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I really want to encourage frugal quilting - lets face it - it is what making a quilt was all about - cutting up bits of old clothing to reuse as a quilt to keep the family warm at night. We don't tend to do this now as a lot of our clothes are a cotton knit - stretch fabric or have polyester in them.

I personally like the look of scrap quilts - some people don't.

To make an eye appealing scrap quilt you still need to choose your material wisely - use the colour groups I shared in part one. Don't just put any old fabric into your scrap quilt you still need to try & keep to the same colour group.

Quilt shops sell grab bags of scraps
Heres my one I got for $10.00 this week - all greens.

The jewel tones pop out at you first - these I will not be using in my current scrap green & Pink quilt - so they get put away in my stash for another project one day.

These scraps will be then cut up into

1 1/2 inch strips & 2 1/2 inch squares (for scrappy log cabin or scrappy basket quilts)
Log Cabin quilts traditionally the centres are red or yellow - but you can do what you like.

2 inch squares & 5 3/8 inch blocks for a scrappy nine patch quilt

2 1/2 inch squares & 4 1/2 inch blocks for a double four patch scrap quilt.


Nothing get wasted.

I like making scrap quilts as then I can buy a fat quarter here & there when I visit a quilt shop (which doesn't blow the budget)- get the wonderful feeling of holding, choosing & then owning new material - I personally think this is the best part of quilting

So how are you all going on choosing your material for our frugal block of the month? And little did you all know you will begin making a scrap quilt at the same time.

So gather up some material - get some storage boxes - I use plastic boxes & label them - then as I cut my material for a quilt I'm making - the scraps get cut down to 1 1/2 strips, 2, 2 1/2 & 4 1/2 inch squares and put in each container.

Tomorrow we begin cutting our fabric.

- Posted by Leanne of At The Good Life.