Scrap quilting question
#21
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sewbizgirl, I love your calico stars quilt!
I started out mixing all sorts of fabrics together in a quilt; my stash was not big enough to do a quilt in one genre of fabric. One of my goals now is to get a more unified look to my quilting.
I started out mixing all sorts of fabrics together in a quilt; my stash was not big enough to do a quilt in one genre of fabric. One of my goals now is to get a more unified look to my quilting.
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I had no idea what I was doing when I make my first quilt only 5 years ago. My mother had given me a box of scraps. I sewed them all together in strips, not know any other way. There was polyester, cotton, blends, jersey, and seersucker of all things. I didn't know if it would even come out right in the end. I was doing QAYG from You Tube. It is on my bed 5 years later, and I love it! Ugly, yes, but warm and functional and just right for me. All of those fabrics worked into a quilt for sure.
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I have done scrap quilts different ways - but I always use the same fabrics together. I don't mix fabrics on a quilt
I have tried to keep colors together but I like the crazy all mixed up patches too
I have tried to keep colors together but I like the crazy all mixed up patches too
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I think it all comes down to personal preference although some people don't mix poly with cotton due to possible non-shrinkage of the poly. I don't like working with some polys because of their smell, but that's just me. I sometimes use it for the color or pattern. I also sometimes use poly thread for quilting because I want a matching color and there isn't anything close enough in cotton as my LQS. Do your own thing - and enjoy it.
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Both these scrappy quilts are beautiful. They may be scrappy but they have unifying components. Each star has its own color scheme, and the intensity of color and pattern is similar in all the stars. And of course the border and edging on each block is constant.
Both are soothing to the eye, not jarring as they might be if they were scrappy without a plan.
Both are soothing to the eye, not jarring as they might be if they were scrappy without a plan.
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