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 601 – 800 of 804 Newer› Newest»I'm in Albuquerque, NM. I haven't done much work with scraps other than making binding but I do love the idea of turning scraps into a scrappy lap quilt (or 2, or 3).
Thanks for the fun giveaway! I don't have many scraps and could use some as I am just starting out! I live in western Washington state.
i love scraps and don't have any thanks for the giveaway and i am from ga.
I love scraps (especially other people's scraps). I haven't been quilting very long, so don't have a large scrap collection yet. I live in Maquoketa, Iowa (east central area).
More scraps and a chance for a book? how lucky can one get? I use scraps for most of my quilts. My flip flop quilts are just that!
The desire for scrap fabric is a main reason I got into quilting in earnest. I don't like having to iron them. You know me...I live in Eagle, Idaho! :) Thanks Amandajean!
Fun giveaway and fun questions! I live in Victorville, the High Desert of California. I love to work with scraps because I feel like I am making a dent and using them up. Its a great feeling! The downside of working with scraps is, its very messy and usually the dent isn't very noticeable. Still scraps are treasures, beloved bits from others or reminders of previous precious projects. : )
I have been sewing for a long time saving what was not used. I'm starting to get some of the scraps together for my first quilt. I would love to add to my collection. Thanks
Angela
I live in Southern California. Haven't used much scraps, but they make beautiful quilts! Thanks for the chance. alonzoteressa(at)hotmail(dot)com.
I live in WV and just got power back after 4 days! Hurrah! I love scraps. I have a scrap bag right by my machine so when I need something little or part of s strip I look there first. I love solids scraps because you don't have to worry about whats on it just color! I have tried so many times to win a copy of your book and will keep trying. It has lovely quilts in it. Happy Birthday, sneak away and do something fun for you!
I am just starting to work with scraps. Would love to win a copy of your book with all its great ideas.
Catherine
I love scraps, can't throw any away and love to rummage through them, thinking about what i used them for. I use them for small projects like zippy pouches, but als for making a quilt of hexies now. I'd love to win!
I live in New Jersey.
I like scraps because with a good supply of them it is possible to find the perfect bit of fabric, especially for small applique projects. The difficulty is in organizing them-I've yet to be successful with that.
I like scraps but get tired of looking at my own lol :) thanks for the lovely giveaway - love those greens! Have a wonderful birthday!
I live in Northern California. I love the look of anything scrappy. It makes each thing special and unique.
happy almost birthday and happy late canada day!
i live in north carolina and would liiiiike to quilt with scraps, but i haven't yet. i don't know how to store them and so i usually end up tossing them or losing them amongst my mess. sounds like i need your book, huh?
thanks for the neat-o giveaway!
I definately find working with scraps challenging. I save and save them but get overwhelmed every time I even think about using them. There are so many!!! I want to take your advice in the book and sort them by color. Just need the time! Smiles~Beth (Greenwood, MO)
I think scrap quilts are my favourite. You can use the same pile of scraps and make two quilts that end up looking entirely different from each other, depending on the placement of the scrap pieces.
I am from North Central Ohio. I have a love hate relationship with scraps. If there is enough there "worthy" to keep I keep them or I will pass them on. But once it gets down to the nubs into the trash they go. I know it sounds wasteful to do that but I like a clean sewing area. Sadly scraps just get in the way sometimes.
I live in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have hardly made anything with scraps as I have only been quilting a year so they are gradually building up. I have just this week sorted them into shoeboxes by colour so I am ready to go.
I live in Arizona and I either cut my scraps and sort them by size or just strings..or give the tiny pieces to my friend BJ who really loves scraps!
Happy Birthday Amanda!! I'm in central Florida. I would love a copy of your book and those scraps. I'm building my stash as I'm a new quilter. I got my love of scraps from my Mom and Grandma. Thanks Amanda and Cheryl. Nancy skysnaina@cfl.rr.com
I live in Washngton and I love scrap quilts. I've started buying scrap packs because I was getting bored with few scraps that I had!
I live in southeastern Wisconsin...a transplant from Illinois and grateful to live in such a wonderful community where my quilting life began.
Scraps are the lifeblood of my quilts and projects. I hesitate every time I have to cut into a new piece of fabric, yet love the freedom of scraps....old fabrics, recycled table cloths, cut up dresses and clothes, upholstery samples, etc. all provide comfort to create. I must have some of my grandmother's depression era genes!
