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 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 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 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’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!!
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 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 really got it when you made the comment about throwing out scrap pieces of food. I immediately thought of my husband when he builds something. He doesn't keep everything single scrap piece of wood, only the largest best pieces. So no, throwing away scraps isn't a waste of money. I think that we as women constantly have household budgets in mind. Its ingrained in us! Lol
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!!!
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 have made way to many scrap quilts and 2021 is the year of no scrap quilts. Giving myself a break from them. I packaged up scraps and gave them to charity. Feel a weight taken off me and know they will be doing good for the less fortunate. Now I can concentrate on what I want to do. Great video. Thanks
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 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 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 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 love scrap quilts. I have fabric from at least 20 years ago. I do make quilts from coordinating fabric also and use my yardage to put some coordination in the quilt. I have found that if I buy yardage off the bolt, I always buy least 1/2 yard so I can cut into a layer cake if need be. I sort by yardage, colored scraps, fat quarters by color or collection, jelly strips, 10 in squares, 5 inch squares, and 2 1/2 inch squares. I just started collecting small bits in a container for crumb blocks. I blame that on Pat. Thank you, Pat. I love putting to use all my scraps.
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.
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
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 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!
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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’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 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.
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 😬
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!
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.
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.
I am a wanna be scrap quilter. I’ve planned to make quilts for years and have not made one yet. I have the fabric but can’t get started. Life always gets in the way. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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. :)
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 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 am a Scrap Queen. Most of my fabric comes from other quilter's discards. I cut squares from 10" down to 1.5" and 95% of my projects are scrappy. Love the multi colors you achieve with scraps, plus I hate waste.
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
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 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.
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.
I've just started collecting/saving/sorting scraps. It's hard to cut leftover quilt fabric into sorting/scrappy sizes when all I want to do is get the next project going! But there are so many beautiful scrap quilts that I want to make as well. I guess I want my cake and eat it too. Hahaha! Thanks for the great video. I need to go bin shopping! lol
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 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! ❤️
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.
This topic is very helpful. I am the wanna-be. I haven't been quilting very long so don't have much scraps but I love the idea of a scrap quilt. I'll have to actually make one to see if I truly have the personality to be a scrap quilter. LOL! Thank you!
So logical! I just spent a couple of hours cutting my scraps down to standard precut sizes. Also, I’d like to thank you for encouraging us to try the wave quilting stitch on our machines. I just used it on a quilt, and it was just the right thing. I’ve had my machine for probably 25+ years and had never used that stitch!
Scrappy makes me happy. Am a Scrappy Queen and ♥️ them. Scraps were the only material my maternal grandmother had to make quilts with. Have made 4 scrappies so far this year.
I'm an occasional scrapper. Just made my first scrap quilt for my daughter using 2.5" X 3.5" strips. Currently I am cutting a big basket of scraps down to workable sizes for my next scrappy. Thank you for your organizing ideas, they are very helpful.
I’ve made/make scrappy quilt and ❤️ them but no one I know feels the same about them. 🙄 I’ve struggled with scrap management and your videos are helping me get organized, thank you. As my main type of quilting is appliqué I use all those bitty pieces, I’ve now limited myself to a laundry basket that I throw scraps into while I sort and cut. A few times a week I will go through it and cut what I can. By my machine I have 1.5” squares that I’m sewing together for a footstool cover. Keep up the good work Pat your audience loves you too!
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 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.
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 😁.
I'm a scrap wanna- be quilter, never made. I'm in the middle of saving and learning to store scraps. I don't enough because I've phased out of poorer quality fabrics into better quality fabrics. Thanks for bringing us down to earth. Less waste of energy and time. I think many people now think about the environment and waste, it's not a bad idea but perhaps this is what one needs to do before making a quilt, have a plan on what to do with the scraps.
I am so a scrap queen! Lately I have been just dumping large amounts of scraps ( or part/yardages)into an Ikea bag to give away. If I haven't touched that basket or pile in over a year ,and I am not looking at what is in it because I would want to keep something, I dump it all into a bag and close it so not to look at it again. Eventually it is leaving here. I need to gain control of all my fabric because it has taken over my peace of mind and orderliness.
