{"id":45899,"date":"2019-05-16T07:09:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45899"},"modified":"2019-05-01T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:47:48","slug":"scrap-survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scrap-survey-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrap Survey Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45900\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ScrapSurvey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ScrapSurvey-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"Scrap Survey Results\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ScrapSurvey-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ScrapSurvey-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ScrapSurvey.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scrap Survey Results<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some time ago, I asked you to take a survey about the size of your scraps. This came back to mind as I work through the various scraps in my drawers. Thus, I finally took some time to look at the results.<\/p>\n<p>Over 180 of you responded. WOW! Thanks. Sadly, 97 of you also skipped the one question I asked, thus I had 83 usable results.<\/p>\n<p>I was really surprised to find that almost 60% (49.8) of you keep scraps larger than 3&#8243;. Now, I have some scraps that are large from awhile ago, but these days I make a big effort to only save scraps that are smaller than 3 inches. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/2019-cutting-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As you know, I cut up anything larger<\/a> into usable patches. When in doubt I cut pieces up for donation quilts. I am curious about what you think are scraps and how you plan to use them. Please leave a comment to let me know.<\/p>\n<p>There are no wrong answers and we each have our systems. I think we can learn from each other by understanding how we work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I asked you to take a survey about the size of your scraps. This came back to mind as I work through the various scraps in my drawers. Thus, I finally took some time to look at the results. Over 180 of you responded. WOW! Thanks. Sadly, 97 of you also skipped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scrap-survey-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scrap Survey Results&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-45899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-scraps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}