The best-selling author of Make Room for Christmas Quilts explains how to create stunning quilts from leftover fabrics, introducing eighteen patterns--including both traditional favorities and new twists on classic blocks--featuring a range of color palettes, along with advice on borders, backs, sashings, and home decorating. Original.

Get scrappy with best-selling author Alex Anderson (more than 950,000 books sold!) Use your stash and your scrap bin to make 7 colorful quilts. Get in on Alex s best scrap quilting secrets: which blocks and settings work best in scrappy quilts; how to combine fabric colors, prints, and values so your creations look exciting, not overpowering; and how to choose quilting motifs that will highlight your design. Includes complete instructions for 6 one-block scrap quilts, plus bonus sampler quilt and an inspiring gallery of 11 contemporary and antique scrap quilts. All quilts are easy enough for confident beginners."

Antique scrap quilts can be the most humble of quilts and, at the same time, the most complicated of all quilts to understand. Roberta Horton shows her techniques for making a scrap quilt, including how to free-hand cut shapes for a folk-art look. A selection of block patterns is provided, with possibilities for pieced, pieced-and-appliqued, and folk-art scrap quilts. Roberta shares advice on the interaction of fabrics within a quilt and how to choose just the right blocks. Unpretentious and honest - and, at the same time, beautitful - old quilts give today's quilters inspiration for coloration, composition, and fabric usage.

Teaches a method of fast-piecing strips of triangles to create scrap quilts, and tells how to store and make the best use of fabric and scrap collections

Create beautiful, one-of-a-kind quilts with expert advice on managing fabric and types of scrap quilt designs, suggestions for adapting traditional patterns, and more. Also included: complete instructions and full-size patterns for Attic Windows, Bow Tie, Brickwork, Alphabetical by Flavor, Hole in the Barn Door, Escape, and Stars and Bars.

Edie McGinnis explores the origins of scraps from the Kansas City garment district. Includes easytofollow directions to make eight spectacular scrap quilts some from old designs, some new and a handful of fun projects.

Is anything more gratifying than being able to make something out of nothing with your pile of scrap fabrics? This is what scrap quilting helps you achieve, so read on... Scraps have been used in quiltmaking for a very long time, and as a quilter, I enjoy the practice of carrying on the heritage of scrap quilting in my work. Scrap quilts aren't out-of-date just because you choose to follow the footsteps of quilters from yesteryear and keep the tradition alive. It's actually the exact opposite! Making the most of what you currently have isn't just beneficial to your soul but also to your wallet and the environment. Scrap quilting is a cost-effective method of making patchwork, especially for quilters who enjoy using up every little bit of their scrap fabric. Even though scrap quilting patterns offer a basic framework to quilt with your pile of leftover fabrics, there are several fundamental techniques and know-how that you need to be familiar with to enable you to use your stash fabrics the right way to quilt lovely patterns and projects. These patterns and projects could span from traditional quilt blocks to free-form improvised quilting. Regardless of your preferred quilting technique, this book, Scrappy Quilts Handbook, aims to help you find inspiration to create lovely quilt designs from your stashed fabrics. Below are what is covered in this book; 1. Sourcing for scrap fabrics if you don't have enough in your stash. 2. Sorting and organizing your scrap fabrics the right way 3. Choosing fabrics for your scrap quilts 4. Tips to help you plan effectively before undertaking a scrap quilt project 5. Essential supplies and materials needed 6. A collection of 5 scrappy patterns and projects (potholder, lap quilt, coaster, etc.) to help you find inspiration and get you started So, what more are you waiting for? If you are ready to begin the adventure of using your stash of fabrics in quilting lovely designs, then get a copy of this book RIGHT NOW