What Is Your Favorite Scrap Quilt Pattern?
12-21-2012, 04:16 AM
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Love the quilt in the first post....gorgeous. Another good web site to check out is MaryQuilts.com. The patterns are free for downloading and they are great for scraps, too. I love Quiltville.com as well. I've used a few of the patterns for Quilts of Valor.
12-21-2012, 06:24 AM
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I think that's a beautiful scrap quilt. Sometimes I have trouble trying to be too matchy matchy, but I'm getting better. I make a family reunion quilt every 2 years, and although I pick a color, I have to use what I'm sent, so it winds up being a scrappy quilt, but it teaches me to go beyond my comfort zone. It's nice to step out of the box once in a while.
12-21-2012, 06:29 AM
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I have done several quilts like this with a variety of blocks. The last three I put a "frame" around each block in a color that coordinates with the block, and then put the sashing between. Each block looks like a quilt in itself. I named one "Quilt Show".
12-21-2012, 07:51 AM
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I'm not normally a huge scrap quilt fan, but I do like them now and then. I made one scrappy quilt before, pictured below, but I haven't ventured into it, since. I think I need to make a few, though. I've been throwing all of my scraps into a tote bin for a while, now, but it's needing to be emptied. So, what are some of your favorite patterns for scrap quilts? I know about log cabins and crazy quilts, but are there any other ones?
In my opinion, the single, double or triple Irish Chains are the best ever. I am working on a triple Iriah Chain with the white blocks being embroidered with Sunbonnet Sue--really special for a granddaughter.
12-21-2012, 09:33 AM
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My favorite is the Depression Block which uses half square triangles each light and dark of any fabrics. i made one and it was pleasing to me. I got the block on line and it's easy and certainly uses up scraps.
12-21-2012, 09:59 AM
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Any quilt can become a scrappy, but we use the string, nine patch variations for a lot of our charity quilts. My favorite though is to take a bin of squares, at least 2 1/2 inches in size and just start sewing them together. The only time I allow myself to color match is if the two squares that i am sewing togther are the same color. I start with twos that become fours, that become 8's to 16's, then I start putting the squares together. I have also used a panel that has several various size blocks in it that I cut apart and added borders to make them divideable with the size squares that I have used and placed them randomly in the quilt.
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