What do you think scrappy means?
#51
Scrappy is what I do - REAL scrappy. I've also done controlled scrappy and love it but the REAL scrappy takes me back to the pioneer days when the women were forced to use any and all types/sizes of fabrics for their quilts. Crazy quilting is a prime example of scrappy (IMHO) with the added bonus of gorgeous embroidery stitches. I'm so happy that this wonderful hobby has so many different ways of doing it and everyone seems to totally enjoy all those different ways. LOVE IT - LOVE IT - LOVE IT
#52
I make scrappy but I still try not to put the same colors beside each other. and when the blocks were finished, I tried to arrange then in a pleasing pattern. Some of the blocks I even used like all holiday prints or all childrens prints. Scrappy and random are two different things. Scraps are just that ~ scraps. I'm signed up for a class now that I was going to use my scraps in but realized I didn't have enough black and bought that, then realized I wanted brighter colors with the black and only had so many scraps, so I started looking in my stash for brights. I figured at least I'm using out of my stash and the only thing I bought was the black.
#53
just what the words suggests.. according to the dictionary....
scrappy: consisting of disorganized and untidy and incomplete
parts
my scrappy pile is a large plastic container filled with all the left overs from previous projects......
and you are so right, something beautiful can be produced form all these "ugly ducklings"
lololol
scrappy: consisting of disorganized and untidy and incomplete
parts
my scrappy pile is a large plastic container filled with all the left overs from previous projects......
and you are so right, something beautiful can be produced form all these "ugly ducklings"
lololol
#56
I love scrappy quilts. Some that I make are "controlled"
using only specific colors, some I call "true" scrappy using only fabrics from my scrap bags (and boxes and sacks). I do try not to put two of the same fabric together and work with darks and lights. I love all the scrappy avatars I am seeing.
using only specific colors, some I call "true" scrappy using only fabrics from my scrap bags (and boxes and sacks). I do try not to put two of the same fabric together and work with darks and lights. I love all the scrappy avatars I am seeing.
#57
QuiltSage, your quilt is definitely scrappy and beautiful! Thank you for posting the link to a larger pic!
StitchnRipper, I love purple and I love your quilt!
Can you show us a full-size pic of your quilts so we can drool? :)
StitchnRipper, I love purple and I love your quilt!
Can you show us a full-size pic of your quilts so we can drool? :)
#58
Originally Posted by PattyH
I just had to reply to this one! Our guild had Lynn Roddy Brown speak and hold a one day workshop. The only requirement was to bring a handful of our ugliest scraps - preferably some dark and some light. We all made squares from her pattern and then at the end of the day, she put them all on the wall and arranged them in different ways. You would have been surprised how beautiful that "ugly fabric" quilt turned out!
One of the big name quilters - I think it might have been Marti Michell - said (and I'm paraphrasing) that a scrap is any piece of fabric she hasn't used in a quilt yet, even if that piece is 7 yards long.
#59
Originally Posted by QuiltE
QuiltSage .... would you please post a pic of your "scrappy" avatar quilt! :)
I wish we could click on the avatars to get a better view!
Thanks!!! :)
I wish we could click on the avatars to get a better view!
Thanks!!! :)
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