Diving into the Scraps

Over the years, I have established a habit of dumping all my leftover scraps from my projects into a big Rubbermaid tub. It is BIG - 40 gallons, maybe? Every year, at some point, I find myself compelled to dive into the scrap tub and make something useful of all those scraps.

One of my very good friends is getting married this summer. I wanted to make a bed quilt for her, and I wanted it to be a scrap quilt. I could not decide on a pattern, but I also wanted it to be EASY to use my scraps. Since so many of my scraps are strips, I decided to come up with a pattern using string piecing. Here is what I came up with:

This has not yet been sewn together, but the blocks are shown here on my design wall.
I used only commercial prints (not any hand dyed fabrics) for this bed quilt.

As I was sorting through my scraps, I pulled out all the hand dyed pieces and set them aside.

Then, I sorted them by color. I had four piles.

Here is the first one I put together of greens:

BLUE - this is the collage of blue fabrics

RED - this is the collage of the red scraps.

I have one more to go - it is a pile of neutrals - beiges, blacks, and browns. It will probably be my favorite.

Then what?

I will probably do some screen printing on these collages, maybe some discharging. I will probably cut them apart and sew them back together after that, maybe inserting some other strips of a contrasting color. I dunno for sure. Any suggestions?