Hello, My name is Laurence , I am French and live in Brittany the west part of France! I like to sew scraps but here it's very difficult to find fabrics, patchwork is not a popular activity in France :( with 4 friends of mine we made the challenge last year to copy an old quilt without buying fabrics, "la Crise", its was very difficult but funny too :)
Yes I can help you, and sew your scraps:))
Bon Anniversaire!!!
I love your book and your modern quilts, and I love to use scraps,but I don't speak english and it's very difficult for me to explain what pleasure it is !
Thank you for the "how to "in your blog .
I live in Springville, Utah and I LOVE scraps! We just became good friends. I used to toss them out but thanks to you, I've become a big fan of using even the littlest pieces. My 7 year old daughter gets to play in my scrap bin and she's made some amazing blocks from scraps too. She wants me to win the book because she imagines herself on the cover. :o)
Love scraps! My greatest joy working with scraps is when someone in the family points out one from something I made them. I am working on a baby quilt for my daughter's first child and it has pieces from a quilt and a romper I made her. I live in rural northwest Ohio.
I'm thrilled that from a bunch of scraps, something unique is born (and saved). I live just outside of Nashville, TN (and it's HOT).
I love being able to use almost every possible piece of a certain fabric. I also think sometimes its challenging, but in a good way.
I from northern Ohio, just a few miles from Lake Erie. I'm a pretty new quilter so I haven't done anything with scraps yet, but I can see already how quickly they'll build up. Happy Birthday, and thanks for the chance to win!
ellen(at)myerly(dot)net
I live in argentina, and what i both love and find challenging about scraps is that is a bit like working a puzzle, you need to figure out how to fit all those awkward pieces into something whole and bigger than the sum of the little bits
I am in western Washington State, probably the coolest place in the US right now at a whopping 58 degrees at 4:20 in the afternoon! I give my daughter my scraps. She makes items for her dollhouse and girlfriends with them.
Mrs.Hearts
I live in Bucks County, PA...I have plenty of scraps in fact, I am putting together a small hexie quilt...I cut out the blocks with my GO Baby, from scraps. I just want to make a small quilt, just so I can try my hand at a hexie quilt...thanks for the giveaway...
Congratulations on the book. I love scrappy quilts. My latest attempt to use my scraps is a tumbler quilt. I was given a perspex template which is making the cutting out easier.
Well I like scraps, I keep scraps, but I haven't really used any yet! I think I just haven't amassed enough. Thanks for the giveaway! Oh, and I'm in Minnesota.
Oddly enough, after 25+ quilts, I have very few scraps and I'm not sure why other than that my 4 year old steals them away for "projects." They all fit in a small bin, and I wish I had more so I could make some of the lovely quilts in your book!
I live in Ohio. I've been wanting to do some of the cool scrap projects I'm been seeing around the web but my scrap pile isn't very big yet.
I live in California and love scrappy quilts! You can NEVER have too many scraps on hand! I love going to my scrap stash when I have an idea for a quilt and seeing how many pieces that I can use.
I live in Northern, IN, right on the Michigan border. I love it here.
Scraps are awesome, but I don't have many to play with. I would love to create with these!
I love working with the "stringy" scraps! I just feel that I don't have to do a lot of matching and fretting over prints and colors.
I live in Michigan and am so happy to have a chance in your giveaway.
What a cool giveaway! I've had my eye on your book for awhile now! I have yet to make a scrappy quilt, but would love to make a tickler tape quilt. Right now the only purpose my scrap bin serves is to keep my 2 yr old occupied for a bit while I try to get some sewing done!! :) -Angie from Wisconsin
I like scraps, because it's fun to look at all the pretties again!
Happy Birthday to you and the USA.
I never throw even the tiniest of scraps away. Love them.
I live in Northern Colorado on the Front Range.
I live in central Alabama. I'm constantly collecting scraps from friends or raiding there trash cans when they've finished a quilt project. The more different fabrics a quilt has the more I love it. I mix all sorts of fabrics in a quilt: novelties, batiks, reproductions, modern, vintage, plaids, stripes, or dots! Anything goes & the result is always a one of a kind that can't br reproduced. Thanks for a chance to win your giveaway,
Beth
I love using scraps but feel like some of them are such different styles so I'm not always confident in putting them together. I need to keep working with them to gain confidence.
Jennifer
jstuthe@lps.org
Oh, I hope I'm not too late! I am an aspiring quilter and I love your blog and ideas. I can't wait to get started on my own comfy quilts!
I live in Southern Illinois. I'm still building a stash, so I don't have a lot of scraps yet.
