Every Last Piece: Scrap Quilts with Lynn Harris

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Every Last Piece: Scrap Quilts with Lynn Harris

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Every Last Piece Scrap Quilts on Sewing With Nancy with host Nancy Zieman and guest Lynn HarrisWhether you have bins of fabric scraps or just a few odds and ends that you can’t part with, Lynn Harris, my guest on today’s episode of Sewing With Nancy, will share refreshing ways to incorporate scraps in quilt designs. Learn to use fabric pieces of every size, from tiny scraps to larger pieces, during today’s featured program, Every Last Piece.

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Every Last Piece episode is online now. Pick up the book and the Every Last Piece Starter Kit at Nancy’s Notions, including:

  • Every Last Piece book by Lynn Harris
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  • Template Plastic, two 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets
  • Glass Head Pins, 100 count
  • Klasse Universal Needles, five needles
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Window Garden Quilt

In today’s featured Sewing With Nancy TV show, Every Last Piece, Lynn shares her “string piecing” methods for creating beautiful scrappy quilts. If your scrap bin is like Lynn’s, it’s overflowing with scraps of all sizes and shapes. The square blocks in Lynn’s Window Garden quilt are made with “strings” of fabric. The secondary pattern is created with the addition of Hourglass blocks. This is a great way to make a bigger quilt from fewer string-pieced blocks.

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String Quilting Basics

Lynn will demonstrate the basic techniques of how to create string-based designs on today’s episode. Start by choosing larger scrap pieces that extend past your desired block size. Vary the angle of the seams for added interest. See how easy it is—on this new episode of Sewing With Nancy.

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Wind Farm Block

Trim the string blocks to fit Lynn’s Wind Farm Block template included within the book and cut the wedge template shape from coordinating fabrics. The effect is a spinning pinwheel design with a unique scrappy touch. (Focus your eyes on the blue areas and the spinning Wind Farm Wheels pop!)

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Now it’s time to take strip piecing to the next level. Instead of creating square blocks, stitch leftover pieces to a specific shape. Lynn’s quilt, Rose Lattice, creates great visual movement by cutting the blocks on point. It’s a relatively simple way of creating a free-form block that really makes a statement. See this quilt on today’s episode of Sewing With Nancy.

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Paris on a Shoestring Quilt

Large pieces of a Paris map fabric inspired the name of this quilt, Paris on a Shoestring. Lynn played around with string triangles that she made ahead, and then laid out the blocks in a star design. What a great way of combining pieces with yardage!

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Solar Flare Quilt

No matter what size or shape, use those treasured scraps to fit any template shape. Solar Flare, Lynn’s next string quilt, combines triangles of scraps and other triangles of solid fabric. A layout suggested by her son, has both drama and style.

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Lynn’s Beach Balls quilt is an exercise in a controlled use of color. The design features monochromatic string-pieced squares in the background and brightly colored beach balls made of wedges. The best part—the design was totally created from her scrap bin. Watch how Lynn demonstrates working with this traditional Drunkard’s Path design on Sewing With Nancy on Every Last Piece.

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Making Stars from Fabric Scraps

When your scrap box is dwindling down, it’s time to make stars! Lynn worked on making stars for several months until she had accumulated several hundred! Yes, several hundred patches. Then, she laid them out into 9-patch units. Work in small batches, and soon, you too will have enough stars to make a small or even a bed-sized quilt named Stardust.

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245 Comments

  • Shirley Robbins
    January 5, 2017

    I’d love to make Solar Flare or Stardust first, then …. All are great!

  • jael
    January 5, 2017

    I’m with shirly. First, Rose Lattice. then.. the rest of them! 🙂

  • Kate
    January 5, 2017

    This year I’ve decided to stop tossing and or setting aside fabric scrapes that never gets used. The Block string quilt will be perfect, as I actually started cutting strips when I’ve finished the current project! This book would be a great help.

  • Diane C
    January 5, 2017

    I like the window garden quilt. What great ideas for using up those scraps that seem to take over the sewing room

  • Debbie K
    January 5, 2017

    I love the Stardust quilt & could use even the tiniest of scraps. The little pops of color on the white background is very serene.
    Next up, the block string quilt – so colorful and cheerful!

  • Cheryl M.
    January 5, 2017

    Pick only one? I love wind farm, and beach balls is intriguing, lots of possibilities with these patterns.

  • Cyndi
    January 5, 2017

    I LOVE the Stardust quilt. This looks like a wonderful book and I would love to add it to my library!

    Thank you for the give away!

  • georgia edwards
    January 5, 2017

    I would make the solar flare, I am a “confident beginner” quilter just working on stars. I live in warm Arizona so the word “solar” is important here. Please consider me in this drawing so I can expand my quilting abilities.
    ps. I watch Nancy on PBS Saturday morning to learn techniques

  • Kitty
    January 5, 2017

    String quilting shapes is what I would make. I have a ridiculous amount of scraps that would make a wonderful quilt! Thank you for the chance to win a copy by Lynn Harris.

  • MaryAnn
    January 5, 2017

    I would make stardust, it is beautiful.

  • Mitzy P
    January 5, 2017

    I’ve been saving scraps for years and now I’m inspired to stitch them into the stardust quilt, then the lattice quilt. Thanks for the inspiration.

  • Dawn
    January 5, 2017

    I love Beach Balls! and all the rest….

  • Carol
    January 5, 2017

    Solar Flares or Making Stars. Terrific book to gift.

  • Hannah Casey
    January 5, 2017

    I love the Paris on a Shoestring quilt. That is the one I would like to make.

  • Vicki H
    January 5, 2017

    Window Garden would be first in line then Paris on a Shoestring.

