Scrapy quilt folks question
 

Today I feel like I hit the scraps jackpot. I responded to an ad on Craigslist for a couple of boxes of quilting scraps as someone was cleaning out a storage area. I picked them up after work today, spent the last couple of hours going through boxes and picked out three fabrics I like the best. The rest I plan to give away on the Board. This person was clearly mass producing some craft item as she has the fabric in stacks with cuts all the way through multiple layers. The result is that though they are scraps, there is lots of each print. My question is - would people prefer to get an assortment (stacks) of different fabrics or multiple pieces of several of the same fabrics? I have a bias towards things matching so I definitely fall into the later category but I've never done a scrapy quilt. My sense from the amount of many of the designs is that there is enough to combine & make other quilts too that are not scrapy. What does everyone think?

I'd prefer an assortment. Good for you!

Just have fun with them putting them together, you will figure a home for each of those scraps.

Those scraps would be great for our charity donation tops for kids. We do cutting "parties" to make kits to give out at guild meetings to have members sew them up. It is so much fun to see new to us fabrics and get crazy prints.

An assortment. There probably isn't enough to actually give enough for a quilt. I love the look of a variety of fabrics. And yes, I do a lot of charity quilts for kids...definitely the assortment. It looks like really pretty fabric.

Glad you got something good off of Craig's List. Neat.

An assortment - I love buying scrap bags at quilt shops. Always like Christmas.

the scrappiness of my scrap quilts is the amount of different fabrics I have acquired by all my quilting friends. Bits of this and that, sometimes tiny little things that I chain together--so this pile of goodies you have-swap some with friends and max the colors and patterns. Looks to be a grand time to me to try a scrappy. Google scrap quilts and see what is out there, you might be up for a challenge!

I vote for assortment But if there is a lot of something cut into strip, save it for sashing and binding to go around the others that you don't have so much of. And, if you get tired of looking at it send some this way!!!!!

i too agree with an assortment... and if there is a lottery for the extras, put my name in please? teee heee... I love scrappy quilts, my girl friend from guild, gave me 2 bags of her scraps, but what she considers scraps is as big or bigger than fat quarters...

Have a great day!

Agree to an assortment. Love making scrappy quilts!

What a great bunch of scraps!! If it was me I would prefer a assorment.

Looks like garment factory cut-aways. I have been given lots of these. Lots of fun to use them up in charity quilts.

I'm another lover of scrap quilts so I vote for an assortment of fabrics. When doing charity quilts for kids I like to use a lot of different fun fabrics.

here is a link for a scrappy quilt show right here on the board. while you have a variety of scraps, i would say challenge yourself and create a scrappy masterpiece. hopefully the quilts in this thread can help to give you some inspiration.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t135936.html

Wow Sue - That is neat! Thanks for the link to your tutorial.

Good luck and I'm sure you will put those scraps into a beautiful scrappy quilt lucky you

me too.....I love doing crumb quilts for charity..would love to post pictures of them but I cannot figure out how to post a picture. They come out so colorful.

I would prefer assorted!

try these directions and see if they help. you must reduce the size of your pics for them to upload.

Thank you so much...will try now..

I have just started quilting work on #2 did not like the first one . But as for me would just love any they would all be used up at the end you know.

Assortment.
J J

always fun to see what you get once our bee made a challenge had to sew just as we pulled from bag was so much fun to see what we had had made

Vote assorted here.

Me, Too- an assortment is what I would prefer.

Assorted - love scrappy!

I recognize some of those prints-used them in I Spy quilts for children-kids love finding all the different objects/animals in a quilt. It is hard to tell from the photo but the scraps look different shapes. If so I would make an 8 or 10 inch crazy quilt block, fun & easy, make rows of the blocks together or alternate the crazy quilt block with a solid color block to soften the various prints & colors. I make many quilts that way, I use white in between the many colored blocks.
Those scraps will make up into a beautiful quilt however you do it.

Definitely an assortment! The more different patterns you use, the scrappier your quilt is! Looks like you hit the mother lode!

Assortment...if there are longer strips, save them for a scrappy binding! Love those!

I think either way would be good. I can think of uses for both. I, too, LOVE to buy scrap bags. I wonder if there's someplace good online for that sort of thing? I used to get tons of Jinny Beyer scraps but I can't remember where. BTW... just what I need... more scraps! LOL!

It was an almost unanimous vote for assortment! All the scraps have found new homes :)