Stacking
When working with fabric that I'm stacking, the first thing I do is tear the entire piece along the fold line and work with half of the fabric. That's often enough to do a quilt top, leaving the second half of the fabric. Once in a while, I use that second half for borders, but not often because I think stacking changes the look of the fabric so much that it doesn't look good next to the blocks. The quilt top on the left was the first one I made with the fabric shown at the top of the collage, and then the quilt top on the right was the second. I really enjoy getting out that second half of the fabric to see if I can make something that looks different from the first quilt top.
Stacking
When working with fabric that I'm stacking, the first thing I do is tear the entire piece along the fold line and work with half of the fabric. That's often enough to do a quilt top, leaving the second half of the fabric. Once in a while, I use that second half for borders, but not often because I think stacking changes the look of the fabric so much that it doesn't look good next to the blocks. The quilt top on the left was the first one I made with the fabric shown at the top of the collage, and then the quilt top on the right was the second. I really enjoy getting out that second half of the fabric to see if I can make something that looks different from the first quilt top.