There is so much freedom when it comes to creating a scrap quilt. My philosophy when it comes to scrap quilting basics is anything goes. I mostly just dump my scraps in a bin, dive in and create. I do have a few tips for you if your feeling a little unsure. Plus a little giveaway for on lucky reader.
An easy way to choose fabric for your scrap quilt is to pick a print with lots of different colors in it, that you just love. Pull scraps from your stash that match those colors, going lighter and darker. Value in a scrap quilt matters a whole lot more than color.
Use a variety of fabrics when creating a scrap quilt. It’s a great place to get rid of fabrics you don’t like. They blend in and add a fun element to your quilt. As Bonnie Hunter said, ” If you don’t like a fabric you just haven’t cut it small enough yet.”
Any quilt can become a scrap quilt by simply using a variety of fabrics. I try to give all my quilts a scrappy feel. They are my favorite type of quilt. Some of my favorite patterns to use are log cabin blocks (I have several tutorials using these kinds of blocks), stars, four and nine patches, and rail fence blocks. You can find many scrap friendly patterns here.
I hope these scrap quilt basics get your creative juices flowing and help you bust through your scraps. I have a copy of the latest issue of Love of Quilting where I’m featured as a scrap quilter for one lucky reader. Leave a comment telling me what color tends to pile up in your scrap bins for a chance to win. Good luck!
Blues, browns and creams have been adding up a lot recently for me.
Seems my scrap pin is full of oranges. Congratulations on your published quilt!
Your scrap quilts are an inspiration. I enjoy the freedom of scrappy. Green is always plentiful in my scrap bins!
I have a lot of red, green and orange that pile up.
Red is the winner, lol
Anything with blue – so aqua, navy and all other shades inbetween.
I always seem to accumulate a lot of blues. I wish I had more reds and oranges.
Has to be blue-any kind of blue!
I prefer making scrap quilts over ones that follow a pattern! Thanks for all of your ideas
Seems like blues are the ones that languish in my scrap bin the most. Thanks for the great tips.
Mine tend to be almost any color as I use a lot of different fabrics in my quilts.
It seems that blue and grey pile up. I have 2 friends that give me their scraps, so I have started to not buy any fabric! Well, at least I try, lol. Mary Ann
Red is the most common these days in my scrap pile
Seems that Blue shades are always in abundance in my scraps Lol… Love your Scrappy quilts! & Yay! for being published too! That has to feel sooooo AWESOME!! Thank you for chance to win your give-a-way too! 😀
My background fabrics seem to build up quicker than anything else! I love scrap quilts!
Only have a small scrap collection, but blue seems to have the most.
I’m collecting purples for a future quilt.
I have way too many blue scraps…..
Tan to brown is a full bin right now. I think I need to sort them by value but where do you draw the line?
I tend to have a lot of reds in my scrap pile. I wish I had more low volumes in it though.
I love seeing your wonderful quilts! I seem to have an over abundance of greens in my stash
How cool that you’ve been published in this issue! What a great tribute to you and your love of scrap quilting!
All shades of pink tend to pile up in my scrap pile. Pink just makes me happy and I love to see it hanging out among the scraps, too.
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reds
Civil war colours so browns,creams,reds etc
Mostly blues–all shades of blues. I make Quilts of Valor so I have a lot of reds, too.
My scrap bag really is a hodgepodge of colour! I seem to love everything 😂. Right now there is an abundance of orange, my favourite colour.
Lately it’s been reds.
Oddly enough, it’s yellow gold. I don’t know where it comes from, it’s just there! Love your blog and IG – so motivating 🙂
Love all these tips and tricks. I need to get busy on some scrappy blocks! I have a ton of pinks, blues and greens 🙂
You have a great eye for putting scraps to good use. Thanks for sharing your tips. Congrats on being published! My scraps are overflowing with medium and dark blues. I’ve been trying to use them up in the last couple of years but the bins seem to be growing faster than I can use them.
I seem to have a lot of blues in my stash. I love the improv quilt you posted and am thinking I need to just jump in my stash and do something like that. You are an inspiration! Thanks for the giveaway1
I love the look of scrappy quilts! I buy lots of background fabric so white is a color always in my stash!!
I love the look of scrappy quilts and my church quilt group always use up plenty of scraps but I always have lots of white leftover from all the background fabric!!
Browns, Golds mostly. Thanks for sharing!
Love your posts and encouragement. I have a lot if reds and pink scraps because I use those colors a lot. 💟
Since my quilts are very scrappy, no one color seems to predominate in my scrap collection. But my stash has an awful lot of blue, green, and p;urple.
I have lots of blood red currently. Will look nice splotched in a scrappy quilt though!
Lavender colors abound right now for me!
I agree with the “variant with different prints”. Patterned fabrics look so good as well as Holiday fabrics, novelty prints, text prints, and low volume prints. A quilter can never have too much fabric.
I love the idea of getting a quilt that has a lot of colors in it so it’s interesting to look at. My spouse and I are thinking about getting a few quilts for the people we love this year. We need to find some local materials that we can use to make our own quilts so they are unique.