19+ Free Quilt Block Patterns for your Scrap Fabric!

This first block is all about showcasing those small pieces of extra special scraps so they can be seen and appreciated.

Designed especially for sentimental fabrics or scraps from your favorite designers that you want to use every last piece of. These scrappy blocks use negative space to their advantage.

This is a fun improv log cabin quilt block that starts with any size hexagon and any width of scrappy strips you have to hand.

It's a fun twist on classic log cabin blocks and the magic is in the color placement and the squaring off at the end.

This is a simple quilt block designed to showcase floral scraps and keeping a clean modern look.

Pair your floral fabric scraps with geometrics and solids plus a low volume background fabric to make these lovely springtime quilt blocks.

These blocks are super fun to make and great for using up the ends of leftover binding strips.

I made mine on a base of old denim jeans and used a quilt-as-you-technique but you can make this block your own by changing up the background or piecing it without the batting already attached.

Four of these blocks in a four-patch make a fun modern wonky diamond effect.

I even have a free scrap quilt pattern that shows you how to use these blocks for a whole quilt.

And here is another quilt block where I mixed denim from old jeans with scraps. You can absolutely substitute quilting cotton for the background fabric of course!

The scraps I used for the orange peel shapes included cut-up crumb blocks, leftover charm pack squares, and other oddly shaped fabric scraps.

This easy quilt block can be adapted for both crumb piecing and those ubiquitous 2.5" squares we all have in our sewing rooms.

This block was the basis for the first ever quilt along I ran on my YouTube channel. All the info and videos are still available for this free scrappy quilt pattern.

It's a modern quilt that can be made in many different colors and is great for smaller pieces of fabric.

Crumbs are those little squares and rectangles (and sometimes other shapes) of scraps that fall off the 'cookie' of your quilt blocks as you trim.

Basically - small scraps that get created from cutting. and trimming from other projects.

Putting these crumbs together can be a lovely bit of fun mindless sewing and by creating a few rules for yourself (i.e. making some color and size choices) you can create lots of different looks with this technique.

My favorite type of scrap quilting is color-coordinated. So more often than not my crumb quilt blocks are sorted by color too.

Read the tutorial and watch my video about how to make these easy blocks and then check out some of the quilt-along quilts I've used them in!

A fun FPP pattern for skinny strips you have hanging around your sewing room.

Change up the colors to make it super organized or super scrappy looking!

(Part of the Scrap Blocks Quilt Along - a free sampler quilt for scrap blocks).

This is a fab scrappy quilt block for larger scraps. It makes a huge 20.5" block.

Make a stack of them for a quick stashbuster quilt or make a few to add to a scrappy quilt backing.

This block was part of my Scrap Blocks Quilt Along (a free modern scrappy quilt pattern) along with a number of the other quilt blocks in this list.

This is a fun and easy beginner-friendly foundation paper piecing pattern great for any skill level. It's free and great for all different sizes of leftover pieces of fabric.

These mini flying geese are ideal for those pesky triangle-shaped scraps that seem to multiply in our sewing rooms.

If you hate seeing those scraps go to waste this one is for you!

This maybe isn't a 'block' on it's own but it is a great way to sew up your scraps and have these strips to hand to use in a range of quilt blocks (including the one below) or even in a quilt border.

Look below for my free quilt pattern using these strips!

This is a quilt block that is perfect for scraps sewn onto adding machine paper or jelly roll strips.

I have a full free qulit pattern for this block but you can also get the simple beginner FPP download and just make one or two blocks to try it out or make smaller projects like pot holders or a table runner.

These are super fun and easy scrap buster blocks for fabric strips and little pieces.

This tutorial is all about how to make some creative improv quilt blocks from the leftovers (of whatever shape and size) from your other blocks.

I made mine a mini 3.5" but really this technique can be used to make any sized quilt block.

This is a great quilt block method for strips and offcuts from other projects.

You can make squared-off blocks or use this improv technique to make a super fun and scrappy quilt border.

This is a fun no measure block that makes a Christmas tree with a festive garland.

You can make these blocks any size and create a one-of-a-kind Christmas tree quilt!

A huge quilt block that is great for different-sized scraps and leftovers is this big somewhat wonky star block.

This is another one that is part of the free scrap blocks quilt along (info for how to get all the details is in the post).

This block works great for 2.5" squares and 2.5" jelly roll strips.

This is a free FPP version but you can also traditionally piece this block.

This is another block from the Scrap Blocks Quilt Along I mentioned earlier so it fits into the sampler quilt layouts used for that project.

This is a variation on the hexagon improv quilt block above.

It was adapted for the Scrap Blocks Quilt Along but would be great on it's own or as part of a wild hexie log cabin scrap quilt!

Changing the variety of fabrics used can change up this block loads!