Up for grabs today....
A copy of our book, signed by both Cheryl and myself, to be sent to someone in the US.
A digital copy of our book to be sent to someone outside of the US.
A scrap pack of various solids in cool colors.
A scrap pack of strings.
A scrap pack of ticker tape pieces. (My favorite!)
And a scrap pack of green fabric...perfect for making slabs.
In your comment, I'd love to hear where you live and your thoughts on scraps. What do you love about working with scraps? Or....What do you find challenging about working with scraps? Or you could answer both! Winners will be chosen on Thursday, July 5th.
Be sure to check out Cheryl's post and enter her giveaway, too!
Be sure to check out Cheryl's post and enter her giveaway, too!
804 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 600 of 804 Newer› Newest»I don't have a lot of scraps yet as have not had much time to sew in the last twenty years, but now that the children are grown and left home I am accumulating more scraps. I am always looking at patterns I could use for scraps.
Oops I forgot to include my email address in my comment. ksanderson@hotmail.ca
I'm in Nashville and I've always been intimidated by scraps and making everything even. I have strip quilted before, but never done a scrap quilt. I ordered your book from Amazon, but it is currently 1-3 months backordered, so congratulations!
I am currently living in Kodiak, Alaska and at the moment I don't have a lot of scraps. I haven't been quilting that long and I'm fairly slow at getting things done so I haven't accumulated very many. I do love all the scrappy quilts that people have been putting together recently and would love to be able to do one someday to remember all the other projects I've done.
Ahh You always give us lots to think about! I love scraps because it is amazing what can be made with what is leftover. And to think I used to throw those pieces out in the beginning....
It is hard because I really am a matchy, matchy girl....it pushes me out of my box...but I always love the results!
I've been dreaming of scraps and dreaming of getting my copy of your book (asked for it for my birthday but your birthday sounds like a great time to win one instead!)
I have so many scraps, it's good to clip smaller ones into project size pieces! but the challenge is finding the time to get them sorted and stay up with it! I live in sunny SoCal! Come visit, do a books signing (our little fabric shop has your book I squealed with delight and got all the ladies working there looking at it...most of them don't follow blogs!
I don't really like scraps... but I don't quilt! I don't like trying to store and organize them. I usually try and use them up after finishing my projects or put them in a *scrap box* for my sisters to use :) I'm from Oklahoma. Thanks for the giveaway!
I am in Oklahoma City, OK, USA, and I tend to be overly matchy-matchy. Pulling scraps out of a bag and just using them pulls me from my comfort zone- often with spectacular results! Thanks for the giveaway.
I live in southern Indiana. I love the look of scrappy quilts, but I think it is really hard to put together scraps so that nothing clashes, but wihtout over-planning or over-coordinating the fabric! I think I just need to learn how to let go more and trust in how something will look once it's all put together.
I love the idea of a scrappy quilt (with small scraps) I just don't have the space to store many and I don't seem to have enough yet to really do anything with anyway. Additional scraps seem to be necessary ;-)
brookeali(at)hotmail.com
I'm in sunny Queensland in Australia. I just love to use scraps in my quilts as it is a way to use them all up and also a way to revisit old quilts and the little bits of my favourite fabrics. Sometimes it is a really trip down memory lane.
Michelle from Down Under
I am so into using my scraps. I love turning strings into a block of fabric, then using that as a basis for something else. I love the bucket of green you have. Cheers Karen. www.madewithmytwohands.blogspot.com
Scraps r wonderful!! I love to cut them into strips. If its wide enough, I cut a 2 inch piece, and whatever, if anything is left I make a even # width from that. Strips. An be used for so much! And I love them :)
Thanks for the chance of a fun giveaway :)
Anna from Canada
Happy Canada Day!! :)
Thanks for recognizing our holiday!
I'm in South Central WA. I've been sewing for about (gulp) 52 years but just started quilting. Somewhat of a scrap hoarder, my Mom keeps running into little fabric stashes of mine at home and I haven't lived there in almost 40 years! I have a quilt that my parents had made for me ( neighbors Mom sewed and quilted for them) as my high school graduation present made from the scraps of all the fabric I sewed for clothes in high school. Still have it of course!
I live in Eathampton MA. I actually never used to do scrap quilts until it was pointed out that that fabric cost just as much as yardage. That was the start of my scrap quilt craziness. Never looked back. Love scrappies. Susan
I love scraps but I do have to say since getting your book I have serious scrap envy. I thought I had a lot of scraps and now I realise I don't even have enough to make those colour-coded scrap baskets LOL
I am an Aussie scrapper freezing in the Adelaide Hills.
I live in the Yukon in Canada. I love scraps and I have three scrap quilts on the go right now.
I live in Dallas and I am not a scrap lover :)
What I do not like about scraps is that I can not match them together neatly, or maybe this is how it seems to me.
I live in Germany and I have one scraps box that is too small. I think it would be challenging to work with someone's scraps. It's also challenging as I often don't have as much scraps from one fabric as I desire. But I don't throw away too many scraps. It became better in the past 'though. :) Working from scraps or used things is also satisfying as I think it's what quilting is all about. I like the fabric from today very much 'though.
I live in the beautiful city of Saskatoon and love the glory of a prairie sunset!
I love that working with scraps makes a project totally unique and somewhat random.
Thanks!
