Our quilt club did an ugly fabric game. Each brought 1 1/4 yds of ugly fabric. We first tore our piece of fabric in half, either lengthwise or crosswise; held on to one half and put the other half at our side; and then to music, passed the one piece of fabric until music stopped, continuing to tear in half, pass one half and put the other half in the pile beside us. We then again tore it in half and continued this until we had as small a piece of fabric as around 5x7. We each took one pile of fabric home and made a lap quilt to bring back to the next meeting and we took them to the local nursing homes. We did this again with fabric suitable for babies in NNICU and gave the quilts (no larger than 36" square) to the hospital for those babies. In either case, we used only the fabric we brought home and used a quilt pattern of our own choice. Amazing how they turned out. I used Trip Around the World for one and Disappearing 9 Patch for the other.

I have found that that piece of ugly (in your eyes)fabric in its whole but once it's cut up & added with others, it doesn't look so bad....

Google "ugly quilt challenge" and you'll find some really nice results.

Wonderful use of That fabric. No such thing as ugly fabric, just misused. Find the right place for it and Wow!

This is another great use for mis matched fabrics. Bring them all together with a unifying color.

I thought of Bonnie Hunter too! She uses lots of 'ugly' fabric in her quilts, but it's small pieces rather than big pieces. I love the idea of log cabins! I think I would lean towards blocks that are typically used in scrappy quilts like log cabins, split 9 -patches etc... where you can play with color and value rather than 'print'!

I've never thought of doing this. Thanks for the idea!

I have participated in these challenges many times and have really enjoyed and have been amazed by people's creativity to follow the rules. We have always been allowed to add which is certainly helpful. That really ugly fabric can be used for the backing, binding, small piece fussy cut and I have even used people used the back of the fabric to tone it down. Good Luck and enjoy!

There is no such thing as ugly fabric. I swap with a lot of people, and I have never kicked any fabric to the curb yet. This is my latest posted on the Board as: [h=2]A Shout Out about my Pixilated Quilt[/h]Every time I walk buy it, I have to stop and stare at a new square, and smile. The Grands check it out like it is an I Spy. Please post what you get and what you make....it is fun for all of us.