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Both are just fantastic!! I really love the first one. I love scrappy quilts too!

Wow, both are gorgeous quilts! I am always amazed at how the different scraps are put together to make something so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by AnnEliz (Post 6903536)

When I started quilting in 1993, I just simply hated scrappy quilts. Now I like them a lot. However, I never have enough fabric left over to make an entire quilt and my o9ther scraps don't match. I know you don't need to match patches, but I have a fobia about matching I guess. All the quilts that I see here, seem to have matching fabrics and so do the magazine quilts and also the quilting book scrappy quilts. This frustrates me since I am very bad at colors. Any suggestions? I do want to work with scraps and make some nice items.

The best way to ease into working with scraps is to limit your color palatte. Try using every blue fabric you have, plus a background. So you might have 20 different blues and 5 whites/creams. I think the old classic patterns like Log Cabin are excellent for this because the design depends on contrast between light and dark, not matching colors. Coordinating fabric lines is something that fabricmanufacturers have come up with in the last 25 years to boost fabric sales If you can break free of working with perfectly coordinating fabrics a whole new world of possibilities opens up!

Love, Love, Love what you did with all those scraps.

They are both very fun. What a good use of scraps. Are these your designs?

Leslie

Love scrappy quilts. Great use of scraps. Why waste money and not use them?

Gorgeous! I especially love the first one though; it has a very refreshing feel to it somehow.

Such a beautiful way to use up scraps! Love them both!

They are so great! Did you design them yourself?