I'm in Alberta and I love scraps! I find it easier to just let go when I work with them. Somehow I find it easier to dive into scraps than cut yardage! lol
Happy Birthday from irvine, California! I usually use scraps to make mug rugs or for appliqué. Enjoy your blog, quilts & tutorials!
Scrap quilts are fun. I just finished one scrap quilt and am planning another scrap quilt.
happy Birthday Canada, USA, and Amanda!
Wilma
Calgary, Canada
I'm Ellie from Southern California! I love scraps and don't like to throw them out, even when they get small! My challenge is keeping them organized and finding the right projects to use them on.
Everyone can always add scraps to their stash. From West coast of Canada.
Fun giveaway! I live in SC ... as for working with scraps, I love creating something new out of bits and pieces that are "too little" to make a difference. It's just like in life: LITTLE things DO add up, and LITTLE things do make a difference!
I'm Jess from Australia, and I'm in a bee that's just started up, using only scraps. I love that all my scraps remind me of the various projects they were left over from.
Happy birthday! I live in the wonderfully green Pacific Northwest on the less populated, quieter west side of the Puget Sound. I love it here but at this point, I think it is necessary to visit warmer climes at least once a year to get my sunshine fix. Thank goodness July and August are upon us!
I love scraps for the idea of scraps. I have yet to use them but I still feel like I am in the building up my stash of scraps phase. I selfishly hoard them and have to overcome some of that to allow my 7yo daughter to use some for her projects. I love the ideas, especially the ticker tape quilt which is on my To Do list, as well as how beautifully random scraps can come together in one seamless creation.
Thanks for the giveaway!
In live in AZ and love my scraps!! My biggest problem with scraps is there's not enough time to follow up on all the wonderful projects just waiting to be completed.
I'm an American, married to an Aussie living in Australia. I am a huge fan of keeping your scraps and using them in other projects. I even have an empty pickle jar that I collect the tiny scrap pieces in and threads to use for stuffing my rag dolls.
Deborah
homemakerhoney @gmail .com
I am a beginner and have made some of my quilts with scraps and one with new fabric. What I like about scraps is the variety I can get, I like putting in a single piece of a tiny scrap, and I like feeling as though I have not wasted fabric.
OH I would love a copy of your book, and with scraps you can make the most beautifull things, so I'm in the race!!! I live in the Netherlands and am following your blog for over a year now. Thank you for your inspiring posts. Greetings Evelien.
I'm new to quilting and so am still collecting/making scraps. I have my eye on some beautiful scraps quilts that I want to make once I have enough scraps. I'm from British Columbia, Canada. Thanks for a chance to win! :)
Hi! I'm a new quilter from the Netherlands.. scraps? I'm already hoarding my scraps and fantasizing about what I can do with them if only I had enough! Haha. Not scrap worthy yet, but I'm getting there!
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Thanks for the give-away!
Hi! I love your blog. Thank you so much for this wonderful chance!
What I find challenging about working with scraps is the impulse to just leave them where they are and work from stash. I love how beautiful and colorful the finished piece comes out.
Thank you again!
I live in Rotorua, New Zealand. It's very cold here so we are quilting like crazy!
I love scraps because uou can use older fabrics from your stash, toss in a few recent releases and the quilt top looks fresh and modern.
Would love to win a e-copy of the book.
Alison
I love working with my scaps and remembering what I originally used the fabric for. I so enjoy prepping my fabrics, washing, starching and pressing, what a joy. I live in Surrey, BC Canada and have had a very enjoyable day with great friends. Happy Canada Day everyone. We are fortunate enough to live nearby the Canada/US border and we look forward to the July 4th celebrations too.
i'm in New Zealand and have only been quilting for 12 months. Slowly building a collection of scraps but haven't got enough to do anything with yet.
I'm in New Zealand and have only been quilting for 12 months. Slowly building a collection of scraps but haven't got enough to do anything with yet.
I've mostly used my scraps for applique pieces but then I joined up with a scrap attack project earlier in the year and made an entire quilt top out of scraps! I'm thinking about my scraps as possibilities now!
I live in Italy and I keep every single piece of fabric bigger than 1 cm, because I love to do multicolor binding and I never know if this little treasure will be useful..! I never have enough fabric and inspirations, so I would be very very happy to win every single prize of your giveaway. Thank you for the chance! Barbara
I live in Northern California, in Tracy, which is between Stockton and Oakland....I haven't really worked with scraps but have started a collection of them that I know I will use in the future. Thanks for the great giveaway!!
I enjoy working with my scraps and rememberig what I originally used the fabric for. I like to wash, starch and press my fabric before using it, it's therapeutic for me:-) i am fortunate to live in a Canadian border town with the US and today we had a lovely Canada Day celebration with good friends. We look forward to watching the July 4th fireworks celebrations too.
PS Hope I am not leaving multiple messages.
What a neat give away. I live in Fernley, NV ... between Fallon Air Base and Reno. I dont have a lot of choice in fabrics and what I do have is slightly limited as I am a newer quilter ... so the stash is a bit boring and this would be an aweome opportunity to build up beautifulscraps. Thanks for the giveaway
Rachel
mommy2madeline@hotmail.com
Scraps are so much fun, I just love how they come together and can be stuff you don't even like but it works. I come from Wodonga ,Australia. Your book looks awesome
I'd love an electronic copy - I'm in Sydney Australia. Scraps. Hmm. I have TONS and I love them and I can't bear to throw them away. But I need a project to get rid of some of them please !!
