Scrappy Quilts

I love trying different quilt blocks and experimenting with piecing. So I took all the extra blocks and added them to my “I got bored with it” string blocks and made a Happy Scrappy quilt. The owner loves this quilt. And I love visiting so I get to see it again -enjoying the memory of the journey.

Quilt size: width: 78" height: 92"

This quilt was done using the ‘free form’ quilting technique. The only fabrics in the top of the quilt came from my fabric scraps. Using 9 main color themes I created the quilt you see pictured with lots of sewing, cutting, Repeat. Machine quilted lime green circles by Barb Raisbeck of QuiltsbyBarb.

Quilt size: width: 62" height: 76"

from Birthday club I been in, I received on my B-day green and brown 4″ squares. For the longest time those squares lived in a box until I saw a clip at you tube and knew “thats it” Its so great to cuddle up with it now and look at all those squares and remember all the girls from the B-day club.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 75"

This scrappy quilt was inspired by an online quilt group. The top is a scrappy “wagon wheel” block, and the back is a scrappy “string” block. It’s put together with a “quilt as you go method”! It completely emptied out my scrap drawers, and tested my strength with its weight as it neared completion!

Quilt size: width: 120" height: 120"

I made this quilt for my dogs for their day time bed and as a decorator item in my sun porch. I wanted to learn paper piecing and the spider web pattern seemed to be fairly easy. I quilted my quilt on my home sewing machine. I made the dog bed from an old coffee table and baby bed mattress.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 72"

Floral prints and white tone on tone fabric make up this Yankee Puzzle quilt. Made from charms received in swaps and a white tonal print left from another project.

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 56"

Completing a project for a local non-profit, I ended up with lots of squares, strips, etc. I decided to just start sewing…thus the middle. I then decided it would look really cool to make a circle and bind it. It looked so good, I decided it needed little neighbors attached. Now its a big family

Quilt size: width: 55" height: 55"

Created for the Scraps to Treasures Challenge where all participants send in a pair of 6″ squares so everyone has the same fabrics to work with. This is my take on a New York Beauty Block.

Quilt size: width: 42" height: 42"

This is a log cabin quilt that I pieced a couple of years ago, it measures 96×96. I enjoyed every bit of the process. It is made from scraps, mostly Civil War scraps and others mixed in that were left over from various other quilts. My youngest son fell in love with it so I named it after him.

Quilt size: width: 96" height: 96"

The title came about because I used up all of my 30’s scraps and then, begged, barrowed and eventually ‘made’ more scraps in order to have enough scraps to make this quilt. This quilt and some others lead me to develop what I call “Scrap Strategies” a way of organizing and sewing scrap quilts.

Quilt size: width: 104″" height: 104″"

This quilt is made from scraps I’ve got from my friends. Machine quilted.

Quilt size: width: 55" height: 88"

Floral Delight is a recently completed New Year’s Eve Mystery quilt (12-31-11). I love Kaffe Fassett fabric, so I chose a couple of his fabrics along with the light purple background. This was my first long armed quilting machine experience!

Quilt size: width: 80" height: 98"

I named this quilt Humble Pie to celebrate that it began as lowly random scraps sewn into 4-patches as leaders and enders. My thanks to Mary Johnson (for her Easy Double 4-Patch design) and Bonnie K. Hunter (for methods). Linda Monasky of the Bear Paw Gallery in Alton, NH did the quilting.

Quilt size: width: 72" height: 88"

Some people collect squares, some people collect hearts. I collect strips. When I learned this neat technique called Chop Suey, I pulled out every strip of fabric that had any blue in it from my big bin. This is the result: a baby quilt for Jay.

Quilt size: width: 33" height: 44"

This is Bonnie Hunter’s 2011 Mystery design called Orca Bay. I’m a big fan of Bonnie’s designs and love her yearly mystery. I added all the red borders to make the quilt into a King. Kerry’s Quilting did the fabulous quilting. Kordova Klosure was finished in June of this year.

