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- Hi, this is Judy from Bungalow Quilting and Yarn,
and I'm delighted to be here talking about scrap quilting.
I'm the author of Quilts for Scrap Lovers ,
Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers ,
and Sensational Quilts For Scrap Lovers .
And I am going to talk to you about how to make
all those odd, bizarre shaped scraps that you have,
whether they're odd shapes or odd fabrics.
And we're gonna talk about how to mesh them together
or how to marry them together
so that they look really, really good in a scrap quilt.
Now we've got scraps left over from cutting out garments,
we've got scraps left over from cutting out bags,
we do appliqué, we do all kinds of different things
that leave scraps that are not necessarily
perfectly strip cut.
And so I've come up with a great system
for using these together.
And there's two parts to this system.
One of them is fast and furious cutting techniques,
and the other one is how to organize your scraps
and use the color wheel to make those scraps
work very, very well together.
So sit tight, and we're gonna talk about
both of those things.
Okay, so now here are my three books,
Quilts for Scrap Lovers ,
Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers ,
and Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers .
And every single quilt in these three books
uses nothing more than a 3 1/2, a 4 1/2,
and a 5 1/2 inch template.
Now, the thing I love about acrylic templates is that
when you have scraps, you can simply just plunk them down
on top of a scrap, no matter what the shape of the scrap,
and just cut around it like a cookie cutter.
So if this were an odd-shaped scrap,
which for this video purpose is not an odd-shaped scrap,
but if you had an odd-shaped scrap,
you could certainly plunk it down anywhere on that scrap
and cut around it with a sharp rotary cutter.
And these are primarily the three sizes that I use.
These cutting techniques that I'm gonna show you
are used throughout all three of the books,
and it will make your cutting such a snap
and easy to do.
Now, the scraps that I use
tend to be slightly larger scraps.
There are tons of quilt books on the market
that use teeny tiny little scraps,
mine are slightly larger.
Most of mine are large enough to accommodate
a 5 1/2 inch square template.
Okay, so the first technique I'm gonna show you
is called the Treasure Box technique.
And this is used throughout all three books,
and it is very fast and very easy.
So you're gonna plunk
that 5 1/2 inch template down on top of two lights
and two darks.
I have two layers of a light fabric,
and I have two layers of a dark fabric underneath here.
And you're gonna iron those scraps out
and you're going to layer them up,
two lights and two darks.
So I'm cutting around this acrylic template
with a nice sharp rotary cutter blade, okay?
All right.
And then we're gonna remove the scraps
and we are going to take our 3 1/2 inch template,
and we're going to put this in the lower right-hand corner,
and then we're going to snug it up
against the 5 1/2 inch template.
This eliminates any need for measurement.
So now we're gonna remove that 3 1/2 inch template,
and we are going to cut along the edge of the 5 1/2.
We're gonna put the 3 1/2 inch one back
exactly where we took it off of,
and we're going to cut across the top
of the 3 1/2 inch template.
All right.
Now all you're cutting for that block is completely done.
Now what we're going to do,
we're not gonna sew anything yet,
what we're going to do is
we're going to lay this out, all right?
We're going to lay out the lights
and the darks so that they are alternated.
We're gonna alternate our lights and our darks,
and we're going to put the dark alternating with the light.
We still aren't sewing anything.
We are going to layer the white rectangles
or the light-colored rectangles with the dark squares,
and we're making a 1/4 inch seam here
so that we're gonna shorten this up
by just a 1/4 of an inch, all right?
1/4 inch seam, 1/4 inch seam over here,
and then the dark rectangles will go along the white
or the light-colored squares.
Now, it takes nine months gestation to have a baby,
and yet we always wait till that last two weeks
before the baby's born to get started on a quilt.
This is a quilt that you could make very, very quickly
if you had to have a quilt done quickly, right?
Okay, so then once we've got those sewn together
with 1/4 inch seams, we're going to stitch
these long rectangles along the edge,
and then we're gonna trim that tiny little piece off the bottom
because you shorten this unit up a little bit
by using a 1/4 inch seam, okay.