Australia here. I like scraps because I have a theory that you can never have too many fabrics in a quilt.....the more the merrier. Scraps make it happen.
Hi! I'm from Florida and have enjoyed reading your blog for quite a while and absolutely love all of your work!
I love the look of scrappy quilts, I think I prefer them, actually...but my use of scraps is limited, as I'm just getting started in the quilting world...or at least the patchwork world. My first, and so far only, quilt was a hand embroidered pre-stamped number...can't wait to start patchwork, I think I'm going to attempt your round and round quilt along quilt soon! And hope I don't go crazy from all those seams! :)
Scraps are definitely the way to go. Looking forward to seeing you at the work party on Aug. 25.
What a generous giveaway! I love working with scraps. It started with an annual online scraps to treasure challenge - over 100 six inch squares. Then, as I've made more quilts over the years, I've enjoyed the challenge of making something special out of my scraps. I love remembering the original quilt I've given to a friend and those happy memories of blessing a friend. All those get stirred up again when I use those scraps!
I've been reading this blog for months, and have already bought your lovely book! I'd love the plain scraps if I had to choose; I have tons of nonplain! I tend to do crazy blocks, and before I'd ever seen your blog, was doing a form of slab quilts as well. My crazy blocks tend to be 9.5 in. squares with borders.
Your blog is an inspiration! Also, thanks to you, I just did my first all-machine done binding -- love this technique! Thank you!!!
I love the frugalness of working with scraps and I love that each quilt made with scraps has a built in "history". (That piece came from . . . .) And working with someone else's scraps just ups the fun! Nyla-Jean, Kingston, Ontario
I live in NJ and I love making scrap quilts. I find it fun to revisit so many fabrics and remember what quilts they are from....I love being able to use up small pieces of fabrics...friends laugh that I actually cut up fabric to put in my scrap bins I am always looking for new scraps and love adding other peoples scraps to my bins.
I find the challenge in making a quilt from the scrap basket rewarding...
I would love to win your book, I have heard so many good things about it and yes quite a few quilts I would love to make
Happy Birthday, mine is in a few days too! a week from today
Kathie
I am in Cambridgeshire in the UK. I love working with scraps as I can get so many different effects, I save every scrap even the tiny ones.The hardest part is choosing which to include and more difficult what to leave out.I am about to start some string blocks in mixed blues for a charity quilt.
Hi! I live on a farm in New Zealand! I am a homeschooling mama to two boys and I am teaching my oldest to make little quilts with scraps!
I love seeing your name in my Inbox and excited to see what new creations you have made!
I am saving up for a copy of your book - it looks AMAZING@
Thanks for your great blog!
Bronwyn
lots of reasons to celebrate!!! What better than with scraps!
I live in Barcelona (Spain) and I DO love scraps, though most of the time I don't know what to do with them so your book is my salvation (I already have it).
lauramdd(at)terra(dot)es
Thanks for the chance to win.
I live in GA next to the FL border. I have been admiring your new book and appreciate an opportunity to win. What I like most about using scraps is they are economical and work well together, taking on a life of their own.
What I find challenging about scraps is that they seem to breed when I'm not looking and all of a sudden they are out of control and I'm thinking... how did THAT happen?
Grrrrreat giveaway! I tend to use up my scraps in the summer. My quilts are wild and crazy, and definately more free-form!
I've not been sewing long and haven't made my first quilt yet (although I have my fabric waiting for me to start!), so I've not got any scraps yet. I was thinking I might make a cushion cover to go with my first quilt when I get started though to use up any scraps I am left with :)
I'm in the UK :)
I'm in the Shenandoah Valley of VA...and got our power back so I can check your blog! I LOVE scraps...have many! And need to do something with them! And I'd like to win because today (Monday) is my 60th birthday!!!
I love scrappy quilts. I try to keep my scraps organized but they seem to be taking over the place. Thanks for the great giveaway.
I am from Connecticut. I love scraps, but haven't been quilting long enough to have generated very many yet. Thanks for the chance to win!
My stash is probably 1/3 scraps.I took my Scrap Boxes along to a quilt retreat I host and the other girls LOVED playing in my scraps! We now have mini-workshops designed around just using scraps! I think everyone likes to play in other's scraps in part because they're different. It's great to see such variety.
I love scraps but just started working with them recently: i found a lovely book about colourful logcabin projects and started sewing some blocks. :-)
I live outside the US, in Germany. Don't ask me how I found your blog - maybe google found one of your great quilt tutorials??
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (soon!) I love working with scraps because of the overall eclectic look it gives the quilt. It's also like visiting with old friends when you stumble on an old favorite.
I live in very un-sunny (at the moment) England. Scraps to me are:-
Super;
Creative; (What they make me)
Realistic; (They're what I have most of)
Adventurous; (What I become)
Possibilities; (They are endless)
Special; (Nearly everyone in my family has a quilt made from scraps).
I just love scaps :o)
I have not begun to do things with scraps yet, but love scrappy quilts. If I don'g win the book i think that I will try to purchase it so that I can make me a scrappy quilt. I love getting scrap bags!! They give you a chance to have many different varieties and some that you love, but don't buy! Happy Birthday!!
