patches of time

Oh, Taria, those are my favorites as well. Before I left NY I made 5 scrap flimsies from my scraps. I found a pattern online and foundation peiced them all. I went through 2 bankers boxes of scraps with an over- full box left that I gave to my sister. When I get time, I want to FM them all for gifts, hopefully by this coming Christmas. I know, I'm an optimist!!!

"My" quilt is that too,Taria. The one I made for me for my bed. Sounds awfully selfish but it isn't. Every bit and piece on the quilt is a memory from other quilts for loved ones or strangers that I've loved too. A neighbor/friend/quilter was in my bedroom recently while I was hunting something for her - maybe an AA battery or a book - and she started patting my quilt saying, "I remember when you put this in the Puss and Bonnets quilt and this one's from the Dutch Rose". Yes, yes. Scrappy quilts are forever wonderful and full of precious memories. Polly

Howdy!

Yaaaaaay! Cheers for the scrappy, cheers for the memories, cheers for each & every piece!

Are you lacking anything for this quilt, Taria? A bit of green? A small piece of forest? A fairy peeking out of that forest? A Tx. flag? Cowboy boot? Longhorn head? Rag doll?

Amazing scrap quilts are awesome!

Cheers!

Ragmop/Sandy

I am slowly making blocks for a scrappy quilt for me (us). Once I have enough blocks I will make the top, but probably send it out for quilting. I really enjoy putting the blocks together out of my scrap bin, so many memories are held by those fabrics.

Lizzy

Taria, makes me happy to visualize you stitching away at your machine, loving the fabric and reliving the memories and emotions of all those quilts past. I love scrappy quilts. I have two precious quilt tops, one from each grandmother. In them I see dresses I wore as a child, the blouse my mother wore to church, Granny's dress that I could feel soft and smooth when I put my head in her lap, Papa's shirts ... Love for sure, stitched up and used to warm a bed, a heart.

Polly, I can't even contain the notions of selfish and you in my head at the same time.

Love you all, Sunny

I'm very fond of scrappy quilts. I, too, collect the pieces of binding that are left over for use in a later project. Because I put my binding on differently than the rest of you all (mine is cut about 1.5" wide and then folded to make something similar to commercial binding), I use my leftovers as binding on scrappy quilts. It's surprising how it all seems to play nicely together. It doesn't matter if the binding fabrics have been used in the quilt -- it all just seems to look just fine :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^<

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I have no idea if my way of doing binding is more traditional or not. I saw it demonstrated years ago on an Alex Anderson episode and it just seemed easier & quicker to me :-). I put it on in one pass and use a decorative stitch -- even if it's only a multi stitch zig zag :-)). As for scrappy quilts, my favourite was the patchwork quilt I made for my DMIL years ago. I used bits and pieces of the clothing I had made for DD and DH and myself, even some stuff from a few early baby quilts and such. Ma really loved that quilt and used it all the time and she loved knowing that there were pieces of her Arizona family sewn into it. As for the house -- not a hint of anyone interested in the last two weeks. Heck, we haven't even had anyone come look at the house since about 25 April! No biggie -- won't stop me from hauling my Irish tush to Lizard Land and living in the cabin and letting DH stay here until the house sells. I'm bad -- LOL -- but after almost 40 years together, I can live with just seeing him every few months. No way could I live in this house with just about all of ***MY*** treasures packed away. It's just a house now, not a home and it's cold and it echoes and I'm not very happy here right now.