What’s your Scrap Quilt IQ? It’s a Scrap Attack talk on my video today! 

yes I want to make a scrap quilt and yes I save scraps. But I also crazy quilt, which uses the scraps. I also make crafts and journal covers with scraps. Not all quilters just quilt. I have also made material out of scraps and they make beautiful pillows. I know its beyond scrap quilting but I enjoy doing all of these. right now Im doing hexi needle books out of scraps and old clothing that is still usable. I enjoy just using the fabric to see what I can create....so much fun.

I'm definitely a Wannabe! I've made a grand total of 3 quilts in my life; and I hate to throw away anything that could conceivably be used. Some day I will have enough scraps to make a beautiful scrap quilt! That's gonna take a few more finished projects...

I'm a scrap queen. They are easy, minimal measuring and the colors don't care who they sit next to.

I am a scrap queen. And last year your organizing by color and size really helped me. I like to be able to pull the scraps by color.. I like doing organized scrap quilts, but I also like the mindless activity of crumb or scribble quits with the little pieces. My big problem now is to go and use up those orphan blocks.

I am the scrap queen. Not because that's all I wanted to make but because I have had many donated to me. I love applique!!! Sometimes those scraps fit right into my pictures on my quilts. I have sorted them by color and pressed the bags full of pieces. Now comes the cutting!!!

I really got it when you made the comment about throwing out scrap pieces of food. I immediately thought of my husband when he builds something. He doesn't keep everything single scrap piece of wood, only the largest best pieces. So no, throwing away scraps isn't a waste of money. I think that we as women constantly have household budgets in mind. Its ingrained in us! Lol

I’m a guilt scrap quilter. I feel guilty about those scraps and so I make a scrap quilt and give it to charity.

I’m an occasional scrapper. I make a couple scrappy quilts per year, and keep only the precut sizes. The trick for me is to make sure that I don’t have more scraps than my bins will hold. If they start getting to be too much, I stop the non-scrappy projects and start a scrappy one to get it back under control.

I am a scrap wanna be. I’ve started cutting up my scraps into sizes from 1” to 5”. I’m keeping them in baskets organized by color. Can’t wait to start a quilt. I came upon Lori Holt recently and became hooked on wanting to do scrappy. Then I found you! Love you both. I love your videos and projects.

I'm not a professed scrap quilter. I am a scrap saver. I cannot throw out scraps. I have 2 x 2 in , 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in , 4 in, 5 in, and an odd size scrap tote. My granddaughter, at age 14, made a 9-patch of 4 in scraps as her first quilt and repeated through out the process that she loves scraps. So this tells me my time is not wasted in creating this variety of scraps. Nice to know a Scrap Queen.

I am the scrap queen. I really feel like a fabric recycling fabric queen.

I have made way to many scrap quilts and 2021 is the year of no scrap quilts. Giving myself a break from them. I packaged up scraps and gave them to charity. Feel a weight taken off me and know they will be doing good for the less fortunate. Now I can concentrate on what I want to do. Great video. Thanks

I am definitely a Scrap Queen. I always joke that I will die with all my beautiful yardage intact because I'm always playing with my scraps. Every time I go to a guild meeting someone gives me a baggie of batik scraps - love them!

I love making crumb quilts! I also follow Lori Holt's scrap system and scrap buster videos. The smaller bits I put into a fleece "pillow case" like shape and make into pet beds. You should make a crumb quilt as a monthly sew a-long! Thanks for everything you do, you have made my quilting world a wonderful place to be!

Definitely scrap queen. I only make scrap quilts. The more fabrics the better. I store my fabrics by color.