I recently used up ALL my scraps making a granny square quilt! I was so pleased at first but now I find that I miss them. I guess I didn't realize how often I would dig through that bin for little bits to add to my projects.
I live in Saint Louis, Missouri & I love scraps! I love that you can stitch a bunch of them together to make a quilt or to make patchwork fabric. With patchwork fabric you can make anything.
nicoleg0 at hotmail
Oooh! I've been dying to get your book!
I am a fairly new quilter; just started after I retired last year.
I LOVE working with scraps because I cannot bear to throw away even tiny pieces of beautiful fabric or fabric with sentimental value. I sewed for my kids when they were small (29 and 26 now). I still have scraps from those garments and have been working on a plan to make each of the kids a quilt from their garments' scraps. It's been a wonderful walk down memory lane.
BYW, that grren scrap stash is calling my name!
Love scraps - I tend to be a fabric hoarder so saving scraps comes naturally. My only problem is how to store them in an efficient way!
What an awesome giveaway! I live in central Maine and I love my scraps! I keep every little bitty piece just in case :-) I'm in a big spider-web phase right now so I am usually elbow deep in my scrap bins. Have a Happy Happy Birthday!
I live in Indiana,and I haven't made a quilt with only a few colors in years. The only thing i find challenging about scraps is managing the storage. I would love to have a copy of your book. I am curious if the pattern for the "bucket" that your greens are in is in the book.
I live in Michigan and of course I love scraps. Hate to throw any. Linda Gerig
I'm from Indiana. I love finding projects for scraps but I never seem to have scraps that are big enough- guess I need to start buying 2 yds of fabric as a rule of thumb. I would love to receive a copy of your book.
Hi, I live in Goose Creek SC.
Scraps? Well, I'm just starting quilting so I haven't used many scraps yet. However, I am using the scraps from the backing of my first quilt to not only make a growth chart for my son but am also incorporating a small square of the fabric into as many of the quilts that I make...i.e. every quilt I make will have a small square of that fabric until it's all done...kind of a signature.
Wow, what a generous giveaway!
I am mostly a scrap kind of girl. I often buy 1 or 2 fabrics to bring the scraps together. Growing up, the only quilt I ever used was a scrappy one.
What a wonderful giveaway! I live in Portugal and I love working with scraps. I save every bit of fabric and I always find a use for them. The really small ones are good to decorate cards, the larger ones I use them for patchwork and I love paper piercing.
Thank you for the chance!
ap_lemos at yahoo dot com
Ciao, i live in the Italy's east coast and i love working with scarpa specially with strings.
Thanks for the chance to win!
b.zanninelli@gmail.com
Who in the world has run out of them sometime?
As always, thanks for the possibility of getting something from you!
i love working with scraps because I feel like it gives me much more options, fabric-wise. i'm not limited to only the big pieces.
I live in Illinois and I love the scrappy look. So I love working with scraps. My only issue is I never have enough. I'm trying to finish a bunch of projects to create more scraps to play with.
Hi, it's Martha from Louisiana, where it is hot, hot, hot! and I love it. This looks like a great give-a-way. I love fabric, so I don't really have scraps...I just have a lot of fabric pieces...some smaller than other's. My only problem is keeping it organized.
Have a great day.
I love scraps...I hoard them actually. I love having them around me, but I'm always afraid that if I use them, I will not have enough of the right colors to finish a project. I need to take a deep breath and dive in. Thanks for the chance to win Sunday Morning Quilts. -hope you pick me. (US)
I live in western Pennsylvania. I haven't had a chance to work with scraps yet so this would be great!
I live in Australia on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne. I love working with scraps because of the variety of fabrics and the memories of fabrics and quilts which have gone before
I am a thrifty quilter, so love using scraps and will look for vintage scraps at yard sales. I am currently melting in NE Alabama.
I have never actually made a scrap quilt but have a burning desire to make a ticker tape quilt after seeing all of them on pinterest! I LOVE all shades of green. Would really love to have your book! Thanks for the opportunity! Diane Parks dineyparks@hughes.net
I live in southeastern Michigan. I live scraps and love creating crafts with them. It really helps my creative side come through.
Hi I'm Debbie from Colorado....Thanks so much for the opportunity of getting a copy of your book and for the scraps.....I am just finishing up a postage size quilt with some batiks so I'm needing a new project :)
thx again,
debfern@juno.com
I live in beautiful North Carolina. I love scraps but have never made a whole quilt out of them.I have always saved scraps, though, because I hate the thought of wasting anything! Management and organization is the tricky part for me (and that is true for more than just scraps!). You have greatly inspired me to begin a few scrap blocks, and I can't wait to find out exactly what a slab is!
I live in central Indiana surrounded by farm land. I'm challenged with what colors go together when I use scraps. I also find them hard to organize- some are from washed fabric, some aren't. How do I keep is all organized! jafaulkn@tctc.com
What a sweet giveaway! To me, there is nothing more authentic than a true scrap quilt!! I love the nostalgia that goes along with it, thinking of all the ladies before us, who made quilts out of what they could get their hands on. I am currently saving strings for my 'one day' string quilt that I want to make!