I live in Quebec City, Canada. My favourite thing about scraps is keeping my stash low. I promised myself not to buy fabric unless I had a project when I started sewing. I've cheated a few times but scraps keep me on track and somewhat on budget. Plus, I experiment more with scraps. There isn't that fear of cutting into something nice without figuring all the math out first.
Texas. I live in Texas. I LOVE scraps. Most of my fabric is scraps. I generally only buy yardage to back quilts (and sew clothing)
Wow, lots of nifty goodies! I live in Minnesota, just southeast of St. Paul. WAY too hot for me this week - glad that the high 90s are not the norm here. I love working with scraps - so many possibilities, and good memories of their first time around!
Great giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity. As for scraps, I'm a planner and I am now picking specific scrappy quilts to make so that I can have a specific list of pieces to cut until I have enough to start.
Just starting quilting..so for now I'm just happy looking at my scraps growing and growing ! and already starting to wonder what to do with them ! I should find an idea or your blog anyway !
Leaving way down in New Zealand, but from the other side of the world, Old Europe :)
I love that nothing is wasted when working with scraps AND I love the crazy color combinations that happen without planning! Most challenging for me when working with scraps is the huge number of them and trying to find the tiny piece of -whatever- that you KNOW is in there! :) I live in Beaumont, Texas. Thanks for keeping up the blog, Amanda!
I am a Scrapophile! Thank you for the giveaway.
I'm from Ontario, Canada...and I haven't really worked with scraps yet. I'm just not sure what to do with them all, haha.
I am writing from Vancouver and love what I have seen of your books so far. Scrap quilts appeal to me because of their energy and the harkening back to times when scraps and bits of used clothing may have been the only fabric available. My challenge - very few scraps and most of what I have are earth tones which no longer interest me.
I love working with scraps. Some of my favorite quilts were made from the scraps from other quilts. I often like the "leftover" quilt better!
Hello. I live in Texas. I have been quilting for about 2 years but have been sewing underfoot my mother, aunts and grandmothers since I was 4. Scraps. ACK!!! I have a lovely stash of them and right now I use them to make things for my girls. Headbands, flowers, dress up skirts, wraps for their barbies and dolls. I need more inspiration on what to do with them!
Vivo en Buenos Aires ,en America del Sur ,tengo muchos restos de tejido,me cuesta deshacerme de ellos ,los clasifico en cajas de verano y cajas de invierno .Tengo una hija de 11 años que también junta para coser el vestuario de sus muñecas.
Me encanta un reto para juntar nuestros pequeños trozos,de color?de diseño?
Mis cariños para usted ,Amanda.
I love scraps! I hate cutting into my stash, so I will piece and stretch my scraps to conform to what I want to make!
I`m on the Canadian westcoast. I love having a variety of scraps for the charity bee blocks I have to make, I`m definitely missing a couple colours in my stash!
Just starting to work with scraps and need to get much more organized to make it easier!
I can't let go of my scraps, but I haven't actually made anything with them. I love looking back and remembering what I have made and given away. My "scrappy intentions" are to make some small quilts for my daughters to use with their toys and to make a few pillow covers up.
Hello! I am from Singapore and i love working with colors! I love to up-cycle using scraps as its an endless smorgasbord for making 'zakka' style items :)
phoebeparry at yahoo dot com
I live in Sweden and I would love to have a copy of that book.
I love scrapps because it reminds of painting with watercolours.
Karin på Ösäter
HI from southern New Zealand.I have your book out of the library this week and have read it over and over. I love scraps.I have two baby quilt tops made and a third ready to cut-all from my scrap bags.(nicely organised thanks to your book)My first baby quilt celebrated my friend's grandchild.Sofia was known as 'flossie' until she was born, so now new mums and grans receive a 'flossie' quilt; bright, thin and cuddly, backed with fleece.
I live in Georgia and love you site. I am just getting into making scrappy improv quilts. After reading your blog and book I have been inspired.
Hi, I'm Kerry from Melbourne, Australia.
I love using scraps to make quilts from. Apart from looking at pieces of fabric left over from other favorite projects, I love the way a quilt made from scraps has a kind of all over cohesiveness without being matchy-matchy. Thanks so much for the give-away.
I live in Roanoke, VA. I mostly use my scraps when working on appliqué blocks, but I have been planning to do a completely scrappy quilt now that my scrap drawer has grown.
