Scrap Quilts for Charity

What to do with leftover strips 9" long of various widths? Make a couple charity quilts of course!

Here is what I came up with:


I used the strips between 9" squares, rotated every other row since they weren't going to line up anyway and trimmed the rows to the same length. The striped fabric separating the rows was the binding for the quilt the leftovers were from that I decided not to use.

These quilts are going to one of my aunts who is made 5 quilts for a silent auction to raise money for two of her grandson's football team. Her quilts were all bed size so I told her I would send her some smaller quilts to add to her silent auction. The school colors are blue and gold.

My sister said she wanted to make a quilt for them as well so we got together yesterday and each made a row quilt. These are quick quilts to make that get quilted as you sew them together so you don't need to send it off to the long arm quilter. We made these two in about three hours which included checking on kids, making lunch for kids, etc. That includes the binding.

If you are interested in making a similar quilt, check out the tutorial link.

Row Quilt Tutorial

I have been trying a new style of quilting. Smaller quilts that you quilt as you go so you don't have to send your quilt off to a quilter. I have just uploaded a tutorial that I made, with a little help from my sister, of a fun baby or child's quilt.

This Row Quilt is a fun quilt to make even if you don't have much sewing experience. It is very simple and lets the fabric do all the work of making the quilt look great. It's so easy these days to get super great fabric that it is easy for anyone to make a super great quilt!

Click on the link below or at the right to see the tutorial. It is a pdf file.

This is a quilt that you can modify as much or as little as you want. Have fun!