Whether 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.
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
- Every Last Piece DVD (26-minute run time)
- Template Plastic, two 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets
- Glass Head Pins, 100 count
- Klasse Universal Needles, five needles
- Klasse Quilting Needles, five needles
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.
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.
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!)
String Quilting Shapes
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.
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!
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.
Beach Balls Quilt
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.
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.
Watch Every Last Piece on Sewing With Nancy online.
For a chance to win a copy of Every Last Piece by Lynn Harris from F+W Media, please leave a comment sharing which quilt (above) you would like to make.
The winner of a copy of Magic Inch Quilts from Modern Quilts Studio is Mary Lou.
Her comment was, “I compulsively save most scrap cutoffs, small enough to make a seam and still show up, to use on crazy blocks sewn on used dryer sheets—all unique, no two alike and no wasted fabric. Did I say compulsive?”
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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..
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.
Love Paris on a Shoestring! I’m reordering my things to do so that I can make that one right away!
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.
I was enticed by the strip quilts, but I would love to make Stardust! The tinier the pieces, the more fascinating the quilt!
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!
I would love the try and make Paris on a shoestring, and rose lattice.
That’s easy! Stardust. It took my breath away.
Because I have so many scraps, i’d like to make the farm windmill quilt!
I absolutely LOVE the stardust quilt. I hope to have the patience and skill to create such beauties.
Paris on a Shoestring is one I would love to make! Like the on point setting. Reminds me of a Kaffe Fassett.
Wind Farm of String Quilting Shapes are my favorites that I would make. I love using scraps!
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!!
Hi – I save all my scraps and am slowly trying to use them. I love the Beach Ball quilt.
Paris on a shoestring. I really like the star shape
I save all my scraps, so any project in this book would be appealing, but I am leaning toward Stardust!
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…
Romy, thank you for this cute story! Thanks for watching,
Nancy
I love the String Quilt Shapes quilt.
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.
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.
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.
I really want to make stardust, but window garden is more my speed.
I’ve never made anything “string”, but love the Window Garden quilt.
I’d love to make the Strung Quilting Shapes – that wo9uld make a nice dent into my scrap stash!
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
I think I have enough scraps to make them all . . . and I need to get started NOW!
I would try the beach ball quilt.
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.).
A string quilt
I’d love to make Stardust
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.
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.
Love the “Wind Farm” quilt!!
Beach balls or Paris on a shoestring. But they’re all beautiful!
Which one????? Which one??? I want to make Solar Flare, Beach Balls and String Quilting Shapes!
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!
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!
I love star quilts, so Making Stars from Fabric Scraps is my favorite.
I love the tiny stars 9-patch but would have to make the star larger to accommodate my failing eyesight. Very enjoyable show!
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!
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.
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!
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
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!
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!
Definitely the Rose quilt! It reminds me of a kaleidoscope that I used to love as a child.
Window Garden would be the FIRST one I would make from this great book!!
I like the stars quilt as I have a lot of small scraps saved and that would certainly use some of them up.
I would love to do Making Stars quilt. Small pieces with a big impact!
LOVE the scrappy 9 patch stars!!
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!
The Window Garden really appeals to me. I also really like the scrappy stars.
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.
Want to make them all! But Wind Farm and Rose Lattice would be good to start. Thanks for the chance to win the book!
I LOVE the star quilt
I would LOVE to make the Rose Lattice quilt!
Ohhhhhh the stardust quilt is amazing. I love that the pieces can be made in minutes.
Love them all, but the beach ball needs to be done by me.
Love the Rose Lattice quilt!
I love the Paris on a Shoestring. It’s such a wonderful way to incorporate the string pieced blocks with a print fabric
Definitely want to make a “Stardust” of my own!
I would like to make Solar Flare, as I haven’t tried a triangle quilt before. Thanks for offering a FREE book!!
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!
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.
I really like the Wind Farm Block.
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!
I like the Rose lattice and the Solar Flare quilts
String quilting shapes is my favorite!! I save every last piece and would love a copy of your book…
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!
Stardust… I’d love to try it maybe with a slightly different color background… maybe a pearly gray? But they are all wonderful!
Stardust hands down,,,, I LUV the idea of making random stars for a long while and then compiling them into a pretty quilt…..thanks…
Would love to do the Rose Lattice quilt
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!
I love making String quilts so I’d gladly make another one.
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.
I’d like to make a string quilt like that first one showing. I didn’t see a name for it.
I love scrappy, I would love to make stardust.
I started a string quilt several years ago and this has even me inspiration to get it out again or even try something new.
I would love to make Paris on a shoestring I love the way it looks like stars shining
What a great book! I’d love to make the Rose Lattice quilt. It is so bright and colorful.
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!
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!!
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.
Wow! Such cool patterns! Wish I saw this last month.
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.
Solar Flare caught my eye. I like them all.
I really like Paris on a shoestring. Thanks for the giveaway
I love all these colorful quilts but the one I like best is Beachballs. It is so unusual.
The wind farm quilt is very cool! Thanks for the chance to win the book.
String quilting shapes is the one for me!
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!
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
Would love to win this. I have so many scraps!
love the beach balls quilt
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!!!
Stardust! It’s a scrap quilt without looking like scrap quilt!
I love the Paris on a Shoestring Quilt!
I would make the wind farm first, then the string quilting shapes
I would like to make Paris on a Shoestring. They are all very pretty.
I would love to make the quilt Stardust, it is just wonderful and would go with any décor.
Stardust is amazing!
Love the Rose Lattice. Most of my quilts these days are scrappy.
It’s a toss-up! So many great quilts. I am partial to Lone Star, but really like Wind Farms and Stardust, too!