So you're going to put the dark ones
along the dark rectangle units here and here, okay?
And then last but not least is this one here.
And then you sew it together like a four patch.
This is a fun, simple, fast block,
and you will use up a ton of scraps,
and I will show you some of the examples
from the book that are these quilts,
and this is called the Treasure Box technique.
Now we're going to look at the Blended Hexagon technique.
Okay, for the Blended Hexagon technique,
we are using three pairs of 5 1/2 inch squares.
So from my scraps, I have cut total of six
5 1/2 inch squares.
They can be three of one color
and three of another color, okay?
Or they can be three of a dark and three of a light,
or they can be six completely different pieces of fabric.
When you cut them,
they have to be mirror image of each other.
So you either have to have wrong sides together
or right sides together.
And if you are using two different prints,
then the same print has to be on the top at all times.
Then you make a measurement up on the upper left
and on the lower right.
And you make a mark where that measurement comes,
and you do that for each one of these pairs.
Then you are going to take your quilting ruler,
and you're going to connect those points,
and you are going to cut across.
You're going to do that for all three pairs
so that you will have a total of 12 of these shapes.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, yes, 12.
And then you're going to go to your sewing machine
and you're going to chain piece.
You don't even have to take these apart,
don't separate them.
Just pick them up in their pairs and chain piece a 1/4 inch seam
down the straight long edge, okay?
Put them right sides together
and chain all, yeah, so you would have to take them apart
if you had them like I did.
So you're going to have to put them right sides together
and then do a 1/4 inch seam.
Now, when you do this, you're going to get a shape
that looks like this, all right?
This is the shape you're going to get.
Now, if you go to your sewing machine
and you stitch on the long bias edge,
a 1/4 inch seam, okay, right sides together,
you're going to get a piece or a shape that looks like this.
Now, multiple quilts throughout the books
or throughout Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers
and Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers
use both of these shapes in varying ways.
And we're gonna show you those in the quilts.
Okay, so now they're all sewn together
and I've pressed my seam open, and look at the fun shape I get.
This is my one piece that I showed you,
and just from that simple cutting technique,
when you put six of them together, this is what you get,
and then you appliqué either a boiled wool
or a felted wool piece into the center,
or with some other appliqué that you wanna do in the center.
And this is how fast this fun block can get put together.
And this is called Blended Hexagons,
and I will show you some examples of that.
Okay, so let's talk about the organization of scraps.
There are lots of different ways to organize your scraps.
I personally find that organizing them by size
and by color works the best.
I do have a scrap organization tree
that I will put on the screen in a bit for you to see,
but let's talk about organizing them according to color.
So what I do is I have clear bins
and anything that I have determined to be a scrap,
mine are slightly larger than some of the tinier scraps,
one of the ways that I find is the best way to do that
is by having clear plastic tubs
and dividing them according to color.
Now, initially, you're not going to split hairs
when you're dividing according to color.
You're just going to use your basic colors.
My scraps are organized into bins
that are green, red, yellow, pink, orange, blue, and purple.
I have a bin for brown, I have a separate bin for gray,
I also have a bin where I keep black and whites.
Now, the black and whites are not used very often by myself.
I tend not to use them very much.
Not that there's anything wrong with them,
but there are some scraps you're gonna have more of,
and some that you'll have less of.
And so I don't need to keep black separate from white,
I put the black and whites all together in one bin.
Then I have a separate tub for fabrics
that would make great backgrounds.
So tans, beiges, whites with small prints on them,
those all go separately into one whole tub.
So then according to my scrap organization tree,
you will also see that I do it according to size.
It's important to separate these
and get these organized before you get sewing.
Okay, so here's my scrap organization tree.
Now as you can see, I've organized by scrap color,
and to some extent by size.
So in the rectangle is the colors
that I have divided them into.
This doesn't have to be something that you would do,
you could choose however you want to divide things.
You could put the pinks in with the reds if you wanted to,
since pink is a shade of red,
or I'm sorry, it's a tint of red.
