Scrappy Question??
#21
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Dallas area, Texas, USA
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Anything goes, up to a point. Quite often when I get the blocks made but before I sew them together there will be one fabric that sticks out like a sore thumb and just has to be yanked. Another alternative when that happens is to add more of it in different places around the top. I like a border with lots of different fabrics in it, too. There's a book that I find helpful, Nickel Quilts & Borders: 7 Quilts & 260 Borders from 5-Inch Squares by Pat Speth and Roxie Speth.
#22
Is it the color of the sashes and borders that pull a scrap quilt together ?. So many scrap quilts have a definite color scheme--are they really scraps? My scraps are from several quilts and don't necessarily go together! I'm having a hard time-- Pulling it all together. I don't have enough scraps from one quilt to make a color coordinated scrap quilt but I have a lot of scraps!
#23
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Tallmadge, OH
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Is it the color of the sashes and borders that pull a scrap quilt together ?. So many scrap quilts have a definite color scheme--are they really scraps? My scraps are from several quilts and don't necessarily go together! I'm having a hard time-- Pulling it all together. I don't have enough scraps from one quilt to make a color coordinated scrap quilt but I have a lot of scraps!
#24
I make only scrappy quilts because I like to play with regardless of the size.color.The one thing I do is to stay with the same background fabric in the quilt.I have found that when I used to use various background fabrics the overall look was not as good as when I used one fabric It pulled it together.My quilts are all queen or king and are wedding quilts for my 17 grand childern.
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Delaware County, SW of Phila.
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I was taught when making a scrap quilt to not worry about coordinating the colors. I just mix the cut pieces in a large container and pull out one at a time. However it turns out, it seems to look good.
#26
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 192
Scrappy quilts should be without a scheme of color. Then I make the borders the color of where I want to use the quilt. That is where the color scheme comes in for me. Usually that color appears somewhere in my scraps and if not quite the same fabric as one of the scraps a close color works.
#27
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 416
When looking at scrap quilts, I am most attracted to ones that have definite 'lights' or neutrals in addition to all the colors. Even the light/neutral doesn't have to be all the same color - just light enough to differ from all the others.
#29
Scrappy quilts are my favourites!! I do the pull it an use it logic! As long as two fabrics that are the same don't end up beside each other! Usually I don't have to worry about that much! I just do what others before me have said divide between dark and light and sew away!!!
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