Fat Quarter Collection
Between sales and gifts my stash is starting to get a little crazy so I have been looking for some ideas on what I can do to use up my growing collection of scraps and stash fabrics.
My first thought was a sampler quilt using a different colour for each block, but I began with cream as a base colour and even before my first block was completed, I realised that I am not a cream or light colours kind of person. I couldn't see the block in my house on a quilt I would actually like. So that idea was shelved and I pulled out my black scraps.
Finding inspiration in Red Pepper Quilts I then cut began cutting my 3" square scrap stash into quarters and piecing them with black. The result is a slowly growing collection of what will be 1" splashes of colour.
1.5" Coloured Squares
This projects may take a while as I have been sewing a few squares together at a time, and adding to the collection of fabrics as I work on other projects. My hope is that I will use each fabric for only one 3" square, for a total of 4 small 1" colour blocks. I don't know if this counts as a charm quilt, but it is certainly going to be a scrappy quilt.
For stash busting... I am wondering if I should do a colour wheel quilt, or do some crazy quilting blocks in each colour of the rainbow. I need to do something as I'm running out of room for new fabric.
How do you use up stash fabric, especially when you've had a fabric for a little while and it doesn't match any of the new fabric ranges...?
2 comments:
Maybe you could host some quilt alongs with us to use up our growing stashes as well. Sometimes it's so much more fun to sew with someone.... :)
Great idea! I will see if I can start something, and if anyone wants to join in they're welcome to. It would give me a reason to keep going as well!
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