But it's gotta be something that makes sense in your head,
some way to organize them.
Now, if they're anything smaller than a fat 1/4,
they go into the scrap bin.
That seems kind of large to be a scrap,
but that's how I do it in my mind.
So if I've cut something
or a chunk out of a fat 1/4, it goes in the scrap bin.
Anything that's a full fat 1/4
goes into a separate wire container
where you can pull out the drawers
and then anything that is greater than a 1/2 yard,
or maybe even 1/3 of a yard up
would go onto my shelf according to color as well.
So this has to make sense in your head.
You could do something like this, use this exact tree,
but fill it in however you want to fill it in.
It's just there for an aid.
So how do we determine what color a scrap is?
Well, we're going to look at the
predominant background color of the piece of fabric.
So if the predominant background color is blue,
obviously it's going to go into the blue bin.
If it's leaning blue or maybe leaning green
and you're not too sure which one it is,
I've got a good idea, ask a man.
Because a man is gonna look at it for about one second
and they're gonna make a quick decision
and they're not gonna agonize over it,
they're gonna say, "Oh, that's blue"
or, "Oh, that's green,"
and then you just put it in the appropriate bin, right?
Okay.
So we are gonna tend more as quilters
to agonize over what color something is.
Just try to make it as simple as possible
and put it in the bin that you think is the most correct.
So look at that predominant background color.
What if a scrap doesn't have a predominant background color?
What if you have a scrap that looks like this?
This is a hard to place piece.
This is a very hard to place piece.
When I refer in the rest of the video
as scraps that are hard to place,
this is kind of what I'm talking about.
There's no real predominant background color.
You wouldn't put this in with the blacks, right?
Even though the background color is black.
So what I have in addition to all my colored tubs
is I have a husband bin, okay?
What's a husband bin?
Well, a husband bin is for scraps where you say,
"I bought this because it was love at first sight.
"I loved this scrap and I still love it,
"and I have had many interactions with it.
"I may have used it in this project or that project,
"I've had a lot of go rounds with this scrap, right?
"But I still love it and I still wanna save it,
"but after all these years,
"I don't quite know what it is."
Does that sound like the husband bin?
Yeah, so that's the husband bin.
So then I'm going to put that in there.
And there are many uses for scraps
that are in the husband bin.
So let's talk about color theory, all right?
So there are lots of color theories,
but these are the ones that I primarily use.
Number one, I like to use monochromatic.
Monochromatic is simply using one color on the color wheel
and its shades and tints
and making an entire quilt using just that one color
and its shades and tints.
Okay, so if you have yellow
and you add black, that's a shade.
If you have yellow
and you add white, that's a tint.
And so if you're doing a monochromatic quilt,
it's okay to use those colors in, that color
and its shades and tints, and it will work out very well.
The science has already been done for us
with the color wheel.
Someone else has already decided these color theories,
I didn't come up with these.
These have been done years and years and years in the past,
where they will say, you know, complementary,
a complimentaries color scheme.
That is one color on one side of the color wheel
and its opposite, okay?
So that work has been done for us already.
We know that those colors go well together.
So complementary color scheme
is the color on the color wheel with the exact opposite.
There's split complementary,
which is the color on the color wheel, its exact opposite,
and then the ones that are neighboring the exact opposite.
We are guaranteed that those
are going to look very good together, okay?
Then we have an adjacent color scheme.
Adjacent color scheme is where you take the color wheel
and you pull out a bunch of
ones that are next to each other,
and you put those together in a quilt.
So how do we relate that to scrap quilting?
Well, you go and you find those tubs.
Remember, we just talked about dividing up your scraps
according to color in these tubs.
So you're gonna go grab those tubs
that have those colors in that color scheme,
and then you're going to pull those out,
you're gonna ignore the print,
don't pay any attention to what print is on it,
just the colors.
So take those colors out
and use just these colors.
That's like an adjacent color scheme.
Then there is a triadic color scheme.
Triadic simply takes an equilateral triangle,
you put it on the color wheel
and whatever colors the points touch,
it's guaranteed to look good together, okay?