This is cool. I am an occasional scrapper…but I love the idea of many different fabrics all together

I am an occasional scrapper I purchase fabric by only a handful of designers so my fabrics all tend to work together. Sometimes I start a quilt with a fat quarter bundle if a particular collection but often I go straight to my scraps and fat quarter collection to make a quilt

I’m definitely the scrap Queen lol. I love scraps and make mostly scrap quilts. Crumbs are my favourite 🤣. I know some people think I’m nuts. It makes my heart happy 🥰🥰

I love scrap quilts. I have fabric from at least 20 years ago. I do make quilts from coordinating fabric also and use my yardage to put some coordination in the quilt. I have found that if I buy yardage off the bolt, I always buy least 1/2 yard so I can cut into a layer cake if need be. I sort by yardage, colored scraps, fat quarters by color or collection, jelly strips, 10 in squares, 5 inch squares, and 2 1/2 inch squares. I just started collecting small bits in a container for crumb blocks. I blame that on Pat. Thank you, Pat. I love putting to use all my scraps.

I'm an occasional scrap quilter. The most beloved one I made was for my daughter....it was a nickel quilt patter "Four Patches and Friends". I used scraps of colors and neutrals - a lot of them, as she wanted a king size quilt. Finished size was 105" square. So bright and colorful.

This is the best video ever on dealing with scraps and helping quilters figure out their IQ. I have always felt guilty because scraps are overwhelming to me whereas many of my quilting buddies are doing magical quilting projects with them. Your comments were liberating to me!!

Yes!!!! I love making scrap anything & Everything!

I’m a queen 👸, 95% of my quilts are scrappy backed - love the crumbs

I am the occasional scrapper, I am in the process of making two tops, right now using my scraps, mostly because I have to get them under CONTROL.. I keep those sizes as well, the pre cut sizes, they are easier to work with for sure. I sew them in the middle of my regular projects..I keep them mostly in clear bins labeled as to what they are.. So I don't have to go crazy looking for what I need.. I do love these topics, I think they are helping us all corral our scraps.. The scrappy projects are wonderful as well..

I am an occasional scrapper currently working on Traffic Jam. I am also working on cutting and sorting and organizing my scraps.

Our group keeps our little pieces and use to fill pillowcases to create dog or cat beds to donate to animal shelters.

I wished I watched this video before I made my first scrappy quilt. The mountains of little pieces overwhelmed me & I have come to realise I prefer coordinating prints for my projects. I now only keep 2.5" squares but no more 1.5" squares. The scrappy quilt I've made will be gifted.

I am a scrap queen, I am not a fan of unified quilts, though I love when I see others make them. I love to sit under a quilt and touch each different fabric and admire the uniqueness of each piece.

All the time I love scrap quilts. Have just made 14 for a children's hospital.

Hi Pat...I have tons of scraps. I am currently making my third scrap quilt using coordinated colors for each block. I haven't had a good storage system for my scraps; but I intend to create one, using your suggestions. For now, I am keeping those coordinated fabric groups together in small bundles to make other scrap quilts without having to go through the time-consuming process of choosing colors all over again. Once my scrap collection whittles down, I'll cut everything left over into pre-cut sizes. For me, it is a relief to use up my scraps before starting a quilt with new fabrics. I sure enjoy your teaching style and your creative, fun spirit!

I tend toward scrap queen. I find it very relaxing and freeing because I'm not worried about making a mistake, running out, and wasting fabric. It's just scraps! But I do need to get more organized...

I would happily pay a few dollars for a baggie of waste triangles - they are so fun to use! Whenever I see bags of sample squares that the quilt shop gets - I buy them all! You don't need a big piece of fabric when you are cutting hexgons that finish to 5/8 inch or your squares finish to 1/4 inch!

🤔 I am a Scrap Queen 👑, I love making scrap Quilt's. I have a system of sorting, and store them in the plastic shoe boxes .

Our LQS, pre covid, used to bag up useful scraps and sell them for $5. The proceeds would go to charity. A win win as far as I'm concerned.

I love scraps quilts with all kinds of fabric from left let over fabric.

I make controlled scrappy quilts. The fabrics must coordinate with each other. When the top is done I use the leftover fabric in the backing and sometimes the binding.

I cannot imagine ever getting rid of any fabric that I have. I’m hooked. I’m eyeing women’s dresses and tops thinking ohh I’d love that material.

