Your favorite scrap pattern please
 

Last week I started digging in my scraps for 1 1/2 inch pieces to use up...it took me almost 5 days to trim enough for what I hope to be a toddler quilt, and I'm still sewing these small strips together! I really have a ton of scrap strips in the 1 1/2" and 2 1/2" that need to be used up before buying more fabric. Guessing it will take almost all fall and into the winter before using them up. Do you have a favorite scrap quilt? Can you share a link with me to your favorite pattern?

For that sort of strip, I like log cabins. So many variations and ways to set them, just divide scraps into light/dark or color groups.

Here's a bunch of layouts -- the same fabric can look so different depending on how you set it!
https://www.allpeoplequilt.com/quilt...-quilt-layouts

I also like log cabins and have made many of them. But there's no way I could ever use up all the scraps.

I really like log cabins too. A new layout for me, was starting with a light/dark HST and then adding strips to make a 1/4 log cabin block. it looks really neat and I found it to be faster than the traditional.

Another one I really like is a great leader and ender. Sew a light and a dark 2 1/2 inch square together. then add a 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch rectangle. Make 4 sets, being sure to keep the orientation the same. Then sew the sets together, keeping the light squares on the corners. The pic is 4 blocks put together with a narrow sashing and cornerstone. Not necessary but it meant I didn't have to match seams and my eyes stopped going squirrelly This pattern looks very intricate when set on point.

I probably have a bajillion more but these two came to mind . Scrap quilts are my favourite because I get bogged down matching colours.

I'll never use all my scraps either. I've made a string quilt variation called String Me Along, a 2 1/2" square project that doesn't have a name that I know of. I made it from a photo, and now I'm working on the Connected Stars pattern for a quilt that I think will be a new bed quilt and I still have boxes of squares and triangles and a lot of uncut scraps.

My String Me Along https://www.quiltingboard.com/vbulle...s-t300593.html

And this is the 2 1/2" square project https://www.quiltingboard.com/vbulle...y-t323130.html

I recently made this St Louis 16 patch that was fun and quick and used a lot of my 2 1/2” strips. You only need 1 light strip and 1 dark strip that is 22” long. I found it easier to sew and iron the strips if I cut them into two pieces 11” long. I did mine similar to the one found on The Last Homely House YouTube site.

I used red and neutral strips to make this strip pieced quilt. This is my first scrap quilt and probably my last.

I almost always work with scraps but I find it more restful and satisfying if there is some sort of connection. Often, just using a consistent block can give this but I prefer coming up with some sort of colour scheme as well. All of these quilts were made from scraps and most of those scraps were in the format you're playing with. :-)

I'm currently working on a sort of colourblock approach - nothing much to show right now because it's just a mess of exploded scrap boxes but I'm hoping those boxes will close once I've used up some of the fabric. :-)

This video shows a different way of approaching GingerK's block as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skTDNIDjFCA

Gemm, I'm intrigued by the fourth picture over, the diagonal strips that looks like they are 2.5 wide then they are all on point. Did you sew 2.5 strips together then cut into triangles? I think this might be my next scrap quilt!

Stumbled on this when I was "playing" aka wasting time on the computer last night!

Based on the simplicity of a rail fence block, using pieces 3"x8"
... so would work up into a quilt pretty darned quick! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOVuvgJOKmc

Coin quilts and strip piecing are my favourite ways to use scrap strips.

Here's a scrappy from way back when! :)
Have always admired the effect it gives.
Yet when you look closely, it's so simple.
Just HSTs made into pinwheels and 4Ps into blocks of 16.

https://www.quiltingboard.com/vbulle...d-t260261.html

I like log cabin and its variations, but also Bonnie Hunter's Carolina Chain is great. I have been using it for my leaders/enders with small scraps.

A few more ideas:

Box Of Strings

Various string quilts

Framed String Blocks

Basket Weave strings

@magicmoonmusings Great possibilities and inspiration!!
At this link .... Various string quilts ....
..... I particularly liked the one with the B+W sashings and 9P cornerstones.

It does a great job of framing up each of the crumb blocks ... and makes me want to look at each one, as though they are little abstract paintings!

I like the free patterns of the QuiltedTwins.com for various scarps. Also am doing two digital printed tops and creating blocks around them to make them into larger quilts...98x 108. Loved the triple Irish quilts and have enough fabric for three of them. Also doing another one with 5 inch blocks, in shades of pink with borders of white. Enough to keep me busy for serval months. Like what you all have shown in this thread.

Your quilt is beautiful. I've never seen that pattern before...so simple, yet stunning and dramatic. I may have to try that one.

Rail fence is a great scrappy pattern.

I love to make Sew Many Strips pattern when I have a pile of small scraps. You use tons of 1 1/2 by 2 1/2 inch strips and some 1 1/2 by 4 1/2 in strips for the borders. It uses a ton of those little pieces. The patterns lends itself to using anything and everything so nothing is wasted/

I have had this in my pictures for a long time wanting to make it "some day".

I had this tutorial saved. I found the tree paper on clearance at a quilt shop not long after. It sticks to the fabric I guess it's still available. It would be easy to draw the lines on paper or freezer paper if you want it to stick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uU...rmingQuiltShop
I have some Christmas fabric in large scrap pieces. I think I'll make a Christmas scrap tree quilt.

I sew all the same size strips into jelly roll quilts. Get some pretty interesting looks. But I like random. I've also been know to applique something in one corner or the centre. Or sew strips into 5 stripsets and subcut into blocks. They can be rotated like rail fence blocks either straight set or diagonally.

RedGarnet222, This quilt is right up my alley. And now it’s on my list of someday quilts. Thanks for the inspiration. There are so many great scrappy quilt ideas here. And I love scrappy quilts!