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Whose Scraps in Scrap Quilts?

I've been sewing for about 30 years. Fortunately for my quilting hobby, which began around then but really took off ten years ago, I've always sewn cotton. But I haven't always sewn batiks, nice tonals, or fabrics that are in the same tone or hue. So every time I see a new "Scrap Quilt" book I have to wonder--whose scraps? If a scrap is something I have to buy, it's not a scrap. It's a FQ, or a small something, but it wasn't part of a dress I made my Mom, or a scrub for my boss, or part of that sleeveless dress which was a little big at the shoulders but I sure did like that lavender calico.

I am slowly catching on. Increasingly I make my clothes in tonals--preferably ones my stash needs! But it's hard to pass up prints, like that canine chronicle one at equilter, or the big chickens with smiling sunflowers at Keepsake. I'm already imagining how I could use those real scraps in quilts, once the clothes are made....

Dogmom

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dogmom
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Scraps from making non-scrap quilts?

Hanne > I've been sewing for about 30 years. Fortunately for my quilting hobby,

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Hanne Gottliebsen

Howdy!

If it's my fabric and I say it's a scrap, it is. If it's my quilt and I say it will be scrappy, it will be. 'Cause I said so.

Usually, scraps are my leftovers, left over from another piece of fabric or another project or someone else's stash. There are no clothing scraps in my stash; I don't sew clothes, because I don't have to.

Books about Scrap Quilts seem to be what I'd call "Scrappy" quilts, where there a bigger variety of fabrics, many that don't match or coordinate as in a more planned project. But not necessarily from leftover scraps.

And that's as deep as I can think about scraps.

R/Sandy

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Sandy Ellison

you can use them, I've just done a scrap quilt, but being quite new to quilting, I did end up buying fat quarters, but there are some of my own scraps in there! towards the end, I was running low on pieces and didn't want to cut another strip from a fat quarters, so I cut pieces from the large print design I had cut out for the border and background and they blend in perfectly, even ones where half is blue sky and half is a motif.

Anne

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Anne Rogers

I am happy to use up other people's scraps for them. Noblesse oblige. And I do choose DH's shirts. Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap

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Roberta Zollner

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