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    Strip Your Stash: Dynamic Quilts Made from Strips - 12 Projects in Multiple Sizes from GE Designs
    Strip Your Stash: Dynamic Quilts Made from Strips - 12 Projects in Multiple Sizes from GE Designs
    Strip Your Stash: Dynamic Quilts Made from Strips - 12 Projects in Multiple Sizes from GE Designs
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    Strip Your Stash: Dynamic Quilts Made from Strips - 12 Projects in Multiple Sizes from GE Designs

    By Gudrun Erla

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    Bust your stash with 12 strip quilts, perfect for those larger pieces of leftover fabric that you aren’t quite sure how to use. Learn how to cut, sort, store, and sew 2 1/2" strips to make a variety of quilts in two or more sizes. Confidently pair fabric prints, using three no-fail strategies: controlled colorway, distinct blocks, or scrap crazies! Whatever your approach, you’ll love stripping along with the popular pattern and fabric designer behind GE Designs. Gudrun Erla’s quick yet impressive patterns only look complicated. Complete with helpful charts and illustrations, everything from fabric selection to block construction is made clear and simple, even for beginners.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateAug 17, 2015
    ISBN9781607057413
    Strip Your Stash: Dynamic Quilts Made from Strips - 12 Projects in Multiple Sizes from GE Designs

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      Strip Your Stash - Gudrun Erla

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      Introduction

      I have been collecting strips ever since I had the privilege of taking a class with one of my quilting idols, Debbie Caffrey, shortly after I started quilting. She told us to cut up our leftover yardage into 21/2˝ strips and store them that way, ready to go for the next project. I knew from experience that when I had 4˝–6˝ of fabric folded and stored in my cabinets, they would easily get lost in the stack of fabric, and I rarely ever used them up. When I did decide to use that fabric, I first had to iron it and then cut it up. So, of course, I took in every word Debbie said and have been storing my strips in color-coordinated drawers for years. This practice started way before precut strips were available for quilters. Over the years, my drawers of strips have grown to include leftover strips from jelly rolls that I didn’t use in certain projects. These drawers are a great treasure in my sewing room. I go to them all the time, whether I am testing out a new strip pattern concept, looking to make a quick quilt for a gift, or even working on a new project for a book. Something about pulling out the fabric needed for a quilt, already cut into strips and ready to go, is so fulfilling! The collection also gives me the variety of colors, textures, and depth that is hard to find when I try to work from just a single collection.

      This book includes twelve quilts that are all made using 21/2˝ strips—known as Jelly Rolls, Roll-Ups, Bali Pops, Tonga Treats, and many other names—and a few coordinating fabrics. Many of the quilts were made from my eclectic drawers of strips. Others come from an already-coordinated collection of strips from the quilt shop. I hope the different options and styles will give you the inspiration to take whichever route you prefer to follow when making these fresh, original quilts to your exact style.

      Many quilters think that making scrappy quilts means giving up total control and grabbing the next fabric piece. That kind of fly by the seat of your pants method is not really necessary in most cases; you can plan out your quilt and make it look scrappy at the same time.

      When choosing strips and coordinating fabrics for your quilt, start with the quilt design. Some patterns call for a more controlled colorway, while others benefit from throwing some unexpected colors and fabric designs into the mix for extra interest. Here are some tips for stripping and picking fabrics that give a little insight into my choices.

      Collecting and Storing Your Strips

      Whenever I have yardage in less than a ¼ yard, I always cut it into 2½˝-wide strips. These days a vast collection of coordinated strip packs is also available in quilt shops. The different fabric companies call them different names—Jelly Rolls, Roll-Ups, Bali Pops, Tonga Treats—but they are all pretty much the same thing—a collection of 2½˝ strips from a single fabric line. The precut packets are a great way to start a collection of strips or to grab for use in an already-coordinated quilt.

      If you feel your strip stash needs more variety, there are many ways to do that economically. Round up your quilting friends and organize a strip swap. Get four quilter friends. Cut four identical strips of six different fabrics, which totals about 1¾ yards. Meet with your friends and trade strips so that each person in the swap receives six different strips from four different people. You go home with 24 different strips. Choose themes for each swap—holiday fabric, batiks, florals, basics, and so on. Swaps like this could be done on a larger scale, within quilt guilds, in classes, or at your

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