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yes I want to make a scrap quilt and yes I save scraps. But I also crazy quilt, which uses the scraps. I also make crafts and journal covers with scraps. Not all quilters just quilt. I have also made material out of scraps and they make beautiful pillows. I know its beyond scrap quilting but I enjoy doing all of these. right now Im doing hexi needle books out of scraps and old clothing that is still usable. I enjoy just using the fabric to see what I can create....so much fun.
I am totally with you. I find that crumb quilting is a stress buster. I don't even care what comes of them but I do use them to practice free-hand quilting. My mom actually loves them and requests crumbs in table toppers, purses etc. I also like the randomness of sizes. I'm sorry, but everything 2.5 in squares is boring.
I'm definitely a Wannabe! I've made a grand total of 3 quilts in my life; and I hate to throw away anything that could conceivably be used. Some day I will have enough scraps to make a beautiful scrap quilt! That's gonna take a few more finished projects...
Yes!!!! I love making scrap anything & Everything!
I cannot imagine ever getting rid of any fabric that I have. I’m hooked. I’m eyeing women’s dresses and tops thinking ohh I’d love that material.
I am a scrap queen. And last year your organizing by color and size really helped me. I like to be able to pull the scraps by color.. I like doing organized scrap quilts, but I also like the mindless activity of crumb or scribble quits with the little pieces. My big problem now is to go and use up those orphan blocks.
I love the analogy to vegetable scraps...I save 1.5, 2 ,2.5 and 3.5strips
I am a scrap wanna be. I’ve started cutting up my scraps into sizes from 1” to 5”. I’m keeping them in baskets organized by color. Can’t wait to start a quilt. I came upon Lori Holt recently and became hooked on wanting to do scrappy. Then I found you! Love you both. I love your videos and projects.
I love making crumb quilts! I also follow Lori Holt's scrap system and scrap buster videos. The smaller bits I put into a fleece "pillow case" like shape and make into pet beds. You should make a crumb quilt as a monthly sew a-long! Thanks for everything you do, you have made my quilting world a wonderful place to be!
I’m an occasional scrapper. I make a couple scrappy quilts per year, and keep only the precut sizes. The trick for me is to make sure that I don’t have more scraps than my bins will hold. If they start getting to be too much, I stop the non-scrappy projects and start a scrappy one to get it back under control.
This is the best video ever on dealing with scraps and helping quilters figure out their IQ. I have always felt guilty because scraps are
overwhelming to me whereas many of my quilting buddies are doing magical quilting projects with them. Your comments were liberating to me!!
This is cool. I am an occasional scrapper…but I love the idea of many different fabrics all together
I'm a scrap queen. They are easy, minimal measuring and the colors don't care who they sit next to.
Definitely scrap queen. I only make scrap quilts. The more fabrics the better. I store my fabrics by color.
I’m definitely the scrap Queen lol. I love scraps and make mostly scrap quilts. Crumbs are my favourite 🤣. I know some people think I’m nuts. It makes my heart happy 🥰🥰
I am an occasional scrapper I purchase fabric by only a handful of designers so my fabrics all tend to work together. Sometimes I start a quilt with a fat quarter bundle if a particular collection but often I go straight to my scraps and fat quarter collection to make a quilt
Hi Pat...I have tons of scraps. I am currently making my third scrap quilt using coordinated colors for each block. I haven't had a good storage system for my scraps; but I intend to create one, using your suggestions. For now, I am keeping those coordinated fabric groups together in small bundles to make other scrap quilts without having to go through the time-consuming process of choosing colors all over again. Once my scrap collection whittles down, I'll cut everything left over into pre-cut sizes. For me, it is a relief to use up my scraps before starting a quilt with new fabrics. I sure enjoy your teaching style and your creative, fun spirit!
I am the occasional scrapper, I am in the process of making two tops, right now using my scraps, mostly because I have to get them under CONTROL.. I keep those sizes as well, the pre cut sizes, they are easier to work with for sure. I sew them in the middle of my regular projects..I keep them mostly in clear bins labeled as to what they are.. So I don't have to go crazy looking for what I need.. I do love these topics, I think they are helping us all corral our scraps.. The scrappy projects are wonderful as well..
I love scraps quilts with all kinds of fabric from left let over fabric.
I love the spiral bound ones because they lay flat.
Love the photos. It was fun to see the area. Love your quilt videos. Now I shall look forward to seeing your photos in addition to your quilts.
I make controlled scrappy quilts. The fabrics must coordinate with each other. When the top is done I use the leftover fabric in the backing and sometimes the binding.
