patching scraps together
 

How far will you go to get a big enough piece to be able to finish a quilt? I needed 5" patches and this strip was only 4.5" so I cut a piece off the other end and matched it as best as I could. My daughter said she would not have guessed had I not told her. It's not perfect, except for the galloping horse look. Does anyone else have pictures to share of their 'emergency' patch jobs?

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I don't have any pictures to share but you did a bang up job matching those squares!

Looks good to me....good job..... :-) yes I have had to do that a few times....

I have done that on backings....and of course it was on striped fabric....lots of little pieces, but you didn't see them unless you looked up close!

I've had to do it...... You did a good job!

I don't have any pictures but I too have pieced scraps together to make a patch big enough for my need and I feel very smart about it too! I am working on a scrap quilt right now and some of the 5" squares are pieced from smaller scraps. Can you tell?

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I've done it quite a few times. Unless you look very closely it is rarely noticable.

i can't spot any... good job

Once when doing a binding, I ran out of fabric that was wide enough on the last 12" or so. Once I realized that only half of the width of binding actually shows due to folding, then I knew that I could piece the binding horizontally, putting a completely different fabric on the part that folds to the inside. The binding was slightly thicker in that area, but nobody was the wiser. I thought I was pretty smart, and I saved the project.