  • Anna Ballinger
    January 5, 2017

    I would make the solar flare quilt. I have so much scrap fabric around these quilts would be a great way to use them up.

  • Doris Hixon
    January 5, 2017

    I have a sufficient stash of “scraps” to make all of these quilts — seriously! I like the beach ball and solar quilts best, although they are all beautiful! Once I clear up some of my UFOs, I will start using the scraps to make those two quilts.

  • Rosalind Gutierrez
    January 5, 2017

    The “Stardust” quilt is calling my name and I love 9 patch patterns.

  • Gina M
    January 5, 2017

    Rose Lattice … but I have enough scraps to make the ALL!

  • Linda O
    January 5, 2017

    Love using up my scraps. I’ m known as the scrap lady with my quilting group. I would make wind farm block and Paris on a shoestring.

  • Ellen
    January 5, 2017

    The Stardust quilt is my first choice to make, though any quilt using stash scraps gets my vote.

  • Jade
    January 5, 2017

    So many of my scraps are red and blue that the Stardust pattern is calling my name!

  • C Murphy
    January 5, 2017

    I’m addicted to stars so Stardust is right at the top of my list. However, I’ve been saving strips for an entire year to make a strip quilt! Love Rose Lattice so looks like I have something to use my stash for!!
    lstangl482 at aol dot com

  • Marvel D.
    January 5, 2017

    What a timely blog topic!! I am currently making a scrappy quilt using a 6 1/2″ denim center block surrounded by 2 1/2″ squares. As a garment sewer, I have oodles of non-traditional quilt scraps. As I have cut the small squares, I have trimmed up the leftover pieces into 1 1/2″ strips thinking I’d make a string quilt next. It has sickened me to throw pieces of fabric away because they are “too small”. Now I have a plan!! The tiny pieces would be great as stars. I’ve gotta get this kit!! Grandkids would love grandma’s handiwork. Thank you so much for this post.

  • Nancy Vail Nauman
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust!!! Love, love, love this quilt!! I will start it today!!
    Also love the idea of sewing strips onto used dryer sheets! Brilliant!!! Dryer sheets will allow for better storage of the pieces. I can imagine creating a dryer sheet strip bank with the scraps leftover from each quilt I make. It’ll be a great closure project. How fun to make a strip quilt where each block is the memory of a work I enjoyed creating! Thanks, Nancy, for both reminding us that strip piecing is fun, and for bringing Lynn’s innovative ideas!

  • Denice Korcal
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust for sure!

  • Becky Couture
    January 5, 2017

    I would like to make Paris on a shoestring and the stars from fabric scraps. I save any scraps that might lend a touch of color to any of my quilts & I love going through them when something is needed. Used some of my scraps to make applique flowers around a summer quilt, but I have loads more scraps to use up!

  • Judie Sparling
    January 5, 2017

    Definitely Stardust. Lots of opportunity in the negative space for some creative quilting.

  • Traci
    January 5, 2017

    Aren’t they all wonderful!!! I think the stardust is calling my name. Thanks Nancy and Lynn.

  • Shirley K. Rosich
    January 5, 2017

    I am a 71-year-old quilter who is inundated with scraps from my years of quilting. Not only my own but also those from my mother. Her scraps go back to the 40s so you can imagine my stash. I would love to make the Strings quilt since I have never tried that one; second, would be the Stars.
    Thanks, Nancy, for making this instruction available.

  • Josie
    January 5, 2017

    String Quilting Shapes is my favorite as each time I look, I see something different.

    • Josie
      January 5, 2017

      Oops…. the quilt name is Rose Lattice 🙂

  • Nancy B
    January 5, 2017

    I really like the rose lattice quilt. What a great way to use some of my scraps.

  • Barbara
    January 5, 2017

    Paris on a Shoestring is the one that I would love to do. Will put it on my list.

  • Lynn P
    January 5, 2017

    The Rose Lattice is beautiful! That design would certainly help me use up a lot of my scraps! The rest of the quilts are pretty AWESOME as well!

  • Ilana
    January 5, 2017

    I love these scrap quilts. I definitely want to make various string quilts and I’m wild about the 9 patch stars.

  • Deb Wallace
    January 5, 2017

    I love all of them, but if I’m forced to pick I think it would be Rose Lattice. I started quilting to get rid of my scraps that I just couldn’t part with from past sewing projects. This would be the perfect solution for my piles of fabric scraps!

  • Nancy Ballard
    January 5, 2017

    I like the stars in Paris on a Shoestring. It reminds me of the trip I made to Paris a couple of years ago.

  • Brenda
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust and infinity!

  • Lorainne Green
    January 5, 2017

    I like them all but especially like the Solar Star

  • Linda E in AZ
    January 5, 2017

    Window Garden would be my first try, then Paris on a Shoestring. I make a lot of very scrappy quilts for our guild’s Community Service program, so these are great new ideas. Thanks!

  • Gail pavletic
    January 5, 2017

    I can see many of these quilts reducing my stash of scraps, so wouldn’t loved the book. Solar flare is a must try. Thanks for all your sewing tips through the years.

  • Joanne P.
    January 5, 2017

    Love Solar Flare and Window Garden…so would make one of those two first…then the other one…love scrap quilts.

  • Chris Reid
    January 5, 2017

    I would love to make Wind Farm.

  • Mari-ann Miller
    January 5, 2017

    All are beautiful, but Stardust would be my first choice!

  • Pam Floyd
    January 5, 2017

    My pick would be the Stars quilt. I particularly like all the white space which really shows off the fabric in the stars. After all, we bought the fabric that made those scraps because we couldn’t leave the store without it!