I'm an occasional scrap quilter. The most beloved one I made was for my daughter....it was a nickel quilt patter "Four Patches and Friends". I used scraps of colors and neutrals - a lot of them, as she wanted a king size quilt. Finished size was 105" square. So bright and colorful.
I'm not a professed scrap quilter. I am a scrap saver. I cannot throw out scraps. I have 2 x 2 in , 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in , 4 in, 5 in, and an odd size scrap tote. My granddaughter, at age 14, made a 9-patch of 4 in scraps as her first quilt and repeated through out the process that she loves scraps. So this tells me my time is not wasted in creating this variety of scraps. Nice to know a Scrap Queen.
I'm a Queen Scrapper! Love, love, love.
This was a great chat. Thank you for helping me give myself permission to let my scraps go! ☺️
I wished I watched this video before I made my first scrappy quilt. The mountains of little pieces overwhelmed me & I have come to realise I prefer coordinating prints for my projects. I now only keep 2.5" squares but no more 1.5" squares. The scrappy quilt I've made will be gifted.
I tend toward scrap queen. I find it very relaxing and freeing because I'm not worried about making a mistake, running out, and wasting fabric. It's just scraps! But I do need to get more organized...
I do all kinds of quilts and all sizes. I just have 2 bags for scraps, one for solids and one for prints. Then when I started quilting projects (pot holders etc. ) my scraps were seasonal so that needed its own bin. With applique baby quilts, I use precuts. Its all the different types of quilts that I've made, my scraps grew. So of course I love scrap quilts.
I have never made a scrap quilt, but have always wanted to. After seeing your checkerboard quilts recently, I gathered my scraps together and for the last two days have been salvaging 2-1/2" squares out of the tangle. Thanks for the idea! Now my scraps are neat, organized, and ready to go. Now if I can just figure out what to do with the incorrectly cut strip sets that came from one of the first quilts I made! Still perfectly good fabric (lots of it). They just were cut a smidge too short for what was needed.
I am an occasional scrapper currently working on Traffic Jam. I am also working on cutting and sorting and organizing my scraps.
A utility cart with drawers works well for sewing notions and as a scrap system. And also has wheels for easy movement.
1. Yes
2. At least 12 baby quilts and at least 3 lap quilts-all for humanitarian aid
3. I sorted by fabric for baby quilts (cotton and flannel), then by color (boys and girls). Next step, sort by size.
Sounds like I’m a Scrap Queen!
I’m a guilt scrap quilter. I feel guilty about those scraps and so I make a scrap quilt and give it to charity.
I use Lori Holt’s scrap processing sizes. I process the straggly edges when I finish a project and put in a bowl and later sort them one evening a week.
Hi Pat, You should add Jolly Bar cuts (5" x 10") to your list of scrap cuts to save. The Jolly Bar books are great for using up this size of scrap.
Pat, you make me smile every morning!🙂
I love making quilts. Some even though they are a particular pattern they are still scrappy. My favorite is the blocks made on paper from MSQC. You get a lot of squares in one package. I have done three quilts using that method and it is a neat way to use up scraps. I start with a 2" white strips, but you could start with any width or color. I just make all of mine white and put them on the diagonal from corner to corner. Then as I have a scrap long enough to make the next strip I add it. Even those little triangles can be used when you get to the last strip. They blocks look a little funky when you first sew them together, but when you trim the edges they are very pretty. You don't have to use the same color strip in the middle of each block, but it does make a neat design when you sew them all together.
Our LQS, pre covid, used to bag up useful scraps and sell them for $5. The proceeds would go to charity. A win win as far as I'm concerned.
I'm a scrap queen through and through. Save all the leftovers AND dumpster dive at quilting get togethers. I have my scraps sorted by size but after more than 36 years I never thought to sort my patterns by size until just recently. Duh! Now when a bin of a certain size gets too full I just grab my 3 ring binder with the patterns using that size, pick a pattern and start sewing.
I am the scrap queen. I really feel like a fabric recycling fabric queen.
I've never made a scrap quilt. I began making The Splendid Sampler with scraps. I set that project aside and began making specific projects. I still consider that project A UFO, because I've yet to pick it back up and work on it, though the intentions have been there. I've produced so many more scraps since that project started!! Last year when you did the scrap organization, I meant to get in my studio and organize my scraps. Ugh... meant to and didn't. I've got so many bins of scraps now, I'm overwhelmed. So, I must create a management system to get my scraps in a useable state!
