Scraps, Inc. Vol. 1: 15 Scrap-Pierced Designs for the Modern Quilter

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Recycle your scraps. Is your mountain of scraps in danger of toppling? Now's your chance to make fantastic, edgy quilt designs from your beloved fabric remnants of past projects. The new and inventive patterns in Scraps, Inc.: 15 Block-Based Designs for the Modern Quilter will help you piece together your treasured scraps into a stunning new quilt. 15 budget-busting, modern quilt designs. This project-based book features 15 unique quilt designs by well-known designers and it is aimed at the experienced modern quilter. Save money as you sew by piecing together stunning new quilts from your stash of fabric scraps. Use your scraps from previous projects Get inspired by these innovative designs Make a loving reminder of all the quilts you've gifted over the years Choose from a wide range of projects from simple to advanced This is not Grandma's quilting book. An industrial setting serves as a dramatic backdrop for the edgy photographs throughout the book juxtaposing dark and moody backgrounds with the robust, bright colors of these modern quilts. A visual delight, this beautiful book treats you to over 100 vivid photographs that will inspire you to see your scrap pile in a whole new way. Tackle tricky colour combinations. Scrap quilts are hard to design due to the variety of colour challenges introduced by random scraps. The modern patterns in this book help solve those issues with clearly illustrated colour schematics and tips on colour harmony.

Susanne Woods is the Publisher and Founder of Lucky Spool Media and her local chapter of the MQG in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has compiled many best-selling books and has been a trend-setter within the quilting industry for over a decade. She lives in California with her husband and two young boys and their cat, Kit. You can follow her on Instagram @craftyeditor.

Issue 8 Lucky Spool is the new name in quilt-related publishing, and as far as we can see, it's dedicated to producing beautiful books with well-picked design talent. Scraps, Inc is one of its first heavy hitters - a compilation of genuinely gorgeous modern quilts that are sure to make your scrap pile happy. While we have our favourites - Lee Heinrich's Fire Wheel is a particular beauty - the collection is varied and well crafted. We want to make them all! The best thing is that this is only volume one, which means we can look forward to more in this vein from Lucky Spool going forward. We can't wait already. Quilt Now