Are we allowed to buy sashing, and backing? If we are I'm in. I've aready started cutting one out. I plan to sew in all by hand.

Ideally, everything would be from scrap or your stash, but there are no rules here!

Especially if you are going to donate your finished quilt, or make it a gift!

I just wanted to see how many of us could make one without cost, or a minimum of cost.

I expect that most will need to buy thread, or batting, or whatever for theirs and whatever you do is okay.

But for backing ideas, please take a peek at quiltville.com ! You might find something you like for yours that will be free!

Does it have to be a bed size quilt. Would 4 lap quilts qualify? Is it OK to buy batting?

I completed a lap quilt yesterday, entirely from my stash, and you can't tell anything is missing. Regarding scrap piles, I keep my scraps in one of the largest Rubermaid tubs, and it's running over.

Send one tote to Patrice, one tote to me.

We will do it justice.

tim in san jose

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Thats a great idea! Lets all make scrap quilts and post the pictures say next November and then donate them to soldiers or St. Judes' hospital or battered women shelter or something along those lines. I'm in! I keep every little scrap and string. Use the smallest pieces to stuff the pin cushions that I make. I love you guys!

Count me in for the stash challenge. I'm sure that my husband will say a resounding "AMEN". I'm afraid that I'll have to stop going to garage sales, though. That's where I find my best bargains. Very little of my stash was purchased at a store.

Great idea!!! Although I have only been actively quilting for a year, I keep looking at my ever-growing mountain of scraps and wondering to myself "what am I supposed to do with those?" I'm sort of a pack rat and refuse to throw out usable fabric. I'll start thinking on a pattern. What fun!!!

count me in

I quilt with 5 experienced quilters once a week. I've learned so much from them & they are always looking for new ideas. So I told them about the challenge & now all 6 of us are EACH going to make a charity quilt. We are going to do the Simply Scrappy Treasure BOM mentioned above. 2 of the gals are using Thimbleberry scraps, 1 is doing denim, 1 is doing 30's prints, 1 is doing misc scraps & I'm doing batik scraps. Should be fun to see how the same pattern turns out 6 different ways. Everyone already has their Oct. & Nov. blocks done & we're working on Dec. What a GREAT idea.[i] Thanks for the challenge Wendy & the pattern site Debbie!

I love this idea!! I was wondering what to do with all those pieces. :D

I've helped my 5th and 6th graders make quilts for Linus Project before--and I know the smallest is 36" square--a very workable size for me to quilt or tie. I could make a lot of those. The smaller size won't scare me off--with everything else I have to work into my days. :wink:

I found some fabulous free patterns on the site on the first post. :!: :!: :!:

I'll also be making a scrap quilt, probably more than one. This is not a new idea for me. I don't call the quilts made from tiny pieces many, dare I say most, other quilters throw away, I call them FUN quilts. I'd rather make scrappy quilts than any other kind. Are "string" quilts included in this project?

String quilts are very scrappy. Go for it!!!! :wink:

I'm glad to hear from someone who understands what I'm talking about when I use the term "string quilts". Most young quilts just stare at me. I can almost hear them thinking, "This old woman is batty. Nobody can make a quilt out of strings."
Well, my mother made a lot of them, and so have I.

I am new to quilting and didn't know what a string quilt was. In Canada we call it a scrappy quilt. Or that is the term I was taught. I looked it up on the internet and found all kinds of sites with pictures and instructions. I have a question though, regarding the use of foundation paper. Is is necessary to use it? I didn't learn that way. We just sewed scrap strips until we had a piece big enough to square up to 12 inch block, then cut them in half across the diagonal to get 2 half triangles and then mix and matched them to put them together.

Andi, I've done it both ways... I use newspaper for the string quilts and then I also make a "scrap crazy" quilt without foundation where I just start with a particular color (center eye grabber) and work my way around that til its big enuf to square up....here is a picture of one

Hi Andi, I'm in Canada too, Ontario. That sounds like a great way to use up your scraps. I haven't used paper piecing either. I have pieced using muslin, instead of the paper. Then you can just leave the muslin as part of your piece, instead of having to remove it. But, I've done it your way too. Just start sewing pieces together and then trim later. Sounds like a quilt in the making to me.

Oh, I just love your quilts country quilter. Those are my favorite kind. Just random, varied colors and pieces. I call them pioneer quilts. That is what got me into quilting.

I have a problem...

Being an engineer, I have about 3 square inches of spare material left over after I have made a quilt. It annoys the heck out of the people in the fabric store when I ask for 0.473 yards of a fabric, but what can you do?

