tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post3398884731962662029..comments2023-10-16T11:57:24.970-04:00Comments on r0ssie (fresh modern quilts): there is something to be saidRossiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01987463672893902604noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-68029113484599321032010-07-30T17:26:37.802-04:002010-07-30T17:26:37.802-04:00Whenever I think of scrappy quilts I think of my g...Whenever I think of scrappy quilts I think of my grandmothers quilts that were truly made out of scraps (often leftover from dresses she made me)! I much prefer quilts using fabric from different sources--I'm not usually inspired by a quilt made from one fabric line. Love your website!Kristy Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17529400422423277529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-63089359411017962452010-07-21T00:23:49.291-04:002010-07-21T00:23:49.291-04:00I've been thinking about this post of yours th...I've been thinking about this post of yours the last couple of days....<br /><br />what about a "conglomerate" quilt?<br /><br />Conglomerate being "a cluster of heterogeneous things." Used as a verb, it means, "to bring together into a cohering mass."<br /><br />What do you think?<br /><br />In a somewhat related note, I started putting together my leaders & enders blocks using mostly smaller scraps that I cut up into 2" squares. Is that a scrappy quilt? A leftovers quilt? I really like how it's coming together, no matter what it is called.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-84338165979501233502010-07-17T20:02:58.308-04:002010-07-17T20:02:58.308-04:00Take care, lady. :) I don't know what I call t...Take care, lady. :) I don't know what I call them but I don't use scrappy either. I really, really don't like using the term 'wonky,' I don't know why.jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14868502038761005783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-47887406511937021652010-07-17T19:50:10.097-04:002010-07-17T19:50:10.097-04:00Hope you're feeling better! I have to say, yo...Hope you're feeling better! I have to say, you and I may have been twins separated at birth. Slammerkin is one of my favorite novels, and The Crane Wife is a favorite album! (If you haven't listened to The Hazards of Love, it is sublime!)Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15685176674707591308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-74895251787285723102010-07-17T13:59:40.206-04:002010-07-17T13:59:40.206-04:00Let me add my Amen! to Cheryl's comments. I ca...Let me add my Amen! to Cheryl's comments. I can't imagine making a quilt out of a single line of fabric by a single designer. Unheard of! That's a development of recent years. Back in the 1980's we didn't buy fabric by designer name. Knowing the name of the *manufacturer* was just coming into vogue. <br /><br />To me a scrap quilt is just that, a quilt made out of the scraps, the leftovers from previous projects, whether they were quilts or clothing or curtains or whatever. I have heard the term "multi-fabric quilt" used to describe quilts made from lots of prints that were not necessarily scraps. It's a bit cumbersome but accurate I suppose. <br /><br />I buy what I like when I'm shopping, no matter who the designer may be. Then I graze my stash as Cheryl does. I figure I'm exercising my artistic abilities when I choose the fabrics, colors, prints, and the construction methods I use to assemble them into a quilt. That's what makes me an artist and not just a quilt maker even though what I make most often are utility quilts as opposed to "art quilts."<br /><br />Wow. Thanks for helping me to get that clear in my own head!Magpie Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930036522719103192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-25258422055405500352010-07-17T13:40:57.558-04:002010-07-17T13:40:57.558-04:00Stash quilts are good. Or simply quilts. Why do we...Stash quilts are good. Or simply quilts. Why do we have to define our fabric choices this way? I've never made a quilt out of one solid line of fabric. That is limiting and too easy IMHO. Even if I like the entire line.<br /><br />Scrappy, in my world, is left to the actual bits leftover from other projects. As long as I've used it somewhere before it qualifies as a scrap. That could mean I have a 1 inch square or nearly a meter of fabric because I cut a one inch square out of it. So, in reality, a scrap quilt is really a stash quilt for me.<br /><br />How about free-range? I graze my entire stash of fabric to create a project - whether that is one block or an entire quilt.<br /><br />And while we on the topic of terms we don't like, can I add "designer" fabric? There were fabric designers long before Amy Butler and the modern gang. And unless it is a open market reproduction design, someone had to design it.Cheryl Arkisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552721454371060936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-75338059047114698042010-07-17T07:52:06.770-04:002010-07-17T07:52:06.770-04:00I like the term stash quilts as suggested by Patty...I like the term stash quilts as suggested by Patty. I have also heard an increase in the use of this term lately. I think it fits as you bought the fabrics in your stash with the intention to use them in a future project.Esch House Quiltshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07095448847070091632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-77452269160583222272010-07-16T20:41:28.969-04:002010-07-16T20:41:28.969-04:00I think the word you are looking for is "ecle...I think the word you are looking for is "eclectic". BTW I always thought scrappy referred to quilts made from the scraps you had accumulated not from fabrics by different designers. All of my quilts are eclectic :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-19063591005644506642010-07-16T18:48:33.705-04:002010-07-16T18:48:33.705-04:00I've never thought of "scrappy" as s...I've never thought of "scrappy" as second rate, but rather the more the merrier... or an unexpected party of fabrics. I wouldn't call your block scrappy either... not enough fabrics involved for scrappy. Lately I've been finding people calling leftover quilts, crumb quilts. Quite literally the crumbs that are leftover from another project. Personally, leftover to me is not a bad thing. It just means that I bought enough to have more fun with it! And sometimes I like to say, "no new fabric was harmed in the making of this quilt." Sometimes fabric needs to age before it can be used.