Reorganization of Strip Project – Housecleaning

You may remember the post from February 18 where I talked about the perils of strip piecing. My librarian side took over this weekend and I created a new system for organizing and using my strips for the pineapple project.

The above shows my neatly organized strips. I have divided them into color piles, as you can see. The idea is that I will start from the left and select one strip/fabric for each color I need in the pineapple block. When I am done with that color, I will put the strip on the bottom. I will move across the range of piles selecting one from each pile until I need to start from the left again. For the backgrounds, I will just take 4 at a time and put them on the bottom when I am done. We’ll see how it works.

My other challenge today was in the fabric closet.

I came home after a meeting to a fabric avalanche. It is not quite all picked up, but will be soon. I wonder if the fabric goddess is telling me something.

Google/Blogger notified me that I am using 65 MB of my 1024 MB. I guess I will have to include fewer photos, make them smaller or find somewhere else to store photos. The latter is ideal as I think all 7 of my faithful readers enjoy the photos.

Author: Jaye

Quiltmaker who enjoys writing and frozen chocolate covered bananas.

5 thoughts on “Reorganization of Strip Project – Housecleaning”

  1. I don enjoy the pictures. You can take out some of the pictures from older posts or use Microsoft photo editor and make the file size smaller.

  2. you certainly have more than 7 readers! Hell I read from 3 different machines – so I count for at least a few of them! 😉

    Your stash is so bright and cheerful and I love when you share your quilt progress and finished photos.

    I’ve switched over to making the size 500 max per side and that seems to have cut down on the full size files. Since blogger switched things around – the full size images are too big to see when you click on them.

    For example, this stash photo is 1600 x 1200 – so changing the size would really help with your file size.

  3. Hi Jaye, I make my photos for my blog only 460 px wide, then optimize it for the web which compresses it even more. I use Photoshop, but there are other programs that will do that to.
    good luck, hope you don’t run out of room soon — lot of photos are good!

  4. I was pleased to receive your comment and thanks for reading. I was doubly pleased because it encouraged me to go reread a post that I wrote awhile ago.

    Thanks for letting me know what you use for photo size. I have Photoshop Elements and the resizing is a bit of a challenge, so any information helps. I enjoy he photos, too, so I will keep posting them.

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