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    Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers: 12 Projects from Simple Squares—Choosing Fabrics & Organizing Your Stash
    Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers: 12 Projects from Simple Squares—Choosing Fabrics & Organizing Your Stash
    Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers: 12 Projects from Simple Squares—Choosing Fabrics & Organizing Your Stash
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    Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers: 12 Projects from Simple Squares—Choosing Fabrics & Organizing Your Stash

    By Judy Gauthier

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    “Not only are the projects cheerful and lovely, but the author spends time explaining how to save and tame all those wonderful leftovers.” —Down Under Quilts
     
    Learn to rescue fabric leftovers with twelve colorful quilt patterns for scrap lovers. Judy Gauthier teaches you her indispensable system for cutting from “real,” oddly shaped scraps, not just strips or precuts! Cut scraps into 3 1/2” 4 1/2”, and 5 1/2” squares—a magical combination for all skill levels—using traditional rotary cutting or Judy’s fast2cut Simple Square Templates. Clever organizing and quilt-assembly tips will help you uncover hidden treasures from your stash.
     
    “Author Judy Gauthier guides readers through cutting, sorting, and organizing scraps into twelve colorful rainbow quilts. Using simple shapes, these patterns are perfect for quilters looking to use their odd-shape scraps and reduce their stash size.” —American Patchwork & Quilting
     
    “Bright and cheerful ways to use up your scraps to make beautiful quilts. twelve projects from easy squares make sensational quilts . . . Recommended.” —yarnsandfabrics.co.uk
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 1, 2017
    ISBN9781617454622
    Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers: 12 Projects from Simple Squares—Choosing Fabrics & Organizing Your Stash

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      Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers - Judy Gauthier

      Publisher: Amy Marson

      Creative Director: Gailen Runge

      Editor: Liz Aneloski

      Technical Editors: Alison M. Schmidt and Debbie Rodgers

      Cover/Book Designer: April Mostek

      Production Coordinators: Zinnia Heinzmann and Joe Edge

      Production Editor: Jennifer Warren

      Illustrator: Kirstie L. Pettersen

      Photo Assistants: Carly Jean Marin and Mai Yong Vang

      Photography by Diane Pedersen of C&T Publishing, Inc., unless otherwise noted

      Published by C&T Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 1456, Lafayette, CA 94549

      Dedication

      I would like to dedicate this book to my mother. She was the queen of saving scraps. She was the queen of saving everything, but particularly things with relevance to sewing. She saved countless zippers, buttons, fabric scraps, and patterns. She taught us the importance of appreciating the things you have, and she was green before recycling and green technology were ever considered.

      My mother was always there to give an encouraging word or a helping hand. She knew just when to tell us to rip something out and when to hold back and let us experiment, lest we lose our enthusiasm.

      She has long since passed away. Her words reverberate in my head every day when I am at my sewing machine or cutting something out. Don’t cut right in the center of that fabric, or Make sure you watch that seam allowance, were words that we lived by.

      Thanks, Mom, for all the hard work and the encouragement to pursue something with such timelessness.

      Acknowledgments

      At the risk of seeming trite, I would like to say thank you to my husband and family. Husbands and families of quilters and sewists are really an impressive lot. They have to be okay with minimalist dinners. They have to be okay with not having a perfectly clean house. They have to be okay with dishes stacked in the sink and with more quilts in the linen closet than clean towels.

      My husband and family are just that—impressive. They are more than okay with all of my shortcomings because they appreciate my passions. Either that or they realize that if I get to sew, I will be infinitely happier, and therefore the day will go more smoothly.

      As of this book, I am an empty nester. Well, not quite completely. My son is our youngest child, and he is in college. Our children still come home a great deal but never permanently. So my life has changed, and I now have even more time to sew.

      So thank you, family. You have given me the gift of being able to pursue my goal of writing a book or two. Love you!

      INTRODUCTION

      Every single quilt in this book uses nothing more than 3 ½˝, 4½˝, and/or 5½˝ squares. That’s right. This combination is magical. This is the second of my two books that take this approach to quiltmaking.

      I was a frustrated quilter. Each time I looked at a book about scrap quilting, I found that it was written from the perspective of using precuts or new pieces of fabric cut into strips. While the resulting quilts were beautiful, they didn’t fit the bill for me. I had so many scraps that I wanted to use in an organized, meaningful way. So while playing in my sewing room, I came up with a different system. Following this system, I used only squares in the sizes mentioned above and the scraps in my bins to create all of the quilts that you see in this book.

      Welcome to the first day of the rest of your piece-of-scrap life! Yes, I said piece-of-scrap. To a quilter or a sewist, that’s a good thing!

      Do you have lots of scraps? Most of us do. We have fabric left over from making garments, making bags, making other quilts—and, of course, fabric given to us by people who know we love fabric. Those well-meaning friends and acquaintances drop fabric at our door, knowing that we just can’t resist taking a peek.

      With this book, I intend to help you. I’ll help you sort your scraps, and I’ll help you to see that you don’t need to buy new fabric to create beautiful scrap quilts. All the fabric you need is right there at your fingertips.

      Note: You can change the size of many of the quilts in this book by reducing the number of blocks (to make the quilt smaller) or increasing the number of blocks (to make the quilt larger).

      So grab your favorite chair, plop yourself down, and start reading!

      LEFTOVERS AGAIN? YES!

      Do You Have a Sprite?

      The sprite has been busy!

      In all of our sewing rooms lives a sprite. She is lively, loves color, and has an aversion to discarding things that have meaning and are beautiful. Late at night, when most sewists are sound asleep, she rummages through the colorful scraps in the sewing room and duplicates them. They begin to multiply. Eventually they take over the room.

      She doesn’t complete her work in a single night—oh, no. It takes some time. If she did this in a single night, it would become evident too quickly to the sewist in the house. The sprite must go about her work cautiously so as not to be found out.

      It’s the only

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