This post today is to help you with making scrap quilts from stash. Quilters usually do not lack for scraps. Sometimes we feel like we are buried in them. I’m in the same boat. After making a lot of projects in the last year, I found that I had a lot of project boxes with leftover fabrics in coordinating collections. And most of them had a LOT of fabric left. Easily enough to make a larger throw or even more.
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When I saw that Fat Quarter Shop was once again doing a Scrappy September on their blog, I decided this year I needed to join in. I actually put off a few pending projects that I want to make and committed to getting at least a few scrap projects at least started this month.
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Scrap Quilt – Bonnie’s Beehive Quilt
The next pattern that I found that I thought would work so good for scraps was the Bonnie’s Beehive Quilt from the Quilt Bee book by Bonnie and Camille. I already am working on the You Have My Heart Quilt from the book using scraps and am almost finished making the top.
For the Bonnie’s Beehive Quilt, you make 20 blocks and use 800 half square triangles. Not quite sure why I thought this would be a good idea, but I feel so empowered by Triangles on a Roll to make half square triangles quickly.
Scrap Quilts from Stash – Fabrics
I had a pretty good stash of Folktale fabric by Lella Boutique left from the Fat Quarter Shop’s Triangles on a Roll Quilt Along a few months ago. I decided to use the remaining fat quarters and scraps to make the Beehive Quilt.
I started by dividing the fabric into color families and then went about matching up the prints with Bella 200 to make 12-18 HSTs from each of the prints. I then cut out the squares needed to complete the star blocks with the remaining colored fabrics.
I did the yellows first and found out part way through that I had used the wrong size triangle paper. Fortunately for me I used a size too big and you can cut that down to the proper size and still use the fabric without having to start completely over. Whew.
I then set about chain piecing all of the blocks together and was able to complete 4 blocks in just a few hours. These blocks have a lot of pieces so don’t be put off by the amount of time it takes. It’s easy piecing and assembling, just time consuming with the pressing at each step.
Working on a Scrap Quilt Project
I have 16 blocks to go and will work on this scrap quilt off and on for a while until the quilt is complete. With the use of the triangle paper, this is an easy scrap project to do in steps. I can easily stop at any of the steps of cutting the fabric to size for the triangle papers, cutting the other pieces, stitching the papers on, trimming the papers, or assembling the blocks. Being able to easily start and stop makes this the perfect scrappy quilt project.
I’ll keep you updated on my progress for this more recent endeavor of making scrap quilts from my stash.