I have never made a scrap quilt, but have always wanted to. After seeing your checkerboard quilts recently, I gathered my scraps together and for the last two days have been salvaging 2-1/2" squares out of the tangle. Thanks for the idea! Now my scraps are neat, organized, and ready to go. Now if I can just figure out what to do with the incorrectly cut strip sets that came from one of the first quilts I made! Still perfectly good fabric (lots of it). They just were cut a smidge too short for what was needed.

I make many scrap quilts. I make others too, but as a quilter reared on the idea that quilts were made from leftover sewing fabric and “good” recycled fabric I am a die-hard scrap user 😁.

I'm a Queen Scrapper! Love, love, love.

I love the spiral bound ones because they lay flat.

I am so a scrap queen! Lately I have been just dumping large amounts of scraps ( or part/yardages)into an Ikea bag to give away. If I haven't touched that basket or pile in over a year ,and I am not looking at what is in it because I would want to keep something, I dump it all into a bag and close it so not to look at it again. Eventually it is leaving here. I need to gain control of all my fabric because it has taken over my peace of mind and orderliness.

I am a scrap queen 👸 had to laugh when you said goes through the other quilters discards at retreats. My group knew me, I was offered the cut off triangles 🔺️ from their lucky stars quilt. I preceded to make them into a half square triangle wall hanging. I love love love working with little pieces. Hexagons for Grandmothers flower garden flower 🌼 🌸

I'm a scrap queen through and through. Save all the leftovers AND dumpster dive at quilting get togethers. I have my scraps sorted by size but after more than 36 years I never thought to sort my patterns by size until just recently. Duh! Now when a bin of a certain size gets too full I just grab my 3 ring binder with the patterns using that size, pick a pattern and start sewing.

Hi Pat, You should add Jolly Bar cuts (5" x 10") to your list of scrap cuts to save. The Jolly Bar books are great for using up this size of scrap.

I've never made a scrap quilt. I began making The Splendid Sampler with scraps. I set that project aside and began making specific projects. I still consider that project A UFO, because I've yet to pick it back up and work on it, though the intentions have been there. I've produced so many more scraps since that project started!! Last year when you did the scrap organization, I meant to get in my studio and organize my scraps. Ugh... meant to and didn't. I've got so many bins of scraps now, I'm overwhelmed. So, I must create a management system to get my scraps in a useable state!

Love the photos. It was fun to see the area. Love your quilt videos. Now I shall look forward to seeing your photos in addition to your quilts.

This was a great chat. Thank you for helping me give myself permission to let my scraps go! ☺️

I use Lori Holt’s scrap processing sizes. I process the straggly edges when I finish a project and put in a bowl and later sort them one evening a week.

I love making quilts. Some even though they are a particular pattern they are still scrappy. My favorite is the blocks made on paper from MSQC. You get a lot of squares in one package. I have done three quilts using that method and it is a neat way to use up scraps. I start with a 2" white strips, but you could start with any width or color. I just make all of mine white and put them on the diagonal from corner to corner. Then as I have a scrap long enough to make the next strip I add it. Even those little triangles can be used when you get to the last strip. They blocks look a little funky when you first sew them together, but when you trim the edges they are very pretty. You don't have to use the same color strip in the middle of each block, but it does make a neat design when you sew them all together.

Occasional crumb quilt, when my bin gets full, I decide on what color I have the most of and do blocks.

I am a Scrap Queen. Most of my fabric comes from other quilter's discards. I cut squares from 10" down to 1.5" and 95% of my projects are scrappy. Love the multi colors you achieve with scraps, plus I hate waste.

I fall more as an advanced occasional scrapper. I have started making scrap quilts over the last few years. I keep 2” and 2 1/2” pieces in bins.

I do all kinds of quilts and all sizes. I just have 2 bags for scraps, one for solids and one for prints. Then when I started quilting projects (pot holders etc. ) my scraps were seasonal so that needed its own bin. With applique baby quilts, I use precuts. Its all the different types of quilts that I've made, my scraps grew. So of course I love scrap quilts.