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!!
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.
Why just one? I want to make them all.
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
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.
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
I want to make the Wind Farm and Rose Lattice quilts.
I love the solar flare and would make that first then the rose lattice. Fun stuff!
The stardust is my favorite. I do hang onto my scraps, hard to part with them!
Making Stars from Fabric Scraps! ThankS!!
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!
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!
Window Garden would be so cheerful done using a multitude of floral scraps! It would certainly bring summery vibes to chase away winter doldrums!
I love Stardust! I love anything scrappy. I have to use up every bit!
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.
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.
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.
I’d put Paris on a Shoestring on my To Do list
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!
Wind Farm Block. It is so peaceful. I could spend a long time just looking at it.
Beach Balls really catches my eye. I like Stardust too. Believe with the amount of scraps I have, both are possibilities. Love them all.
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.
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.
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.
I have a box of blocks from a Guild exchange. Would love to make the Wind Farm quilt. Looks like a fun book!
Love the String Quilting one looks like spools and the coloring is very unique.
Stardust. It’s stunning!
I love the Beach Balls quilt! It’s so bouncy and happy.
I would start with Beach Ball, then Stardust. Would like to make them all!
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!!!
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.
Would love to sprinkle my granddaughters bed with stardust!
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!!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Decisions, decisions! It is always good to want to make more than one. I choose”Making Stars, Solar Flare, Window Garden and Beach Balls.”
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.
Rose Lattice looks like it would be an interesting and fun quilt to make. I see all sorts of possibilities with my scrap pile!
My kind of projects. I’d love to win “Every Last Scrap”
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.
The Rose Lattice-love the colors and the layout-very nice!
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
I like Making Stars.
I pick Solar Flare or Beach Balls. Both are gorgeous!
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.
I have enjoyed making string quilts for years. Wind Farm is a beauty.
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!
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!
Paris on a Shoestring…what a great way to use scraps and a favorite fabric.
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!!!!
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!
String quilting shapees. I have a TON, almost literally of scraps and need a USING project. Hah!
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
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!
I love string quilts! Great way to use up fabric scraps!
Stardust looks like a fun quilt to make!
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.
These are all beautiful. I like Stardust the best — I seem to have a thing for stars…
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.
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.
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.
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.
All the quilts look like they would be fun to make but the Stardust quilt is the one I would like to make!
I like the String Basics
I would love to make the Rose Lattice quilt. It is a beautiful version of the scrap quilt.
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.
Beach Balls! love everything about it! and I do have the scrap stash to attempt this
I think I’m going to start my scrappy star blocks today! I love the ‘Paris on a shoestring’ quilt.
Stardust please
Stardust is my favorite. Working these blocks a little at a time would be enjoyable and not to over whelming for a beginner. Thanks
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.
My absolute favorite is the Star quilt but that is a lot of work! Very beautiful.
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!
Solar flare
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!
I like the stardust – with the white background it’s very effective ! However, they are all very nice!
I love Stardust. Stars,are my favorite, so I guess thats why I’m drawn to Stardust.
Paris on a Shoestring absolutely!
I really like the Rose Lattice Paytern, although I don’t think I have enough scraps to make one yet.
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!
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.
I love so many of them but my first choice would be Wind Farm. I have a good supply of scraps to start with!
Drunkards path, especially with the light/dark contrast
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.
Stardust absolutely!
I would love to make Paris on a Shoestring. My string bin is now a bin and a half. LOL
I would like to make Paris on a Shoestring.
I would make the Paris on a Shoestring quilt!! However, I love all the patterns.
Oh! This is just the inspiration I need to get going on a string quilt. Love the Spinning Pinwheels and Rose Lattice designs.
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!
All are beautiful, but Stardust would be my first choice!
I would love to make Wind Farm.
Love Solar Flare and Window Garden…so would make one of those two first…then the other one…love scrap quilts.
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.
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!
I like them all but especially like the Solar Star
Stardust and infinity!
I like the stars in Paris on a Shoestring. It reminds me of the trip I made to Paris a couple of years ago.
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!
I love these scrap quilts. I definitely want to make various string quilts and I’m wild about the 9 patch stars.
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!
Paris on a Shoestring is the one that I would love to do. Will put it on my list.
I really like the rose lattice quilt. What a great way to use some of my scraps.
String Quilting Shapes is my favorite as each time I look, I see something different.
Oops…. the quilt name is Rose Lattice
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.
Aren’t they all wonderful!!! I think the stardust is calling my name. Thanks Nancy and Lynn.
Definitely Stardust. Lots of opportunity in the negative space for some creative quilting.
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!
Stardust for sure!
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!
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.
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!!
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So many of my scraps are red and blue that the Stardust pattern is calling my name!
The Stardust quilt is my first choice to make, though any quilt using stash scraps gets my vote.
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.
Rose Lattice … but I have enough scraps to make the ALL!
The “Stardust” quilt is calling my name and I love 9 patch patterns.
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.
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.
Window Garden would be first in line then Paris on a Shoestring.
I love the Paris on a Shoestring quilt. That is the one I would like to make.
Solar Flares or Making Stars. Terrific book to gift.
I love Beach Balls! and all the rest….
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.
I would make stardust, it is beautiful.
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.
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
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!
Pick only one? I love wind farm, and beach balls is intriguing, lots of possibilities with these patterns.
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!
I like the window garden quilt. What great ideas for using up those scraps that seem to take over the sewing room
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.
I’m with shirly. First, Rose Lattice. then.. the rest of them!
I’d love to make Solar Flare or Stardust first, then …. All are great!