Scrappy vs Scrap
#11
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Join Date: Jan 2015
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Cathy, your quilts are wonderful, but i don't know what I'd call them.
I can only do controlled scrappy. I have to have a unifying fabric/color. Cathy's second one fits that criteria for me and so does the back of [ATTACH=CONFIG]581428[/ATTACH]my daughter's quilt. Scrappy 16 patches, but connected with a yellow print. I've done this pattern with red where the yellow is and I like it even more. Totally scrappy to me would be any color, any width strip or square and just sewn together. So far I haven't done that, but I am thinking of string blocks from leftover bindings and various miscuts.
I can only do controlled scrappy. I have to have a unifying fabric/color. Cathy's second one fits that criteria for me and so does the back of [ATTACH=CONFIG]581428[/ATTACH]my daughter's quilt. Scrappy 16 patches, but connected with a yellow print. I've done this pattern with red where the yellow is and I like it even more. Totally scrappy to me would be any color, any width strip or square and just sewn together. So far I haven't done that, but I am thinking of string blocks from leftover bindings and various miscuts.
#13
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Gilbert, AZ
Posts: 985
I use the terms interchangeably. I start out to use scraps and always have to add from my stash since my scraps aren't usually enough to make an entire quilt. I tend to make controlled scrappy as I don't always like the totally random look.
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#18
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Indiana
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I think that a scrappy look is really in the eye of the beholder. While many of my projects have pieces leftover from something else, they really do not have the scrappy look. I have also made things (unintentionally) with charm packs/precuts and had people tell me it had "a nice scrappy look" even though all of the fabric was brand new. It's really just subjective.
#20
I do not feel a scrap or scrappy quilt is limited to being a "utilitarian" quilt. For instance, my Farmer's Wife
quilt would fit your definition of scrappy but it certainly is not "utilitarian" but will be displayed as a wall quilt. Just one example and I am sure there are others.
quilt would fit your definition of scrappy but it certainly is not "utilitarian" but will be displayed as a wall quilt. Just one example and I am sure there are others.
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