<br /><br />(guess I'm kinda emotional about the term scrappy. :D )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-87099570198601318232010-07-16T16:48:35.504-04:002010-07-16T16:48:35.504-04:00Oh, I hope that you feel better, and I've been...Oh, I hope that you feel better, and I've been sick all week myself--a drug allergy. Those medicines have so many side effects. and the name I give for quilts sewn like this is Liberated, as in the book "Liberated Quiltmaking" by Gwen Marston.Rosalyn Manessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07732466850346976888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-20219349479986457772010-07-16T15:32:40.532-04:002010-07-16T15:32:40.532-04:00For the most part quilts made in early America ca...For the most part quilts made in early America came from scraps of fabric left over from another uses, clothes,feed sacks ect. hence the name scrappy quilts. I have always use fabric from different lines or at least I've never confined myself to staying exclusively to one line. Recently,and I'm not totally sure where I read it, but these quilts have been referred to as stash quilts rather than scrap quilts. Maybe this is more what you're looking for... but do we really need to put a name to it?Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09719092779656444791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-21976202958219256882010-07-16T14:05:18.272-04:002010-07-16T14:05:18.272-04:00I think of scrappy as using MANY different fabrics...I think of scrappy as using MANY different fabrics, including some that you might not normally put together. I also assume that someone pulled the fabric from their "scrap bin."Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11142817054375318711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-72682945687960394602010-07-16T13:20:14.865-04:002010-07-16T13:20:14.865-04:00Glad you're feeling better! "Scrappy"...Glad you're feeling better! "Scrappy" never sat well with me either, it's nice to hear it bothers someone else too! I am no suggestions on a new term but I do think we need one! I much prefer making fabric combinations myself them just sticking with one designer. I think it makes it more interesting! Anyone can think to use just fabrics from a collection together, but mixing fabrics yourself puts your individual spin on it :)Jeni Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14766510979539197035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-20922538337790226232010-07-16T13:15:24.964-04:002010-07-16T13:15:24.964-04:00I don't use scrappy in that way either. Scrapp...I don't use scrappy in that way either. Scrappy I think was originally used to describe anything that didn't have blocks made in an ordered fabric combo... like say you were making star blocks and all the centers were blue and the points were red and all the same blue and red. Then no matter what fabric line they were from it wasn't scrappy. If each star was a different blue and red... or there were a few the same but mostly different it would be scrappy. I used to only like ordered fabric quilts and hated scrappy ones. I can't imagine making an ordered fabric quilt now though.Jewelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15023887380090371582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-47196858938171635552010-07-16T13:05:25.122-04:002010-07-16T13:05:25.122-04:00Glad to hear you are starting to feel better! Bein...Glad to hear you are starting to feel better! Being sick in the summer can sure dampen things =(<br /><br />Love the quilts! I love "wonky squares" over perfect squares - they are so original!teedle.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02963649925102893308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-2050920425590740002010-07-16T12:35:33.243-04:002010-07-16T12:35:33.243-04:00"synergic" I have to credit my husband ..."synergic" I have to credit my husband on that one because he took one look at my most recent quilt which could be termed a scrap quilt and said that the fabrics had a nice synergy. I loved that!<br /><br />Sorry to hear about your migraine! I get them too; the ones that no med will touch so I feel your pain. I hope you are on the mend!<br /><br />Jennifer :)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866875122831811474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576732685143160314.post-90979631004441175802010-07-16T12:24:20.016-04:002010-07-16T12:24:20.016-04:00I have never much paid attention to the use of the...I have never much paid attention to the use of the word "scrappy," but you caused me to get out my dictionary. Didn't like any of the definitions either. Rubbish or waste material: No way. Odds and ends: maybe sometimes--it depends on the quilt. You've definitely got me thinking. Some of my scrap quilts have some definite guidelines, often requiring purchasing more fabric. Which definitely is NOT the definition of a scrap! <br /><br />Hope you or someone can come up with a better descriptor.Live a Colorful Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17411002666719287765noreply@blogger.com