  • Linda Lampson
    January 5, 2017

    Oh! This is just the inspiration I need to get going on a string quilt. Love the Spinning Pinwheels and Rose Lattice designs.

  • J. Baker
    January 5, 2017

    I would make the Paris on a Shoestring quilt!! However, I love all the patterns.

  • Sheila
    January 5, 2017

    I would like to make Paris on a Shoestring.

  • Donna Street
    January 5, 2017

    I would love to make Paris on a Shoestring. My string bin is now a bin and a half. LOL

  • Phyl McCord
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust absolutely!

  • WENDY WOOD
    January 5, 2017

    I love the string pieced Rose Lattice. This is just the thing I’ve been waiting for. I too, have MANY scraps that I have been “collecting” for that someday project to use them in.

  • Dale
    January 5, 2017

    Drunkards path, especially with the light/dark contrast

  • Marie
    January 5, 2017

    I love so many of them but my first choice would be Wind Farm. I have a good supply of scraps to start with!

  • Judy Wymore
    January 5, 2017

    I would also love the Solar Flare pattern. I HAVE to find something to do with all these scraps that I can’t bear to part with.

  • Tina Marie Lorusso
    January 5, 2017

    Wow! So many great ideas! I love the Paris on a Shoestring!!! and the star! I have a lot of squares so I’m going to do this for sure. I’ve done jelly roll quilts but not strings quilts. Definitely on my to do list!!! Thanks for the inspiration!

  • Angie T
    January 5, 2017

    I really like the Rose Lattice Paytern, although I don’t think I have enough scraps to make one yet.

  • Pat S.
    January 5, 2017

    Paris on a Shoestring absolutely!

  • Cathy from KY
    January 5, 2017

    I love Stardust. Stars,are my favorite, so I guess thats why I’m drawn to Stardust.

  • Nadine Nakano
    January 5, 2017

    I like the stardust – with the white background it’s very effective ! However, they are all very nice!

  • Kaye M.
    January 5, 2017

    My favorite is Wind Farm! I live in Nebraska and we have several wind farms here and also nearby in Kansas. i love to watch them spin in the distance on the hills. My favorite kind of quilts are scrappy!

  • Susan T
    January 5, 2017

    Solar flare

  • Karen Gwizdala
    January 5, 2017

    I have been sewing with my mom for the past ten years since my children are all grown now and when I started she had a whole cabinet full of scraps! She has them all organized by color and we have been using them here and there but we could probably put a small dent in them with these quilts. My mom would love all these ideas and we would probably make all the quilts in the book!

  • Debe
    January 5, 2017

    My absolute favorite is the Star quilt but that is a lot of work! Very beautiful.

  • vera schmidt
    January 5, 2017

    Love the quilts from the book. Have a box or two of scraps so I could have fun with this book.
    Thank you for the chance to win this book.

  • Karen payton
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust is my favorite. Working these blocks a little at a time would be enjoyable and not to over whelming for a beginner. Thanks

  • Nancy Battersby
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust please

  • Brook Scott
    January 5, 2017

    I think I’m going to start my scrappy star blocks today! I love the ‘Paris on a shoestring’ quilt.

  • deb
    January 5, 2017

    Beach Balls! love everything about it! and I do have the scrap stash to attempt this 🙂

  • Shirley W
    January 5, 2017

    I think that I like the Paris on a Shoestring the best. Being a collector of scraps (where do they all come from?) I have a great start to completing the quilt in no time.

  • Pat
    January 5, 2017

    I would love to make the Rose Lattice quilt. It is a beautiful version of the scrap quilt.

  • ELIZABETH KUNTZ
    January 5, 2017

    I like the String Basics

  • Judy Jones
    January 5, 2017

    All the quilts look like they would be fun to make but the Stardust quilt is the one I would like to make!

  • Susan
    January 5, 2017

    Paris on a Shoestring is the one I’d love to make! Such a fun technique to use up scraps. Now if only I can do one without trying to match the scraps.

  • Donna N.
    January 5, 2017

    Never met a scrap quilt I didn’t like, but if I had to choose a “first to make” it would be Stardust. Love the modern look.

  • Sally Whetstine
    January 5, 2017

    I would enjoy making the wind farm. I live on a farm and find
    that quite appropriate for my many scraps. Lynn is most creative and inspiring.

  • Carol Carrel
    January 5, 2017

    I definitely will NOT be making the exquisite Stardust quilt. Each of these is spectacular. I’d love to make Wind Farm and Beach Balls, but the movement and visually fascinating Rose Lattice has captured my desire to recreate it with my scraps to see what that mess of mine would look liked done up that way. I did some string quilting more than fifty years ago under my husband’s mother’s instruction. This method is much easier.

  • Starla
    January 5, 2017

    These are all beautiful. I like Stardust the best — I seem to have a thing for stars…

  • Debra
    January 5, 2017

    I love the rose lattice quilt. I’ve always wanted to try a string quilt with my many scraps and this pattern is very striking.

  • Laura
    January 5, 2017

    I love string quilts! Great way to use up fabric scraps!
    Stardust looks like a fun quilt to make!

  • Kim M Harrington
    January 5, 2017

    Pretty difficult to pick a favorite here! I am a compulsive scrap horder, and I feel that I could really use these patterns to help dwindle my supply of tiny and bigger bits of fabric! I definitely love the string piecing on point as that would use up more of the scraps.
    I would love to win this book!

  • Theresa Waite
    January 5, 2017

    I especially like the Wind Farm quilt. living in Kansas where the wind always blows. What a good way in which I could use up some of my fabric stash

  • Teresa M Edington
    January 5, 2017

    String quilting shapees. I have a TON, almost literally of scraps and need a USING project. Hah!