It's going to be a long time before I have enough scraps to make a scrappy quilt.

What can I do?

*L*

tim in san jose

I thought someone was sending you a bag full! Maybe we all should! :lol:

I didn't think you were serious Tim!!!! Heck, I'll send you some!!!

Quiltmaker that sound like a good idea wish i could join on the fun but i have to buy when i get money since i am disable don't have that much scraps THe crazy quilts are pretty

I appreciate the sentiment... but please don't. I was just teasing. I have enough scraps for a lap quilt or something.... Even I make mistakes. *L* Lots of them.

I suspect you will see a scrappy barn raisin' quilt by next fall, I don't need to go far to find a woman's shelter that can use it.

tim in san jose

Tim you need to cut loose! Go for a whole half a yard next time! The earth won't stop. I promise!
I live with an engineer. I know of what I speak!

How do you keep yourself from just picking up random bits of fabric that strikes your fancy. I rarely go out and buy material to fit my quilt, I usually make a quilt that fits my fabric stash or scrap box. Wish I could get my hubby interested in letting me teach him to cut strips, how did you get into quilting?

I have found it best to use some kind of foundation if you will have many seams that are on the bias, or I should have said "not on the straight of the grain". If no foundation at all works for you, that's great. I like to use a foundation because I use ever little sliver of fabric, including bias tape.

As many on the board know, I started quilting 'cause no one else would make me one. I find it relaxes me. I come home from a busy day making robots do what I tell them to and the last thing I want is more technology. I don't program at home, I don't even watch TV except for an occasional movie.
While I do pick up some stuff randomly, I prefer to walk into the store looking for something I have put together in my mind. Warped things usually if you ask the wimmin around here. *L*

But I like them.

Look around at the threads I have started. You will see some of my work. More is coming after the first of the year.

Welcome aboard dd.


tim in san jose

Thought I'd bring the Quilt Chalenge post back to the top for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

I've already started on a small crazy scrap- quilt. I'm also determined to use only fabrics already in my stash. Since I do use a foundation,I'll need to use something like flannel instead of batting. Hope I have enough.

I remember that my mother used the term " outing" for very light weight flannel. According to her vocabulary, men's shirts were made of flannel, and they were much heavier than any I've seen lately. Outing was used for night clothes and for baby 's everyday outfits, including the diapers. Is outing still a good term?

Betty

betty, i haven't heard that term in years but i know what you mean. now days most flannel feels like what we used to call outing. very thin and flimsy.

hey tim in san jose, why don't you build me a robot to do my house work so i can spend more time quilting :wink: :wink: :wink:

You got that right.
Betty

Well...I just completed my first ever quilt. I used things I already had, not all of it was so much scraps, but finds. Like from garage sales, leftover yardage from clothes for the girls, the back I used yardage I got at a garage sale for 50 cents (like 8 yards for 50 cents.) The hand embroidery was done with leftover candlewicking thread. The yarn I used to tie was leftover from my youngest daughter's afghan. The actual squares of embroidery were another garage sale find. I bought a box of craft stuff (huge box) for $1. An elderly lady had decided to teach herself to embroider and was doing so by hot iron transfer on an old sheet she had. She had passed away before she had gotten all of them done. I took her work out of a couple of them, so I could do them all in redwork. The floral fabric, scraps from a summer dress for one of the girls. For the batting I used one of Alicia's flannel baby blankets. The eyelet around the edge also a garage sale find...10 yards for $2. I did it smallish because I plan to donate it to the NICU preemie ward at a local hospital. Its my thank you to the Power's that be for blessing me with healthy children and supplying me with the things I need to care for them, and the skill to make them the things I can't afford to buy them.
Remember, this is my firstest completed quilt ever, so I'm kinda glad my camera is a little fuzzy LOL

A couple more of the redwork.
The backing is kinda hard to see...its red seresucker with white stripes through it.
Each of the embroidered blocks is a farm type theme and has a heart in it somewhere.

Great job

Oh, it's really sweet Lisa! I just love it. The embroidery is the best! Make more!

Lisa - you must have a natural talent if that is your first quilt! And a great bargain hunter too!!! The embroidery is wonderful & the quilt just lovely. Lucky baby that gets to snuggle in it.

simply adorable strawberry, some lucky little preemy will cherish this quilt forever. are you sure it is your first :shock: :?: :shock: :?:

Thanks everyone :) It was really fun to finally complete one!!

:? :( I thought the quilt challenge was for 2008. I thought it would be fun and useful to use what's stashed away. Oh well,