So like I said, this has been tried and true,
this is not something we need to rehash,
science has already determined
that those colors look good together,
so go and get those bins and pull out those scraps
according to those color theories.
Okay, so here's my decision tree
that I use when I'm trying to decide
what color am I actually going to work with on a quilt.
Always use something that makes you extremely happy.
Start out with a piece of fabric that you absolutely adore,
something in your favorite color,
'cause it'll keep your excitement
going through the entire quilt.
Don't start with something that you're less than anything
but very enthusiastic about.
Pick up your color wheel
and consider your tints and shades in those colors,
and then on the bottom of this tree,
there's the four color schemes that I usually use
when I'm trying to decide what I'm going to do.
A lot of times it might be something
as simple as the adjacent colors or monochromatic.
It keeps it simple and it keeps it moving.
Here's a monochromatic quilt.
I love using this color scheme, I absolutely love it
because it is so easy.
It's so easy to do when you can disguise
so many difficult prints using this scheme.
So the first thing you're going to see is the color
and then the pattern,
and then you're gonna zero in and look at the prints.
There are some harder to use pieces in here,
but because they're all the same color,
they go really well together.
Now, why is it monochromatic when you see brown in there?
Because brown is a shade of orange.
It's simply a shade, it's just orange
with black added to it, and that makes it brown.
So some browns do lean more red,
and so you have to kinda keep an eye on that,
but this is just a wonderful way to combine your scraps
and this is using the Treasure Box technique.
Not only can monochromatic quilts
take away a lot of anxiety over matching,
but they can be very bold and very fun,
and I've also included in this monochromatic quilt,
which uses all three templates,
the 3 1/2, the 4 1/2, and the 5 1/2.
I've used background pieces
that are multiple different colors.
So I've used off whites and whites,
and I wanna emphasize
that you should not be afraid to do this.
It gives your quilt a lot of depth
and a lot of movement when you do this.
So I've used scrappy background in addition.
This is a houndstooth pattern,
and I'm using just brown, it's a monochromatic color scheme.
And when you use that monochromatic color scheme,
you just go to that box, you just pull out those scraps
and it doesn't matter
if they're a more formal print like this,
or a more whimsical print, like the Hershey's Kisses.
So they're very fun
and it's a great way to use up scraps.
First, you're gonna see the pattern.
This is a very pronounced, vivid, stark, dramatic pattern,
and then you're going to see color
and then you're going to zero in on the scraps.
Now let's talk about the adjacent color scheme.
I love this color scheme
and I use this a ton because it's so easy to do.
I'm just gonna go over to my scrap bins
and I'm gonna pull out a bunch of scraps
that are next to each other like this on the color wheel.
Now let's not forget about shades and tints, okay?
A shade is simply a color with black added to it,
so you're making it darker.
A tint is just a color with white added to it.
So shades and tints along with their color
can be used successfully in these adjacent color schemes.
So I went to my bin
and I started pulling out everything
along this part of the color wheel,
and this is the quilt that I made.
And this uses the Hexagon cutting technique.
And you can see that there are lots
and lots of different fabrics from all different genres.
Now, when people make Kaffe Fassett quilts
or Tula Pink quilts, they tend to make
just Kaffe or just Tula.
And then they've got all these scraps left over
that they're not sure what to do with,
and they look like hard to place pieces.
Well, this is a wonderful technique
to use an adjacent color scheme to pull these together,
and then you can put them together
with all kinds of oddball pieces.
Don't look at the print, just look at the colors.
Just pull them out of your bins and look at the colors
and pull out those shades and tints as well.
Now, we even got a little bit over
into the yellowy orange color over here,
but for the most part, we stayed in the pinks and the reds
and the oranges on the color wheel.
So we were able to combine a lot of different prints
that you normally would think were hard to place pieces.
So what do you see when you see this quilt?
You see color and you see pattern,
and then after that, you zoom in
and you narrow in on what prints were actually used,
and that's the goal.
Here's another great example of an adjacent color scheme,
although looking at it,
you would not necessarily think that it would be.