  • S. Brower
    January 5, 2017

    The “Paris on a Shoestring” quilt is amazing! I’ve never seen anything like it. I would want to start there, but the Rose Lattice is great too!

  • Rosemary
    January 5, 2017

    Paris on a shoestring first! Then Rose Lattice – I already have a few blocks started that would work for that! – and then all of the rest since I can’t bear to throw away scraps!!!!

  • Cheryl
    January 5, 2017

    Paris on a Shoestring…what a great way to use scraps and a favorite fabric.

  • Adeline
    January 5, 2017

    I like the stars, as I have a bucket of squares put away in assorted sizes. Also, on point string quilt is fun. I like the way it is outlined in red. Could be any color you have a lot of so use your good old imagination folks!

  • Brenda Ackerman
    January 5, 2017

    I would love to make the Stardust quilt! It is absolutely beautiful. Yet, each of these quilts all have a unique look and would all be so much fun to make!

  • Joy Miller
    January 5, 2017

    I have enjoyed making string quilts for years. Wind Farm is a beauty.

  • Roberta A
    January 5, 2017

    I haven’t had a lot of experience with quilting but love the quilts you’ve shown from the book. Every Last Piece. I would like to make the Paris On A Shoestring quilt. I have loads of fabric scraps. This book would be great to win.

  • Rhonda D in KY
    January 5, 2017

    I pick Solar Flare or Beach Balls. Both are gorgeous!

  • Enid
    January 5, 2017

    I like Making Stars.

  • Sandra
    January 5, 2017

    Wind farm would be my choice. I like the various widths and angles used in the scrap block and really like the shape of the block template

  • Susan Spiers
    January 5, 2017

    The Rose Lattice-love the colors and the layout-very nice!

  • Susan Melgaard
    January 5, 2017

    Window Garden showed me a different way of doing my favorite quilt. I love string quilts and I love working with my scraps. Looking back at quilts I have sewn with scraps is like looking through a photo album. Lots of good memories. One word to the wise though. Don’t leave the scraps in dark corners. They seem to multiply.

  • Michelle Lynch
    January 5, 2017

    My kind of projects. I’d love to win “Every Last Scrap”

  • Val W
    January 5, 2017

    Rose Lattice looks like it would be an interesting and fun quilt to make. I see all sorts of possibilities with my scrap pile!

  • Beverly
    January 5, 2017

    I really loved this show. We all end up with bits and pieces we just like so well we don’t want to toss them but have no idea how to use them beautifully. This book seems to be full of great ideas and I would probably make several of them, but the one that really speaks to me is “Paris on a Shoestring”. I would love to make and feature this quilt wall hanging. Thank you for this special segment.

  • Debbie Crawford
    January 5, 2017

    Decisions, decisions! It is always good to want to make more than one. I choose”Making Stars, Solar Flare, Window Garden and Beach Balls.”

  • Julie Kill
    January 5, 2017

    This is a wonderful idea! Thank you for publishing this book!
    My favorite quilt pattern of all time is the Tumbling Blocks ( Stars in general) pattern. The reason is because the pattern is so flexible. If you change a color, other forms of stars and shape pop out from the Quilt. It’s an absolutely FUN way to play with color and pattern.

    Therefore, I really LOVE the Solar Flare! ( If you look at 4 diamonds or 6 triangle shapes together in Solar Flare, you have a “tumbling block”. I would like to make the Solar flare first, and then extend the design outward and use pattern to show case “Tumbling Blocks”. With Stripes, I believe it would be spectacular!

    I would love to win this book so that I have the method and can try it!
    Thank you for such fun and cost saving ideas!

  • Cathy Ferguson
    January 5, 2017

    I would like to make the Rose Lattice quilt. I think next in line would be the Paris on a shoe string. I love scrappy quilts.

  • Deej
    January 5, 2017

    I would love, love, love to make the Rose Lattice quilt. I have years of scraps ready and with the help of Lynn Harris’s book, it looks do-able, even for a beginner quilter such as myself.

  • Carol Burns
    January 5, 2017

    I love them all but my 2 top favorites would have to be Wind Farm and Solar Flares, I have to make them both. This is a wonderful book that I really want.
    Coming from a very poor family, I was taught to save every little scrap of fabric so my mom could make us kids quilts with it, and I still do. I have used them to make strips quilts, one of which is on my bed right now, and I also have made one called Rock Star, it is similar to the Solar Flare quilt, but the stars are smaller and there is about 20 of them in the quilt. I haven’t got the back on it yet, but some of my kids are quarreling over who will get it as some of all the clothes they wore are in that quilt, it is made from the good parts of clothes they used to wear. What a wonderful book for all us scraps savers.

  • Clovis
    January 5, 2017

    Some colorful quilts. I like the String Quilting Shape quilt the best with the Wind Farm Block next. They are both colorful. With the book I could make the String Quilting Shape. A good way to use up the scraps.

  • Sharon C
    January 5, 2017

    I love scrap quilts. There always is so much color. Of these scrap quilts, I would first make the the string quilt. then the Paris on a shoestring and then something like the stardust. Thanks for sharing!

  • Carla Neufeld
    January 5, 2017

    I’m in the process of making a quilt with scrap stars, but the beach ball would be learning a new technique. Love the beach!!

  • Marie
    January 5, 2017

    Would love to sprinkle my granddaughters bed with stardust!

  • Hazel Davidson
    January 5, 2017

    Window Garden is my favorite of all shown patterns. I love the contrasting backgrounds of the settings. I am especially fond of string quilts as I have one special top that was made by my great-grandmother and grandmother over 60 years ago. It was pieced on newspaper foundation pieces originally.

