scrap quilter, beautiful quilts, everyones quilts are beautiful; scrappy are my all time favorite.

Here are two scrappy quilts. I give scrappy log cabins as gifts, love it when the receiver tells me different ones they find, fish, candy bars,etc. fun for all.
I host a scrap surprise each spring, the Christmas fabrics is one of them.

What a bunch of scrap Happy quilters.............LOL
love everyone's quilts......

A couple more scrap quilts.......
One just back from the quilter and the other I am working on have 4 more blocks to make........

Beautiful work everyone..scrap quilter, i have never seen one like the one in progress you posted..! nice play on the light and darks..lovely!

Thanks for the 'eye candy' this morning.
I've enjoyed all the quilts here.
Scrappy is so happy and comforting.
It's on my to-do list.

Or the I Spy kids books. They give you a list of things to find in a very busy picture. If you have a library near you, you should go and check one of these books out. Tons of fun even for us "older" folks.
You make a quilt with different fabrics (novelty prints work really well), sew them together and then you can sit there forever picking out your "list of things" to find. Great for kids on a long trip.

Kwhite: really pretty quilt....love it.

Brushandthimble: Love your quilts.

That site is awsome. Great patterns for scrappy quilts.

I am making this quilt out of cut up clothes. It also has many, many different types of fabric other than cotton. I love scrap quilts!

I just went to Quiltville.com for the first time, had never heard of it before. I think it is now one of my new favorite sites. She has some great scrap patterns and I am suddenly ready to start a mystery quilt, even though I have several other projects that really need to be finished first. Oh, so little time....

That is really nice. We all have a ton of scraps!!! Did you find the pattern on line?

I've seen a lot of scrap quilts with no matching colors, and they are very nice, the kind you want to wrap up in.

All your quilts are just beUTIFUL. thank you for sharing.

I love scrap quilts but had a hard time making them . If I had a pattern I ended up trying to match things. Well I just finished a scrap quilt that I personally love. After I finished cutting all my scraps into 2 1/2 inch strips and 5 inch squares and 2 1/2 in squares I took all the leftovers and made this quilt. my only 2 rules were not putting the same fabric right next to each other and I wasn't allowed to change the fabric I was grabbing out of the basket otherwise. If that makes sense.

damaquilts, I LOVE your quilt! I have piles of scraps to sort and cut.....

Oh, that's great! The neat thing about scrap quilts is that there will never, ever be another one like it!

Really cute! I just love color. That is why I love scrap quilts. You can just use your imagination. And there are no "rules"

I have been doing a few scrap quilt blocks, I'm enjoying using bright fabrics and white.

nice block, I like your use of color. Where is the free pattern?

How surprising this was..I was cleaning out a closet and in a bag of
scraps I found one, single page from Family Circle, 1985, that had a
picture of a lovely, multicolored Kaleidoscope. I had obviously fell in
love with it, and did again when I saw it. It starts out with a muslin
square, in the middle is a small square of black, then larger and larger
triangles of different colors. When the square is finished, the extra is
cut off and each block is separated with a dark solid color, which is also
used in just as wide binding. It is a smashing looking quilt and I'm going
to make it this time!! I have many more scraps to use up!!

Ohhh! take a pic and show us!

It's from SometimesCrafter blog. She has a tute on PP too, which is nice for those who haven't done that yet.

I have made several blocks now and still love it. Only work on it for a couple hours at a time, though. My friend is also making it. Neat pattern for use of smallish scraps. I can see it in scrappy plaids, polka dots, everything!! Here's the link:

http://www.sometimescrafter.blogspot...ing-block.html

thank you so much for the link. I have already pulled it up and go print it out tonight.

love it.

:D Scrap quilts are my favorite also. Is the postage stamp your original design? I belong to a quilting bee that is a Scrap Bee--all of us have so many of them--and we always looking for another swap.
Lucille Attaway

very pretty

very pretty quilt

Scissor Queen- are you able to post your ugly fabric quilt? I bet it is cool. Thanks, Linda :)

More than likely it will look great. My next QOV is going to be 12" square blocks of scraps. The scraps are variations of Civil War hued red, blue, and cream prints. I am using a muslin base. Good luck to you.

One of the things that makes a scrap quilt 'work' is to have color families spread through out the quilt. for example, if you have 50 different redish fabrics.......they need to be spread everywhere in the quilt. Same goes for other colors. On most of the scrap quilts that this form is showing........you've all done that. This is what makes the scrappy quilt 'sing'!

Love the thngs I'm seeing, can't wait to get to my scrap box! Also thanks for the tip about Quiltville......nice!

Look at the free quilt patterns at quiltville.com. They are beautiful. I am working on my 3rd one from there the Oaklahoma Backroads. All different material. Georgous.

Love it!!

i love scrappies the best. planned or unplanned. they always turn out so pretty. and the more different fabrics the more i love it

WOW! Such great ideas and links.......now I have a purpose for all those containers of scraps......Thanks to all of you for your inspiration....And what great organizational ideas, too. Now, all I need is the time to put everything in motion.

One of the things that makes a scrap quilt 'work' is to have color families spread through out the quilt. for example, if you have 50 different redish fabrics.......they need to be spread everywhere in the quilt. Same goes for other colors. On most of the scrap quilts that this form is showing........you've all done that. This is what makes the scrappy quilt 'sing'!
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I agree with you wholeheartedly! So I do it, well, not scientifically, but in
my own way. I count how many squares I'm going to need, then grab all my
black (or whatever color) and toss them in one pile. Then another pile with
another color, so on till I've used all my solid or patterned scraps of each color.
Then when starting it on muslin squares, I grab one from each pile and sew them together, with no careful matching as to what goes with what. Usually
turns out looking more or less like a crazy quilt, and I quilt as much of it on
the machine that I can easily, then sew all these together. Hand quilting the
remainder isn't that difficult. I like doing lap quilts best, I can make so many
more of those and be reasonably sure that they are used all the time.
Usually turns out nice, and I know that by how strongly I'm asked for it by kids and grand kids of all ages.

I love your quilt it's great!!!!!!!!!

I took a couple of pictures of the ugly log cabin I made for my hubby. I tried really hard to use every ugly fabric I could find. The fabrics might have been really ugly but the quilt turned out really cool.

It turned out great.