I live in North Carolina and I love scraps! I love the excitement scraps bring to a quilt, especially when there is but one piece of a fabric, it leaves me searching for more, wondering the source and what stories could be told...thanks for the giveaway! :D
sowingstitches [at] gmail [dot] com
I live in the north west corner of Iowa. My favorite quilts are scrappy! One of my first quilt books I bought is called "100 Good Things", and it has patterns for using 100 different fabrics in each quilt. Thanks for the giveaway! Ronda
I love the look of texture with using scraps. Nothing goes to waste! I live in Verona Wi! Thank you for this opportunity. ;)
Amy
Hello, I'm from Caldwell, Idaho. It is hot & dry out here lately. Fabric scraps give me butterflies. They make me happy. I can never throw scraps away. Scraps are exciting. Scraps tell stories about all the other quilts and projects that I've sewn. Scrap quilts are my favorite quilts. I'd love to win some of your scraps. I'd love to win a signed copy of your book. Happy Day!
I love scraps, the challenge of using them as well as making the most of what I have.
I live in the Kansas City Mo area.
I really enjoy your blog.
Jackie
Sew Excited Quilts
I love keeping scraps but really haven't done much as far as quilting with them yet! I would love some great ideas!! I live in Athens, GA where we are setting record breaking temps so spending lots of time in my sewing room!!!
I love working with scraps because I'm thrifty that way. I can't stand to let any fabric go to waste! I love that you can put so many different fabrics into a scrap quilt.
I live in Minnesota. I like the looks of scrappy quilts but haven't made any yet as I am fairly new to quilting and I don't have much for scraps. I'm working on it though! Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.
I live in Denver, CO. Moved here 4 years ago, from NC, to be near my daughter and future grandkids. I have 2 adorable grandkids who love my quilts. Everything I make is done with scraps. I'd love being a winner!
Sorry. I deleted my first comment because I realized I forgot to say where I was from. I am a native New Yorker.
Happy Birthday. I love scraps. Using them always make me feel thrifty and artistic. I love remembering where each piece came from. I love scraps so much that I buy packs of them from my LQS. It's fun to incorporate other quilter's scraps in the mix. The thing I don't like about scraps is storing them. No matter what system I try, I always wind up with a mess when I go to use them.
I love scrappy quilts. I am a new quilter, really only beginning in Jan of this year. I started this habit of using at least one fabric that was scrap from the previous quilt and incorporating it into the next quilt I work on, if I can. It has been so fun as I quilt for different family members to link them all together through different fabrics. It has also created meaning for me, them and the quilts!!
My favorite quilts are made from scraps. I love working with them. This is a dream giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win
I live in Ft. Collins, CO, and I have a love/not always like relationship with my scraps! I valiantly try to use them up, and yet, there they are, seemingly bottomless. :) Lately I refuse to get into my stash till I make a bigger dent!
I love scraps! I have those photo boxes from the craft store in a cube shelf, and each one is a different size scrap. When I'm finished cutting yardage, I cut it into 2.5" squares, 2" strips, 1" strips, or if nothing is left, strings and ticker tape pieces. When a bin is full, it becomes a quilt and I start over. <3
I love scraps because I end up putting together color combos and patterns while playing around that I'd never have thought to put together! I'm in sweltering Georgia!
I use my scraps for applique and quilting. Texas, USA is home.
I love using scraps for a couple of reasons. First, I love re-using favorite fabrics from previous projects. Next, I like knowing that I am using something I already have without going out to spend more money. Unfortunately, my scrap pile never seems to get any smaller! :) Love your blog from St. Louis, MO area.
I'm from rural South Dakota. I haven't been quilting long enough to have too many scraps (yet) - but my collection is growing. I have some ideas ready for when my scrap collection gets BIG! Thanks for hosting the fun giveaway!
Hi Amanda! We live in a ski resort area in Idaho, so I have lots of time in the winter to sew to my heart's content! Summer is filled with so many activities that it's harder to stay inside to sew, except when it gets very hot. The best thing about scraps is that they bring to mind all the neat projects I have made over the years. In fact, I started quilting because my grandmother made a scrap quilt from leftover pieces from all the clothes she used to make us as we were growing up. I look at that quilt now and think so fondly of her - great way to preserve memories.
I live in Texas, and it is hot! I like working with scraps because i can use my favorites over and over and over- and it doesn't usually require a trip to the store since most of my sewing is done early in the morning.
Montevideo Uruguay...
I have a hard time using my scraps because they do not match. I still do save them and one they I will find the way
My husband lost his job last year and the new job he got didn't allow me any budget for sewing. My scraps saved my life! I wouldn't have been able to quilt at all without my scrap pile! I am in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
I love working with scraps because I love Love LOVE scrappy quilts but my challenge is storing them and how small is too small to keep. What stays and what goes.
cwhelan at williamwoods dot edu
I live in Arizona and am a fairly new quilter. I have not had a chance yet to use up much of my scraps, but definitely want to start a project with them.
I love scraps and especially like to remember what that fabric made the first time around! Thx for a chance to win.
I live in Boise, Idaho and what I absolutely love about scraps is that when I am working with them I am reminded of what project they were origionally used for and who the project went to. I am also really loving that now my girls will even point out which quilt it is from. I would be so excited to get to play with your scraps and have a signed copy of your book!