  • Linda Vetter
    January 5, 2017

    Although they are all beautiful, I was drawn to the Stardust Quilt immediately. I could see that quilt in several different rooms of my house. A must quilt to make!!!

  • LoAnn Trowbridge
    January 5, 2017

    I would start with Beach Ball, then Stardust. Would like to make them all!

  • Linda Rupe
    January 5, 2017

    I love the Beach Balls quilt! It’s so bouncy and happy.

  • Marilyn Weiss
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust. It’s stunning!

  • Mary
    January 5, 2017

    Love the String Quilting one looks like spools and the coloring is very unique.

  • Ro Grund
    January 5, 2017

    I have a box of blocks from a Guild exchange. Would love to make the Wind Farm quilt. Looks like a fun book!

  • Penni
    January 5, 2017

    Seems that anything with circles grabs my eye lately. The Beachball quilt did just that. I am also fascinated with the background and would like to have the skill set to choose such great neutral fabrics. Love that she involves her family in her quilt making. Good show.

  • Tammy Kazmierczak
    January 5, 2017

    I love the quilt called Stardust. I believe I could make this quilt with the scraps I have accumulated while sewing shields for the Days for Girls charity.

  • Jolene Otter
    January 5, 2017

    I love the Solar Flare quilt mostly because the string blocks can be diverse and make the background which is an unusual color, pop. I love the use of color in this quilt and it inspires me to dig the unusual colors from my stash.

  • Stephanie Alexander
    January 5, 2017

    Beach Balls really catches my eye. I like Stardust too. Believe with the amount of scraps I have, both are possibilities. Love them all.

  • Susanna Hogan
    January 5, 2017

    Wind Farm Block. It is so peaceful. I could spend a long time just looking at it.

  • Susan Robbins
    January 5, 2017

    I toss all scraps in boxes, sometimes I try to organize them to see if any scraps are big enough for one small hexagon or square. I’m sure some are too small to sew but they might be good for applique. I would make Paris on a shoestring first!

  • Shaela Forbes
    January 5, 2017

    I’d put Paris on a Shoestring on my To Do list

  • Deanna Duvall
    January 5, 2017

    I would make Wind Farm. Living in Kansas and Oklahoma where the wind blows all the time, it seems appropriate to be drawn to that quilt. Seeing the big wind turbines turning is hypnotic.

  • Linda Willshon
    January 5, 2017

    I was very taken the first time I saw the Wind Farm quilt on Nancy’s Blog. I would love to make that quilt with my scraps. We live close to a large windfarm on the Altamont Hills in CA and I love to watch them from the freeway as we are headed to the Bay Area. I am interested in windmills of all types, but I especially like this pattern since it looks just like the modern windfarms that are happily producing good, clean solar energy whenever there is a stiff breeze! I do like all the other scrap quilts shown, too. I have never seen so many beautiful ways to use your scraps (they have sentimental value and I can’t throw them away–rather immortalize them) all in one book! Thank you.

  • jane
    January 5, 2017

    My husband grew up on a farm in Nebraska with a windmill to bring water into the house. I would love to make the Wind Farm Block for our home.

  • Nancy McKenzie
    January 5, 2017

    I love Stardust! I love anything scrappy. I have to use up every bit!

  • Sybil Derderian
    January 5, 2017

    Window Garden would be so cheerful done using a multitude of floral scraps! It would certainly bring summery vibes to chase away winter doldrums!

  • Kimberley
    January 5, 2017

    I love them all, but Wind Farm really caught my eye. Beach Balls looks so fun! I think I would have to make them all!

  • Debbie H
    January 5, 2017

    Absolutely love the Stardust quilt and the simplicity of it. That is my first choice and next is the Rose Lattice. Thank you for sharing and the inspiration!

  • Twyla
    January 5, 2017

    Making Stars from Fabric Scraps! ThankS!!

  • Mary
    January 5, 2017

    The stardust is my favorite. I do hang onto my scraps, hard to part with them!

  • Susan
    January 5, 2017

    I love the solar flare and would make that first then the rose lattice. Fun stuff!

  • Jan N.
    January 5, 2017

    I want to make the Wind Farm and Rose Lattice quilts.

  • Jennifer Fried
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust ! I even think the name is inspiring! Happy New Year to everyone, Nancy, your staff, everyone helping to get you out here to all of us. Happy New Year to all the quilters that you inspire. Jenny

  • Marilyn Koestler
    January 5, 2017

    What lovely quilts. I have made several string quilts and donated most to our guild for charity. Now I have more ideas for designs for those ENDLESS scraps. I would really enjoy having her book.

  • Kyle Huvler
    January 5, 2017

    I love the beach ball quilt. Let’s you use all the light backgrounds you have saved. Save everything because you never know what you can create

  • Bonnie MacNaught
    January 5, 2017

    Why just one? I want to make them all.

  • Kathy Kennerly
    January 5, 2017

    Paris on a shoestring is soooo charming. I have a delightful collection of scraps, and this book has so many wonderful ideas and options. This year i would love to make scrap quilts.

  • Cindy Hoover
    January 5, 2017

    Really love Solar Flare. To me, it’s every bit as beautiful as similarly-designed quilts using yardage, not scraps. What a creative woman! I’m jealous!!

  • Crystal
    January 5, 2017

    It’s a toss-up! So many great quilts. I am partial to Lone Star, but really like Wind Farms and Stardust, too!

  • Marsha Dimond
    January 5, 2017

    Love the Rose Lattice. Most of my quilts these days are scrappy.

  • Lori Strobrl
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust is amazing!

  • Helen Bowie
    January 5, 2017

    I would love to make the quilt Stardust, it is just wonderful and would go with any décor.

