Adventures with Leaders & Enders
Bonnie K. Hunter
Scrap QuiltingBonnie Hunter's system for turning scrap piecing into leftover "leaders and enders" sewn between other projects, building a finished scrap quilt almost by accident.
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Why Teresa recommends it
“Bonnie Hunter is a scrap-quilting institution, and Leaders & Enders is the technique that made her famous for good reason. You feed little scrap units through your machine between the "real" seams of whatever you're piecing, and months later you've got a whole quilt you barely noticed making. It's the closest thing quilting has to a magic trick.”
— Teresa Drummond, NiftyFifty founder
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