I moved to Connecticut two weeks ago!! Still need to set up my sewing space :0) !!! I am learning to love scraps, the challenge is knowing what size is too small to keep (unless it is one of those many favorite lines, then too small never counts, hahaha)
I think the hardest thing with scraps is storage. Right now I am working on a wedding ring style quilt and using up a bunch of my scraps. Odd shapes and sizes make it a bit harder and definitely takes more time than using fat quarters or yardage.
Robin from sunny, hot humid, muggy Florida.
Hi, I am from Missouri, new quilter and love your blog! My first quilt was made from my sewing scraps and loved the outcome! Thanks for the giveaway:)
I live in Eugene, OR. Scraps are neverending! I feel like the more I use them the more I have! But I love them because I don't have to buy new fabric.
Scraps are my favorite!!!! I'd love the sunday morning quilts book!!! I am working on a new low volume quilt & it would be so great to have the inspiration!
OK, can I tell you something crazy? All the quilts I wan to make right now are scrap quilts, but I don't have enough scraps to make them! I need to find some amazing quilts to make that will give me scraps to make them with. Or I could win this and make the quilt I really want to make!
I love scraps of fabrics and always have. I have been a sewer since my early teens and now that I am quilting, scraps add a new demension to my quilting and projects. I love the color and the mix of different fabrics and creating something from nothing useing them.. in my earlier years scraps were used to emblelish clothing or toys, dolls I made for my kids. Your book has given definition to those scraps.
I'm in North Carolina & LOVE scrap quilts through most I make are from fabric lines/collections. I keep the scraps & am trying to develop the most efficient sorting/storage system for me. I'm always looking for ways to use my scraps. While I consider myself a traditional quilter, I've been researching "modern quilting" lately & realize this style may be the best for me to explore for my scraps. Your book is on
my amazon wish list but a signed copy would be a treat!! And scraps too---WOW!! Thanks for such a generous offer
I live in Wyoming with a view of the Teton mountains out my windows. I love to work with scraps because most of mine have happy memories associated with them.
Happy early birthday!
I personally love working with scraps because I love revisiting fabrics I've purchased in the past. I just need to get my scraps organized, so that I can use them more often.
Hi Amanda Jean,
I'm a new quilter so still working on building up my scrap stash... what I love about them is the satisfaction of using up every last bit of something, and also they are perfect for a commitment-phobe like me: I'm afraid to cut into (and ruin?) big new pieces of fabric so scraps take the fear out of piecing.
--sarabeth in Somerville, Mass.
Happy Birthday Amanda Jean!
I'm Amanda from Indiana and I love scraps! I am not the best at utilizing them though :-( I have a plan to get them all out and cut them into different sized pieces and store them that way. Maybe that will help me to use them up?! Thanks for the chance to win.
Thanks for this fun giveaway. I live in the Netherlands and I love using scraps for little projects for swaps, mini quilts, potholders, covered notebooks. The challenging part is to make a big quilt with scraps. I guess I don't have enough scraps or I would be afraid to use so many together.
I'm a scrap lover. To me they are like discovering new and interesting things About an old friend ;) I live in Utah and I'm currently working on a hand pieces hexagon quilt. I'd love to win scraps or your book. Thanks for the opportunity.
I love scrap quilts and make them often, but mostly out of fat quarters! I am just not organized enough to sort and corral all my scraps. I live in Grants Pass Oregon and would love to win!
dianeevans@q.com
I am a scrap lover from Arkansas that use my bits to make new squares for some pretty awesome quilts!
I'm a fairly new quilter from Seattle, WA with only a few projects under my belt. BUT I have been saving my scraps for the future! I'd like to think I will eventually be able to do something super creative with them. With our super pretty, but random, weather I'm sure I'll be making tons of quilts which can only mean... more scraps!! :o)
I live in Michigan and love quilting. I am not very good at saving scraps, but would love to try one from your book!!!
I live in Indiana, where we are having a HOT dry summer, which means staying inside in the AC and working on quilts. I love scrappy quilts and just finished hand piecing a full sized hexagon quilt of scraps. You can check it out at colorfullydistracted.blogspot.com
posted a few weeks ago. Thanks for the giveaway, would love to win!
My biggest challenge at the moment - I really like the look of scrappy quilts, but I am a fairly new quilter and don't have many scraps to work with!
I live in New York City, and I really like scrappy quilts and projects the best! My problem with scraps is that I don't have enough -- I end up buying fat quarters and cutting them up to add to my scrap collection. The first quilt I ever made was a scrappy string quilt, mostly made with cut up fat quarter "scraps."
Jen lookingglassknits.blogspot.com
I live in Ottawa Canada. I don't have many scraps yet and would love to collect some more. It seems to me that scraps are the real idea behind quilting....using up all the left-overs to make something beautiful and useful.
jmpoole@rogers.com
I live in Salt Lake City, UT. I am new to quilting 6 months now. And when I started I had no clue what I was doing now 6 months later I have this huge growing box of scraps and need great ways to use them.
Thanks for the chance to win a copy of your book. I would love to have a copy, but just don't have the budget to buy books. I mostly use free patterns from tutorials. I love scraps. My friends give me their scraps and selvages. I am making a huge crocheted selvage rug. I love scrappy quilts and have made several. I love piecing scraps but I loath cutting them. Thanks again for the giveaway.