I’m a queen 👸, 95% of my quilts are scrappy backed - love the crumbs
Hi Pat I enjoy watching Lori Holt she does little blocks that make great scrappy quilts!! I just made her Twinkling Stars in pastel scraps turned out awesome!!! Thank you
Thanks, Pat! I'm an occasional scrapper. This video was very informative. I'm actually trying to organize my fabric and scraps now.
Keeping scraps in pre cut sizes is great if you use those. Keep the sizes that you use.
Occasional crumb quilt, when my bin gets full, I decide on what color I have the most of and do blocks.
I get scraps from my older sister alot and cut them into different size squares and sew them together by 4's or 9 patch quilts. Whatever I have left over I cut into 2 inch squares. I then use them to sew potholders.
What wonderful music and picture as an intro for you! And I also love the ending it's welcoming, , soft, and uplifting ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much!
I am a scrap queen, I am not a fan of unified quilts, though I love when I see others make them. I love to sit under a quilt and touch each different fabric and admire the uniqueness of each piece.
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I’m a squeezer ! I buy fabric for a specific quilt. Then when I’m done, I try to squeeze out one more project like a table runner or wall hanging before I move on to another quilt.I also feel like my quilt scraps are too different in style, colors, etc. to go together.
I’m a squeezer too! Coasters, placemats, mug rugs, wall hangings, etc. with my leftover projects fabrics.
Great discussion of scraps. I make a lot of scrap quilts, but I don’t do scrap quilts exclusively. I need to start a system like yours. I believe I would use more that way.
it helps to have a purpose and then have the fabric organized to meet that goal/purpose
I save all scraps and they are organized. I have made three queen sized scrap quilts that were given as a fund raiser. The first quilt, 9 years ago went for $350.00. The second scrap quilt went for $550.00. The third one is still being bid on and is at $575.00 with another month to go. All scraps, even the backing. I can’t believe they went for what they did. It was/is fun to watch the bidding.
I am in between a scrap Queen and an occasional scrapper. I pre-cut my scraps like you do into 5 inch charms, 2 1/2 inch squares, half and quarter square triangles and 2 1/2 inch strips. This year I have already made 6 scrap quilt tops from these pieces-not because I love scrap quilts but because I want to keep my scraps under control. I don’t like string quilts or collage type scrap quilts. I enjoy making pre-planned coordinated quilts but can’t afford them often. I always seem to have enough scraps to make a quilt though.
I keep some scraps & have used them in lessons on FMQ or a new block. The strings & itty bitty have gone in plastic bags for a quilt group to use as stuffing in toys & pet beds. Since you mentioned food, those various ends & peels go in a plastic bag for a friend’s pigs & goats.
I have a lot of someone else's rehomed scraps, and I'm in the process of cutting them down into precut sizes because I love scrappy quilts and want to make more of them!
Within the last year, most of my quilts have been scrap quilts. Sometimes I use your patterns, sometimes other creators and sometimes I just make them up or change up a pattern. I got into it because I can't afford to make quilts for our church group and give away a bunch of fabric. To keep my sewing area (sort of) tidy I cut up scraps and use them . I have a small stash and it is not beyond me to go to it if I think some additional fabrics will make them nicer.
I have only made one scrap quilt, it was a mystery quilt class and I wasn’t happy with the end result. Although my daughter loved it and she has it. There are two charity groups that I donate my scraps to, one of which I have joined, so I enjoy working with already sorted and precut scraps and company of good friends to sew charity quilts. Currently I have a huge bag ready to be donated. I must say I love your traffic jam quilts and would love to make one someday.
I am a dreamer. Think scrap quilts are beautiful but have not had the courage to attempt one of my own yet. Your info today was helpful as I do save many of my scraps.
I would happily pay a few dollars for a baggie of waste triangles - they are so fun to use! Whenever I see bags of sample squares that the quilt shop gets - I buy them all! You don't need a big piece of fabric when you are cutting hexgons that finish to 5/8 inch or your squares finish to 1/4 inch!
Procrastinating Scrapper!! Thank you for sharing….
I have on made one scrap quilt and that was a baby quilt. This video has given me incentive to organize my scraps. Right now I have 4 bins of scraps that are just put into the bin as they are. My granddaughters love going through the bins to pick out fabric to sew something. They are 8 and 11. I will start cutting them into 2 1/2” and 5” squares. Will be soooo much neater.
Love your videos Pat
thank you!!
All the time I love scrap quilts. Have just made 14 for a children's hospital.
I make many scrap quilts. I make others too, but as a quilter reared on the idea that quilts were made from leftover sewing fabric and “good” recycled fabric I am a die-hard scrap user 😁.
