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    coffeebreak's Avatar coffeebreak is offline Senior Member
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    Default How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    So for this one quilt I did, I have a lot of pieces that didn't measure right for the quilt and I had to redo them. So now... I have alot of really small squares...about 3inch by 3inch and some 4 inch by 3 inch and some 2inch by 3,1/2 inch etc pieces and not always that same size...but about. I want to put them together to make a panel for pillows to match the quilt in my living room. I have heard of "scrap quilts" which uses these odd pieces, however, in searching on YouTube..I find only only tuts that show how to use strips and you sew the strips onto a foundation piece,and make it large, then use a template to cut the size strips you want etc.

    However, these little pieces won't do that. They are small squares/rectangles. So if I sew one down to the foundation, then sew another one next to it, after 3-4 of them, I will have an odd side that I can't cover.

    I don't think I am explaining this right, but maybe you can get the point of what I am trying to say...how do you use up your small scraps? Scraps that are around 3 inches in size, but still not all the same size?

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    Default Re: How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    Cheri. you go to Bonnie Hunter's site (at quiltville.com) and down the right hand side you will see a couple of dozen free patterns for doing just this. Bonnie calls those little pieces 'crumbs' and by crumbs she sure knows what to do with them! Its also worth having a look at her scrap management program at the same site.

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    Default Re: How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    I'm making a spiderweb quilt with mine but I'm going to take a look at the site that Mary B has mentioned.
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    Default Re: How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    Quote Originally Posted by MaryB View Post
    Cheri. you go to Bonnie Hunter's site (at quiltville.com) and down the right hand side you will see a couple of dozen free patterns for doing just this. Bonnie calls those little pieces 'crumbs' and by crumbs she sure knows what to do with them! Its also worth having a look at her scrap management program at the same site.

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    Thanks Mary...really cute site and good ideas. I'm bookmarking it. My problem is tho...all these little pieces are about the same size...when I place them together, I can only go that size bigger as there are no "bigger" pieces. And if I sew one on to the origination piece...one side is left unable to be sewn. I know I can sew them into about 2,1/2 inch "jellyroll" strips, but I was hoping for more than just straight vertical and horizontal strips. I might be asking the impossible....

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    Default Re: How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    Quote Originally Posted by MaryB View Post
    Cheri. you go to Bonnie Hunter's site (at quiltville.com) and down the right hand side you will see a couple of dozen free patterns for doing just this. Bonnie calls those little pieces 'crumbs' and by crumbs she sure knows what to do with them! Its also worth having a look at her scrap management program at the same site.

    Mary B
    Mary..I don't get the "Orca Bay" issue other than it is a place in AL, but boy, that red one looks amazing! Thanks for this site..lot of good ideas!

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    Default Re: How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    Cheri, out of little scraps scrappy quilts are built. Sounds like they would be good to use for some paper-piecing.
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    Default Re: How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    Sorry ladies, for those of you who went to bonnie's blog looking for her free patterns, I have just found that they are no longer listed down the right hand side of her site, but have their own tab at the top - under 'Free Patterns'... what else!. I have made four of them, but it doesn't seem to have reduced my scrap supply a lot LOL!

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    That's really a fantastic site. I love her ideas for scraps.

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    Default Re: How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    Good morning. You can iron a coffee filter flat and lay one scrap right side up and lay another scrap face down on it. Sew 1/4 inch, finger press open, sew another piece on, finger press open and keep adding until your circle is complete. Trim up your circle and use them somehow in a quilt. It would be good for small pieces and be different at the same time. This is on my to-do list. :-)

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    Default Re: How doyou use up your small scraps and pieces?

    coffeebreak, leave your scraps be, and in a short time your scrap heap will grow- I swear my scraps breed like rabbits!!! No matter how many scrap quilts I make, my bins never seems to get any emptier! LOL

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