Originally Posted by egagnon291
When making a scrap quilt, do you just randomly select pieces and put them together? I have a terrible hangup with this. I'm always worried that I will get two of the same material together or that the colors will clash. It seems I spend more time "arranging" my scrap quilt than actually starting it. As a result I put it aside and haven't touched it in years. Is this a common problem with newbie scrap quilters or is it just my own hangup. What do most people do?
Scrap quilting presents its own difficulties, as you have pointed out. For me, I find that there are several ways in which I learn how to make scrap quilts: looking at other's quilts and trying to see what they did that I like; making small quilts to "test out the waters" before I try a large quilt; and going to sites that have patterns and explanations. For the latter, I have recently found that Bonnie Hunter's site is invaluable to me, and has an amazing amount of patterns to choose from (over 40 of them!). Here is the site if you are interested
http://www.quiltville.com/
Very many happy quiltings to you! :-D :-D Iris
Here is a quilt with limited color palette using courthouse steps, but it is still a scrap quilt.
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