Scrap Day Event

Saturday October 12, 2024 9:00-3:30

There is a lot of nostalgia associated with quilting and the romantic notion that quilts were made because families couldn’t afford to buy fabrics expressly for the purpose of making a quilt. Many think of scrap quilts as the result of a quilter fondly using leftover fabrics from sewing clothing for the family or a frugal farm woman in the 1930s taking apart a feedsack to use for a quilt she is making.

These quilts are often referred to as “make-do” textiles, made just from the fabric that was on-hand. Sure, some quilts were made that way but quilters also intentionally sought, traded and bought a variety of fabrics for their scrap quilts.

Another popular notion is that scrap quilts are not “planned.” That, somehow, the quilter is just grabbing pieces willy-nilly and putting fabrics together without considering color, pattern, shades, etc.  In reality, scrap quilts were carefully planned

If you talk to 10 people, you are likely to get 10 answers to the question, “What is a scrap quilt.” One that makes me chuckle is the National Quilters Association’s (NQA – now disbanded) “standard” that a quilt must contain at least 75 different fabrics for it to be categorized as a scrap quilt. That really isn’t necessary but you do want to use as many fabrics as you can because a wide variety adds interest to your quilt.

What  is a Scrap Day Event?  What do you do?
Register with A Quilting Palette for Scrap Day ($30.00) Upon paid registration you will receive the material list and cutting chart for your fabrics.  Go home go through your stash, scrap pile, (okay the scrap CLOSET). Make your fabric selections using the fabric list.  Then  using the cutting guide precut your fabrics prior to the Event

Day of the Event:
Using the free pattern provided sew your cut fabrics together.  

The first person to complete the quilt or get the furthest along  by the end of the day will receive a $50.00 gift certificate from A Quilting Palette

Things to bring:
Sewing Machine 
Sewing Supplies
Scrap Fabrics Cut in Advance

Lunch will be provided by A Quilting Palette