Using up scraps
08-24-2011, 01:20 PM
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Sounds like it is going to be a beautiful quilt. Just think, even if you had to purchase more white you used up the pink. Maybe the next quilt you can use up some more scraps and not have to buy additional.
08-24-2011, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by sweet
Buy the bolt, buy the bolt buy the bolt! :)
08-26-2011, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by leatheflea
I'm on a fabric diet, trying to use up my stash and my scraps. Two scrap totes full means its time to make a scrappy. Tons of pink, so I decide to do a awareness quilt. Pulled out all the pink and all the white, and white on white. Well guess what, I dont have enough white and I've none in my stash! I've got cream on cream, tan on tan, but no white and no white on white. I'm half way through peicing this 96x96 blushing beauty and now I need to go shopping. Kinda defeats the whole reason for making the quilt. Might as well just buy a whole bolt with Joanns half off. No matter how hard I try to be a good girl the universe and the powers that be have another plan....I like it!
Pink, peach and yellow ..... combines into a lovely sherbet
like color scheme... or pinks, reds and greens make a pleasing fresh garden like theme, but two tote bags of scraps, won't make much except allover scrappy quilts
like wonky (or not) ohio stars, strippy. or blocky -like a DP Nine Patch.
09-03-2011, 04:49 AM
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Why does the quilt have to be 96x96? Make something your scraps can become. Lap size it great for scraps.
Can you fiddle around with what you have to make it a center and add borders? I had an art teacher who once said, "If you can't draw a straight line, make it look like it's SUPPOSED to be crooked." I've lived with that for 30 years of quilt making. Let the quilt be what it wants to be. Quilts are like spoiled children, they want their own way. . . and they usually win.
Can you fiddle around with what you have to make it a center and add borders? I had an art teacher who once said, "If you can't draw a straight line, make it look like it's SUPPOSED to be crooked." I've lived with that for 30 years of quilt making. Let the quilt be what it wants to be. Quilts are like spoiled children, they want their own way. . . and they usually win.
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