Quilt size: width: 108" height: 100"

Little Boy Blue started as a Farmer’s Wife sampler quilt, and when we heard our niece was expecting a baby boy in November, I thought these blocks would be perfect to celebrate his birth. The layout is my own design, and the checkerboard border is made entirely from my leaders & enders.

Quilt size: width: 52" height: 52"

This quilt I made for Verdanda, a charity in Holland. who makes dreams come through, that people, have there own quilt, to love.

Quilt size: width: 150" height: 190"

Quilt size: width: 44" height: 44"

even though red is not my favorite color, i wanted to step outside my blue box and choose red. was intrigued by the display in new york earlier this year. this quilt was already in progress, which made me love it even more.

Quilt size: width: 68" height: 74"

It really did start on a whim. It seemed like a good idea to try to use up a stash of 1″ – 1.25″ strips of fabric. Several years and 4160 pieces later I finished this quilt made up of 4″ log cabin blocks. I’m glad I stuck with it because it’s one of my personal favorites.

Quilt size: width: 64" height: 80"

This is Bonnie Hunter’s Orca Bay mystery pattern made entirely from Goodwill shirts. The back of the quilt is all of the shirt backs.

Quilt size: width: 76" height: 85"

Cojín manta realizado en aplicación a puntada escondida, el acolchado está hecho a mano.

Cushion blanket realized in application to hidden stitch, the quilted one is handmade.

Quilt size: width: 16" height: 16"

I have been working to use up small pieces of fabric from my overflowing basket of scraps. This quilt used a lot from the scrap bin. I built 6 inch base blocks of strings of fabric and then added the triangle corners. These blocks are set to form pinwheels.
I love making scraptacular quilts.

Quilt size: width: 60" height: 83.5"

I participate in one of our local quilt shops free BOM clubs and this quilt is the happy result. Each month we received a kit to make four 6″ blocks. I set the blocks in rows, alternated with a modified Irish Chain using up fabrics from my stash so the only fabric purchased was the borders and back

Quilt size: width: 83" height: 97"

When I started to quilt (2000) I didn’t have alot of different fabrics so I traded with friends and made this Scrappy Chrismtas quilt. Trading fabrics was just as much fun as sewing it.
Every year when put it on the sofa for Christmas, I think of all the people I traded with….sweet memories!

Quilt size: width: 80" height: 120"

I started this quilt with the intention of it being a lap quilt for my Dear Husband who was terminally ill at the time. He took such a liking to it and helped choose the final layout of the blocks, he asked me to make it big enough for us to use on our bed in his final days..which we did :)

Quilt size: width: 98" height: 98"

I received 81 nine-patch blocks in a guild exchange and that’s exactly how many it took to make this queen-sized quilt! I love scrappy quilts and it was hard to decide which one to enter this time!

Quilt size: width: 90" height: 103"

My scrappy quilt is created with dear fabrics, and the process began as I was learning to quilt. Backed in flannel, making this quilt a warm and cozy addition.

Quilt size: width: 58" height: 78"

I started piecing this quilt in the late 1990s, and it sat in the closet for many years because I could not match up the seams accurately. Last year I got over worrying about that and finished the quilt top! Then I free motion quilted circles in the spiderweb blocks and feather quilted the borders.

Quilt size: width: 67" height: 67"

This was just an experiment in scrappy strings.

Quilt size: width: 45" height: 68"

Stars Around the World was made as part of an online Half Square Triangle Exchange through The Quilt Show. 396 HST’s made by quilters from the US, Canada, Europe and Australia are set into a Traditional Lemoyne Star Variation. It’s quilted on my A1 Longarm. I love the scrappy beauty of this quilt.

Quilt size: width: 59" height: 59"

This is a scrap quilt with only one fabric repeated, which is why I call it the puzzle quilt – it’s a puzzle to find the repeated fabric. There are 1,008 2 1/2 in squares.

Quilt size: width: 81" height: 109"

This was a lot of fun to make and used a ton of scraps!

Quilt size: width: 70" height: 70"