Good Pattern for Scraps?

I like this one.

I've got some tea dyed muslin and 30 repros in a bag for this pattern.

lol a fat qtr is probably not a SMALL scrap.

A couple of options here - try the Fat Quarter Shop - they stock a lot of patterns specifically for FQs

Charm Squares (usually 5") Yellow Brick Road is also popular although I prefer Peace in the Valley Or you can tear/cut a lot of strips, sew them together and cut large simple blocks from a combination of the pieced and plain fabrics (string quilts)

Or just cut a lot of charm squares

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the possibilities are endless.

NAYY - I just listed the sources that showed up

Oh Sherry, first of all I had to smile when you said 'small scraps' and then described their sizes. Many of us - myself included save pieces down to a couple of inches >gg< So, you will have no problem at all with such 'large' small scraps.

I actually once Googled on 'Scrap Quilts' and got to some wonderful sites. I'm afraid I have not stored their links, but you could try.

The other thing is that many quilt patterns can be made up in, what we call, a scrappy style. This is where the fabrics are not matched throughout the quilt. The colours *might* be matched - or not; they might just be all blues in 'this' section, all yellows in 'that'.

Many scrap quilts use strips of scraps. There is one love, easy pattern like this, called Chinese Coins. You could look that up - beware, though, there are a couple of different patterns with the same name. I mean the one with lots and lots of different strips in one 'column' and a single fabric strip between them.

Roberta is our Queen of Scrap here. I am sure that, when she reads this, she will have lots more information for you. . In message , snipped-for-privacy@aol.com writes

lol - that is stash sized in my book - scraps are bits less than 4 inches square in my stash ;-)

I have a few free scrappy mysteries on my site (scrappy September on the current site and eternal rainbow on the old site) go to the last part to peek at the result and see if you like that as a "planned"scrappy quilt.

I really like the Bento Box pattern. Very striking with contrast values/colors. Best for the bigger scraps though.

I have just started making a few of these out of my huge collection of florals I bought with no particular pattern in mind. You can see tham at

also have a collection of sewing theme fabrics that I will have to dosomething like this with when I get the scheduled items done.Debra in Idaho

I tend to make star blocks in either 4.5" or 6.5" (my scraps tend to be small). Don't worry about matching blocks, just try to keep up with your scraps. Eventually you will have a stack of stars to play with, and you'll be surprised how well they fit together. Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap

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Not only are there lots of patterns using scraps, there are also hints and tips on organizing your scrap stash. I had a huge tub of scrap pieces, saved from many quilting projects. I've been working through them, using a modified scrap system, and last summer I finished 5 lap quilts to give to my guild's community quilts project. My husband called it making quilts from "garbage", as he had threatened to throw all my bits and pieces away, as I was not getting around to using them!

Yes! That's the place I couldn't remember this morning. Thanks Susan. . In message , Susan Torrens writes

Horror of horrors - FQs and 10"s aren't scraps - they're Stash, and you can never have too many of them.

Sally, have you learned NOTHING? Here's the correct reply:

Scraps this large are clearly useless. Please send them all to us so we can properly dispose of them for you. (A few bars of chocolate will help with the proper disposal rituals.) We can also dispose of half yards and yards if they are bothering you, too.

Always ready to be of service,

From scraps your size, you could do something like this out of 9 inch blocks and 3 inch strips.

Debra in VA See my quilts at

I was suffering from shock. However:

Scraps this large are clearly useless. Please send them all to us so we can properly dispose of them for you. (A few bars of chocolate will help with the proper disposal rituals.) We can also dispose of half yards and yards if they are bothering you, too.

Always ready to be of service,

I'm so proud! *sniff*

Thanks for all the links posted. I looked at them all, and found some really interesting possibilities. It's difficult to tell when one is being laughed *with* or laughed

*at**, so I"ll offer an excuse anyway: I have only finished four quilts so far, and always intentionally bought extra fabric out of fear that I'd run short. That's why the leftover pieces are large.

Sherry

Me, too, Sherry! If I think I need 1/2 yard I get a yard. I'd rather have way too much than need just one more strip and not have enough. : > )

Oh Sherry. From me it would *never* be laughed *at*. I've had too much of that in my life. My smile was simply that - a smile for someone inexperienced who thought those pieces were small now, but in a year or so will be hoarding every last square inch of a fabric she loves.

I did think of reminding you not to 'sigh' when you have to ask another question, but I thought that might be a bit too personal. Don't *ever* feel guilty or embarrassed about asking questions - here anyway. Ask away. It's a good, interactive way of learning. . In message , snipped-for-privacy@aol.com writes

Again, no laughing at - just a smile.

Here in the land of £9 a yard ($17) fabric, the smile was from someone who dives into the sale offcut drawers of any LQS, searching for any usable scraps of any size! - Yes, I actually buy scraps!

Apart from scrappy quilts (just nearing the end of a Karen Stone one which uses lots and lots of different fabrics) there's applique too - need lots of different bits for that, and if you have some bigger pieces you can co-ordinate the two - the bigger pieces in the main body of the quilt/hanging/bag/cushion, and the itsy bitsy bits in the applique/star block etc. in the centre.

Another use is as a border - just piece a long strip of co-ordinating scraps, and they look really impressive as part of the border.

So be prepared early - invest in some plaggy bags for sorting and a big box labelled 'Stash'. You will be amazed at the rate you will need further boxes.

Ahhhh, Sherry, after you have been 'around a while' you will find the diff between and betwixt the smiles and giggles....until then don't be afraid to ask which way we were thinking......

In all the years (yikes, is it really THAT long?) I've been on here, I'm hard put to find any 'laughed at' instances. 'course some of us do have standing 'feuds' trying to OUTDO one another (Pat W and I on refining our Begging Skills with Mz Ragmop being our esteemed Teacher, for instance) Hi, Pat : )

Just remember we all learned to sew, stitch, or quilt ONE STITCH at a time.....and know what? We still all stitch ONE stitch at a time -- I don't care how many stitches ( plural here) are on the quilting needle before you pull it--they still went on one stitch at a time and we still are refining our frog stitch (and those still come out ONE STITCH at a time even when you use your rotary cutter as an aid : )

Hope you stay around a while and share your quilts and quilting with us...like to think of this as being a King-Size-Cyber-Quilt-frame and we all are sitting round it on our chairs ( we do have individual chairs that are ours forever--they're put up when we are away for awhile and brought back down when we return) and sharing chocolate/licorice/etc and swapping stories just like our foremoms did

Butterfly (who did NO BEGGING in this entire epistle)