Crazy for Scraps

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When I saw this book I got excited, SCRAPS! How many of us have collected oodles of scraps but are not quite sure what to do with them and how to organize them? Well, that’s me and this book is a must have for my library.

Whenever I have made a scrappy quilt it drives me crazy because I can never truly make it scrappy, I always have to plan it out and then it’s not so scrappy anymore. Sally gives three methods of how to make different quilts from accumulated fabrics, all with a different look. One of these methods is the “brown bag method” which I have never been comfortable with, but the quilts in this book are really nice so I’m going to take a deep breath and take the challenge. 

I was especially excited about her idea of cutting fabrics into certain sizes and storing them by size so when you’re ready to sew most of your cutting is done! She shows a way to cut a FQ into various sizes, with little waste, for using in scrappy quilts. This will take some time initially but will be worth it in the end.