Postage stamp quilt.

Here is a photo of a quilt I'm cutting 1.5" squares to make. Two inches would work well too. I love it because it's scrappy, but it's controlled.[ATTACH=CONFIG]460173[/ATTACH]

This looks Awesome. I am making one with my 2 inch scraps. I am doing mine as a leader, ender. May take me forever but its fun.

I don't know how many you consider a lot, but the first thing I would do is pull out about 30 of them from random places and put a ruler on them. See if they are consistently 2"

Hey, neighbor! I'm from Defiance, and 2 of my daughters live in FW :) Funny that you should post this today. I just counted all of my 2-inch squares, and have about 1500. Mine are going to be a Postage Stamp quilt. I have always wanted one, so I started making the 2-inch squares from scraps of other projects, and some were given to me. I will put these together and see how many more I will need. Another thing you might do is to sew them into strips then 4 patches and use them as alternate setting blocks There was a beautiful Burgoyne Surrounded quilt posted here not long ago, and there were a lot of 2-inch squares in that

4 patches or 9 patches is what I make with my squares. So many possibilities of how to set them together.

I think I would start pairing them up as leaders and enders while you are sewing other projects, and decide what pattern to use them in later when you have many sewn. There's even a book (or two?) of patterns using Leaders and Enders. Cool quilts, too!

Double irish chain using 2"squares
 

I am making Double Irish Chain with my squares. I cut my blues stash into 2" squares and am flying! I got the idea from Bonnie Hunter with her leaders and Enders. It is easier to sew strips together, but I didn't have the luxury of strips, so I just cut out the squares. I am putting it together now, and quilt as you go using Method here... Http://www.candiedfabrics.com and it is working for me! I'd post a photo, but haven't figured that out yet...lol... Ok, just figured out posting a photo. This is the first one I made for my dgs a year ago. The one I am making is with the same blues, but for our bed, a king size, hence the QAYG method. I have a Pfaff that doesn't have a large area to roll up a quilt to machine quilt. On the king size I am putting two rows together, machine quilting the colored squares, then hand quilting the white areas.

So many good solutions! Thanks for sharing.

CottageDee - wow, so pretty!!!

Trip Around the World is easy to do and looks super. Do a scrappy one if you don't have large quantities of any one print. Just sort into darks, mediums, lights and white prints.

I have an excess of 2" squares in blues and am making quilt tops for 2 GS. Just random piecing.