Scrappy quilts using 2 1/2 inch squares

5 inch squares make for some fast and easy designs that take no time at all to whip together.

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A few years ago I fell in love with scrap quilting, mostly because I hate waste. My issue though was my obsession with making things match. As I have progressed in the world of quilting, the ability to let go in scrap quilts and allow them to form has become easier. I have had to learn to separate my quilting into two forms, the beautiful matching blended creation and the random scrap quilt. Since one of my goals AGAIN this year is to use up my ever building pile of scraps, the Project…

Hi fellow members of Hive 9! I'm Kim and I live in Duluth, GA with my husband of 5.5 years and our 7.5 month old daughter Ellie! We also have a 7 year old lab mix that my husband and I adopted the week we returned from our honeymoon. This is my 3rd year participating in Stash Bee and I've really enjoyed making lots of different types of blocks over the last 2 years. It is always nice to made blocks that are outside of your normal repertoire and sometimes you find new blocks to love! For my…

Several months ago (January this year actually) I did a 2 inch postage stamp quilt that I really liked- such a great way to use up those scraps. Only problem was it was rather small - 41" x 52", more a baby sized quilt. I've enjoyed seeing it laying around on a chair or bed, but since a friend of mine is soon to be a grandma for the first time, I thought it might make a nice quilt for her to either use or pass on to her son and daughter-in-law. Here it is in the bottom left of the photo…

Work in Progress. Scrap busting and patchwork piecing is still my preferred way to pass the time with my sewing machine, and if I ca...

The week between Christmas and New Year's I pin basted four quilts, preparing them for machine quilting. Today I am sharing the third finish of the four. I made this quilt from rectangles I found in a box of scraps from a quilt I made a number of years ago. There were a lot more rectangles than I remembered, so I started randomly placing them on my design wall and created this top. This was pure mindless sewing, which is needed on occasion! The machine quilting was purely mindless, too. I…

I enjoyed making my nine patch quilt with the 3 inch squares so much that I continued to cut up any small scrap pieces of fabric I had into 3 inch squares. I just tucked them away into a container…

Hi, all! It's that time again - time for another great scrap quilt tutorial, simple and quick enough for charity quilts. After all, the...

My self-imposed ban on blog reading and posting is over as Lent ends tonight. I was only posting finishes on my blog, since this is my way of keeping track of what I've done and, more importantly, when. I missed reading about everyone's quilting adventures, but it was good for me to stop for a bit. As with most of us, the mask making continues. In between making masks, I worked on this scrappy quilt using 2 1/2" squares. As those who follow me know, I do not enjoy making scrappy quilts and…