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Hi! My name is Bonnie K Hunter, and I am a Quiltaholic! Not a day goes by that I am not dreaming, plotting, planning, cutting, stitching ((and un-stitching!)) on SOMETHING Quilt-Related! I am honored and blessed to share my love of scrappy quilts through traveling this wonderful world of ours --visiting quilt guilds and shops and giving lectures & workshops, wherever they may be. Visit my Calendar and you just might find me appearing somewhere near! I'd love to meet you! Take some time exploring the website. You'll find lots of tips & techniques, and many free scrap patterns to help you put that precious stash to good use! If you like what you find in the free-stuff, check out my Books! I'm proud to be a Kansas City Star Author! I enjoy writing a regular column for Quiltmaker Magazine called "Addicted To Scraps", helping and hopefully inspiring you to put your own Scrap User's System to work to create more quilts in less time! I'm busy in blogland and on facebook--I just love being connected to Quilters! Visit my Blog to keep up with my doings!  We've got free tips, techniques and patterns running over there too! Not to mention recipes and other good stuff. We've got a great group of over 8000+ friends on facebook! Join our Quiltville Friend Page! April, 2012: De-boning A Shirt ---The Movie! A little YouTube video of me taking a shirt down to its buttons --- taken at a recent visit with the Mississippi Valley Quilters in Moline, IL! March 2012: Follow along with my friend Randy and I as we spend the next year making a variety of 6" sampler blocks for our own sampler quilts!  I turned 50 this year, and am calling this quilt my Jubilee Quilt!  We just had our 3rd installment of blocks, and not one to stick with the rules, I redrafted one of the blocks to include a handle -- and paper pieced the whole thing! Pardon my ugly ironing board cover!  For the pdf file with the paper piecing pattern for this little block, click HERE! I'm charting my progress in the My Jubilee Quilt! tab at the top of my blog. Won't you follow along?  Randy posts the blocks with her directions on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month.  I follow along and post my own variations on how I do things shortly thereafter as my schedule allows.  It's going to be a fun Jubilee Year! January 2012:  Our Newest Free Pattern! I had a lot of fun using novelty prints, and bright 2.5" strips for the stars in this baby quilt for my nephew-to-be!  You can make your own version of Story-Time Stars by clicking for the free pattern HERE! Ready for Order!!       Quilt it Scrappy!! Scraps & Shirrtails II is HERE! It includes 13 GORGEOUS quilts guaranteed to motivate you into recycling that fabric, stash, and scraps into beautiful quilts for your home. I recently did a sneak preview of the quilts on my blog HERE! Word Play Quilts is the long awaited book by my dear friend Tonya Ricucci! Piece some words into your quilts and let your imagination soar!  Click HERE to order! If you wish to SEND a check instead of  an electronic payment, you will find a printable order form HERE! **Note** It is a good idea to check my CALENDAR when ordering. If I am out of town teaching when you place your order, it will be filled upon my return home as quickly as is humanly possible! :c) March 2011: Learn out to make the most of your "Bonus Triangles!" I've just uploaded a new tutorial HERE! Oct 12, 2010: Label That Quilt!! It has come to my attention that there is a bit of a buzz and confusion in the quilt world thanks to a particular magazine article in McCall's Quilting. The article is requiring quilters to get direct permission from each and every designer allowing them to display quilts made from our designs in your local quilt shows. This has greatly increased both my email and my snail mail and the time it takes to reply is daunting!! It is taking away so much quilting time! I WANT you to show the quilts made from my designs in your local shows! I love it when you send me pictures! Please consider this public announcement BLANKET PERMISSION for you to do so. You don't need to write me or send me forms in the snail mail to have to sign and mail back to you. (And ones that require me to use my own stamps to mail back to you? FORGET IT! At least some have included self addressed stamped envelopes.. ;c) ) All I ask is that you list me as the designer on the label, and include the ORIGINAL NAME OF THE QUILT if you happen to change the quilt to some other name that suits your own story. Something like this works great:   Carol made her quilt while following along with last years "Carolina Christmas" mystery. She did hers in blue and green and gold, and renamed hers "Happy Scrappy Stars", but included BOTH quilt names on her label. This is really important when it comes to tracking back a quilt to its origin. Designers are losing their connections to their own designs as patterns go out there and are constantly renamed by everyone who makes the quilt. So including the designer AND the original name of the pattern keeps all that important information intact, and gives credit to the designer. You will also notice that Carol gave proper mention of her machine quilter as well! Quilted by Kristy! This is IMPORTANT! The only thing I would add if I were Carol, would be her own signature somewhere on there, in pigma pen. Future generations are going to be missing out on our personal handwriting, and personal handwriting is very valuable on antique quilts. It gives a connection to a REAL PERSON, not just a computer-generated-die-cut-printed-thing made by a machine. Don't forget to SIGN your labels! Happy Quilting, Happy Showing! *Note* You may print the patterns from this website for your own use! Feel free to share them with your friends. I encourage you to use the patterns to teach a class, make quilts to sell, to donate to charity and exhibit in your guild quilt shows! However, just because the patterns here are free for your use, does not mean you can use them with the intent to sell the patterns themselves. Please respect copyright policy and keep the pieceful spirit of quilting alive and well!

Free Scrap Quilt Patterns

Basket-weave-Strings

Boxy Stars

Bricks & Stepping Stones

Cathedral Stars

Cheddar Bow-Ties

Chunky Churndashes

Crayon Box

Crumbs, Crumbs Crumbs!

Crumb Hearts!

Diamond Strings

Florabunda!

Four-Patch & Furrows

Fourth of July

Fun With Bricks

Happy Scrappy Houses

Hidden Pinwheels

Hidden Spools

I Spy A Four Patch

Jared Takes A Wife

Kiss In The Corner!

Little Monkey

Maverick Stars

Millennium Pyramids

My Blue Heaven

Nine Patch Split

Ocean Waves

Ohio Stars & Rails

Oklahoma Backroads

Out On A String!

Patches & Pinwheels

Pineapple Blossom

Pioneer Braid Borders

Playing With Jacks

Princess Crown

Random Ohio Stars

Road To Camp Gravatt

Scrappy Bargello

Scrappy Mountain Majesties  

Scrappy Trips Around World

Simply Strippy

Sister's Choice

Smokey Mountain Stars

Spiderweb

Star Struck

Story-Time Stars

Streak of Sunshine

String Quilting Primer

String-X

Strip Twist

Trip Around The World

Weed Whacker!

Backing Yardage Charts!

Bed Size Chart!

Before You Print It!

Bias Binding Cutting

Binding Hints

Border Hints

Bonus Triangle Bonanza!

Cutting Squares from FQ's!

<sup>Cutting Squares from Yardage!

Cutting Quarter Square Tris!

Freehand Baptist Fans!</sup>

Hexagon Tutorial!

Leaders & Enders

Mitered Border Chart

My Favorite 1/4" seam guide

On-Point Settings

On-Point Sashing Chart

Paralyzed By The Stash?

Sashing Chart--On Point Set

Sashing Chart --Straight Set

Scrap User's System

Scrap User's Testimonials

Spin the 4-patch seams!

Square in Square Tutorial!

Square in Square Cutting Chart!

That Quarter Inch!

Webbing The Top