Roughly 7" square mini quilts I made in the winter of 2025 from scrap fabric and recycled batting.

This is my first big project that took advantage of my strip-piecing scrap management system, inspired by these videos. I inherited a huge amount of fabric scraps from Eliza Clifford. These scraps are a mixture of commercial fabric and fabric which Eliza created using screenprinting, cyanotype, wax-resist dying, and other methods. I process them by sorting them by color, cutting them into 2.5" strips, and saving them that way.

For this project, I stitched groups of 3 strips together and then cut them perpendicularly into strips made of 3 squares. I could then stitch those strips into groups of 3, creating a 3x3 square. That's a top sheet!

I cut backings, and sandwiched the top and backing around recycled insulation I get from the bougie juice order from work. I machine-quilted these, and machine-bound them with the zigzag stitch (pretty messily).

This was my first try making a large volume of mini quilts (I ended up making about 15) and trying to do so with an eye towards selling them for a mutual aid benefit - so saving time and effort was more of a goal than my other deliciously tedious projects. In hindsight, I may have overcorrected and made them look a little simple and mass produced. I still love them, mostly because of Eliza's beautiful fabric collection.