Thank you all. It was a fun quilt to make.

I'm now working on a bow tie quilt that I'm doing using all my scraps. I haven't decided if I'll give it to our foster care kidlettes or if I'll put a flannel backing on it and keep it for me to cuddle in while watching TV. It's been so bitterly cold here I'm torn ...should I keep warm or should I let a little kid be warm???? I'll probably give it away. I love scrappy quilts!

Randy

SCRAPPY QUILTS, Randy....I want to begin one in the next week or so. Any hints that you can pass on?? I have two focus fabrics (porcelain dolls and music) that I want to build the other scrappy materials around. Any scrappy ideas that has a larger square involved so the focus fabric can be readily recognized??

Me again...does anyone have a site(s) I can go to to look for prints with porcelain dolls on them?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Rainbow:
The scrappy quilt I'm currently working on is a "Mini bow tie" with 3 1/2 inch blocks for the tie. Size of the finished block is 6 inches which might work to highlight your focus fabric. I got the pattern from www.quilterscache.com/M/MiniBowTieBlock.html. . I'll attache a picture of the bow tie I'm working on just to give you an idea of how you might use your own fabric.

A 9-patch block may also be something that you could use to highlight your focus fabric.

I've never done a "fussy cut" quilt but understand they are easy and wonderful. Maybe find a pattern that lends itself well to a fussy cut application for your focus fabric. For those who might not know what fussy cut is, it's where you cut your fabric very carefully to highlight a particular motif in the fabric. Maybe you have fabric with dogs on it, fussy cut it so each block has a dog. Usually fabric prints repeat themselves throughout the length of the bolt so you have to remember when you do a fussy cut to get enough fabric to get the number of fussy blocks you want for your quilt. By fussy cutting you use MORE fabric than normal but the leftovers work great in "scrappy."

I hope this helps you a bit. Check out quilterscache site. It's my favorite and I can always find something of interest. When you go to the site, make sure to click on the last page where Marsha has included "Lucy's block" or "Dressa's block" which are pictures that quilters have submitted with their particular block...I get some great ideas looking at other people's work and by seeing the block or quilt made up. I'm so visual I need pictures!
Good luck and keep on quilting,
Randy

Randy, THANKS for the info and for the WONDERFUL PICTURE !!! I am completing my sewing for my granddaughter on her American Doll clothes - and then want to begin my scrappy. Never done one before and look forward to this. MAYBE, just maybe I can clean out my bits and pieces in my sewing closet.

Thanks again for your information. Planning on going to www.quilterscache.com now.

Rainbow

Beautiful just BEAUTIFUL!!

I just finished this pattern for a baby quilt for a friend at work. She loved it!!! It was a real easy pattern to work with. I used up some scraps for this quilt and it turned out very pretty.

Randy,
That is one gorgeous quilt! It's great!
Thanks for sharing!

alright.. looks like we have a contest.. how many squares are in that quilt... I say... 1500 pieces... Any comers...Hey it is gonna be fun... !!!
Sharon

beautiful quilt love the colors

A truely lovely quilt.What beautiful work. :)