What's your favorite pattern for charity quilts...
 

...that uses up scraps?

I'm bored with sewing together 8" squares (the "generic quilt" that my group makes)... and I have plenty of scraps of my own that I'd like to use up.

So I'm looking for suggestions. Pictures would be nice to see, too, if you happen to have any!

Thank you!

I am making a string quilt out of my scraps that will be donated. Yellow Brick Road I guess would be my favorite for easy, I do get bored with the 4 patch-solid combo all the time good luck finding a new pattern to play with.

This is the easy design I use.

trying to add picture

and here is another version
Each piece is 3"x5.5" and each row is reversed. Can be controlled with three prints or can be scrappy

Here is a really wild version

Quiltville and Bonnie Hunter have lots of free scrap patterns :)

Here is a really wild version

Disappearing 9 patch (D9P) is great because you can use whatever size squares you have.

Warm Wishes is also good, or rail fence.

If you've got scraps that are strips, make some rail fences. They are so quick and each one can be different by the placement of color or number of rails in the block. The stair step effect, the diagonal across the quilt, is also so eye appealing.

Jan in VA

My two favorite are Log cabin and Yellow Brick Road. I like the log cabin because I can use 1 1/2 inch strips ( or any other size I would happen to have lots of) , I seem to have lots of 1.5 inch strips. They always look so interesting , and I just have to sort lights from darks. It would go even faster if I used wider pieces.
If I have bigger "scraps" Yellow brick road is a good one... but truth be told I reduce the scale so it suits the scraps I have...
You can always do some variation of the dissappearing nine patch using scraps and get nice results.
I would be bored too sewing the samething ... but your previous threads .. .you really are trying to "break the cycle". You wild woman! Watch out she is "going rogue"!
Good Luck !

I used strips of darks and lights - alternating. You sew them together on a 45 degree angle.

Crayon Box Quilt
 

This is called Crayon Box and the pattern is from Bonnie Hunter's site, Quiltville. I added borders.

Where is a good place to donate a few quilts I made besides nursing homes, salvation army and the hospitals?

There are so many places to donate! Women's and children's shelters, foster care, any children's group home or orphanage, police, sheriff, and fire departments. treatment facilities to name a few.
Dayle

I like this one A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10 minute block

d9p, Florentine Fantasy, and Sylvia's Windows are my faves. Sylvia & Florentine are both really fast projects, you can go from uncut yardage to complete top in one day. I don't get bored with the Florentine pattern as quickly as the others.

this one is fast and simple. we made this one for our group, and i copied it.

Wild, yes, but also really, really, really cute! I love it!

This is a FABULOUS pattern! I love it! Thanks so much for sharing it with us! I'm inspired!

I donate mine to either Quilts of Valor or Project Linus but earlier tonight my neighbor was telling me the local VA was desperate for some wheelchair-sized ones so I think I'll put them on my list, too.

Where do you find Florentine Fantasy &/or Sylvia's Windows? I'm always on the prowl or new patterns.

Here are a couple of 9-patches I made for QOV. I love 9-patches even tho I know most people think they're really boring.

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For children's charities (like Project Linus), I LOVE Streak of Sunshine from Quiltville ---> http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/...-sunshine.html

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One last suggestion... I also have used either a panel or some neat fabric & done a really simple frame around it. This fabric was so wild I didn't know what else to do with it, so that's how I used it (this was before I knew about Stack & Whack or the Posy 4-Patch because it would have been PERFECT for those). I donated it to QOV & got a really nice thank you note re it.
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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....

some great looking quilts there for sure

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

Charity quilt
 

How about this one? You get to use up all your leftovers. Mindless stitching together, no matching and sure to bring a smile to the recipient in discovering all the items in the quilt.

Helena, love this idea!

Simple 4 patch & picture block
 

I like to use this one. It's a quick & simple beginner pattern

I like the d9p I just posted one here called d9p Blue, You can take that pattern and move things around and create a whole new pattern. good luck

Log cabin uses the leftover strips from other projects, and so I always keep solid red fabric for the center square--beyond that, there are no limits!

I've been using strips 2.5 X 4 or whatever I'm handed, putting them in long strips for a row, and then sewing the rows together. I put a 2.5 square at the end and alternate when sewing the rows. That way there is no matching seams. I think it is a brick pattern. The other thing I do is just start sewing pieces together and then cutting those into 6.5" squares. A real scrap quilt with no pattern.

Another thought. Look on the Project Linus website. They generally have quick patterns there.

I make crazy quilt squares and then join them with a plain sash, colorful or applique blocks alternated with plain squares (I love to applique)

Helena.....I like the very scrappy quilt for charity because with the group I work with we get a lot of donations, but seldom enough to make a whole coordinated quilt. We do get a lot of smaller or irregular pieces. This type of block works so well. We do save most of our larger pieces for backings or sashings......

Appliqued or pieced "picture" blocks are fun to make. Green and brown scraps can become trees, etc.

This quilt is amazing! Thanks for sharing it! I often have strips left from binding and other projects, and it will practically sew itself as starters and enders using the Bonnie Hunter method. I love everything about it.