Scrap Bag Challenge

Simply Quilts challenges three talented quilt designers to make a quilt using 103 five-inch squares of fabric from the scrap bag!

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Kelly's quilt

Kelly Gallagher-Abbott's Scrappy Floral Quilt
Instructions provided courtesy of quilt designer Kelly Gallagher Abbot.

Designer Kelly Gallagher Abbot created this scrappy quilt using Sharon Shamber’s "Pieceleque" technique and a computer-drafted pattern. To mute the tones of some of the brighter fabrics in the scrap bag, Kelly soaked selected squares in all-purpose ink.

Materials and Tools:

103, five-inch fabric squares
freezer paper
spray starch
stencil brush
hot iron
tweezers
pressing mat
scissors
pattern - see resources
sewing machine
piecing thread

Steps:

1. Pre-shrink freezer paper by heating it. Create a pattern then trace onto freezer paper to make template.

3. Cut out freezer paper templates then press to the wrong side of the fabric.

4. Cut out fabric appliqué pieces leaving at least 1/4-inch allowance of fabric around the perimeter of the template.