I used adjacent colors with a neutral
and the gray being a neutral.
The colors on the color wheel
that I used are actually very similar
to the last quilt that I showed you,
and I started up in the golden yellow and orange yellow,
and went down as far as the purple for more of a fuchsia.
I didn't get into the blue purples,
the purples that were leaning more blue,
I definitely used the purples leaning more red.
So here is a hard to place piece,
this funny-looking stripey one, and it kinda does
go into the purpley area of the color wheel.
And here are the yellow golds.
Now, when you put this all together,
this looks very nice together,
and it is using the Treasure Box cutting technique.
Do you see that?
That is the Treasure Box cutting technique right in here.
So in this quilt, there are so many
different types of pieces.
There are hard to place pieces from plums
all the way to tomatoes.
Now, if I had shown you these scraps
and said, "Put these together in a quilt,"
you would think that
they weren't going to go very well together.
But because of the adjacent color scheme
and the pattern, you're first seeing pattern in color,
and then you're going to zoom in
and narrow in on the types of prints that are in there.
So there are definitely
some harder to place pieces in this quilt,
and this is called House Divided,
and can be found in Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers .
Now I wanna talk to you about this quilt.
This is the cover quilt from Quilts For Scrap Lovers .
And we have grouped the colors in these blocks.
So all the red colors are grouped together,
the greens, the turquoises, the blues, and the oranges.
They're grouped together according to color.
It's a good trick for disguising some of those
odd, bizarre prints that you really think
aren't going to go well together.
For example, in this blue block, you can see
that I have put in hockey helmets
and sea life next to butterflies and pears.
Up here, we have a green block with salad, right?
And you would not ever think that you could put
that salad piece into the same quilt
with these hockey helmets.
But by grouping them according to color,
this works out very, very well.
This is not any particular color scheme
or color theme, according to the color wheel,
we've just chosen to group these together.
This is a great way to disguise some prints.
Now I wanna about another concept
with this particular quilt, and I use the word blanks.
So I have incorporated blanks.
Now, this is the basic unit of this quilt right here.
This block right here,
and this block can be laid out in dozens of ways
to make dozens of designs,
which is a really fun block to make,
because when you turn them all different directions,
you get a different quilt every single time.
Now, those blocks are pieced, right?
This uses half of the 5 1/2, these are quarters of the 4 1/2,
and this one is laid on the other half of this
using the 3 1/2 inch square.
It's complicated initially,
but once you see how it's done, it's very simple and very fast.
Now, this was pieced,
and instead of putting my builder blocks in between
as unpieced blocks using 4 1/2 inch squares
'cause this one is squared down to 4 1/2 inches.
What I did was I pieced this
out of multiple background pieces.
Each one of these blocks is 4 1/2 inches.
I could have put a solid coat of snow
or coat of white,
but instead of doing that, I pieced these identical
to these blocks.
They're pieced identically.
And when you do that
and you use off whites in combination
with lighter off whites and darker off whites
and even whites, it puts a lot of dimension into your quilts
and gives your eye a place to rest.
That's the use of blanks.
Here is a quilt where I promised
I would talk about the husband box, okay?
So here is a quilt that you can use lots
and lots of wild fabrics, hard to place pieces in
because there's a lot of negative space in between,
and this uses that Hexagon cutting technique.
So remember I said that if you sewed the pieces together
on the bias edge, which would be right here,
if you sewed them together on the bias edge,
you get this shape.
So if you put three of these shapes together,
this is the unit that you get, triangular block.
I guess that doesn't make much sense, does it,
a triangular block?
But that's what we're gonna call it.
So here's a hard to place piece right here.
This clearly would go in the blue box,
this clearly would go in the yellow box,
but this one right here would be hard to place
and would most likely have ended up in the husband bucket.
So when you put those together,
you put them together with neutral-colored triangles,
which easily could have been done
with a solid piece of neutral fabric.
It could have just been done with a coat of snow or a white,
but I've included lots of different neutral pieces,
and I've pieced them together.
So it's a technique that you can use
for things other than just blocks in my books.
