Scrappy Again! Quilts

I love to work with crumbs of fabric. I was inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s work with crumbs and a quilt of Joy Saville’s. I sorted my crumbs ( I save anything larger than 1″) and started free piecing.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 63"

I took a ‘crazy quilt’ challenge literally using about 125 different fabrics, a bit of my black & white collection. Victorian stitching took over and I had a blast trying out fancy stitches and finishing with a stitched swag border to complete the design. Paperpieced and machine embroidered. Enjoy

Quilt size: width: 16" height: 16"

During December of last year, I challenged myself to make a 7.5″ block daily for this quilt. I had made several quilts from many of these fabrics and was growing tired of them. This quilt used up the main portion of my scraps from these Moda fabrics and some others I had that blended with this.

Quilt size: width: 65" height: 85"

A bright and cheery scrappy quilt made for my daughter. All flower centers are hand appliqued. This quilt traveled with us on our move across the country. 7 states and 2 years later she finally had her quilt.

Quilt size: width: 96" height: 84"

Scrap Bin Buster – half square triangle of light/dark arranged to create a diamond pattern.

Quilt size: width: 68" height: 88"

I had to sort my scraps, the tubs wouldn’t close! I cut lots of 2 1/2″ squares then pieced 4 patches and it became this! I’m not good at scrappy – too much of a control freak, so was pleased that it began to fall into groups of colours. I added the red/ cream HSTs for unity. My son, Joey’s quilt.

Quilt size: width: 64" height: 80"

This quilt started out as Kansas Troubles Quilters 5″ charm packs – from as many lines of their fabric as I could find. Since all of the Kansas Troubles lines coordinate, I knew I could get the scrappy but pleasing look that I wanted.

Quilt size: width: 90" height: 104"

an old fashioned pattern made out of 30s repros; machine pieced and hand quilted

Quilt size: width: 68" height: 80"

MONTANA is a bold scrappy machine quilted square of brightness for any neutral colored wall.

Quilt size: width: 36" height: 36"

Quilt size: width: 93" height: 93"

Years ago I picked up a bag of vintage blocks and immediately wanted to reproduce them for a quilt. “S-crappy Economy blocks” was written on the bag and for a long time I thought that was the name of the pattern…it’s not…it was just a bag of inexpensive scrap blocks!

Quilt size: width: 64" height: 75"

I made this from bundle of fat quarters and scraps from stash. I love how the colors blended!

Quilt size: width: 72" height: 84"

This quilt is made with 20 fat quarters. The pattern is a variation from Thimble Creek called Licorice and Lattes.. I gave this to my Dad in 2008. Scrappy Trails fits the Cowboy that he is and the backing has horses on it. I enjoy the simplicity yet character that this pattern gives a quilt.

Quilt size: width: 72" height: 72"

I love a controlled scrappy. When I decided to go green, I had to enlist the help of my friends to acquire the 300+ fabrics. Then it took 2 months to put them in value order. The border is raw edge, fussy cut leaves and FM echo swirls to mimic leaves blowing in the wind done on my Sapphire 830.

Quilt size: width: 68.5" height: 87"

I made a round table topper and used a 10degree wedge ruler. So what was left was a lot of fabric and a lot of strips cut into odd wedge shapes and lengths. So I made this wall hanging. I called it Sushi, because to me it means ‘all mixed up’. I left the angles and the widths to add character.

Quilt size: width: 24" height: 50"

When I was pregnant with my first son, I decided to clean up and get rid of stuff, and make something for my son that he would have for a lifetime. Since I had a lot of was jeans, I made a quilt using my old denim blues as a thunderstorm rolling in on the horizon with the sun behind the clouds.

Quilt size: width: 36" height: 72"

This is a Disappearing 9 Patch pattern with appliqued pieces. The little girl it was made for had a bug themed receiving blanket but out grew it. I decided to make her a big girl quilt with bugs somewhere on the quilt. The quilt is named for her. By the way, she loves the quilt!

Quilt size: width: 54" height: 61"

Twirligigs is a scrap quilt that I made from 5″ squares of Kaffe Fassett fabric. It’s a variation of a disappearing nine patch quilt that I came up with for my Double Nickel Quilt Challenge.

Quilt size: width: 39" height: 52"