  • Jackie Lamberty
    January 5, 2017

    I would like to make Paris on a Shoestring. They are all very pretty.

  • Edna Marks
    January 5, 2017

    I would make the wind farm first, then the string quilting shapes

  • Gail Davenport
    January 5, 2017

    I love the Paris on a Shoestring Quilt!

  • Sharon B
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust! It’s a scrap quilt without looking like scrap quilt!

  • Tina
    January 5, 2017

    Thank you so much, I have boxes and boxes of these little bits and I was wondering what to do with them. Now I have ferreted them out, they will go to my quilt club to make into nice warm quilts for wrapping around knees at Old Age Concern. Your video inspired me!!!

  • Jeanne Brown
    January 5, 2017

    love the beach balls quilt

  • Tina
    January 5, 2017

    Would love to win this. I have so many scraps!

  • Nancy Taylor
    January 5, 2017

    I would like to try the Wind Farm quilt. Over by my MIL farm town there are several Wind farms around.
    Thanks for all the encouragement and all the lessons you send us. I learn alot from them
    Nancy Taylor

  • Christine M
    January 5, 2017

    I will try to make the Window Garden Quilt with all the scraps I have accumulated. Finally I can justify not throwing away even the smallest scrap!

  • Bridget
    January 5, 2017

    String quilting shapes is the one for me!

  • Barbara
    January 5, 2017

    The wind farm quilt is very cool! Thanks for the chance to win the book.

  • Mary Weaver
    January 5, 2017

    I love all these colorful quilts but the one I like best is Beachballs. It is so unusual.

  • Renea Yarolim
    January 5, 2017

    I really like Paris on a shoestring. Thanks for the giveaway

  • Barbara Bennett
    January 5, 2017

    Solar Flare caught my eye. I like them all.

  • Margaret Thomas
    January 5, 2017

    Thank you very much for the video on how to use scraps. I think we all have so many and good to see the quilts that can come out of them. For me, I like the star quilt. They are all very nice but the stars really did it for me. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. Much appreciated.

  • Carrie
    January 5, 2017

    Wow! Such cool patterns! Wish I saw this last month.

  • Lynn Swiggum
    January 5, 2017

    I would like to make the quilt making stars. However, using fabrics bought while on vacation would make a fascinating vacation quilt based on the Paris quilt. So I will also be doing this from my favorite vacation destinations.

  • Carole S
    January 5, 2017

    Paris on a Shoestring is definitely on my list. Stars are my favorite patchwork motif, and this one looks so interesting. I’m making a 6-pointed string star quilt now, and this post just makes me want to drop everything and piece until it’s done!!

  • Susan
    January 5, 2017

    Paris on a shoestring would be the first quilt that I would make. Then I would make Solar Flare. I love scrap quilts and these are great!

  • Bonnie
    January 5, 2017

    What a great book! I’d love to make the Rose Lattice quilt. It is so bright and colorful.

  • Valerie Thompson
    January 5, 2017

    I would love to make Paris on a shoestring I love the way it looks like stars shining

  • kathy
    January 5, 2017

    I started a string quilt several years ago and this has even me inspiration to get it out again or even try something new.

  • Micki Turk
    January 5, 2017

    I love scrappy, I would love to make stardust.

  • Ola Norman
    January 5, 2017

    I’d like to make a string quilt like that first one showing. I didn’t see a name for it.

  • Mary Green
    January 5, 2017

    I’ve always wanted to make a string quilt but the Beach Balls rather intrigues me. And of course Paris on a String is lovely. I did make a pair of quilts for great niece and nephew making string blocks and alternated them with girl/boy focus fabric. They turned out real cute and used up some of my stash. Great ideas here. Time now for some more string piecing. thanks, Nancy.

  • Chris
    January 5, 2017

    I love making String quilts so I’d gladly make another one.

  • Patti Van Dyke
    January 5, 2017

    It would be a challenge to sew the Rose Lattice design using only all the varieties of light pink to dark rose fabrics from my stash. Thanks for the ideas & tips!

  • Sandy K
    January 5, 2017

    Would love to do the Rose Lattice quilt

  • Arden
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust hands down,,,, I LUV the idea of making random stars for a long while and then compiling them into a pretty quilt…..thanks…

  • Glenell
    January 5, 2017

    Stardust… I’d love to try it maybe with a slightly different color background… maybe a pearly gray? But they are all wonderful!

  • Shar W.
    January 5, 2017

    Just saw the show on cable today…loved the idea that Lynn’s son gave her the suggestion for Solar Flare. I would probably start with it but with the basic string block design and varying the cutting plus adding a “wedge” for infinite quilt designs…I am ready to explore!

  • Debbie Carl
    January 5, 2017

    String quilting shapes is my favorite!! I save every last piece and would love a copy of your book…

  • Michelle Hall
    January 5, 2017

    I like the Rose lattice and the Solar Flare quilts

  • shirley marvin
    January 6, 2017

    Love them all! !
    I have made string quilts for several years and I do get the usual – Why are you saving all those small pieces- from a lot of people. Quit letting some people in the sewing room. Yes have many more to make and this show gives me several ideas for different varieties to try. Tank you!

  • Marlene C.
    January 6, 2017

    I really like the Wind Farm Block.

  • Harriet wetherell
    January 6, 2017

    I would make the stars quilt because I would also make the stars from scraps over time. I use scraps as if to make a large block but then use the fabric for purses, bibs and other small gifts.

  • Lacreda Riley
    January 6, 2017

    I would love to make 2 of the quilts–Solar Flare and String Quilting Shapes. I have a very large collection of strips and scraps and would live to make them into something colorful and inspiring as these 2 quilts!

