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Your quilt, your rules. I made one using bug fabrics. Totally off the wall but after the blocks were sewn I did a black thin border to stop the action, then a wider bug border then a tone on tone color that was in many of the fabrics for the final border. Play & have fun.
piney
This is so your own personal preference of what you like to have as a finished quilt or what you want to sew on right now. I have seen some wonderful quilts where the scraps were sewn together to make fabric, then the fabric was used to cut blocks or strips or whatever was wanted. Some pieces were used as the applique pieces in houses - sides, doors, roofs, etc. In this case, the scraps were sewn together in color coordinated pieces so that the pieced fabric when used read as one color or as a print of one predominate color. One woman had used her pieced fabric pieces to made a 9 piece and another to make yellow brick road. The quilts were so different and outstanding and certainly had used up the stash! They just had more creativity that the usual scrappy quilt.
I've done both. Check out http://www.maryquilts.com for all kinds of scrappy and strings.
Sandy
http://sandyquilts.blogspot.com
I used anything in mine, did try not to repeat the same fabric in the block. I did start each center strip in a 2 inch navy blue because I like the center one the same but did anything for the rest. The next one I want to do in red, white and blue and will use every shade and print in those 3 colors.
Texas Sunshine, piney woods of NE Texas
I love making scrappys and for the one below it was a "planned scrappy" in that all the blocks had blue as the centre strip and I worked out to white on one side and black on the other. Other than that it was anything goes.
Aloha Karen
http://pksmokey11.blogspot.com.au/search?q
Originally Posted by sandyquilts
what a great link, thanks!!!
Maire
Wow great site. Thanks for the information
I have made them from jelly roll swaps in which all kinds of fabric came to me. I just "sort of" put groups together that worked. It turned out great scrappy quilt. If you look at old quilts some have the oddest combinations together but they seem to work. That is what scrappy means.
Here's a couple of mine - one colour sorted and one not. I am mostly an anything goes scarppy quilter.
Some wrote that they used paper as foundation. I did the first time and it was a pain!!! I know use muslin. What do you use in the foundation? I love string quilts and want my next one to be black and white.
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