Tuesday, June 9, 2020

scrappy strip quilt


The vortex 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 vortex 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 (let's say they were 5 inch strips), and sewed them together, then without cutting strings, I sewed 2 together from the next pile (lets say they were 7 inch strips), and on down through all the piles. 




When I had sewn 2 together from each pile, I started back at the top.  I picked one from the 5 inch pile and sewed that to the existing 5 inch strip, without cutting strings. 



I kept my nice big scissors near by, there was a lot of chopping at the machine.



This was a donation quilt.  So, I used a sheet for the back, and wrapped it around for the binding.  I was careful to start and stop my quilting just 1 time because when you're carrying the backing around to the front, you can't just go running off the edge when you're quilting.  



Do you have a good way to get rid of scraps?  I'd love to hear your ideas.

12 comments:

  1. I am so glad to see your posts again! I'm making some scrappy log cabin blocks and of course I still make string quilts for meditative sewing as I catch up on my youtube channels...

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  2. Thanks for sharing your pretty Scrappy strip quilt I think I'll try that I've got a lot of fabrics men's shirts that'll look great for this

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  3. I absolutely love this quilt! For the width of strips did you stay with 5" and 7"? What was the finished size of this quilt? I think I will make a FEW FOR QUILTS FOR KIDS! Thanks so much for sharing!

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    1. Hi Connie. The width of the strips is what ever that group happened to be. It may be a good idea to decide ahead of time to make them a certain width. Those rows were probably about 5" and 7". Thanks for your comment.

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    2. I've decided to make one of these in late summer colors, blues, greens, browns, sunflower, etc for chilly nights to come later. I love the scrappy feel!

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  4. So, one row can be 5’ and next one can be 7’ I notice that the seams don’t match up. I like that.

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  5. What was the finished size?

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  6. Hi. Hello. Howdy from Tx. I am working on and off a scrappy string quilt from what I saw on Missouri Quilt Shop. Thank you for sharing. Your quilts are adorable.

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  7. What’s the stitching called on the front of the quilt? The curvy lines I mean. And how’s it done? Thanks so much

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  8. My only brother died the last of April. I asked for some of his shirts to make a strip quilt. One of his grand daughters spoke to him daily. Hope to get it going after cutting strips from other cotton fabrics soon. Then she will memories from shirts he wore. He fought hard to beat cancer three times.

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  9. How long was each strp when finished sewing scraps together? 60 “, 70”?

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  10. It doesn’t matter. You can make the strips any length or width that you want simply by adding more rows or columns. There’s no real pattern here. You have to be willing to just play it by ear! 😃

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