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9-patch. If you use the same fabric for the odd (four) squares, and as alternate blocks, you'll have a scrappy Single Irish Chain.

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Lorraine

You can get great results by combining simple blocks. Try this:

Row one: solid background block, quarter-square triangle block with background top and bottom and scraps left and right, repeat..

Row two: quarter-square triangle block with background left and right and scrap top and bottom, scrappy nine-patch, repeat

Repeated, this makes a glorious pattern of stars. I've got a work in progress pieced like this, where the background is Kona Snow and all the scraps are prints. The quilt is yellows in the middle and shades out toward green and orange and pink and blue, etc. with the corners being dark reds, dark blues, dark greens, and browns. There are Dutchman's puzzle blocks in the corners, and a border of flying geese that shade all through the rainbow running round.

Something like this takes some planning to get the shading to work, but it is worth it, and it uses up a LOT of little pieces.

M>

Yesterday on Simply Quilts, Billie Lauder taught her "Odds and Ends" quilt. This was an old show and I love this quilt. (My family does not . . . . they claim that their favorite clothes go missing too often.) Try this link

The quilt is basically a four patch or half square trangle bordered by courthouse step strips. The trick is to alternate the courthouse strips between light and dark. The above link has a picture of part of the quilt.

Thank you for the suggestions. Carla

Do you have a quicky way to do that quarter square triangles? Someone in my guild did a trick, but I haven't made any qsts yet, believe it or not.

Your quilt sounds pretty. Can't wait for pictures. I love scrappy!

My first quilt is a scrappy quilt of sorts, picture in the link below under beading, quilting, etc...

Um, since the scraps in each block are different, no. The whole blasted thing was cut and sewn piece by piece. I only speed cut the backing squares and triangles. When it is done, I am going to call it "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

M>

I love it, Melinda!