What a lovely giveaway. I'm in Australia. Scraps always make a project a lot of fun and it's a lovely way to use up all those favourite fabrics that I can't bare to throw away. Jacinta
I live in Argentina where it's VERY difficult to find good quality cotton, and almost impossible to find it in anything other than a solid color. So I hoard my scraps, be they big or itsy bitsy :) Especially with applique, those bits and pieces come in handy! But I use them in regular pieced quilts too.
The best thing about using scraps is having so much variety to play with. The downside is that they seem to keep reproducing. Especially when you enter drawings to win other people's scraps!
I am from Maryland. I love using scraps - especially importing someone elses - the more different scraps the better! My favorite quilts are those that have all scraps with very little repeat! Working on an apple core quilt with scraps.
kathyburley@comcast.net
Trying to make something for scraps is hard for me sometimes because to me everything should coordinate :) I need to work on randomness!
HI, I'm here in wonderful Northern VA and have just started quilting 6 months ago. I do love scraps and I read blogs of everyone doing awesomeness with them, but I just don't seem to have enough of one color scheme to do all the amazingness that all the talented ladies with tons of experience under their belt. What a fun giveaway for people like me who WANT to build their scrap stash and not their fabric stash!!
I would love to win a signed copy of your book. I just found out about your blog from Jo's Country Junction (which I read every day). You are now in my favorites so i can check out your blog also. I love scrap quilts and CW repro quilts. Thanks, Nancy in PA
I'm from Southeast Michigan. I don't have a lot of scraps. Would love to learn more about working with them
I love working with scraps but I feel like I don't have enough variety but maybe I should just sew some more :)
I live in Ontario, Canada but have a U.S. mailing address as well :)
Love scraps - loved your presentation to our guid! Noticing that you do not have purple scraps, and still think our guild should help you with that.
(I'm not a purple girl either) I love scraps. I live in the country in Mankato - you visited DVQuilters. You have a wonderful day!
Thanks for the awesome giveaway. I live in Tampa Florida with my husband and our adorable dogson Oscar.
Scraps and I have a serious love hate relationship. I love the spontaneousness of working with scraps and the challenge it presents on figuring out what to create. Sometimes if I am not in the mood however to be uber creative it is hard for me to work with scraps.
The majority of the time I love them and would be blessed to add yours to my collection!
Thanks again!
- Katie Fleming
Kate Michelle Designs
Hi! I'm in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I love scraps but since I'm a new quilter, I haven't used them to make a quilt yet. Your book looks fabulous! Thanks for the giveaway.
I love other people's scraps because I tend to get caught in my favorite colors and need the challenge of someone else's favorites.
Actually, I don't NEED any more fabric, but it sure is fun!!
The challenge with scraps is that there are so many great quilts to make with them! I truly think that scrap quilts are the most beautiful. I live in northwest Wisconsin and I think that I may not be too far from you, AmandaJean.
Debbie
gregndeb@amerytel.net
I love the quilts done with scraps. My challenge with scraps is that I don't ever have enough.
I love your book!! I had it preordered and was so excited when it came in the mail. I'd love to enter for the scraps. My fabric collection is quite small, so any addition would be wonderful.
Thanks, Heidi
Great giveaway! The book sounds wonderful.
Love scraps--usually keep them for applique. Also small projects such as pincushions, needlecases, small purses and doll projects. Such fun to dig thru a bag of scraps.
Thanks,
Ruby
I live in Texas surrounded by cotton fields.
When it comes to scraps, I love them because it’s fun to see a variety of color and fabric design all in one pile.
When working with scraps my challenge is to not always coordinate them because most items made from scraps should look scrappy. It’s hard for me to lay out a design and not worry that two colors do not go together!
What I love most about working with scraps is that I can remember all of the orginal projects that were done with the fabric.
Thanks,
Erin
emstone28@gmail.com
Hi!Scrap lover from Wisconsin here!!I love the look of scrappy quilts, have one in progress right now. Even though my scrap stash is on the smaller side, sorting, storing, and managing them is always a chalange. They seem to take on a life of thier own somedays!
I recently returned to my "home" town of Madison,Indiana, from Montana! Oh my goodness! What I love about scraps is the improvisational delights that invariably pop up:) My whole fabric stash, such as it is, could be considered scraps cuz it's so hodge-podge. Still gleaning ways of precutting and using uniform scraps...I love blogland for all the scrappy tips and techniques! Thank you for the wonderfully generous and diverse giveaway!!!!!
