Scrappy Quilts

I made this for a friend way back in 2003 in a desperate effort to reduce my fabric stash! Seven years later Ann has her quilt and I have even more fabric. This quilt was a joy to construct with its one inch squares and black sashing. I modified a pattern seen in an Australian quilt magazine.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 50"

I used 1 1/2″ strips from my scrap drawer to make this simple spiral log cabin quilt! The whites are even scrappy!!

Quilt size: width: 42" height: 42"

My favorite charity quilt pattern of scrappy maverick stars boxed in a variety of fabrics. I also use different fabrics for the borders and scrap binding from other projects. It is stitch in the ditch for blocks and each star tied with RWB floss – a QOV charity quilt.

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 48"

Cosmati II from Bella Bella Quilts by Norah McMeeking.

Quilt size: width: 48" height: 48"

Made this quilt for my son and DIL as a wedding present. All done from scraps. It is all hand pieced and hand quilted. Took a total of 3 years to finish. Needless to say, they didn’t get it on their wedding day, lol.

Quilt size: width: 100" height: 112"

This quilt was made for my daughter (who is almost 5.) It is very scrappy and took a long time (and lots of fabric) to make. Each flower has 4 layers on it. It was a very fun pattern to make.

Quilt size: width: 108" height: 90"

This quilt was requested by a member of my Charity Cross Stitch Group for a lady undergoing Chemotherapy. She wanted something for her to take to the hospital with her as she sat for hours recieving treatments. As time was a factor, this was made by hitting the scrap bag and it was made in a week.

Quilt size: width: 39" height: 74"

This quilt my interpretation of Scott Joplin’s piano piece, Maple Leaf Rag. The blocks so around and around like the piano.

Quilt size: width: 68" height: 69"

I cut up lots of scraps from my stash and used the pattern for this kind of hidden star. Then I thought the quilt needed a little pizzazz, so I added appliqued moose on the bottom of the quilt to give it a focal point. I like the cheerfulness of this quilt & donated it to a charity.

Quilt size: width: 72" height: 72"

THE INSPIRATION FOR THIS QUILT WAS FROM A QUILT PROGRAM ON HOW TO USE UP YOUR SCRAPS I CHANGED THE DESIGN AND ADDED THE HALF SQUARE TRIANGLES IN EACH BLOCK AND THE SASHING INBETWEEN THE ROWS.

Quilt size: width: 58" height: 86"

I have this hanging in my livingroom. It was made over an 18 month period and hand quilted. It is literally out of scraps. The beauty of a paper pieced quilt is that you can use scraps and scraps that go back 40 years. Even the back is an old white cotton sheet. It was finished in September 2006.

Quilt size: width: 78" height: 89"

This quilt is what I came up with when I started digging through my scrap bag and laying pieces out. I love all the whimsical animals – unicorns, frog princes, sea horses and orioles!

Quilt size: width: 28" height: 41"

This quilt started as a “leader/ender” project (ala Bonnie Hunter) and grew and grew and grew.

Quilt size: width: 95" height: 95"

This quilt was made using scraps of various sizes, pieces from 21st quilts and clothes plus black homespun. It has a calico backing to continue with the theme of using up what was on hand. I even managed to use up a partly made Christmas Stocking one of my children made. Try and find it. Happy days.

Quilt size: width: 63.3/4" height: 86.5"

I love to make scrap quilts! This is my latest.

Quilt size: width: 127" height: 174"

My first ever hand pieced quilt. I have 3 boys so I wanted to make a “pretty quilt”. The pattern is called “Leanne’s House” by the Australian designer, Leanne Beasley. Although it doesn’t show up very well, there is a lot of embroidery all over the quilt. It was also hand quilted.

Quilt size: width: 45" height: 45"

Made for my niece’s 20th birthday in March from all the bright strings in my stash and then some. Border blocks are crumb blocks. Quilted with a serpentine stitch horizontallyin yellow and then around the border with a varigated thread.

Quilt size: width: 60" height: 80"

This is one of my very first quilts. The bits and pieces used have been saved from many different sewing projects from home decorating projects to clothing. This quilt was a gift to my cousin at her wedding to complement a picnic set for 2.

Quilt size: width: 56″" height: 56″"

This quilt was pieced for my sister and her husband for a wedding present. It uses only polka-dots and stripes for material and black to make it pop. It’s been free-motion quilted.

Quilt size: width: 80" height: 98"

I made this quilt for a dear friend. Her husband makes drift wood lamps out of cedar. We traded, a lamp for a quilt. I love civil war reproduction fabrics. I loved it so much I didn’t want to part with it.

Quilt size: width: 90&ququot; height: 100"

Triangle piece quilt, I do not know the pattern name. It is made with 70’s and 80’s fabrics, some from my Mom’s stash and some mine. The gold, orange and brown triangles organized themselves into diamonds within diamonds. I swear they told me where they wanted to be. I wanted to make it random.

Quilt size: width: 80" height: 60"