Like any other craft, quilt making always results (0) in the rewarding feeling of happiness and satisfaction – you have made something unique, using your imagination and skill.
Scrap quilts are quilts (25)
with a random assortment of fabrics – almost as if the quilter shuts his or her eyes before choosing the next piece of fabric.
The final outcome might not be exactly as you (26)
. That is the beauty of the whole process.
The history of traditional quilting asserts that the majority of scrap quilts were ‘make-do’ projects: quilts constructed from leftover patches in order to be thrifty and use every scrap of fabric available.
Today, it isn’t unusual for quilters to have tons of scrap fabric lying around just so they have what they need (27)
hand for a scrap quilt.
So the next time a pattern (28)
their fancy, they will not waste time finding the fabric.
Variety is the key to (29)
a collection of scrap quilt fabrics, so choose all sorts of fabrics, even those you don’t necessarily like. Make sure you collect a mixture of print types: florals, geometrics, calico fabrics, novelty prints, stripes, plaids – the more variety, the better.
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, choose fabrics in a wide range of colours. That means thinking beyond your favourites to include every colour of the rainbow, including light and dark examples of each one.
The number of fabrics you use in your scrap quilts is totally up to you, from charm quilts, (31)
no fabric is used more than once, to quilts with fewer fabrics.
Entire books (32)
about the art of scrap quilting, so regard the tips here as a starting point to help you create a quilt filled with visual interest. Like any form of quilting, successful scrap quilts take practice, but your quiltmaking skills will grow with every new project.
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