Like many of you, I have TONS of scraps from my many projects. I saw a tutorial where you just sew them at various angles, make a large piece, then cut them to the size block you want. I started doing that but it is not coming out right. Is there a special way you put them together or am I just having a Senior Moment?

I have never done that so i'm anxious to see all the answers too. I do have lots of scraps left over from the holidays.

I made a quilt doing that and it was very cute. Do you have a picture of what you have done so far. I'm interested in seeing it. I'm sure it's not bad at all.

Have you seen this site?
http://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.bl...-tutorial.html

I have made quite a few quilts this way and it always turns out fine in the end...keep going. I am a scrapaholic and cannot bear to throw anything out...but I am overrun by scraps! So I sit down at my sewing machine for a day and sew them all together, just as you described, cutting them down to 6.5 inch blocks. Another day, I'll start sewing the blocks together. The end result is usually a bright, crazy, cute baby quilt, which I then give away.....
My motto....Never THrow Anything Out!

Victoria (aka Bumble Beans) and Co. have made it into an art form.

Here's the tutorial:
http://www.15minutesplay.com/2010/07...5-minutes.html

And here are some of the projects from the group:
http://www.15minutesplay.com/

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Do you include selvages in these scrappy quilts? I want to start using mine, but I want to include selvages, though I don't want to do it wrong.

Thank you....those are great sites.

I usually use a foundation block and sew the scraps to it and square it up - then sew the blocks together. I am also a scrap-a-holic.