Stan's Scrap Quilt

Scrap Quilts are made from a wide variety of colors, designs, fabrics and pieced together in some logical way to make a whole. They may be made of a wide variety of fabrics, patterns, colors, and designs. They can be improvised or organized.

This scrap quilt was made by Stan Rankin and employs pieces from numerous quilts within this collection. Both Dresden plate quilts are represented here, as is the bold check patterned fabric from the Scotch Plaid quilt. Even the calico backing and borders from some of the applique quilts are found here, like the rosy small, patterned border on the cross-in-square tulip quilt.


Most of the quilt is pieced together with irregularly wide, but equally tall sizes of squares and rectangles, forming twenty-three horizontal rows. However, the border for the quilt is made of various colors of nearly uniform sized rectangles sporting the same pattern. This lends some cohesiveness to the design. It is bound in a familiar russet colored binding and quilted in an L shaped curl pattern.

Scrap quilts no doubt came from the need for economy. While sewing together all available fabric that would have little other practical use, a utilitarian blanket could emerge. Many scrap quilts, including this one, can be charming or beautiful as well.

Stan Rankin created this quilt in 1994.

Stan's Scrap Quilt