Let's review. In the last two months, I've made four scrap quilts, primarily from my very full solids scrap basket.
Banded, where an entire yard of Kona Haze was used as background on the front. But other than that, every single bit - blocks, backing, and binding - was from the scrap basket. [47" x 55" x 47" x 58"]
Bonkers, my controlled crazy quilt, which was made entirely from scrap, except for the chunky binding. [48" x 58"]
Stackables, which used more stash yardage than the previous two, yet also used a lot of scraps - all those 'stripes' on the front were scraps; as were all the pieced blocks on the back. Even with the added stash, I consider it a good use of scraps. [45" x 48"]
And finally, there's Tangled Strings, which is much smaller than the others, but still made primarily from the scrap basket. Only the Kona Punch on the back and the black binding were from stash. [25" x 26"]
So the thing is....for each of these quilt finishes, I got so many comments that the back could be the front, or right out that the commenter liked the back over the front. So I figured why not? My next scrap quilt would be made, as much as possible, from the scrap basket in the style of my pieced quilt backs, but from the start, I'll consider it the front. IE. I think I'll do the 'grab and piece' method, just reaching in and pulling out a handful of scraps, and piecing them together. At some point, I'll probably need to pull from stash to fill in - maybe? I'm not sure, but I'm curious to see. Here's what my solid scrap basket looked like after the above four quilts....
So obviously, it's packed a lot looser now, but it obviously has another quilt's (or few?!) worth of scraps left to give. Let's see.