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'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 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
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.
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!!!
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.
This is exactly what I'm working on right now. Cutting up years of scraps. What an undertaking!!! I guess if I get them all cut up, and a lot of time passes without being used, perhaps I'll donate them. I'm hoping to make things like your traffic jam quilt. One of ,my favorite little quilts was made by my mother many years ago. It's a scrap baby quilt that was given to me for my older daughter. It's all soft pastels and white. So simple and yet so pleasing.
"By product of working", I love that. I love making scrap quilts but at some point there are scraps I don't use and I toss. Comparison to kitchen was helpful but the by product of working was perfect. My husband was a contractor and I can't begin to tell you the amounts of pieces of wood that was hauled off from jobs for the dump. I needed that description.
I'm an occasional scrapper. I'm drawn to scrap quilts made by other quilters, but I find them intimidating to make myself. Most often, I pull fabric from my scrap bin to test a block or technique.
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 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.
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'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 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 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 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’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!!
I'm a scrap queen. They are easy, minimal measuring and the colors don't care who they sit next to.
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 a guilt scrap quilter. I feel guilty about those scraps and so I make a scrap quilt and give it to charity.
Yes!!!! I love making scrap anything & Everything!
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 really got it when you made the comment about throwing out scrap pieces of food. I immediately thought of my husband when he builds something. He doesn't keep everything single scrap piece of wood, only the largest best pieces. So no, throwing away scraps isn't a waste of money. I think that we as women constantly have household budgets in mind. Its ingrained in us! Lol
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!!!
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!
This was a great chat. Thank you for helping me give myself permission to let my scraps go! ☺️
Definitely scrap queen. I only make scrap quilts. The more fabrics the better. I store my fabrics by color.
I have made way to many scrap quilts and 2021 is the year of no scrap quilts. Giving myself a break from them. I packaged up scraps and gave them to charity. Feel a weight taken off me and know they will be doing good for the less fortunate. Now I can concentrate on what I want to do. Great video. Thanks
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!
This is cool. I am an occasional scrapper…but I love the idea of many different fabrics all together
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 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 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.
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.
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 love scrap quilts. I have fabric from at least 20 years ago. I do make quilts from coordinating fabric also and use my yardage to put some coordination in the quilt. I have found that if I buy yardage off the bolt, I always buy least 1/2 yard so I can cut into a layer cake if need be. I sort by yardage, colored scraps, fat quarters by color or collection, jelly strips, 10 in squares, 5 inch squares, and 2 1/2 inch squares. I just started collecting small bits in a container for crumb blocks. I blame that on Pat. Thank you, Pat. I love putting to use all my scraps.
I'm a Queen Scrapper! Love, love, love.
Thanks, Pat! I'm an occasional scrapper. This video was very informative. I'm actually trying to organize my fabric and scraps now.
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.
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
I’m a queen 👸, 95% of my quilts are scrappy backed - love the crumbs
I am the scrap queen. I really feel like a fabric recycling fabric queen.
Pat, you make me smile every morning!🙂
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 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!
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 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 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 love the spiral bound ones because they lay flat.
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.
I love scraps quilts with all kinds of fabric from left let over fabric.
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 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 an occasional scrapper currently working on Traffic Jam. I am also working on cutting and sorting and organizing my scraps.
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 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’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!😊
All the time I love scrap quilts. Have just made 14 for a children's hospital.
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.
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 😬
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!
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
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 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.
🤔 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 a wanna be scrap quilter. I’ve planned to make quilts for years and have not made one yet. I have the fabric but can’t get started. Life always gets in the way. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
You can do it!
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. :)
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 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 am a Scrap Queen. Most of my fabric comes from other quilter's discards. I cut squares from 10" down to 1.5" and 95% of my projects are scrappy. Love the multi colors you achieve with scraps, plus I hate waste.
Great video. I’m the scrap queen. Love your quilts.