Right now, I'm a scrap queen...I love scrap quilts and have made quite a few. I think you make more scrap quilts than you think you do, because you have all those bins of leftover fabric that you use for various projects.

I'm a scrap queen I do a lot of Lori Holt quilts and that takes a lot of scraps. I buy fat quarters and cut them up into strips then cut them down from there.

A utility cart with drawers works well for sewing notions and as a scrap system. And also has wheels for easy movement.

I am a wanna be scrap quilter. I’ve planned to make quilts for years and have not made one yet. I have the fabric but can’t get started. Life always gets in the way. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I am a dreamer. Think scrap quilts are beautiful but have not had the courage to attempt one of my own yet. Your info today was helpful as I do save many of my scraps.

I save all scraps and they are organized. I have made three queen sized scrap quilts that were given as a fund raiser. The first quilt, 9 years ago went for $350.00. The second scrap quilt went for $550.00. The third one is still being bid on and is at $575.00 with another month to go. All scraps, even the backing. I can’t believe they went for what they did. It was/is fun to watch the bidding.

I am in between a scrap Queen and an occasional scrapper. I pre-cut my scraps like you do into 5 inch charms, 2 1/2 inch squares, half and quarter square triangles and 2 1/2 inch strips. This year I have already made 6 scrap quilt tops from these pieces-not because I love scrap quilts but because I want to keep my scraps under control. I don’t like string quilts or collage type scrap quilts. I enjoy making pre-planned coordinated quilts but can’t afford them often. I always seem to have enough scraps to make a quilt though.

1. Yes 2. At least 12 baby quilts and at least 3 lap quilts-all for humanitarian aid 3. I sorted by fabric for baby quilts (cotton and flannel), then by color (boys and girls). Next step, sort by size. Sounds like I’m a Scrap Queen!

I have only made one scrap quilt, it was a mystery quilt class and I wasn’t happy with the end result. Although my daughter loved it and she has it. There are two charity groups that I donate my scraps to, one of which I have joined, so I enjoy working with already sorted and precut scraps and company of good friends to sew charity quilts. Currently I have a huge bag ready to be donated. I must say I love your traffic jam quilts and would love to make one someday.

My first go at a scrappy quilt almost drove me crazy. I'd joined a volunteer sewing group, where we make NICU quilts and Comfort quilts for disaster areas. Well, the Comfort quilts are a variety of 5 inch squares and so many blocks wide and so many rows high. Well, I had no clue how to do this scrappy quilt and laid it all over our king size bed til I liked the placement. I'm used to it now but am a "wanna be" scrap quilter and have been saving 2 1/2" sqs and now pieces for the crumb blocks. Might as well make something with the leftovers!

I'm an occasional scrapper. I'm drawn to scrap quilts made by other quilters, but I find them intimidating to make myself. Most often, I pull fabric from my scrap bin to test a block or technique.

I get scraps from my older sister alot and cut them into different size squares and sew them together by 4's or 9 patch quilts. Whatever I have left over I cut into 2 inch squares. I then use them to sew potholders.

Check with the art teacher at the local school, sometime they will do projects that involve fabric and they love scraps

I'm more a kit person, because thinking about my scrapes putting the colors together make me sweat, I love doing like your patterns and layer cakes, jelly roll etc it is like a kit to me.and they go together. I give most scraps to a friend who is a scab quilt queen, It a winner found a home for them and she gets to use them and not to have to buy to much fabric. I feel I'm none of the tites you mention. Love to look at them, as long as I do not have to sew them, and I stay away from classes that are for SCRABS too.

I have a lot of someone else's rehomed scraps, and I'm in the process of cutting them down into precut sizes because I love scrappy quilts and want to make more of them!

Took your advise and throw out alot of my scraps and bagged up material I probably will never used because I just don't like them. I'm going to donate them. Feeling guilt free!!!

