Most scrap quilts still sort. This one does not. Laura's rule is that nothing has to match. The only thing every piece has in common is its size, 2 inches by 3 1/2.
The quilt behind her was worked on by at least four different women, which she can tell from the hand stitching. She named it after her grandmother Margaret, who would never have let a scrap go to waste. The method is simply this: whenever you finish a project, cut what is left into that one size and drop it in a bin.
Her tutorial on SewVeryEasy has passed 1.1 million views since 2016. What makes it worth watching, even if you are not short of fabric, is that it takes the decision about what goes with what out of the equation entirely. The quilt still holds together, because at that scale the eye reads the mass rather than any individual print.
That effect is worth understanding before you rely on it. We wrote about how fabrics read next to each other here: how to choose quilt fabric, with value, color and texture explained.
Credit where it belongs: the tutorial is by Laura, on the SewVeryEasy YouTube channel.