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
Check with the art teacher at the local school, sometime they will do projects that involve fabric and they love scraps
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!
Our group keeps our little pieces and use to fill pillowcases to create dog or cat beds to donate to animal shelters.
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!
Occasional crumb quilt, when my bin gets full, I decide on what color I have the most of and do blocks.
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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Procrastinating Scrapper!! Thank you for sharing….
I've just started collecting/saving/sorting scraps. It's hard to cut leftover quilt fabric into sorting/scrappy sizes when all I want to do is get the next project going! But there are so many beautiful scrap quilts that I want to make as well. I guess I want my cake and eat it too. Hahaha! Thanks for the great video. I need to go bin shopping! lol
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 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! ❤️
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 really enjoyed today’s chat an learnt something new about scrapes and very interested in doing a quilt. I have just started one. Thanks.
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.
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!
This topic is very helpful. I am the wanna-be. I haven't been quilting very long so don't have much scraps but I love the idea of a scrap quilt. I'll have to actually make one to see if I truly have the personality to be a scrap quilter. LOL! Thank you!
So logical! I just spent a couple of hours cutting my scraps down to standard precut sizes. Also, I’d like to thank you for encouraging us to try the wave quilting stitch on our machines. I just used it on a quilt, and it was just the right thing. I’ve had my machine for probably 25+ years and had never used that stitch!
Scrappy makes me happy. Am a Scrappy Queen and ♥️ them. Scraps were the only material my maternal grandmother had to make quilts with. Have made 4 scrappies so far this year.
I'm an occasional scrapper. Just made my first scrap quilt for my daughter using 2.5" X 3.5" strips. Currently I am cutting a big basket of scraps down to workable sizes for my next scrappy. Thank you for your organizing ideas, they are very helpful.
I’ve made/make scrappy quilt and ❤️ them but no one I know feels the same about them. 🙄
I’ve struggled with scrap management and your videos are helping me get organized, thank you. As my main type of quilting is appliqué I use all those bitty pieces, I’ve now limited myself to a laundry basket that I throw scraps into while I sort and cut. A few times a week I will go through it and cut what I can. By my machine I have 1.5” squares that I’m sewing together for a footstool cover. Keep up the good work Pat your audience loves you too!
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.
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.
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.
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 😁.
I'm a scrap wanna- be quilter, never made. I'm in the middle of saving and learning to store scraps. I don't enough because I've phased out of poorer quality fabrics into better quality fabrics. Thanks for bringing us down to earth. Less waste of energy and time. I think many people now think about the environment and waste, it's not a bad idea but perhaps this is what one needs to do before making a quilt, have a plan on what to do with the scraps.
I am so a scrap queen! Lately I have been just dumping large amounts of scraps ( or part/yardages)into an Ikea bag to give away. If I haven't touched that basket or pile in over a year ,and I am not looking at what is in it because I would want to keep something, I dump it all into a bag and close it so not to look at it again. Eventually it is leaving here. I need to gain control of all my fabric because it has taken over my peace of mind and orderliness.
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'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 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!!
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.
A utility cart with drawers works well for sewing notions and as a scrap system. And also has wheels for easy movement.
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!!!
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.
thank you for joining me!
This is exactly what I'm working on right now. Cutting up years of scraps. What an undertaking!!! I guess if I get them all cut up, and a lot of time passes without being used, perhaps I'll donate them. I'm hoping to make things like your traffic jam quilt. One of ,my favorite little quilts was made by my mother many years ago. It's a scrap baby quilt that was given to me for my older daughter. It's all soft pastels and white. So simple and yet so pleasing.
"By product of working", I love that. I love making scrap quilts but at some point there are scraps I don't use and I toss. Comparison to kitchen was helpful but the by product of working was perfect. My husband was a contractor and I can't begin to tell you the amounts of pieces of wood that was hauled off from jobs for the dump. I needed that description.
I'm an occasional scrapper. I'm drawn to scrap quilts made by other quilters, but I find them intimidating to make myself. Most often, I pull fabric from my scrap bin to test a block or technique.
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 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.
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.