Keep Scraps Under Control with 10 Easy Blocks
Cut Scraps to Size so You’re Ready to Sew When You Have a Minute!
Are you being overrun with scraps? If so, you’ll appreciate this compilation of easy and quickly made scrappy blocks.
Karen Brown from Just Get It Done Quilts has put together a video demonstrating ten easy blocks that can be made with scraps.
Quilt by Susan Gray.
Her approach is to keep “Mount Scrapmore” under control by making a few blocks at a time during and between other projects. Over time you’ll produce a great scrap quilt.
She provides a lot of great scrap-management tips along with the block instructions in the following video.
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Karen’s method for dealing with scraps as they accumulate is the foundation for her scrappy-blocks system. She’s created an informative video that outlines her approach (which is referenced in the video above).
By creating strips of specific sizes she’s ready to make any of the blocks in the first video when she feels inclined to do so. Her system can easily be adapted to work with the types of blocks you like to make.
Watch to learn all of her great tips for taming your scrap pile.
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Love your suggestions. I will be cutting my scrapes today!!!
Great ideas
Thank you
Diana Murray
I enjoyed your video looking forward to more
I do love the suggestions so you don’t feel overwhelmed.
Great Scrap busting video!
Love your ideas. Waiting to see more. Love the way you save scraps…..and then create those “not set in stone” quilts. I have some larger pieces that I put in picture frames to hang in my sewing room…….now I think instead of looking at them they will find their way into something new. Thanks God for scraps
Love your ideas for scraps and the “not set in Stone” ways to use them. Have some framed as pictures now they will return to be a new creation. Looking forward to seeing more of your work and ideas.
Great ideas! Have started cutting the binding tails into 2.5 in blocks. Teaching my granddaughter to sew them together with chain piecing and then make a 4 patch blocks. She loves sorting the blocks! She is doing half of the work for me!
I have bags of cut squares. I almost always cut up my leftover fabrics from scraps. I just don’t get around to using them. So now I will try to keep some next to my sewing machine to try. Thank you for the encouragement to do this.
Small odd size scraps are used by the Bella Vista, AR quilt guild (Calico Cut-Ups) to fill dog beds for the local animal shelter. All pieces must be cotton otherwise a dog may dig & scratch to get whatever it is they don’t appreciate!
The pillow itself is made with larger scraps, stuffed, and sewn shut on a sewing machine! Everyone & dogs win!!!