WHAT DID I DO!

well... since you asked.....

just send them to me and I will tell you what they can be used for

What are they exactly - dark colours?

My immediate answer would be string piece them into "fabric" to be cut into large simple blocks, make scrappy log or half-log cabin quilts, or crazy quilts

What about some of the "classic" scrap or FQ patterns? - YBR, Peace in the Valley, Turning Twenty, etc or this is a favourite over here

There ya go! I knew you could get my mind working again. LOL BTW, are you familiar with Australian fabric by Loralie Designs? My LQS is getting in brand new stuff from Australia, and this is the first designer. All pink stuff, great for baby and children's quilts, but I like the designs.

I should have guessed you would want to put your fingers in my stash! LOL

Well, would you like to put them all in your car and drive up toward Eustis and we could work on this project all this week end. If it doesn't get done, you could just leave it here for me to worry about! Barbara in Central FL Land of the Killer Tornadoes

I'd have a ball making a sampler with all those fabrics adding some fabrics from my stash to lighten the darks :-)

That would be so much fun! Wish you were a little closer to Boca Raton.

Sounds like you have two TURNING TWENTY quilts just waiting and ready to go!

Kate in MI

Make scrappy! Pick a design you wanted to do anyway. Sort your FQs -if you can sort them into color groupings that are more or less the same value for each color, that's great. Otherwise, sort into light, medium, dark. Then cut your light, medium and dark pieces without worrying about color, just value. Assemble the blocks, making the fabric combinations as random as possible. You might need to buy (or shop your stash) for e.g. one light that will tie it all together. It will be a wonderful quilt with lots of movement. And if you don't like it, just send it to me! Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap

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What did you do?? Well, for one thing, you just waded into a nest of 'fabriholics' shouting "FQs!! HELP!!!!" (think of waving fresh meat in a school of piranhas...) About the only you haven't done is to tell us where you keep your chocolate goodies. Keep up this dangerous behavior, and I suspect you won't have to worry about what to do with your treasures anymore! I can see the stashpirates running up their jolly rogers and testing the wind with their fingers now! chipper ;) tsk tsk-such innocence-you'd better send it here for safekeeping. Who's your buddy???

add a few contrasting fabrics and you could make a hidden wells quilt. ok, where'd i put the link.....

I love The Buggy Barn patterns. I have Buggy Barn Crazies and their Cone Flower Crazies patterns- both are the kind where you stack your FQs, cut according to the pattern and then re-arrange the fabrics to sew the blocks together. Of course, I had to adapt the Cone Flower Crazies to a PFP pattern so I could control the colors- Leslie, The Control Freak strikes again. VBG Their patterns would be a really fun way to use up al those FQs!

Leslie (just plain ol' crazy!) & The Furbabies in MO.

Hurricanes

That looks like a fun and easy pattern! Quick, that's what I like.

Howdy!

LOL !!!

Thanks, Chipper.

Yeah, that Jan, she opened the flood gates. Jan: you asked for it!!

Btw, Chipper-dear, very good post. As Queen of the Beggars I'm giv> What did you do?? Well, for one thing, you just waded into a nest of

Hi Jeanne,

I love this - I too was looking for something to use some special material I have. Thanks,

Hi Jan, Well, you could always send them to us Vic. Aussie ladies, we could share them ? or work together to make one beautiful quilt for you. Of course they would have to come to me first.:>)

Jan, check out Miss Rosie's Quilts, by Carrie Nelson. She does a lot of patterns that are fat quarter friendly, and many use fairly dark colors. And the Fat Quarter books by M'Liss Rae Hawley are also good. You might want to add a single lighter fabric as background and to coordinate a lot of darks. There are lots of ways to use these. The newest Eleanor Burns book is "Quick Trip Quilts" which give the look of Trip Around the World, but without the matching and there is one size that uses 1/4 yard of 6 different fabrics plus border(s). Easy and fast.

Have fun, that is most important.

Pati, > ACK I purchased 41 assorted fat quarters which came today. I am

. . . . . and just how many would be left by the time they got way out west to me??