Saturday, October 23, 2010

Making it work

After my initial scrap shock and distaste, I've decided that this is a challenge.
To make these scraps work.
In an attractive way.
To prove that ugly scraps can make pretty quilts.
So...
I sorted them by color.
This is red.
So far, so good.
Scrap Solution?

18 comments:

  1. Yay!! Looking good.
    Now, if only my machine would come home from the repair centre, I should absolutely do the same to my ton of scraps...

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  2. The certainly do work, but then again, I love those REDS!

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  3. They work indeed! Love those red blocks!

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  4. You have some beauties there Anina! Wish I had red scraps to play with. I'll have to work on that.

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  5. I was going to suggest the mono-color blocks the other day. I've made a few quilts this way with scraps and I love them. You can see them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamaurchin/tags/campingquilt/

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  6. Gorgeous. And boy howdy...do we all have our share of scraps!

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  7. Very pretty! I'm starting a scrappy quilt next week.

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  8. You've got no worries. I have no doubt that you are going to make something beautiful.

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  9. Good for you! I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. So far, it looks great!

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  10. working with scraps just takes a little thought but you can usually turn out some nice things from them.
    Karen
    http://karensquilting.com/blog/

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  11. Yay! I am glad to see you working with scraps you hated. :-)

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  12. I think that is what has kept me from working with my scraps up until now. I don't like them much. There is a lot of "old" fabric that I must have bought for some reason but can't remember. I'm working with pink today. From dark burgundy to light pink and I really like the overall look of it even though I don't like most of the fabric. This has been a fun experiment so far.

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  13. What do you do with them? Have a giveaway!

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  14. Excellent plan! That pile of red does look promising. :)

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  15. Those blocks look VERY nice, congrats!

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