Double Four-Patch Top

When I finish a quilt there are always leftover scraps. Like most quilters, I hate to see good fabric go to waste. I like to challenge myself to find a use for even tiny scraps. I had a lot of blue-and-white bits left when I finished a Japanese quilt. (You can see it at http://mombowe.blogspot.com/2012/09/tea-in-garden.html if you’re interested.) I’d been using it as jumper scrap to avoid throat plate jams, and was left with a lot of blue-and-white 4-patches. I thought I’d use them to make a double 4-patch wall hanging or lap quilt. I started stitching them together and came to the conclusion that this pattern works much better with two nearly solid prints (one light, one dark) than it does with scraps. I could always put a border around it, quilt it and bind it. But I’m afraid it would prove to be a W.O.M.B.A.T. (A waste of money, batting and time.)