Originally Posted by Peckish (Post 5184500)

Those are very pretty! I've always thought of 9-patches in that setting as an Irish chain. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno. Anyway...
The Florentine Fantasy is a free download and can be found here: http://www.robertkaufman.com/quiltin...ntine_fantasy/
just click "download more info" at the right for the pattern. The quilt they picture is made from rather busy fabrics, but I will post pics of the ones I've made soon (hopefully).
Sylvia's Windows seems to be harder to locate. It was a pattern published in a magazine a year or two ago, I think it may have been McCall's, I'm not sure. Let me work on finding that pattern....

Originally Posted by gollytwo (Post 5184616)

I am very partial to 16 patch blocks using 2 1/2" squares (cut)
Always including 3 solid blacks scattered amongst the others
I sash with black or navy, using a 2 /12" cornerstone of a scrap.

Have also made the same quilt with 3 1/2" (cut) squares

Many years ago when I went regularly to Quilting by the Lake in Cazenovia, NY quilters threw away large scrap pieces.
After the classes were over I collected large scraps from wastebaskets, enough to make a double Ocean Waves, which I've called The QBL Wastebasket Quilt

Originally Posted by PokerDiva (Post 5188714)

Here is some of my last scrap charity quilts. Very easy.

Originally Posted by mhollifiel (Post 5189343)

I can't stop making the Potato Chip Quilt using my homemade jelly roll fabrics framing a square in the center. I like an 8 1/2" square framed by a 2 1/2" strip giving a 10" finished square. Goes fast an is so addictive. I am currently looking for examples of a version where you whack the 10" (or whatever size you make) into equal fourths and reassemble with interesting results. I posted about that a couple of days ago.
I went through my stash and purged this January using up anything that was cut into, too small to show up in my stash stacking, leftover from garment construction, or just not to my taste anymore. Then I set about chopping the purged stuff up into strips of various sizes a la Bonnie Hunter. I have thus far put together 63 tops for Project Linus and have still got a ways to go to use up what I chopped up. The tops went together fast because I had a "leaders and enders" Bonnie Hunter thing going with some of these fabrics as well. I have little piles everywhere even though much has been used up. I have never had so much fun piecing tops or been so productive with stuff I was trying to move out. I can't wait to get through this and start on the stuff I LIKE! LOL!