I am still figuring out how to use scraps. I am making your log cabin quilt and that is a fun way to use them. Remebering what piece came from where. I am out side of Duluth MN.
HI there!
I live in Airdrie, AB Canada. So Canada is a big celebration for us!
I am currently making a wall hanging for my girls using scraps. It feels so good using them up! It becomes an addiction! like you know!
h_freund@hotmail.com
Hello
I live in the Catskill Mountains in NY. I would love scraps to work with because I am new to quilting and have very little. I love the look of scrap quilts and would love your book.
I LOVE scraps! In fact the remnants box at my local quilt shop is the first place I check. I love using scraps that are similar in color in the same block. Adds interest. I live in eastern Nebraska.
I live in Southern Illinois on the banks of the Mississippi River. I love quilting with scraps. There is so much that can be detailed with the smallest of pieces. I would love to have a copy of your new book.
Linda
Scrap quilts give me the opportunity to make something beautiful from ordinary scraps that normally would be tossed in the trash. Whether it is painting a piece of an old throw-away furniture, or decorating a pine tree branch with Christmas decorations --- it is fun to be creative and make things useful and beautiful. I currently live in Georgia, but grew up in Kansas on a farm - a daughter and granddaughter of ladies who were creative and inspiring.
I live in Texas and I love scraps, not the tiny pieces. I am a new quilter and those tiny pieces scare me. I love yout website.
PT1968@att.net
I love working with scraps because it does challange me with the color placement and the design. Lately I am finding if I have plenty of fabric on hand, I don't have as much fun designing a quilt as I do with scraps. I have seen your book and it is wonderful - so full of inspiration!
I love to use scraps as much as I love buying new fabric! I'm working on my first string pieced blocks now, and used scraps to make a word quilt for my daughter's graduation (a la Tonya's Riccuci's Word Play Quilts. I also use them to do applique - sometimes a tiny piece is enough. My biggest challenge is organizing them. I like the idea of making bins for various sizes of strips/squares etc., but then what do I use for applique (large or small)?
I live in SW Virginia and I am terrified of working with scraps. I think you have to have a sense of what works together and what doesn't, and I don't. I'm one of those chickens that buys kits to avoid this fear. Hopefully with time I will get over this fear. Thanks for the giveaway!
Tammy Mabry
I love the interest that using scraps creates. The more quilts I make, the more scrappy I want them. The challenge is finding colors, values and patterns that work in the pattern I want. I want it to be cohesive even though each piece might come from a completely different line. I hope that makes sense.
I love making scraps and working with them because of all the possibilities.
The challenge is all the possibilities. (but it is lots of fun and I love how I can surprise myself.)
Sandra(dot)klassen(at)pobox(dot)com
Thanks for the chance to win.
First, Happy Early Birthday!I love reading your blog. I love scraps because when put all together, it tells a story of its self. I made a quilt for a baby whose mama lost both her parents. She is quite young (20) but I told her I will always be here if she needed me. I made her baby's quilt using scraps from all the quilts I made for my girls. In a way, she has a "piece" of us all.
Scraps aren't something I'm naturally drawn to but I have spent the last umpty flump spare hours cutting pretty much all of them into varying sizes, mostly derivatives of the 10 x 10 square! I'm stitching them into some sort of disappearing 9 patch quilt top in a completely random order, the only criteria being that there is no 2 fabrics the same in each block. I'm in the UK and would love the digi book!
I live in Kitchener, Ontario Canada. I am trying to start my scrap stash and have only made a set of 4 round improve coasters out of them. I found it difficult because they were tiny pieces and there were a lot of seams!
I live in rural southwestern Minnesota. I keep all of my scraps and love making crazy blocks that my hushand's grandmother taught me how to make. It is a great way to use up scraps and turns into nice inexpensive blankets. I always love getting deep into the scrap bin and pulling out a piece and remember a project I worked a while back or memories of a special project that I had made. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love using scraps, but I have a hard time finding enough of certain colors. That's why I'd love to win this- the scraps look
delicious!
I live in Denmark. I havent made a quilt using scraps yet but am organizing the ones I have using the tips from your lovely book. Love the idea about making slabs.
I'm in Texas where its hot, hot, hot and its nice to stay inside and quilt, quilt, quilt! Love scraps but still have a challenge of trying not to "plan them". Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I live in northern Virginia. I've just started quilting so have very few scraps - not enough to do anything with yet...
