
In our busy world today time is short. You may have limited time to do what you love. Having the ability to get more done in a short time is crucial. Use these time saving quilting tips to enable you to get more done in less time.
Organization Tips
Organization may not be your strong suit, if you are like me. I’m more about creative clutter is better than tidy idleness. But even with this mindset, I realize that a bit of organization saves me a lot of time. Especially when it comes to finding essential tools like scissors, rotary cutter, seam ripper etc. Not to mention finding the right fabric for your next project. Learn how I organize my sewing area to keep my creative clutter at bay. So that my creative time is most productive.
Now that you tools are neatly organized and ready to serve you, let’s address the overflowing bins and baskets of beautiful fabric. Here is the system I use to enable me to keep the scraps flying in fun and productive ways.
Cutting Tips
My favorite way to save time cutting is my AccuQuilt Go. Discover my favorite scrap busting dies. In addition you may like to try this time saving trick to give you a very scrappy feel without all the piecing. In addition to the AccuQuilt Go. I like the Essential Triangle Ruler. It enables me to use the a single strip to cut square, half square triangles and quarter square triangles. Not only saving me time but also saving fabric. You can learn how here.
Piecing Tips
Keeping a leaders and ender project going is one way I get more out of my sewing time. It’s a great way to get free quilts. I find these quilt blocks lend themselves well as leaders and enders projects.
Chain piecing is another way to make the most of your time in the sewing room. Check out this post for more time saving patchwork ideas like, strip piecing and making multiple blocks at the same time.
Making More Time
These time saving quilting tips will help you once you get to your sewing room. Check out life hacks to enable you to get there more often.