Great video. I’m the scrap queen. Love your quilts.
Right now, I'm a scrap queen...I love scrap quilts and have made quite a few. I think you make more scrap quilts than you think you do, because you have all those bins of leftover fabric that you use for various projects.
Excellent program today. Thank you. I realized I am a scrape wannabe, thinking I was an occasional and maybe I'm really a dreamer. Good to realize but sad for me because I LOVE scrape quilts, always have. I've only made a couple in 15 years. I also have the 'money guilt' you talked about. I think I'll cut some into squares and strips and throw the rest away.
you will enjoy the freedom!
I think I am a scrap wanna be. I love scrap quilts and have made a couple but I seem to have multiple other projects going on and think I'll make a scrap quilt after I finish these projects. Then another pattern and beautiful fabric will catch my interest and the scrap quilt is once again put aside.
Our group keeps our little pieces and use to fill pillowcases to create dog or cat beds to donate to animal shelters.
I'm a scrap queen I do a lot of Lori Holt quilts and that takes a lot of scraps. I buy fat quarters and cut them up into strips then cut them down from there.
Scrap Queen! I use Bonnie's system and it is wonderful. I'm trying to focus on a set group of favorite patterns that utilize the sizes so I don't have to make a lot of decisions for donation quilts. I'm also working on my machine quilting to go along with the system. Right now I piece faster than I quilt- I'm primarily a hand quilter.
I fall more as an advanced occasional scrapper. I have started making scrap quilts over the last few years. I keep 2” and 2 1/2” pieces in bins.
I have made three queen sized scrap quilts using mostly 2 1/2 inch squares and strips. These three quilts went to auction for a fund raiser. One brought $350.00, one brought $500.00, and one brought in $450.00. I was happy with those bids.
wonderful!
This was a very helpful video for me. I now know I'm an Occasional Scrapper. Good to know and it helps me with my fabric collection - and what I can really do with the my fabric. Clear eyed and guilt free about my scraps now! Thanks!
Excellent info for me this morning! I have moved into the stage of occasional scrap quilter. Just picked up my rainbow quilt (2020) from the quilter and have finished another top that echoes pieces of fabrics I have used in quilts. Am suddenly loving the look that says home, comfort, and free creativity. Thank you.
🤔 I am a Scrap Queen 👑, I love making scrap Quilt's. I have a system of sorting, and store them in the plastic shoe boxes .
I am definitely a Scrap Queen. I always joke that I will die with all my beautiful yardage intact because I'm always playing with my scraps. Every time I go to a guild meeting someone gives me a baggie of batik scraps - love them!
I’m a scrap wanna be! I’m a relatively new quilter and still building my scrap stash but will be making my first scrap quilt soon. 🤞
I enjoyed the chat today. Thank you!😊
I'm mostly a dreamer scrapper I'd say. I definitely use my leftover sashing & binding material. But I save & save scraps I never use UNLESS it's a solid. I actually use the scrap solids. I recently bought specific precuts for a string quilt. So I like quilts with specific colors and I love lots of white fabric to showcase the blocks:)
I am a scrap queen 👸 had to laugh when you said goes through the other quilters discards at retreats. My group knew me, I was offered the cut off triangles 🔺️ from their lucky stars quilt. I preceded to make them into a half square triangle wall hanging. I love love love working with little pieces. Hexagons for Grandmothers flower garden flower 🌼 🌸
I’m an occasional scrapper. I am still pretty new so I don’t have tons and tons of scraps. After one of your videos last year I took the RWB scraps I had, cut them to 2.5” and realized I had enough for a quilt. I did have to buy yardage for the border but otherwise I think it was all scraps. I had adopted your system and will be making quilts as I get enough scraps. I do like a coordinated quilt so I won’t just start slapping squares together.....fabrics need to have a color theme for me.
I started quilting as a teenager with no money, almost all of my quilts for years were scrap quilts out of necessity. I still love scraps and make scrap quilts. I don't think I am a scrap queen, I'm probably a scrap princess. Three days ago, I started a blue and white scrap quilt as I had lots of blue scraps and white tone on tone scraps. Instead of cutting them into precuts, I used triangles on a roll to make half square triangles. I think I have about 400 HST now. I did not think this would happen so fast. I love triangles on a roll. I think I will do this with most of my larger scraps from now on. HST are so versatile. Plus I can store them with the paper on to prevent wrinkles as long as I use them with the year.
Really helpful analogies of cutting g up fruits and veggies. I can pitch those little pieces! Thanks.