But say you were going to do Lady of the Lake
or Corn and Beans or Shoofly and you had 12 1/2 inch box,
and you made them up with lots of different colors.
And you could do an identical block right next to it,
piecing it out of neutrals,
or you could just put an identical
or not identical, a 12 1/2 inch unpieced square
in between the blocks.
So what would be way more fun?
It would be certainly more fun to piece those second blocks out
or the in between blocks out of neutrals,
and it would give your quilts a lot more movement
and a lot more dimension.
Now, another thing I wanna mention is
a primary design is a good thing, right?
Triangles, they're a good thing.
A secondary design in a quilt is a great thing.
Now look at this.
You can see the primary designer triangles
look at, you can see the diamond shape in here, right?
You can also see the hexagons in this quilt.
You can also see a kite shape in this quilt.
So there's a lot of different designs going on
and that's always emphasized
when you use different shadings, like in your neutrals,
that's gonna bring that out, that's gonna pull that out
and you could certainly make three
or four quilts using this Hexagon cutting technique
and have them all look completely different.
And in Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers ,
the cover quilt does just that.
And this quilt is identical to the Blended Hexagons one
that was the adjacent color scheme.
Okay, so think about that when you're quilting.
Throw your colors around in different places
and see how they land
and see how that changes the design.
And now I would like to show you
an important color stratification technique.
I have my green bin here.
This is my clear bin, full of greens of every type of green.
Now, you could do this as a great exercise
with your own quilt guild, or even amongst friends.
You could divide up into teams.
One team is going to be a team of
a certain number of people, team A
and team A is going to all bring their green scraps.
Team B will be a certain number of people,
and they're all gonna bring their red scraps.
Team C is all going to bring orange scraps
and so on and so forth.
So they'll come to the meeting with all of their scraps
and we're gonna stratify these scraps.
This is where we're going to start splitting hairs.
So I've got my color wheel here
and I'm not gonna pay any attention to the prints
that are in these pieces of fabric.
I'm gonna find my plain old green.
This is just green, green, green, nothing else.
And we're going to do what would be like a number line,
instead it's gonna be a color line.
So here is the green, I'm going to find my greenest scrap,
and I've pulled this one out.
So the one that looks the most like just plain green,
and that's this one.
Now I'm going to go over to the greens
that are yellow green but not yellow.
So that would be chartreuse.
I'm going to find a chartreuse scrap amongst my scraps
or the very closest one that you can find chartreuse
and that would be this one right here.
It's definitely green, it's not yellow,
but it sure has a lot of yellow added to the green.
Then over here, I'm not gonna go so far as aqua blue,
I'm gonna stop at aqua green.
So something that is aqua green,
so a green that is leaning more blue.
So I'm gonna go through my scrap bin
and I'm going to find a green
that is definitely leaning more blue.
Okay, so that's this one here.
So I'm going to put them in a line, okay?
So now I'm going to fill in
and we're going to find friends for these.
So now I've got another scrap here.
This, no, it does not have enough yellow in it.
That's pretty green, green,
and it certainly doesn't have blue in it.
Make sure you put a light colored background, a white
or an off-white background when you're doing this
so that not to confuse your colors.
Okay, so I'm gonna put that in the green pile.
Now I'm gonna take another scrap here.
This is really leaning very yellow,
but it's certainly not as yellow as the chartreuse,
and it isn't going to go with those blues
or the blue greens.
So I'm gonna put it right there kind of in the middle.
And then this scrap right here, I remember this one,
this was a fun one.
I used this to make an umbrella.
So this is gonna definitely, does it go with the chartreuse?
Yeah, it's closer to that.
It certainly doesn't go with this,
certainly doesn't go with that, okay?
So we're gonna put it over here
in this pile with those friends, all right.
So now I'm gonna continue to do this.
I'm going to grab another green, maybe this one right here.
This one is not yellow green, not blue green,
but it's pretty green green.
So we're gonna do that one right there.
Then we have this one here.
This one, well, it's not very green green,
it certainly isn't yellow green,
it is definitely more blue green.
