Scrappy Quilts

I started piecing this quilt years ago. I collected fabric from every where I went. I wanted the fabrics to look vintage. This was my second quilt that I quilted on my Longarm machine. Although my fabric tastes have changed from when I started this quilt I love it now it is quilted.

Quilt size: width: 54" height: 75"

Art quilt made from scraps ,some of which are hand dyed.

KTAA Exhibition 2013
Awards Third place
Judges Choice

Quilt size: width: 28" height: 42"

I started quilting again, after having my stuff in storage for 4 years,when we found out about our first grandchild. She’s. due in November. This is my first rag quilt. (BTW, her mom is a Sooner grad, and her dad is an LSU grad – that’s what the 2 oddball squares are!)

Quilt size: width: 36" height: 36"

Scrappy Quilt. From Bonnie K. Hunter
Mystery Quilt 2011 Orca Bay. My first mystery quilt.

Quilt size: width: 84" height: 92"

Using a pattern from a 2010 magazine, I cut up all my Christmas stash into 11/2 and 2 1/2 inches. I now have two beautiful quilts to use as gifts. I used everything up and pieced the leftovers into strips to add to my backs. So happy to have found a place where they all look great together.

Quilt size: width: 70" height: 78"

I’m a huge Kaffe Fassett fan and have collected his fabrics for quite awhile. Love the colors and large scale prints. This was one of the first quilts I made that really pulled together some of my favorite Kaffe fabrics. This quilt is based on an original design and available through my website.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 70"

This quilt was born out of my frustration with a growing pile of scraps. It was designed as I went along. Initially I was just organizing the scraps by color. It has a cozy fleece on the back and the quilting is free motion meandering.

Quilt size: width: 44" height: 76"

I love to make Christmas tree skirts. This pattern, which I designed, is great for using up those scraps. This one is Country, but also great in brights, blues, neutrals..

Quilt size: width: 54" height: 54"

Overwhelmed by my scrap pile, I decided to piece what I had into blocks. I didn’t expect to have enough blocks for a queen size quilt with fabric left over!

Quilt size: width: 80" height: 82"

This is my first attempt at a double wedding ring. My daughter asked me to make this for her for her Best Friend for her engagement. I used peaces from 8 jelly rolls for the rings and for the binding and it is complete applique.

Quilt size: width: 78" height: 80"

I had been saving fabric samples for years, I and was happy to find a tutorial on Deanna’s blog. I modified it to be rectangle and to use my 1 1/2 inch fabric samples instead of 2 1/2 inch

Quilt size: width: 38" height: 60"

I made this to giveaway at our 2012 Family Reunion. I had a sweet label embroidered for it with last names of family and in honor of our grandmother. Fun idea.

Quilt size: width: 55" height: 70"

This is a scrappy sample of all my batiks and a couple of charm packs of batiks I ordered. It is my most masculine colourful quilt, which I quilted on my domestic machine at home

Quilt size: width: 76" height: 91"

This mini quilt was for my nieces 21st birthday. The embroidery of the little girl is to symbolise her letting go of childhood, and the tree is to symbolise my prayers for her – that she will remain rooted in the foundations that her childhood has given her and that she will flourish as an adult.

Quilt size: width: 16" height: 24"

Peaches, corals and cream
Daughter-in-law picked the pattern and colors for my future granddaughter due in mid September.
She lives in Arizona, and I live in Colorado. We kept texting and sending pictures of fabric for the quilt. Just finished it yesterday, I quilted it myself too.

Quilt size: width: 54" height: 54"

I enjoyed to make classic kaleidoscope pattern with my scrappy bag on hand. The combination of colors turquoise, pink, black and blue was a bit extraordinary for me but inspirational.

Quilt size: width: 39" height: 47"

Sewn in 3 different countries. Started w/a Flying Geese block exchange in Seattle, WA. Pieced the columns in Colombia. Machine appliquéd the leaves while back in Seattle. Quilt finished in Kenya. Pattern based on Julie Hendrickesen’s Small Measures. Longarm quilted by Deanna Gaudaur in Kenya.