Within the last year, most of my quilts have been scrap quilts. Sometimes I use your patterns, sometimes other creators and sometimes I just make them up or change up a pattern. I got into it because I can't afford to make quilts for our church group and give away a bunch of fabric. To keep my sewing area (sort of) tidy I cut up scraps and use them . I have a small stash and it is not beyond me to go to it if I think some additional fabrics will make them nicer.

This topic is very helpful. I am the wanna-be. I haven't been quilting very long so don't have much scraps but I love the idea of a scrap quilt. I'll have to actually make one to see if I truly have the personality to be a scrap quilter. LOL! Thank you!

I keep some scraps & have used them in lessons on FMQ or a new block. The strings & itty bitty have gone in plastic bags for a quilt group to use as stuffing in toys & pet beds. Since you mentioned food, those various ends & peels go in a plastic bag for a friend’s pigs & goats.

I think I am a scrap wanna be. I love scrap quilts and have made a couple but I seem to have multiple other projects going on and think I'll make a scrap quilt after I finish these projects. Then another pattern and beautiful fabric will catch my interest and the scrap quilt is once again put aside.

Hi Pat I enjoy watching Lori Holt she does little blocks that make great scrappy quilts!! I just made her Twinkling Stars in pastel scraps turned out awesome!!! Thank you

I started quilting as a teenager with no money, almost all of my quilts for years were scrap quilts out of necessity. I still love scraps and make scrap quilts. I don't think I am a scrap queen, I'm probably a scrap princess. Three days ago, I started a blue and white scrap quilt as I had lots of blue scraps and white tone on tone scraps. Instead of cutting them into precuts, I used triangles on a roll to make half square triangles. I think I have about 400 HST now. I did not think this would happen so fast. I love triangles on a roll. I think I will do this with most of my larger scraps from now on. HST are so versatile. Plus I can store them with the paper on to prevent wrinkles as long as I use them with the year.

I am a combo of scrap queen and a occasional scrapper. I have my mother’s and mother in law’s scraps, plus my own sorted into bins by color throughout my room. These scraps are incorporated into quilts as needed, but I also buy new fabrics. I don’t always judge correctly the amount of fabric I need for a quilt so my scraps come in handy. I have made a baby quilt for a friend using fabric from a shirt I made for my own son, another baby quilt contained fabric from my brother’s clothing that Mama made. Right now my March hope blocks are being made with Kaffe fabrics and fabrics from my bathroom curtains made 18 years ago. You never know what may show up again. I have a bin under my cut out table that I throw scraps in, then as that gets full, it is divided by color and put into boxes. Tiny pieces(less than 2 inches) are thrown away unless I really love the fabric.

Procrastinating Scrapper!! Thank you for sharing….

Scrap quilts are my favorite. Approximately 75% of my quilts are from scraps.

I am an occasional scrapper and I tried to follow Bonnie Hunter's system, but it didn't work for me. Thank you so much for providing a customizable framework for my scrap management. Much appreciated!

Thanks, Pat! I'm an occasional scrapper. This video was very informative. I'm actually trying to organize my fabric and scraps now.

I have made three queen sized scrap quilts using mostly 2 1/2 inch squares and strips. These three quilts went to auction for a fund raiser. One brought $350.00, one brought $500.00, and one brought in $450.00. I was happy with those bids.

Pat, you make me smile every morning!🙂

Wow! I have made scrap quilts and love them. I am guilty of buying and buying and buying lots of fabric. I store them in three bedrooms and one of my linen closets, as well as my grand son's armoire. I recently bought seven yards of Edyta's fabric from Hancock's and the warm Secret Stash from Fat Quarter Shop. No definite plans for all of it yet. I have a shelf full of Judie Rothermel's Aunt Grace and recently found a pattern for it. I never plan a quilt in full, just start making blocks and decide and decide what the quilt will look like after the blocks are laid out. It's fun and sometimes frustrating. In all, it's fun.

I'm an occasional scrapper. Just made my first scrap quilt for my daughter using 2.5" X 3.5" strips. Currently I am cutting a big basket of scraps down to workable sizes for my next scrappy. Thank you for your organizing ideas, they are very helpful.