Have made strip blocks at the end of projects instead of storing small fabric pieces and plan to use the blocks in a quilt when I have enough, but if scraps are less than 5" I may change to saving 2.5" squares because they seem the most versatile. Thanks for the tips.
Check with the art teacher at the local school, sometime they will do projects that involve fabric and they love scraps
I am decluttering my collection of fabrics that I just had to have at one point. As years have passed they are my what was I thinking fabrics. I am cutting them into precuts and will put them in my garage sale and will also give some to friends and charities. When I learned to quilt the lady taught saving scraps in precut sizes including jelly rolls. I have added the jolly bar size as these can make cute fast quilts as well.
Pat, I've had the best time in the last few days nosy-ing around your videos! So glad I subscribed and this video is my new favorite. Turns out I'm a Scrap Queen...woohoo! But my storage is a bit wonky and listening to you helped me think of how to refine it. I'd already been honing it more towards precut sizes but I just couldn't part with 1" strips or 2 1/4...etc. I've never actually bought precuts...I just make my own from my stash since I've always been a yardage buyer. The goal has been to have a huge palette to make scrappy quilts from, they just don't start out as actual scraps. haha Thank you and I'm looking forward to tomorrow's video.
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A very helpful video today Pat! I am an occasional scrap quilter. I love organized scrap quilts especially the Log Cabin. I save 1” strips and up. I definitely want to make more scrap quilts! ♥️💕
I like to make to use lots of different fabrics but the colors must coordinate.
Great topic. I have made scrap quilts, but I think I am saving more than I use. I have 3 sizes of strips and I usually only use 2 1/2 inch strips. I have only been keeping 2 1/2 inch squares. Time for me to make another Traffic Jam. Those scraps can get out of control! Time to sort and clean out.
Took your advise and throw out alot of my scraps and bagged up material I probably will never used because I just don't like them. I'm going to donate them. Feeling guilt free!!!
I’ve only made one, and it was wonderful. I made a kingsize tulip quilt for my MIL. She loves purple, so I dug out every purple I had!
Wow! I have made scrap quilts and love them. I am guilty of buying and buying and buying lots of fabric. I store them in three bedrooms and one of my linen closets, as well as my grand son's armoire. I recently bought seven yards of Edyta's fabric from Hancock's and the warm Secret Stash from Fat Quarter Shop. No definite plans for all of it yet. I have a shelf full of Judie Rothermel's Aunt Grace and recently found a pattern for it. I never plan a quilt in full, just start making blocks and decide and decide what the quilt will look like after the blocks are laid out. It's fun and sometimes frustrating. In all, it's fun.
I am an occasional scrap quilter.......I love the way they look. Although I love when I get a bundle that is all from one designer but will put leftovers in my scrap bins. I really need to organize these so I can make better use out of them! Thanks so much for your tips on sizes! ❤️
Very helpful. Never thought about it this way.
I am the scrap queen. Not because that's all I wanted to make but because I have had many donated to me. I love applique!!! Sometimes those scraps fit right into my pictures on my quilts. I have sorted them by color and pressed the bags full of pieces. Now comes the cutting!!!
Thank you, Pat. I've been dealing with "guilt scraps" lately and just putting it in perspective of how much would I pay for them helps alleviate that. :)
I love scrappy quilts and have made a string quilt. Each block was sewn, strip by strip, onto a backing. Putting it all together was problematic because seams couldn’t be nested. There were a lot of bumps for the long armer to deal with. I want to make other scrappy quilts but hesitate to dive in.
Thanks for the info. Just starting to save my scraps so I can start on the right foot. Thanks Pat you do inspire the creative ideas in us.
Hi Pat, first of all I enjoy your video's. I am an occasional scrapper. Although looking at my fabric bins one would think that I enjoy collecting/hoarding fabric ;) I am in the process of reorganizing my fabric stash looks like the local quilt guild is going to be getting a basket full. I am ok of letting things go. Thank you for the video..it made me think about my style of quilting. Happy sewing :)
I take each of the fabrics from one quilt and make an Ohio Star using my accuquilt die so I have a top with each block representing each quilt. It helps me have a memory of my quilts because I give most of them away. Now that I've finished the flimsy of Ohio Stars I'm going to choose a different die and keep going. It might be a idea for your fabric lines Pat Sloan.
Thank you, you have just given me mental permission to throw away all of those little triangle scraps that I hate but always felt obliged to keep. Unless it’s Tula Pink of course, nothing Tula produces would ever be thrown away 😬