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The Spinning Scrap Bin

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I don’t seem to be able to control my attraction to fabric scraps – various little bits of tasty fabrics. I’ve culled/curated my collection over the years and have donated the scraps I’ll never use to the charity thrift shops to sale in bundles.

I tell myself that I must use up what I have before I pick up more scraps, but new fabric scraps keep finding their way into my life.

I was doing pretty well controlling my obsession until we went on a day trip to Fort Collins, CO last week and stopped at the relatively new retail location of Pink Door Fabrics in Frederick, Colorado on the way to Fort Collins.

And they had toward the back of the store a SPINNING BIN OF FABRIC SCRAPS!!!

They had organized the fabric scraps (which were fat quarter to nearly half yard sized scraps!) by color and/or fabric line. The spinning bin was some type of industrial organization bin that was repurposed into a fabric scrap bin.

They had a “fill a bag” for a flat rate set up and I filled…two bags.

I started out filling only one bag but the staff was so friendly and got a kick out of how excited I was about their spinning fabric scrap bin and one staff member decided to go out to the Pink Door Fabrics Warehouse behind the shop and see if there were scraps for me to choose from.

She brought back this plastic tub of scraps:

So I ended up filling two bags. Very full. They even let me have fabric overflowing the bag. (I am pretty sure they were happy to get rid of the scraps).

I know I should show you my haul but I forgot to photograph it before I put it away in my already ridiculous collection of fat quarters and fabrics scraps.

If you’d like a little tour of the quilt shop here are some additional photos:

Pink Door Fabrics has an amazing collection of well curated fabrics with a focus on modern quilting style fabric lines such as Ruby Star, Tula Pink, AGF Studio, Riley Blake, Alison Glass, Tilda Fabrics, Anna Maria, Tara Faughnan, Moda, etc.

They also have a nice little seating area in case you have someone with you that doesn’t want to wander the fabric stacks – ha! (hint John)

I really loved this quilt they had displayed:

Postscript

After the “spinning scrap bin” incident, we headed on to spend the day in Fort Collins (which is about 1.5 hours from our home) and found a delicious Ramen place we never tried before (we love Ramen); as well as stopped at one of our favorite Fort Collins breweries – New Belgium Brewery and had a tasty sampler!

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32 thoughts on “The Spinning Scrap Bin”

  3. How fun, Tierney – the spinning display was a great repurpose of whatever that item was originally used for. Oh and I think that fabric scraps are important to keep coming in because like other art forms, we sometimes need the fresh prints or colors to wake up different parts of our muse? Ya know- also, it helps that you do donate the ones you are certain you are done with – so that says a lot.
    oh and I love imagining the bags overflowing and it sounds win-win. The store photos also show how lovely their set up is.
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    Cheers to the New Belgium Brewery. – I was a bartender in 1993 – mostly on weekends – and Fat Tire was limited and we used to run out of it, so I would save some for regulars. It was the early days of many craft beers and we used to love Fat Tire so much.

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  12. That sounds like a pretty awesome day! I can see why you would not be able to resist that scraps display – wow! And how nice of them to bring you so more as well 🙂 That looks like a really good store. And the ramen and beer flights look delicious as well!

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