I love scraps! Especially making a scrappy patchwork out of them. The challenging part is to make it look random on purpose. Stephanie, Springfield, MO
I love to work with scraps, love scrappy projects, but I find that sometimes I get too matchy, rather than playing it random (reaching into a bag and using whatever I pull out in the order I reach for it). My little sewing group is currently doing a log cabin round robin. We were able to choose themes or colors in our fabrics but overall, they're scrappy. I love them all, but really struggle with not being too matchy~
jeri cleveland
jcleveland03@comcast.net
Oops, it's Jeri Cleveland again, from Edmonds, WA - near Seattle!
Jeri Cleveland
jcleveland03@comcast.net
I'm in NJ. I just participated in Denyse Schmidt's improv piecing class--amazing! I came home and went through my trash, pulling out scraps that before I had thought too small to be of use.
I love scraps, but I wish I had more. I don't know why, but I just don't seem to generate a TON of scraps. I have a gallon size basket I chuck scraps in as I cut fabric. When I need "empty brain time", I pull from the scrap bin, cut the pieces into usuable sizes (squares, strips, HSTs) and sort them into zip bags for later.
By the way, I adore the photography in your new book; it's so calm and cool. I'm from Alabama and could really use some calm and cool right now... and some scraps. :) Thanks!
I live in Southern California and I love scraps. They take the pressure of cutting into a new piece of fabric.
Oh Green, how I love you!!!
Thanks for this great giveaway.
Wendy B
I love scraps but have a hard time organizing them - let alone using them!
Thanks -
Deb from DE
dr392809@gmail.com
I love working with scraps because I love the randomness it creates in the final product. I also love the fact that the item that you create is more unique and not from a matchy matchy fabric line. I live in Cary, North Carolina...just outside of Raleigh.
I'm from Connecticut, from a long line of quilting Yankees. Only, it skipped the last couple of generations and I got all of it with both barrels! I am a scrap quilter at heart, and the quilts I love most are the scrappiest ones. Sometimes, my challenge is actually making sure I have enough scraps to undertake a new scrap quilt!
Already have your aweseome book :) I read your blog all the way from Cairns, Australia. Sadly I threw away a basket of scraps a number of years ago thinking I didn't need them for anything. So wrong. Will never throw away scraps again.
I live in Tobyhanna, in the beautiful Pocono Mountain region of Pennsylvania. I have a collection of scraps, although I must admit I don't save them all. I've only used jelly rolls and charm packs for a scrappy looking quilt so far. I would love to see your book. Thanks!
I live in Virginia and I love scraps! I'm not sure how I am going to use them up yet, but I know it will be very special!
I live in northern Indiana near the Michigan line. I love scraps! I was raised that you don't throw them away, and most of the quilts that I remember from my childhood were scrappy. I love them because they are so colorfu and when the shading/values are laid out right the whole becomes so much more than the small pieces.
I like working with scraps because I love revisiting all my favorite fabrics. I find it challenging to find enough of certain colors, also it takes a bit of time to use them, which I don't always have.
I love scraps, especially for improv work! I haven't done much of it, since I don't have all that many scraps to learn with.
One of the reasons I love scrappy quilts is that I can look at all the fabrics and remember the original quilts I used them for and for whom I made them. It's like a scrapbook of quilts I have made! Happy 4th of July!
I'm sorry if this is a duplicate, but I can't see my comment.
I love your blog. You are an amazing and talented quilt artist!
I love scraps and have them sorted by color in plastic shoe boxes. It is crazy.
I live in Iowa.
Scraps scare me, because I have this crazy need to have everything look good, and be planned and match...
I need a plan to deal with scraps without a plan. :)
What a great giveaway. I'd love to add to my scrap collection.
I love scraps and use them in almost all of my quilts. I love knowing that all the fabric is getting put to good use ... :)
I love to work with scraps, but I have a hard time FINISHING projects with scraps. I love making random scrappy quilt blocks, but they just pile up and never turn into quilts. Maybe someday I'll have enough for a scrappy quilt.
What a wonderful giveaway! I love working with scraps because the piles are out of control! I'm from NJ.
Hmmm no home yet, literally on the move from Dayton, OH to Nevada. But the seeing machine rode with us in the car, too precious to send with the movers. Paula
Jpdelapasse -at-gmail.com
I'm a little neurotic when it comes to scraps. I can't seem to throw away even the tiny ones. I love it when colored bits come together in harmony!
I'm just getting used to working with scraps. I don't think I have enough yet for the selection process to be satisfying, but I am determined to working on it (both the scraps and making more scraps!) I'm in Portland OR.