  • The Joyful Quilter
    January 6, 2017

    I would like to make Solar Flare, as I haven’t tried a triangle quilt before. Thanks for offering a FREE book!!

  • Marty
    January 6, 2017

    Definitely want to make a “Stardust” of my own!

  • Carol
    January 6, 2017

    I love the Paris on a Shoestring. It’s such a wonderful way to incorporate the string pieced blocks with a print fabric

  • Lynda
    January 6, 2017

    Love the Rose Lattice quilt!

  • Carolyn
    January 6, 2017

    Love them all, but the beach ball needs to be done by me.

  • Michelle Davis
    January 6, 2017

    Ohhhhhh the stardust quilt is amazing. I love that the pieces can be made in minutes.

  • Stella
    January 6, 2017

    I would LOVE to make the Rose Lattice quilt!

  • christina
    January 6, 2017

    I LOVE the star quilt

  • Elaine Davis
    January 6, 2017

    Want to make them all! But Wind Farm and Rose Lattice would be good to start. Thanks for the chance to win the book!

  • Jen in northern Wis
    January 6, 2017

    The Scrappy Star; Queen size then on to the string with leftover’s from the Star Quilt…..Yes I have enough scraps to do both.

  • Jackie Taxter
    January 6, 2017

    The Window Garden really appeals to me. I also really like the scrappy stars.

  • Linda A.
    January 6, 2017

    My favorite is Rose Lattice. I have used scraps of flannel on the back of baby quilts, now it is time to use my cotton scraps on the front of my next quilt. What a treat to view them all & I will enjoy seeing the episode on TV which I record. This one is a keeper!

  • Zella west
    January 7, 2017

    LOVE the scrappy 9 patch stars!!

  • Dawn
    January 7, 2017

    I would love to do Making Stars quilt. Small pieces with a big impact!

  • Florence Dupuis
    January 7, 2017

    I like the stars quilt as I have a lot of small scraps saved and that would certainly use some of them up.

  • Lillian K
    January 7, 2017

    Window Garden would be the FIRST one I would make from this great book!!

  • Jacquelyn
    January 7, 2017

    Definitely the Rose quilt! It reminds me of a kaleidoscope that I used to love as a child.

  • Diane Kauppi
    January 7, 2017

    I’ve long wanted to make a quilt from my scraps but I wasn’t sure just what I wanted to do. Now I know! The “Wind Farm” is it! Thank you!

  • Barbara
    January 7, 2017

    I have so many scraps and love scrap quilts! I could probably make them all but I’d start with Stardust since stars are my favorite blocks. Also like Windfarm, Rose Lattice and Beach Ball. Makes me glad I’ve been a compulsive scrap saver!

  • kelly weaver
    January 7, 2017

    They are all wonderful ideas, but to be honest the one I am going to try is the one on the cover of the “magic inch quilts” book. I know that won’t win me any prizes, but it’s the idea I want to try. It will work great with the hundreds of tiny craps of fabric that I have used and loved and can’t bear to throw out, that are sitting in my “someday” box

  • Elaine G.
    January 7, 2017

    Such wonderful techniques and lovely quilts! I love the Stardust quilt and the Beach Balls quilt is my second favorite! i like how the colors pop off the background!

  • Patricia
    January 7, 2017

    I really like Lynn’s use of scraps and am inspired to make my own scrap quilt. My favorite is the Wind Farm block with the spinning pinwheel.

  • Linda Roetman
    January 7, 2017

    I would love to make the Rose Lattice quilt. I love the look of this quilt and all the possibilities the pattern offers to use multiple colors and patterns of fabric. I have an abundance of scraps, small pieces, strips, unusual shapes and larger pieces. What a great way to use them up. I would be thrilled to win the beautiful book by Lynn Harris. When I think of scrap quilts, I think of a saying my Mother always said: “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”. With a family of nine, we did use everything until it was gone or completely wore out!

  • Roni
    January 8, 2017

    I love the tiny stars 9-patch but would have to make the star larger to accommodate my failing eyesight. Very enjoyable show!

  • Anne Z.
    January 8, 2017

    I love star quilts, so Making Stars from Fabric Scraps is my favorite.

  • Amy barra
    January 8, 2017

    Love them all, especially the rose lattice. The bright colors and movement are beautiful! I’m a beginner quilter but think I could do this as a lap quilt size. ( I do have lots of sewing experience, just not quilting) great way to pass the chilly snowy winter days!

  • Kellie McKinney
    January 8, 2017

    I love the little stars. I quilt for a charity group and they save me all the scraps, well kinda I won’t let them throw them out. Have made many quilts out of scraps. I am sure many have brought comfort to the children the go to. Happy stitching!

  • Dixie Alms
    January 9, 2017

    Which one????? Which one??? I want to make Solar Flare, Beach Balls and String Quilting Shapes!

  • Bernadette Caropepe
    January 9, 2017

    Beach balls or Paris on a shoestring. But they’re all beautiful!

  • Shirley
    January 9, 2017

    Love the “Wind Farm” quilt!!

  • Louise Wonnocott
    January 10, 2017

    They are all wonderful but Beach Balls would be my favourite and first one to make. Always using my scraps but never seem to make much leeway as I am always adding to them along the way. Great to see such lovely ideas for using them.

  • Abby Hatfield
    January 10, 2017

    The small galaxy of stars set with the solid blocks is just beautiful. I have. Been cutting all of my scraps into 1 1/2″ squares on up to 5″ squares. Some of them are left in a strip. I just started cleaning g up all of the odd shaped pieces and sorting them in drawers. I look forward to making something as spectacular as these. What an inspiration! Thank you.