Scrappy makes me happy. Am a Scrappy Queen and ♥️ them. Scraps were the only material my maternal grandmother had to make quilts with. Have made 4 scrappies so far this year.

I’m an occasional scrap quilter. I decided to make 3 Covid quilts using only scraps. I used patterns from Lori Holt’s stash series. I used Kona white for all of them and found 108” backing on sale. I felt great. I’m ready to move on to a quilt using a fabric line.

I'm a scrap wanna- be quilter, never made. I'm in the middle of saving and learning to store scraps. I don't enough because I've phased out of poorer quality fabrics into better quality fabrics. Thanks for bringing us down to earth. Less waste of energy and time. I think many people now think about the environment and waste, it's not a bad idea but perhaps this is what one needs to do before making a quilt, have a plan on what to do with the scraps.

Thank you, you have just given me mental permission to throw away all of those little triangle scraps that I hate but always felt obliged to keep. Unless it’s Tula Pink of course, nothing Tula produces would ever be thrown away 😬

I make scrap quilts, baby or crib size, for charity. Don't usually need to add much other fabric...maybe only for background. I cut my scraps into 2, 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 5" sizes. Bins never seem to get any smaller :) some of them become I spy quilts

I've been using those little triangles to make slow stitch blocks by hand. Just lay the fabric onto batting and use embroidery stitches by hand. It's very relaxing.

I have on made one scrap quilt and that was a baby quilt. This video has given me incentive to organize my scraps. Right now I have 4 bins of scraps that are just put into the bin as they are. My granddaughters love going through the bins to pick out fabric to sew something. They are 8 and 11. I will start cutting them into 2 1/2” and 5” squares. Will be soooo much neater. Love your videos Pat

Definitely a scrap queen. Occasionally have a coordinated selection for a quilt. Mostly it is more the merrier. I also use loads of upcycled fabrics.

"By product of working", I love that. I love making scrap quilts but at some point there are scraps I don't use and I toss. Comparison to kitchen was helpful but the by product of working was perfect. My husband was a contractor and I can't begin to tell you the amounts of pieces of wood that was hauled off from jobs for the dump. I needed that description.

Great video. I’m the scrap queen. Love your quilts.

I think I’m the occasional scraper. The two biggest quilt tops I’ve made are entirely from scraps but I’ve made more than two using yardage. I love the improvisational freedom that using scraps gives.

I’ve made/make scrappy quilt and ❤️ them but no one I know feels the same about them. 🙄 I’ve struggled with scrap management and your videos are helping me get organized, thank you. As my main type of quilting is appliqué I use all those bitty pieces, I’ve now limited myself to a laundry basket that I throw scraps into while I sort and cut. A few times a week I will go through it and cut what I can. By my machine I have 1.5” squares that I’m sewing together for a footstool cover. Keep up the good work Pat your audience loves you too!

Scrap Queen! I use Bonnie's system and it is wonderful. I'm trying to focus on a set group of favorite patterns that utilize the sizes so I don't have to make a lot of decisions for donation quilts. I'm also working on my machine quilting to go along with the system. Right now I piece faster than I quilt- I'm primarily a hand quilter.

I’m an occasional scrapper. I am still pretty new so I don’t have tons and tons of scraps. After one of your videos last year I took the RWB scraps I had, cut them to 2.5” and realized I had enough for a quilt. I did have to buy yardage for the border but otherwise I think it was all scraps. I had adopted your system and will be making quilts as I get enough scraps. I do like a coordinated quilt so I won’t just start slapping squares together.....fabrics need to have a color theme for me.

My stash is one yard and over folded around comic book cardboard, then anything smaller is cut down to the largest precut possible. Then I have half size covered totes with 2 1/2" squares, 2 1/2" strips, 5" squares, 10" squares, and fat quarters. They are organized by color within the bins. I am a want to be scrappy quilter. I have done a few Bonnie Hunter quilts...but want to branch out.