I live near Boston, and I like working with scraps because it makes me feel thrifty. I also like to see how fabrics from past projects interact with each other.
Using someone else's scraps forces me to stretch and try something different -- and new scraps are irresistable -- you just have to use them!
I live in the Tennessee Valley/ North Alabama.
The challenge is what makes working with scraps fun.
I live in upstate New York, and what I love about scraps is that you put together a combination that is uniquely yours. Plus, scraps can remind you of all the other projects you've made with those fabrics, and, since I'm cheap, they're like using free leftovers! Hooray for scraps!
I am a beginner to quilting, I made my first one for my youngest son at Christmas as he was always trying to "borrow" his brothers baby quilt who had been made by an American friend when she was here.
At Church we are just getting involved with the Linus quilt and blanket charity, so know have another opportunity to make children's quilts.
As I cannot bear to throw away any scrap fabric from previous projects, I have a small but growing pile that I have no idea what to do with other than letting my boys play with them!
I recently saw the splash pattern from your book on another blog, and would love to make my own version of it.
I live with my family in the UK.
I live on the west coast of Florida. I"m jumping back into quilting, so I am excited to try all types of quilting!
hello -- how kind of you! I love scraps, and do save lots....I have made scrap quilts quilts that my family uses and loves. I'd love to win your book. I am from cape Cod, Massachusetts....USA.
smdecoste at yahoo.com
I'm from Pinckneyville IL. I love to dig through my scraps to find the perfect piece of fabric for projects I'm working on!
Melissa Schlag
mls_nds6405@yahoo.com
I'm Kimberly from Wyoming. I love scraps and rarely purchase anything over a quarter yard myself. I love the thought of taking the small pieces and putting them together and making them work. A quilt made with large pieces bought for that purpose can be beautiful, but I find for ME life is about using what you have, finding something that works or making it work, and not wasting the resources available already. We also kind of live that way. I see the enjoyment to be found in dedicated fabric quilts (I need 2yards of a light, half yard of cobalt, and I am going to follow this pattern exactly) - it's like a trip to Disneyland - fun, and the whole package is done ahead of time and thought and planned and so on. If I am making something specific for someone specific, I do enjoy this way of quilting. Scrap quilts-using what I have and supplementing where I need to - are like road trips or camping. Throw what we have in the car, pick a direction and we will wander down the road, and let's see where it takes us. That is much more my family's, and my, speed.
I live in LaGrange ky!!!! I love the variety of using scraps!!!! I love the book!!! Thanks for the give a way!!!!
I love working with scraps because it minimizes waste! scg00387 at yahoo dot com
OMG look at all the pretty scraps. I love scraps. Can't get enough of them. Hope I win. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I love to make scrap quilts. I have buckets of scrap and I just start sewing them together until I have a piece of fabric the size of a 12 1/2 inch block then I square it up and I have a block to put into a quilt. If they are too small to use then they go in a bag and I donate them to the Humane Society and they use them to stuff beds for the dogs and cats.
Maybe I am too late...?
However I want to wish you a "Happy Birthday"!
I love scraps because it's using what you have already created something else out of & like the pioneer days using
"what you have on hand" and it always ends up beautiful! :)
Oh & I am from Wisconsin :)
Maybe we are close enough that you could come over & do some sewing :)
Have a great day & thanks for a wonderful blog & give away!
blessings~
Lori
Hi Amanda , I´m from Argentina, and I want to buy your book if I don't win... I love scraps for a tape quilt.. thanks.. Sara perez, drasaravperez@gmail.com
I like your book. Already started checkerboard. Would like to do splash. Started your 9 patch. Would love more scraps.
I live in Illinois and enjoy working with scraps because they carry memories.
I recently returned your book to my library and would love to own a copy. Thanks for the chance.
I used to always sew for my pet rats, and would often use the small scraps I ended up with to make patchwork hammocks for them! :) The only thing I have trouble with when I work with scraps is that the flannel frays quite a bit if you want to leave unfinished edges. Thanks for such a fun contest. I live in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Maevepotter@gmail.com
~Meghan
I love scraps...and your blog.
My name is Cecilia, from Idaho.
Thanks...
ceves2001@yahoo.com.br
I've never worked with scraps and want to try, being a frugal, crafty mama.