  • Millie
    January 10, 2017

    I’d love to make Stardust

  • Ola K Norman
    January 10, 2017

    A string quilt

  • Renee
    January 10, 2017

    I really like all the patterns but Rose Lattice and the Stars quilt caught my eye. It’s nice to find fun applications for smaller pieces of fabric (I won’t call them scraps.).

  • Faye B
    January 10, 2017

    I would try the beach ball quilt.

  • Linda
    January 11, 2017

    I think I have enough scraps to make them all . . . and I need to get started NOW!

  • barbara k
    January 11, 2017

    Love Wind Farm quilt good for a lot a scrapes, I liked all of them can wait to get a book and start sewing these fun blocks

  • Ellen Weber
    January 11, 2017

    I’d love to make the Strung Quilting Shapes – that wo9uld make a nice dent into my scrap stash!

  • Ruth Henrichs
    January 11, 2017

    I’ve never made anything “string”, but love the Window Garden quilt.

  • Jean
    January 12, 2017

    I really want to make stardust, but window garden is more my speed.

  • Nancy Runnels
    January 14, 2017

    Now I save the small trimmings for dog/cat beds for our local shelter. I would enjoy making the small stars with the bigger scraps.

  • Mary Green
    January 14, 2017

    I am definitely a scrapper and you gave me more ways to use them. I loved every quilt and can’t it to dig into my basket of strips to start making one of them.
    Nancy, I have been watching your sewing programs on PBS station here in Fort Worth for 20 plus years and I have leaeprned so much from you. Thank you so much…God bless.

  • Mary Green
    January 14, 2017

    I am definitely a scrapper and you gave me more ways to use them. I loved every quilt and can’t wait to dig into my basket of strips to start making one of them.
    Nancy, I have been watching your sewing programs on PBS station here in Fort Worth for 20 plus years and I have learned so much from you. Thank you so much…God bless.

  • Paula Nordt
    January 14, 2017

    I love the String Quilt Shapes quilt.

  • Romy McCoy
    January 15, 2017

    Definitely stardust !!!! Nancy I’ve watched your show seems like forever …. my daughter at 6 gave me for mothers day a patch quilt pillow she made sneakily on my machine … when asked how she knew to use the machine she replied “Nancy Zeimen showed me.” Fast forward. .. my granddaughter made her mom a patch pillow for her birthday n when asked how she figured how to use the machine she replied, “Well of course!!! Nancy Zeiman !!! You know Nanny we watch her every week…!!! I watched her n I did it !!!!” Talking about history repeating itself… lol…

  • Cheryl
    January 19, 2017

    I save all my scraps, so any project in this book would be appealing, but I am leaning toward Stardust!

  • Karen payton
    January 20, 2017

    Paris on a shoestring. I really like the star shape

  • Vickie Mone
    January 27, 2017

    Hi – I save all my scraps and am slowly trying to use them. I love the Beach Ball quilt.

  • Linda Drury
    February 4, 2017

    I love the Paris On A Shoestring Quilt, the Solar Quilt as well. All of the above quilts are beautiful. You can never say scraps are bad when it comes to quilting!!

  • Daryl
    February 4, 2017

    Wind Farm of String Quilting Shapes are my favorites that I would make. I love using scraps!

  • Marilyn Fite
    February 4, 2017

    Paris on a Shoestring is one I would love to make! Like the on point setting. Reminds me of a Kaffe Fassett.

  • Nada Mccoy
    February 4, 2017

    I absolutely LOVE the stardust quilt. I hope to have the patience and skill to create such beauties.

  • Ann Scott
    February 4, 2017

    Because I have so many scraps, i’d like to make the farm windmill quilt!

  • Barb Bevell
    February 16, 2017

    That’s easy! Stardust. It took my breath away.

  • Bernadette
    February 17, 2017

    I would love the try and make Paris on a shoestring, and rose lattice.

  • Barbara
    February 18, 2017

    Nancy, you have once again inspired us with your guests! Lynn Harris is so talented and using scraps – what a great way to save money. Several ideas for donation quilts are swirling in my head! Ladies – thank you both!

  • Lisa
    February 23, 2017

    I was enticed by the strip quilts, but I would love to make Stardust! The tinier the pieces, the more fascinating the quilt!

  • Cathey
    March 4, 2017

    Like so many, I have 3 drawers of scraps. I’ve been busy trying to get some sewed up; can’t seem to toss them. I like the stripped quilt. Need to get these sewed up so I can move on to more cutting making new scraps. It’s an endless circle.

  • Donna Montoya
    March 5, 2017

    Love Paris on a Shoestring! I’m reordering my things to do so that I can make that one right away!

  • Cathy from KY
    March 25, 2017

    Just watched the episode with Lynn Harris and fell in love with the Stardust quilt. Would love to win this if I’m not too late to enter.

  • Sandra Frazer
    May 24, 2017

    I’m fairly new at quilting but I sew lots of other things and so I have tons of scraps I can’t seem to part with.. So needless to say I’m in love with Karen’s designs and they look easy. I especially like the Beach Ball because I think it would be perfect to make for my great granddaughter..

  • Cecilia Irons
    July 15, 2017

    Even though I have been quilting for at least ten years, I still consider myself a newbie and I have learned a lot from your shows. Would love to win Lynn Harris book and make the Solar Flare Quilt. I haven’t learned to dispose of any fabric so have lots of scraps! Thank You!

  • Louise Wilson
    December 6, 2017

    I have SO many scraps! I would love to make a Solar Flare quilt (or 2 or 3).

  • Linda Kemnitz
    March 25, 2020

    Several of the quilts make me excited but Stardust is amazing and I would love to make that quilt!

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