I live in southeast Missouri. I love scraps. I try to make the most of my fabrics, and use every
bit that I can. What a wonderful
giveaway! Thanks for the chance to
win!
Wow! You got a lot of commetns on this post! I love scraps and have saved them for several years. Note I didn't say I used them, but I saved them. :) Thanks to your blog I have started venturing into sorting them and have started making my first scrap quilt! Would love an opportunity to win! But if I don't, thanks for all the encouraging posts you put out there for us!
Hey Amanda! I live in Mich, and I love your ticker tape quilt.. I don't have enough scraps yet to make it, but I would love to get some more!
So I am a newer quilter (just finished my first ever all the way done quilt this week and the second as well!!) I don't have a lot of scraps! I am in LOVE with your book and just ordered a copy on Saturday! But I tell you a signed copy would be even better! I'm sure I could find a quilty fried to gift the other to! :)
I don't have as many scraps as I used to, but I am looking forward to using the ones I have in a quilt project this summer. I live in Nebraska. Thanks for a chance to win such a great book!
Awesome giveaway! What a nice collection of scraps. I used to to keep all scraps, even stuff that was super tiny. My roommate helped me clean up the scraps and I find it is easier to use them when they are organized. I love using them in Bee blocks - kind of a story of what I've made and what I love. I live in upstate NY.
I live in Boca Raton, FL. I stepped away from quilting for several years and, at that time, gave away all but my favorite pieces of fabric, including my scraps. So now I am collecting anew. I long to make scrap quilts and I think it will be fun. Thanks for the chance. :)
I live in Wisconsin, down near Green Bay. Hot hot hot this week!!
I like the look from all the colors in most scrappy quilts, but oy! Lining up all the seams about drives me crazy.
I'm in central Illinois. I'm saving scraps to make a spider web quilt.
As I've seen somewhere before... I'm a crafter, nor a hoarder (although it's hard to tell the difference sometimes!). I hold onto all those precious little scraps. Your book is the perfect thing for using some of them up! I'm an international reader - from Canada, eh!
Scraps are fun because you can remember the other projects you made with them and have a collection of those memories in ONE bigger piece. A scrap "book" of sorts, I guess! I'm from Fort Wayne, Indiana, awaiting our first baby boy in the next few weeks!
I live in Alabama, and have lived in some part of the Southern US my whole life. I love working with scraps because of how creative you can (and have to) get in order to create a cohesive project out of them. Really, that's both something I love and a challenge in one. This is such a cool giveaway; I've been drooling over that book since I first saw it!
Scraps and a book? Nirvana! I love not knowing what I will get as I begin a scrappy project and then seeing it evolve with each scrap placement. The colors are just wonderful in scrappy projects.
I am firmly of the opinion thatt more is more in fabric selection for quilts. I love scraps
Thanks for the give away!
I live in Michigan, the Grand Rapids area.
I love scraps and have been using my red white and blue 2 1/2 in square making scrappy Amaerican flag wall hangings.
Have a great birthday.
Kelly
Yay for giveaways! I live on the south coast of the UK (where it is, and has been all day, pouring with rain!) and to be honest, I'm undecided about scraps. I have quite a few of them because I hate throwing things away and I have plans to use them for a big multi-coloured scrap quilt, but I am concerned about how long it could take to pull it all together! Thanks for the chance to win and congrats on your book!
I LOVE scraps, I love keeping them, love searching through them, love using them, love quilts and projects made with them. In fact, we've coined the name, "scrap salad" for containers filled with scraps :)
I live in St. Catharines Ontario Canada.(near Niagara Falls)I love working with scraps. My sisters bring bags of them home when they travel for me.I love to think that each piece is a bit of something special and often wonder what the fabrics were used for.I make a lot of small scrappy quilts to be used around my house so they work wonders!
I live in Tennessee :)
I love scraps!! Mine are in the process of slowly being converted into a granny square quilt, i am adding to the quilt as the scraps roll in :) I would LOVE to win this!! Thank you for the chance!
I live in munich, germany! Love scraps because they're making a quilt interesting but sometimes I find it hard to have enough scraps from one color. Solution: buy more fabric;-) Thanks for the giveaway, Hildy
hildy(at)ebertzeder(dot)de
hmmm... scraps. Well, I didn't save little scraps until I met you two years ago... But I always saved scraps of baticks for my Nearly Insane WIP as it is paper pieced and very tiny pieces. I've made several things in the past year that have utilized scraps, so now my local quilting friends give me their scraps! LOL!
I'm in Austin and I love working with scraps because it reminds me of all the quilts I did in the past!
I save my scraps but I have yet to do anything with them! I need to not be overwhelmed by them and just dive in!
I just found your blog today while searching for your book! What I love about working with scraps is that I don't have to decide whether to throw anything out and I love, love, love the way scrap quilts look. What is challenging to me is that since I don't throw scraps out, I have trouble keeping things organized.
I'm from Georgia, where it feels a bit cooler today. Phew! Thanks for the chance to win!
I live in Minneapolis and save all my scraps. Seriously, I had drawers overflowing, until I sorted them into individual boxes from IKEA.
I love scrap quilts. I try to use my scraps up as often as possible but they keep multiplying when I'm not looking. There is just something wonderful about a scrap quilt when you cover up at night. Love your blog site. Laura Valdez
ninepatch@hotmail.com
I live in SE Wyoming. Scraps are great for scrappy quilts. I would love to have this book....a great looking on. Love your blog.
