonds that I cut. There are 176 in that pile.

I didn’t count all the 2” squares.

My process is pretty simple. I press my scraps and lay them on the die and run it through the die cutter. I separate pieces still big enough to cut, like the tiny gingham print on the right. The rest gets swept into the trash can.

It took a long time, but without my die cutter, I would have dumped the whole box into the trash. After a few hours, I had an empty bin. AccuQuilt for the win!

Ummmm…..except for these solid scraps that I pulled out as I went.

I’m not sure what I want to do with these yet, but I did press and sort into piles of large, medium, and small pieces.

Now once I decide what shapes I want to cut, it should go pretty quickly.

Have a great day!

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