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Sorry if this is a redundant question. I've done a search but can't seem to come up with a description of "scrappy quilt." Does it just mean your scraps to make a quilt? Is it a method of how you cut your fabric? Or is it something else altogether? Hate to appear so dumb, but hey I am a blonde!!! In any case, I just can't seem to get a grip on what exactly "Scrappy" means as it relates to quilting.
Hi Carol,
Scrappy means different things to different people. I love scrappy and to me it is both using my scraps up by paper piecing or traditional piecing, depending on the size of fabric. I love the cacophony of color and generally will use a focal solid to bring the blocks together in a harmonious blending to show off the blocks. I like the challenge of making something unique out of bits and pieces.
some folks like to use their charms or jelly rolls as a scrappy look.
It's just different strokes for different folks.
Hi Blondie,
Thanks for this info.....I think get it now!!
Hope that toe is feeling better today!!! It sure made me think twice about cleaning out my pantry - LOL
thanks Carol ~ that toe is so ugly and I do believe it will never again fit a shoe! I will be hobbling a few days for sure. Reckon that my Sis will be cooking for a few days. My own personal yay and smile for the beleaguered toe. Go look in my albums in one of the finished projects albums. There are a few projects that are totally scrappy - one is a pineapple style quilt and another is a purse that I utilized lots of small pieces. Have fun with fabric.
Blessings
Blondie
I define "scrappy" as anything that you didn't have to go out and buy...made from scraps in your stash. I have some yardages that I would call scrappy...I have had some for 15 years. OK, yes, I am a fabric hoarder!!
Ouch....but hey - sis is doing the cookin....I could go for that in a big way. I'm kinda lucky in that respect though...when the hubs retired he took over the kitchen. I have to bite my tongue sometimes, but I can do that if I don't have to do all the cookin.
Hopping over to look at your albums now.
My understanding is that scrappy means you've used A LOT of different fabrics to make a quilt. They can be bought, exchanged or left-overs from other sewing projects.
To me scrappy means exactly that. Something that is made by using many different fabrics. That can be from a specific line or manufacturer, but to me the true scrappiness of a piece had dozens of different pieces of fabric in it.
For me scrappy is making do with the scraps I have from other projects. This is my scrappy hand pieced carpenters wheel.
To me, scrappy is made from pieces of fabric that are leftovers from other projects - a mish-mash of color, maybe tied together with one central focus fabric.
http://forum.missouriquiltco.com/mem...-scrappy-1.jpg
Even quilts made from pre-cut packs can be 'scrappy' as each block tends to be different even though the colours tone.
For me picture 1 above (yellow and grey) is hardly scrappy as, from a distance the blocks are very similar - but the string quilt is definately scrappy!
Almost any quilt pattern can be made "scrappy". Many of the Jacob's Ladder quilts are made with only 2 colors, but there is a scrappy one posted on Quilter's Cache. Go to page 2 of the directions & click on Dana's quilt. The Depression Block is designed for scraps. Jenny's String Quilt is a great way to use up various sizes of scraps & strips. I've been using up scraps in a 9 Patch Star. You make a 9-P 6.5" center block, then you can use a dif. fabric for each star point. I also used Jenny's pattern for the Star Spangled Patriotic quilt, but I made my pcs. 3.5" instead of using 5" charms. I used pastel baby fabrics to make a very nice baby quilt. Let your imagination run, & you'll come up with many options for using up those scraps. JCY
So many beautiful quilts show up on a Google image search of scrappy quilts!
Kateskloset....I have a few pieces older than that! about 25 years ago my mom was moving out of a large house and had kind of stopped sewing as much as she did and told me to go through her fabric and take what I wanted. I have two fabrics about 5 yards each, that I still have! No idea what ever to use them for, they are pretty strips, but just don't know what to do with them. but I can't throw them away! I don't do well with strips so that is the main reason I haven't used them but then agian.. use them for what? LOL!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kateskloset
I'm not a scrappy quilt person..but as I have learned it... it is literally a quilt made out of scraps....pieces of you yardage that are to small to be used for bigger things. Scraps can be anything smaller than a fat quarter. Fat quarter and up are considered "usable fabric". and scraps can be as small as 2"x2". NOt for sure, but I seem to remember that somewhere I read that they got that name because "back in the day" when fabric was scares...they used every single "scrap" of material they had...whether it be a bit of fabric from the hem of the dress they cut off so the shorter girl could wear the dress or a section of a shirt that was all that was left after it was literrally worn out...like the lower part of the sleeve below the elbow when the shirt's elbow area was worn through and now a hole was there!.
SCRAP QUILTS - Traditional quilting history asserts that the majority of scrap quilts were "make do" projects, quilts constructed from leftover patches in order to be thrifty, and use every scrap of fabric available. Many scrap quilts probably were made in that way, especially during hard times, but perhaps just as many scrap quilts were made by quilters who loved to sew with lots of fabrics.
my mother in law used to make scrappy quilts back when you used what ever fabric had been out grown but not out worn.
Can you tell me what pattern you used for your scrappy quilt? Love it and think it would be ideal for using up fat quarters I've been collecting and my new Shape-Cut. Thanks