One of the joys of quilting is using up leftover scraps! Here are 5 more stunning quilts made entirely from scraps. For more inspiration, please see our Free Patterns for Scrap Quilts (>PART 1 and >PART 2).
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Scrap the Universe, made and quilted by Barbara Harrell
Truly stunning! Blue ribbon winner Barbara Harrell says that she designed this quilt to work on her curved piecing. "I wanted to scrap the individual elements to see how they played together." Scrap the Universe won First Place in the Scrap-Solo category at the 2025 Quilt Arizona show.
Thanks for the Scraps, made and quilted by Katherine Kenward
Katherine Kenward wanted to practice curved piecing and play with crumb blocks with non-square edges. This original quilt is the result! "A friend gave me lots of her scraps, so I was able to separate by shade as well as color." (The title, Thanks for the Scraps, is a thank-you to her friend.)
Bad Kitty by Heather Nothum, quilted by Penny Boese from the 2025 Quilt Arizona show.
Heather Nothum used scraps to create a color wheel quilt. She changed the middle to look like a black paint splotch, and used her cat's paw print to look like the cat had walked in the paint and on the quilt.
Bits and Pieces, made and quilted by Diana Anderson
This crumb quilt has almost 200 different fabrics in it! Diana Anderson says, "I love using scraps of fabric and I was challenged by one of my quilting sisters to see how many different fabrics I could use in a quilt." Diana's design was inspired by a "Shadow Boxing" video by Donna Jordan.
WOW by Karen Fisher, quilted by Judith Davis
Winner of 1st place in the Two Person Small Pieced category at the 2024 Tucson Quilters Guild show. To start the collaboration, Judith Davis gave 32 mismatched, old and sundry fat quarters to Karen Fisher as a challenge to create a quilt, and the result was "WOW"! The quilt was then returned to the "giver" with the challenge, "Now quilt this"! Beads and other embellishments add tons of visual interest.
Image credits: Photos of Thanks for the Scraps and WOW were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the the Tucson Quilters Guild 2024 show. Photos of Scrap the Universe, Bad Kitty, and Bits & Pieces were taken at the 2025 Quilt Arizona show.