I'm gonna put it with those blue greens over there.
Now, we're gonna continue to do this with our scraps
in our green scrap bin,
and we're gonna continue to stratify these colors.
Here's one that's a hard to place piece.
This one here has a lot of different greens in it.
It's a harder to place one.
It doesn't look bad with the green greens,
I could leave it there.
I don't like it with the yellow greens.
It's actually not too bad with the blue greens,
but you know what?
I'm gonna leave it right there.
This one right here, it's a green,
with some pretty music notes,
we're not paying any attention to the print.
We're going to put it with the yellow greens, no,
green greens, no,
it definitely belongs with the blue greens, okay.
So we're gonna continue to do this with our green bucket.
And then we're going to grab up the different piles.
Now, this pile is going to be a block with just green greens
and it doesn't matter what we do in this block,
if we put these together,
it doesn't matter what kinda prints we have.
We have something that's gonna look
really, really good together
because they're all in the same colorway of green.
And then if we put these together
and made a block, they would be very pretty together.
The block would be very pretty, pleasing to the eye.
We would draw attention away from the actual print,
we could do a block with that.
We could also do a block with the blue greens,
but of course we'd have much bigger piles,
if we continued to stratify them in this way.
You can do this with your reds,
you can do this with your yellows,
you can also do this with your, even your browns.
Even those kinds of things and your oranges,
it's a great way to disguise prints
so that you can put multiple prints into a quilt
where you're paying more attention to the color
and the pattern and then you zero in on the print.
Here's one, wow, this must've been
from a garment or something.
This is very much leaning yellow green,
and I would probably put it in,
but now this knocks this outta here.
So make sure you have enough pieces in your pile
so that you can be discriminate.
So this would go in with the yellow greens,
but then this one doesn't look so good,
so you can remove that and put it in its own spot
and find more friends for it.
Point that I wanted to make about that last exercise we did
is that then you can make a quilt that looks like this.
You can start up in the upper left-hand corner
with your red reds,
and you move down toward orange, but you do it gradually.
So you find all your reds that lean orange.
Then you find your oranges that lean red.
Now, this is the Treasure Box technique.
This is the Treasure Box cutting technique right here.
And it uses all three sizes of templates
when you're making this quilt.
So you're gonna find your oranges that lean red,
and reds that lean orange.
You've got orange, then you're gonna find
your oranges that lean yellow
and your yellows that lean more orange.
And in doing this, you're gonna go all the way over
and down to green.
You're going to find your yellows that lean green
and your greens that lean yellow.
And you're gonna continue to make this quilt like this
and you can disguise a lot of different prints
because what's the first thing your eye is going to see?
With this quilt, it's the color.
And then you're gonna look at the pattern,
and this goes all the way down to purple in the corner.
So all the blues that lean purple
and the blues that lean green, right?
There's some blues that lean green
and you're gonna go all the way down
to the blues that lean purple,
and you can even do this with a section of the color wheel,
it does not have to be the whole thing.
You could do it with a section,
and that's kind of what we do with adjacent color schemes.
But this is a great quilt to do, fun, easy,
actually pretty fast, and it disguises a lot of prints
because the first thing you're seeing is the color,
and it's a great way to disguise prints.
Even if it's not this quilt, even if it's any other quilt
using just different blocks,
it's a great way to disguise those prints
because you are moving along a color transition,
just like I showed you
when we were dividing up those greens in that box.
You're transitioning the color,
and that's what your eye is going to see.
And it's gonna disguise a lot of different prints
and allow you to marry
a lot of different prints within that quilt.
In conclusion, owl's well that ends well.
This quilt is in Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers
and it's a perfect example of that transitioning,
color transitioning; that is a green green owl.
That owl is purples that lean more red,
this is yellows that lean more orange,
purples that lean more blue,
and blues that lean more purple also.
Great way to combine a lot of scraps
that you might not think would normally go together.
So, owl's well that ends well.
I hope you've enjoyed this video about using up odd scraps
and I hope you have renewed energy
and excitement about using them up.
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