I live in Gurnee, IL and I love scraps. I think they make the prettiest quilts because you get more color when you use more fabric! The challenging part is cutting each piece but that's part of the journey!
I'm from India but I visit the USA often and on my last visit in May I got my copy of your book and I LOVE it ! I love scraps because they remind me of kaleidoscopes and the million possible combinations I can make!
I never would have thought about scraps until your blog. You are amazing with them. You've helped me see that every piece of fabric deserves to be in a quilt in some way, shape or form. I've only been quilting 2 years, so my scraps are small in number, but I've used what I've had to make doll quilts for my nieces. A girl can dream to have a fabric stash as great as yours and a scrap stash as well! I'm working on it. Thank you for your inspiring blog. I owe all my quilting skills to you.
Beth Potter
Lehi, UT
I love working with scraps because of the colors and variety! It's just plain FUN.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Hi! I'm from Rexburg, Idaho! I love scraps! Mostly for reenacting various movie scenes of falling back on a bed while throwing pretty little pieces (substitution for large bills) in the air! Just kidding! Thx!!
I live in Otsego, MN and I have lots of scraps. I don't use them very much..but, I am saving them to create some type of art work. Some ideas include, decoupage and creating a drawing and using the scraps to fill in.
Have a WHIMSICAL Day!
I live in South Florida. I only recently started saving my scraps and strings (I know, I know...). I love using scraps to make new blocks, remembering the original quilts / projects. My challenge now is that I never seem to have enough scraps in the right colors. Good excuse to buy more fabric... to make more scraps :-)
I love scraps because I feel like I have a connection to the past...past projects AND my ancestors, they used EVERY scrap for something, and it just feels like they are part of me when I use up tiny tiny pieces on something that can be displayed (I REALLY want to do a ticker tape quilt!)
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Love your ideas with scraps....I've been making dog beds with them....now we can share ! Greetings from MA.
I'm from west MI and I haven't been sewing all that long so I don't have a ton of scraps. But I have a hard time throwing any piece of fabric away that *might* be useful. I have plans to make a scrappy blanket eventually.
Hello from hot, dry Kentucky! I love scrappy quilts -- they are so interesting to look at! I save scraps and I do use them, but I also cut "scraps" from yardage when I need more variety or sometimes to speed up the piecing process.
I live in Utah, and learned to quilt when I lived in Pennsylvania. I save scraps of all shapes and sizes! I love scraps and use them to make scrappy quilts, and also in crafting projects.
I'm a fellow Wisconsinite! :) I love scraps, tho I never seem to have enough, as it allows you to put more of your favorite fabrics into one project! I also always love having people search for their favorites too. Getting scraps from others is among my favorite things. ;)
Happy Birthday to you, and Happy 4th of July! :)
OH my all those goodies~
& I love Green.
I use scraps a lot, for one thing I am in the boonies with only Walmart to buy fabric..so fabric very limited
I hate waste so that is another reason for using all my scraps.
Plus the look of a scrap quilt is so homey & cozy looking.
My only challenge with scraps is keeping them organized--which at the moment is hopeless..lol
thanks for a chance at this giveaway.
I love using up scraps but I have been challenged in finding enough that are of the same value to look good together
I live in the very sunny, very hot california desert !!! I love your new book !!! and I LOVE scraps !!!! I tend to use them most in patchwork type projects but am planning to do something stringy as a change of pace :) !!!
Fabulous giveway! I live in Texas...too hot to get out much ALL summer so I'd rather sew! And using scraps is my favaorite. From crazy quilt blocks, crumbs, strings and my latest favorite ticker tape scraps, they're the best excuse to stay inside and PLAY!!
Funny that this came up on Sunday! I was looking at some scraps as I created a bee block and decided I'm just going to start sewing improv blocks from scraps as they happen - otherwise I'm never going to do anything with them and they'll drive me crazy! I'm newer to quilting so fortunately my scraps are still within reason. :)
Thanks for the chance!
lwghosts at yahoo dot com
I'm from Yukon OK.. and love the idea of using scraps... My auntie, whom I love dearly, just helped me do my first quilt block and it was made entirely from scraps.. I can't wait to do a quilt of my own now!
What a great giveaway!
I live in Staffordshire, England and I am fairly new to quilting. I am currently on my second quilt and I am already beginning to wonder what I am going to do with all my scraps!
I love your blog and love your ideas - I have a long to do list! Thank you for the inspiration :-) xxx
Ohmygosh! What a great giveaway!
I live in good old Clackamas, OR. I have been really trying to work with scraps and building up my stash, but I find it hard to work with, as I am so particular about what goes together. I have been learning to break out of my comfort zone. Seeing all your scrappy quilts gives me hope that I too can create a beautiful piece of art through scraps alone!
I love scraps because they remind me of the quilts my grandmother made! She's the reason I started quilting! Thanks for such an awesome giveaway. Happy 4th of July!
Scraps make me think longer about the color combinations that I'd like to put together and how I want to arrange them. And I enjoy scraps from an old project put into a new project.
Linda
lstegall@hotmail.com
And I forgot to say where I'm from--Central Illinois, the heart of the Midwest. :)
Linda
lstegall@hotmail.com
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