shy

Most any pattern can be made into a scrape quilt..But it is a good time to use your imagination..I have made some by just adding pieces as u go..Since most of the time.People stay in the same color value when they buy..It usually works into a nice looking quilt..no cutting..or very little.

lynnie

I was going to suggest what DD said the mystery train ride going on now is great. try that.

rj.neihart

This is ALLLL I've made, scrappy quilts. Great way to use colors, create designs, and have fun! I've gone out to google and asked for scrap designs, and wallah, received so many to look at that it made my choices harder. have fun!

dcamarote

I don't know if I am the only one to do this, but a lot of my scrappy quilts I don't use a pattern. Many of them are donated to charitable causes and I just do whatever blocks, etc I like.

Shorebird

I absolutely LOVE Bonnie Hunter's scrappy quilt patterns.......I am just now putting the borders on her Smith Mountain Morning pattern, and I love how it turned out!!

sherryl1

Beautiful!!!!

memepat

I'm working on a scrappy now that I'm enjoying making because it's easy and it's using up my strips of fabric. It's rail fences and pin wheels. Good luck with your chose - I know it's hard to pick one. Happy quilting.

MargeD

When I began quilting, I wanted all my fabrics in the same colorway, matching, etc., etc. Then I had this "brilliant" idea of making a family reunion quilt with family colors. The first quilt had green, purple, black, blue, teal, red, and yellow fabrics At the previous reunion 2 years before, my brother and SIL suggested that each family (original siblings) pick a color and wear t-shirts that color so that my uncle from CA, who had never attended before could tell who belonged to whom. The tradition still goes on, so I received fabrics in those colors and being a little OCD, decided that each color block would represent the siblings and their children. I had 7 blocks of green, however, I used the album block pattern and somehow it all worked out beautifully, as I added one block for our parents. I did this for 2 reunion quilts, did I say I can be a little OCD, then picked red/white/blue, blue, red, black (a beautiful black and white log cabin), etc. and this year the quilt is purple and white. I have found that any block will do, some had special meaning, like "Farmer's Daughter", made in memory of my sister who had recently passed away, basket blocks, whatever, and I have overcome my matchy/matchy quilts and making these scrappy quilts took me outside my comfort zone, but I think it has made me a better quilter. I would check through quilt magazines, quilterscache.com, etc., pick a block and go for it, I think you will be more than happy with your quilt.

Onebyone

Scrappy is easy. Sew darker fabric scraps to lighter fabric scraps to make the block of your choice.

oksewglad

Onebyone...yes, that's the secret..just putting final border on a large quilt made of very small squares.