utilityquilts

Re-purposing clothing to make quilts that are meant to be used, not just lay there looking pretty.

[utilityquilts]

Sometimes, making the quilt back is more fun than making the top. I tend to get much more improvisational with quilt backs by using up scraps from the tops.

[herminehesse]

Quilt by Eddie Lee Pettway Green, Blocks and strips, c. 1950, Cotton

[utilityquilts]

A baby/toddler quilt for my granddaughter. I've wanted to try this quilt block for awhile now.

[utilityquilts]

A simple quilt back.

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A baby/toddler quilt for my new grandson made with fabrics from shirts, crib sheets, and a couple of remnants.

[loveslavandula]

Improv mini by She Knows All the Moves Via Flickr: crazy-pieced neutral scraps for the plus blocks with various linens and chambrays for the background

[loveslavandula]

“Leave a Trail” quilt by Lori Via Flickr: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emerson Blogged here “Leave a Trail” December 2012 100″ x 100″ Machine pieced Hand quilted Sewfrench

[utilityquilts]

Baby quilt for my soon-to-be born granddaughter. I've been wanting to make an hour glass quilt for quite awhile, and making a smaller quilt was good practice.

[wileypamela]

Susana Allen Hunter, 1912-2005, Pig Pen

[utilityquilts]

A baby/toddler quilt I made for friends whose last name begins with H,using tessellating H's.

[old-son]

[claudettedrank2muchcoffee]

My mom’s hall hanging she made me. #Quilt

[quilt-stuff]

The Postcard Quilt Along (via A Quilter’s Table: )

[apotospitimou-deactivated202411]

(via Blue Elephant Stitches: A Country Quilt)

[utilityquilts]

This quilt started as a simple desire to just stitch some fabric together without any particular design in mind. I had bins of scraps sorted by color and decided to make a bunch of improvisational blocks from those scraps. Many months later I made the black and white back to contrast the colorful quilt top.

[motleycraft-o-rama]

From maggie and sparrow.

[utilityquilts]

The result of stitching a bunch of random scraps together.