Welcome to Scraptastic Spring 2023! 🔅🌷🌻🌼💐
I am so excited to help you on your journey of making more scrappy quilts using the scraps that you currently have. Join along the next 4 months as I provide tips and tricks for creating with your scraps, free patterns for scraps and highlight some exciting new patterns from It’s Only Fabric and Thread specifically designed and written for scraps.
What is Scraptastic Spring?
Scraptastic Spring is a completely made up event that I made up! But hopefully it becomes an annual event for It’s Only Fabric and Thread.
Last year I hosted a quilt-a-long for a free pattern, Scrap Dash, that really resonated with the IOFAT Community. There was lots of participation and so many quilted worked their way through their scraps while making a wonderful scrap quilt! The hope is that we emulate that every year so you can make at least one scrappy quilt and organize your scraps in the springtime. Hopefully that helps your scraps not be so overwhelming throughout the year.
When is Scraptastic Spring?
This year Scraptastic Spring will run from March 20th (spring equinox aka the first day of spring) – June 30th (a few days past the first official day of summer).
What is the Schedule for Scraptastic Spring?
Scraptastic spring will be a combination of blog posts and social media posts. Below are some of the blog posts you can expect from me this year for Scraptastic Spring. I also have some surprises in store that I am not ready to spill yet!
March 20th – Scraptastic Spring Introduction (this blog post)
March 24th – Big Exciting Scrappy Announcement… I wrote a book! Learn more about Fun With Scraps here!
March 31st – Get Organized! A round up of project trackers and WIP trackers. This will help you see when a scrappy quilt makes sense for you.
April 7th – Sorting Techniques for Scraps. Come Explore 4 ways to sort your quilting scraps!
April 14th – Sizes to Cut your scraps into
April 21st – Chain piecing for quick scrap quilt making
April 28th – GUEST BLOG POST – Leaders and Enders
May 5th – Picking Fabrics for A Scrap Quilt Project: Two Color Quilts (AKA Monotone Quilts), Warm or Cool Colored Quilts, & Rainbow Quilts
That’s all I am going to share for now… but I will update this page with links to each blog post as they go live so you don’t miss a thing 
How Many Squares Can You Cut From A Fat Quarter?
Find yourself googling “how many squares in a fat quarter” or how to sub-cut a fat quarter? Here are two tables to help you and a free printable cheat sheet!
Quilty Custom Kindle Lockscreen
Do you like to take your hobbies and combine them? Me too! I figured out how to make my kindle lockscreen quilty and I’m sharing how you can too!
Scrap Explosion Free Quilt Block Tutorial & Scrappy Quilt Pattern
Drowning in your scraps? Say hello to the low-waste scrap explosion block! It is a free scrappy block pattern that is a great leaders and enders block! It also makes a great scrappy block for when you want to sew a few blocks in between a bigger project.