• Do you think scrappy quilts are hard?
• Do you have a hard time picking out fabrics?
• Do you think you’re bad with color?
• Do you like scrappy quilts?
• Can you sew a straight line with a ¼” seam?
• Do you have access to a quilt shop that sells precuts?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, you need this book! This info is from Rebecca Silbaugh’s value-packed book, Seamingly Scrappy.

Rebecca’s Scrappy Tips

• If you’ve never made a scrap quilt before, get your feet wet using precut fabrics, such as Moda Layer Cake squares. All the fabrics will work well together, so there won’t be any anxiety about choosing individual fabrics.
• No matter which fabrics you use within a quilt, nothing dictates the feel of the quilt like the borders and large setting pieces. If you use 100 different fabrics within a quilt but choose a blue border, the quilt will almost always read as blue as a whole.
  Sometimes the best option for large pieces, if you want the quilt to still read as scrappy, is to use neutrals. However there are exceptions to every rule, so I recommend auditioning border fabrics to get the result you’re looking for.
• A common error when choosing fabrics for scrappy quilts is picking out fabrics that are too similar. Within each color you should have a mix of values. Feel free to combine prints and textures to do this. The lightest and darkest prints of each color value should almost be able to blend with the other color values in the quilt.
  To get the right mix, it all comes down to how the fabrics are paired up. For example, a dark-green fabric is a dark value when paired with a light tan. However, if paired with black, it might be a medium value. Just make sure there’s a decent contrast between the fabrics being sewn together and the result will look magical.
• When selecting colors, try to think of a crayon box. You might not love every color crayon, but when they’re all in the box, it looks nice.
• If you blend a few fabrics you just like with fabrics you absolutely love, the result will be spectacular. More times than not, once the quilt is complete, the fabrics you didn’t exactly love in the beginning will be the icing on the cake. They tend to create those little pops of something we didn’t know was missing in the first place.