Quilt size: width: 68" height: 106"

This pattern is Geese in the Cabin from Quilter’s Newsletter March 2005. It took years to paper piece then it waited more years to be quilted. Just for fun, I calculated the number of pieces when it was done — 2925 ! It’s made from my stash of older batiks. The back has additional piecing.

Quilt size: width: 72" height: 104"

I was trying to use up some nickel squares but didn’t have enough yellow. So, pulled out some scrap yellow fabric and starting cutting. And now I have MORE nickel squares than when I started!!

Quilt size: width: 48" height: 64"

Most of the 9-patch blocks were made by other members of the Ninigret Quiltes and swapped at meetings. I needed to make 10 additional blocks to complete the design. The layout was inspired by the Niner pattern by Thimble Blossoms. I plan to use up leftover binding after it is quilted.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 76"

This is an adaptation of the New York Beauty design that I made to try different positions for the blocks. I wanted to also use some of my scraps that were taking over my sewing room!

Quilt size: width: 80" height: 80"

This is a simple 9 patch quilt using fabric from my stash but the border has hearts spilling over the edges because there is just so much love to give with this quilt. Pattern by Lynda Milligan & Nancy Smith from their book “Plentiful Possibilities”

Quilt size: width: 58" height: 78"

I love to reuse fabrics, especially denim. This I made from old denim jeans and all of my pink scraps.

Quilt size: width: 64" height: 80"

This quilt is made up of 4inch hexagons. Every piece of fabric was from my stash, I used almost every red fabric I owned.

Quilt size: width: 40" height: 80"

This quilt started very innocently with someone telling me about using used dryer sheets as a foundation for scrap quilts. I googled this concept and this is how I upcycled used dryer sheets and a lot of 1 1/2″ and smaller wide strings. It has been a fun and addictive work in process.

Quilt size: width: 74" height: 80"

I threw all the pieces in a bag and pulled them out at random.

Quilt size: width: 50" height: 57"

Trying to use up scraps, I randomly made various style blocks of strips and HST’s and small squares, added a few random blocks left over from other projects, and ended with this nice colorful quilt that seemed to suit our trailer perfectly. So it’s on the road with us all summer!

Quilt size: width: 60" height: 72"

My scrap quilt was made as part of the Sew Scrap Along at Pleasant Home blog back in 2012. My challenge was to use only red, green, blue, and yellow fabric from my scraps. The border and backing was from my stash.

Quilt size: width: 68" height: 79"

I was in serious need of taming my scrap boxes! I found the tutorial on Quiltville and made a Spider web quilt. I am pleased to say that I no longer have a scrap problem

Quilt size: width: 74" height: 84"

In response to a rainbow challenge, I started making these wacky stars from scraps left from another rainbow quilt. The challenge seems to have disappeared, but no matter. The quilt isn’t assembled yet, but should be shortly and then I hope to send it along to Alberta for the flood victims there.

Quilt size: width: 45" height: 54"

Using my tutorial and blocks from Friends+Fabric=A Modern Stash Bee along with a few extras for a good size, I created Tassels, a quilt that I treasure. Sewn together at our first MQG Retreat made it even more memorable, playing eye spy of designer fabric at 2am. Pieced and quilted by me at home.

Quilt size: width: 61" height: 73"

This quilt was finished in 2012. The smallest squares finishes at 1″ x 1″. Design is by Nancy Eriksen and it is beautifully quilted by Quiltestallen.

Quilt size: width: 49" height: 76"

The play of light and shadow reminded me of sitting under the Boardwalk in Virginia many years ago. The song played over in my head constantly. It is all batiks and the outside edge are shells.

Quilt size: width: 65" height: 51"

I pulled equal numbers of Kaffe Fassett-style fabrics and neutral tone-on-tone fabrics to make this pattern. However, it looked pretty boring. So I tossed the tone-on-tones, and substituted some of Kaffe’s neutrals, or rather, less-than-in-your-face fabrics, and it turned out exciting!

Quilt size: width: 48" height: 60"