Scrappy vs Many Fabrics
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Yes, a scrappy quilt is a type of quilt. You can use either scraps or lots of purposefully chosen fabrics to make this quilt. The clean out the fridge kind will likely be more random and the one with purposefully chosen fabrics might have a tendency to be more planned, but they are both scrap quilts.
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Historically a "scrap quilt" was made with leftovers from anything that the homemaker had made using fabric; clothes, curtains, bed sheets, blankets etc. Back then fabric was not bought specifically to make a quilt. Today a "scrap quilt " is a quilt made with leftover fabric from other projects, nothing is bought for this quilt, use what you have. A scrappy quilt is a quilt made using many fabrics that have been bought specifically for a scrappy look. A scrap quilt and a scrappy quilt are two different quilts entirely. MHO
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Historically a "scrap quilt" was made with leftovers from anything that the homemaker had made using fabric; clothes, curtains, bed sheets, blankets etc. Back then fabric was not bought specifically to make a quilt. Today a "scrap quilt " is a quilt made with leftover fabric from other projects, nothing is bought for this quilt, use what you have. A scrappy quilt is a quilt made using many fabrics that have been bought specifically for a scrappy look. A scrap quilt and a scrappy quilt are two different quilts entirely. MHO
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For me it is definitely using left over fabric from past projects. Anything goes in what I call my "littles" quilts. I just don't think of fabric bits as scrap but I do use the term for understanding in the general sense of what kind of quilt any particular one is.
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It seems when I see the term "scrappy" - it means one of two things -
"Clean out the refrigerator" - which is using all sorts of odds and ends that may or may not coordinate, just to get them used up.
"Sampler plate" - which is buying/using small amounts of many different fabrics that (usually) seem to be somewhat coordinated and are deliberately acquired for a particular project.
How do you define them?
"Clean out the refrigerator" - which is using all sorts of odds and ends that may or may not coordinate, just to get them used up.
"Sampler plate" - which is buying/using small amounts of many different fabrics that (usually) seem to be somewhat coordinated and are deliberately acquired for a particular project.
How do you define them?
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I call mine leftovers. I make string blocks with them and put them together with sashing that matches the predominant color in the blocks. It seems that when they are sewn together, all sorts of crazy colors look pretty good. I am in the process of trying to use all leftovers and not buy new fabric. Except, the wonderful quilt shop in our town is closing for good......so I have had to buy a bunch.
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