An amazing thing happened to me yesterday at the big JoAnne's sale. I was at the cutting table next to a woman that had a cart overflowing with novelty cottons. I asked if she was a quilter, and she said no, that she makes kid's sheets for a living. I told her that I like the novelty fabrics to make charity quilts with. She asked me if I wanted scraps from her fabrics, and I said Yes..Yes..Yes!!! So we meet this morning and I end up with over 15 pounds of scraps that are triangles that will produce at least a 3" square. Hundreds and hundreds of scraps!! Yippee!!!! Now, do you wonderful ladies and gents have any ideas of what I can do with them? Nothing fancy--I would like simple but fun ideas for the charity quilts. I am so lucky to have found this free source of fabric and I want to make this generous lady proud.

What about light-dark half square triangles?

Diamond-in-a-square?

WOW! You'll have fun with this :-P What a kind thing for that lady to do! Here is a link that might be helpful to you it has pics of quilts made with triangles. Would love to see pics of what you make.

http://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/p...triangles.html

How about little Irish Chain quilts. They are quick and easy and are so much cuter than plain squares.

Very, very true! :D

i'm makaiang an i spy quilt for a childrens ward , i'm using hexs about 3 1/2 acrosss, it goes tog quickly by hand, try that

There's also Bonnie Hunter's quiltville.com, I think she's the queen of scrappy quilts.

I know how you feel, my good fortune was meeting a lady who had antique quilt tops that no one in her family wanted; and no one in my family passed down anything much less quilts!
I have two quilts that I want to try for charity quilts, one from our forum and the other is from Art Gallery Quilts.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-15750-1.htm using a block called Gretchen. The other you will have to give your email address to get the pattern.
http://www.artgalleryfabrics.com/projects/index.shtml The pattern is featuring Girly Girl Collection. You might be able to look at the picture and figure out how its made without getting the pattern. It's similar to a snowball block with only two opposing sides squared off, then the four smaller sections are pieced together to form octagon-shaped block.
Hope these give you some ideas. Chris

Wow, that was some trip to Joann's!!!!!!!!!!! :D
I'm happy for you!!!

Wow, what good advice. I forgot about Bonnie Hunter, the scrap queen! Thanks for all of the advice so far, and I will definitely post pics. Right now I am sorting, sorting, sorting! Please keep the advice coming!

Here's a site that's all scrappy:

http://www.quiltville.com

Wow, what fun!

Thanks for the link! :D

ditto!

Do you have close friends that like to get together? With 15 lbs of scraps to cut up, it will take a lot of time. Why not throw a party for cutting up the scraps into the sizes you need after you get a pattern idea? If you lived close, I would love to show up and just cut, cut, cut, while we chat about quilting!

Thanks for the offer, I wish we could get together! I only have one friend that quilts and I'll ask her if she wants to help cut. We always spend the day gabbing, anyway! :wink:

Wow how lucky!

What a nice lady! Lucky you!

Linus Project charity) has nice free patterns for childrens quilts, I can't find the link rigth now, but Google will take you there. I downloaded a couple of patterns just a couple of days ago, thinking of my grandchildren.
I Found it! I'll also try to post a link to Quiltmaker's free baby quilts booklet. I can attach the file I quess, it's a free newsletter, plenty of triangles there.
http://www.quiltmaker.com/patterns/projectlinus.htm
YES!(more editing) The download link works. hevemi

Wow your lucky day :D :thumbup:

You hit Gold, I love scraps, sorting them out. Take some photos.

WOW, 15 pounds. You'll be busy.

Just have fun and let your creativity go wild!

Check out "Quilts for Kids" -- great easy patterns for charity quilts and also -- they will be grateful if you would like to make some for them!

There was a post here yesterday named:
"Finished "Crumb" Blocks Quilt"
and it used scraps. It was beautiful. That would be a great way to use your scraps. It is quick/easy and would go together in no time.

When you finish with 15 pounds of scraps and give the quilts away, you will make many people happy, that's for sure.

What about a scrappy quilt quick and easy to do.

Thanks for the idea, you are right, it is beautiful. It will be interesting to see how many quilts I will get out of these scraps-I am using them with some of my stash. I'll keep count and post pics!

Sewn into squares, you could make some awesome prairie points with them too!!! What an fabulous gift you have been given!

Here is a tutorial on prairie points, just in case:

http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpa...rie_points.htm

Talk about being at the right place at the right time!
Lucky you!

I love this idea from a blog I ran across for a quilt called Bottled Rainbows:

http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2011/...w-to-make.html

I would love to make one of these quilts but I don't have near enough scraps. Now I'm collecting them though, it will go on to-do list. It's QAYG which I also want to try.

Have fun!

I LOVE this idea--thanks so much for sharing. Good luck with collecting scraps!

She has one called streak of sunshine. It would be great and easy. I use it a lot for charity and Kids quilts.

If you make Bottled Rainbows be sure to post a picture. I'd love to see it.

What a grand thing for both of you to do. Her to give you the scraps and you to make quilts for those in need. I like the lady of the lake block but some think it is too complicated...it does require a bit of sewing. Just a thought...good luck!

Here is the latest link about Bottled Rainbows with lots of examples and a completed quilt:

http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2011/...creations.html

Don't forget about flying geese! They chain into beautiful rainbows of colors too!

Something like a tumbler, but with the triangles you have instead of the tumbler shape would be cute--just sew the triangles in rows, alternating wide/narrow ends and light /dark, then trim if needed and sew in rows--quick and easy!

The crumb pattern sewn on a foundation piece of muslin or just sewn together gives a fast colorful block which can be done any size with no cutting and very little waste if you are trying to get lots of charity quilts.
You only have cutting and loss when squaring the blocks.
Some groups make these with large and small pieces when doing charity work.

Best deal from JoAnne's yet. Good for you have fun.

If they are big enough for 3" squares and are novelty prints perhaps you could make "I spy" quilts with narrow sashing between t he squares. I just made one with 5" squares but most of the prints were small enough that I could have used 3"squares.