Scrap strip quilt ideas

I am happy (sort of) to say that we are back from a wonderful week in Toronto and were lucky to be delayed only one day due to Mother Na...

The crumb quilt project was a great scrap buster. I got 2 quilts out of that project. But for some reason, after all the mess all over my sewing room, and working several months on those crumb quilts, I still had a huge pile of scraps!! They just seemed to multiply!!! So I decided to try scrap strips instead to see if I could lesson my scrap mountain. I put my scraps into piles strips that were about the same length. I had 6 or 7 piles of different lengths. I pulled two from the first pile…

Looking for scrappy strip quilt patterns? Here ya go! The first question would be - got scraps?! I bet you do!

(Edited to add: see the finished quilts HERE) Back in January I cut my string scraps that were less than 2.5" down to a uniform width of 1.5". Since then they've been aging in a couple of large ziploc bags. This weekend I decided the time had come to do something with those scraps! As many scrap quilts have made I remain amazed by how many quilts can hide in a scrap bin. Scraps are irresistible to me. Much more so than yardage. I had an idea in my head for what I wanted to do with these…

Hi, all! May! The lovely month of May has arrived, with beautiful springtime weather to enjoy and the end of this year's Hands2Help Chall...

Top US quilting blog, A Quilting Life, features some Stunning Examples of Scrap Quilt Patterns Made with Strips. Click here now to see them all!!

Short strings – HeartStrings Quilt Project

Tilda Harvest Blog Hop - Mini Tutorial - She Quilts Alot

It's no secret I've been on a mission to use up all of my scraps this summer and I've been having fun doing it. But after five, yes five, ...

Transform your fabric scraps into beautiful new scrappy quilts by making string quilts. A tutorial from NewQuilters.com #stringquilts #stringquilttutorial

Download my Free 4-Patch Quilt Tutorial. Here’s a fun & easy scrap quilt to Use Your Scrap Stash! It’s also a perfect Fat Quarter Stash Buster, too!

I'm all about saving time and money. When I first heard of chain-piecing, I really latched onto it. I discovered that not only did it prevent the little bird's nest knot on the underside of the fabric when starting and that it saved thread, (Have you ever noticed how much thread is thrown away as you sew? You could stuff a doll with it!), but it also kept a whole line of pieces together so I didn't have to get up and down as much as I was sewing. I could get into my groove and go. I then…

A chevron quilt using a huge variety of scrappy strips on a solid background that lets them shine.

quilt-as-you-go, QAYG,

This Scrappy September, we want you to raid your fabric stash and sew up something beautiful with all that's left of your other projects. We knew that quilters end up with lots of leftover fabrics and that inspired us to get scrappy with our September sewing! This September, we are challenging you to make a new quilt entirely from your scrap stash. Are you up for it?

Hi, all! Wow, it seems like a long time since I've written one of these posts! I find that I now miss all the scrappiness - definitely a good thing, since I have so many scraps to use up. And today I'm starting a quilt that caught my imagination long ago, but I didn't accept that it was "do-able" until I finished my Long Time Gone quilt recently! So this is my next project! Gypsy Wife by Jen Kingwell. As usual, I'm a day late and a dollar short - there's a quilt-along on Instagram for this…

Here are 50 free patterns for lattice, basket weave, interlocking and "plaid" quilts! Lattice quilts are made with strips that form a grid o...

Prints in all hues star in a Rail Fence quilt that will entice any scrap collector. This quilt-along ran February 18, 2019 - April 22, 2019.