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Scrap Fabric Quilt Top Tutorial

The weather outside is absolutely frightful.  It's a frigid -10 degrees before the windchill.  Sure, living in the midwest leaves me with little room to complain about the arctic tundra in January, or the sweltering humidity in August.  When it's this cold outside, all I want to do is curl up on the sofa with a mug of hot tea and a cozy blanket.   I've already had three cups of hot tea this morning, mainly to keep my hands warm.  I also had a chance to finish up the lovely scrap quilt seen above.  All that was left to do was the binding.  Later in this post, you'll find the tutorial on how to make this quilt.   I do my best to use up scraps of fabric.  Whether it's in a quilt, as eye masks, rice packs, key chains, you name it.  I even managed to make a fabric pom-pom for my daughter to hand in her room using selvaged edge scraps.  Admittedly, that was a little over-the-top.   This morning, in addition to over-caffeinating and binding a quilt, I al