Scrappy ideas. What do YOU do with scraps?
#61
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I love scrappy quilts but for all the scraps I can't use or want I make a pillowcase type pillow from other unwanted fabrics, stuff them with the scraps for pet beds for the local animal shelters, they give the poor animals there a little comfort. When they get too dirty to use the shelter can throw them away.
#63
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Lemoore, Ca
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I do strips, rectangles, squares and what ever I can't size, I save for my crazy quilt blocks. I put all blocks in bags and label size of block on outside of bag. I cut from 3 inch all the way to 8 inch blocks , mainly 2 1/2 inch strips. Some strips I just leave as , because I use them for strip quilts.
#64
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Webster, NY
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Here is my first scrappy quilt. It was made out of the ugliest scraps ever- but altogether it works. You have one box of strips and one of small chunky pieces. You just sew chain sew a line of the chunks to a strip, cur them apart, iron them open and then they get sewn to a strip. Continue until you get to the size you want and then cut you block size out on with your square on the diagonal.
#68
Wonderful pictures and scrappy saving ideas! I saw this one on Pinterest: Make hexies whenever you have a few scraps and start a box to collect them. Click for a great picture of hexie organization by Elena Roscoe:
http://pinterest.com/pin/140807925821249886/
http://pinterest.com/pin/140807925821249886/
#70
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 109
Came across this blog recently - think I'll be trying it!!!
http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2011/...ape-quilt.html
http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2011/...ape-quilt.html
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