I have 102 gingham strips in pink, blue, yellow, red and a light brown that measure 3 1/2" X 16" . I got these from a thrift store awhile back and ran across them today while getting some things organized. Anyone know of a fast quilt pattern to use with these? Any suggestions appreciated.

decide what is light and what is dark and start in on a log cabin.

Postage stamp. Maybe (smallish) pinwheels?

alternate them with white muslin of the same width. Then play with the color arrangement.

or make 4-patches and add an alternating fabric.

Ticker quilt I think they are called were you sew pieces to on top of a quilt sandwich.

join them together end to end and make a lasagna qult

I have a special fondness for gingham and was just talking about doing a pinwheel quilt with white and various ginghams.

All the suggestions are good ones. I can only add a scrappy quilt. Have fun :!: :!: :!:

rain fence. sew 3 strips together and cut a square for rail fence. two together and cut squares and alternate.

Any book that uses jelly rolls, will just be larger.
You have a treasure there....

I've done a really pretty strip pieced quilt that I did by sewing several strips together then cutting the group into squares and then triangles. I then made pinwheel type blocks with the triangles. I used a neutral sashing.

Strips are great for making 9 patch quilts also! They can be set in a variety of ways, so you have lots of possibilities!

Thanks so much everyone. Great ideas. I'll post a pic of whatever I end up doing.

Baby quilt, log cabin or crazy quilt type pieces

I've seen miller's crossing done in ginghams and plaids. It looked amazing and I wanted to try it but didn't have enough so I settled on regular fabric. We'd love to see pics of whatever you chose though!

You can also do a brick quilt by cutting your strips in 3 1/2" by 7 1/2" blocks. Sew together alternating strips so they look like a brick wall. Add a 3 1/2" by 3 1/2" block on the ends of alternationg rows so the bricks don't they don't stack one on top of the other. I also liked the idea of a pin wheel quilt. You could use a tiny polka dot for they background.

It sounds as if it could work with a pattern I saw called "brick on a brick".