I live in Indonesia and I love scraps to make patchwork!:)
andri_chama(at)yahoo(dot)com
I love the idea of "free" quilts from my scraps. I know I paid for the fabric, but using every possible piece makes me feel frugal. I would say the challenge would be getting everything ready for cutting, although using Bonnie Hunter's Scrap User's System has been a huge help. I live in Nebraska and would be over the moon to win fabric!!! nellsheartstrings@yahoo.com
What a great giveaway! I'm going to subscribe in a sec. But to answer the question, I LOVE working with scraps. I started sewing about a year ago. My first fabric was 3 scrap bags I found at a thrift store. Since then I always go back and try to find more, but it seems that was a one time thing.
I love working with scraps. Truth be told, I am happiest working with hundreds of little pieces. They bring me joy. The only downside working with scraps is the preparation time. Sorting, ironing, cutting, trimming. But boy, oh boy, when that is done, I can go to town!!
I have been following your projects for quite a while now and would love to have your scraps. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Donna
don_mae2(at)yahoo(dot)com
I'm Jeanette from Sydney, Australia. A scrap has to be pretty small (or pretty ugly) for me to put it in the bin. The appeal of using small scraps is that you can use MORE fabric in a project - just smaller pieces.
Great giveaway! Your book would be a great addition to anyone's library! I enjoy working with scraps, especially colorful ones.
I love keeping scraps. I use the ugly ones for stuffing!
Oops Southern Indiana here!
Happy 4th of July! Love scraps, I just made a charm square baby quilt with them and I love making ticker tape doll quilts thanks to you!
I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and it is stinking hot here today so not much quilting going on!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I live in Upstate New York. I am working on my first totally scrap quilt. I love all your ideas for quilts made with scraps. No fabric is too small to be made into something beautiful.
I love scraps and scrappy quilts. Seems like I can't help but use every last bit.
My quilt store had a copy of your book for about 15 minutes...never got to 'preview' it...would love a copy...as for scraps, I am starting a hexi quilt...what better way to get started than with some 'new' scraps!
I'm in Wisconsin and love working with scraps. I don't throw anything away.
I live in Iowa and I find it difficult to decide on a storage system for scraps. I'm never quite sure what size to cut pieces down to, or if I should have it sorted by color instead! So, they are currently all mixed up in huge bins and I pick through it very ineffectively :)
I am all about scrappy, but as a beginning quilter, I don't have many scraps and can't find a place thy sells fabrics in the small quantities I perfer. So giveaway's like yours are a dream opportunity.
I love looking at and playing with scraps. Love the looks of scrappy quults but as a new quilter, I need to accumulate more fabric to make my quilts look scrappy. Thanks for a fun giveaway. Dianne at gdavidhoffman(at)yahoo(.)com
Love scraps. They are like the paints of an artist. What you create is always unexpected.
I love scraps. Ive been wanting to try my hand at a ticker tape quilt.
-nicole
I'm a fellow Wisconsinite living in the capital city. I love scraps and can't bear to throw any fabric away.
I live in Seabrook, Texas (just next to NASA).
I love using scraps for a few reasons - preventing waste and feeling like I get a whole new quilt or project out of what I already have! (I don't have a stash, usually)
Thanks for the giveaway!
I try to cut as economical as possible and keep every little scrap, which I then use to make little pieced pouches and purses.
I live in Germany.
I live in eastern North Carolina - love those beaches! I'm not a huge scrappy quilter yet - I don't have enough scraps yet, really. But, I'd love to give it a try one of these day!
I am Kathleen from Northern Illinois, and I love scraps. I love the way you can put scraps together and make a beautiful creation. I would love some new scraps to play with!
I think scraps force you (or help you) to re-imagine ways to use a certain color or pattern. Scraps are all jumbled together & various sizes, so it's like the quilting-ideas part of my brain gets a "reset" button looking at scraps. As other new quilters have said, I often wish that I had more scraps and I'm so happy when someone wants to give away scraps. I live in rural IL, so a lot of the older generation quilts, but not too many younger people like me. I like to take the more "traditional" fabric scraps and re-invent them into something modern. I just asked the library to order your book, so I would LOVE my own copy! ~ Ellie M
I'm the idiot that voted for the "mad about plaid" quilt....lol, the one from the book I love the most is the one on the front cover that your tester made from plaids!! I got the name wrong! Would love to win a copy of the book and some more scraps. I am from Tennessee.
Hi! I live in western ma and I'm fairly new to quilting; mostly have sewed clothes for my daughter. I'm working on a quilt for her room now and am starting to build up my scrap collection. We love to make art projects using fabric scraps.She is working on a wall hanging using the same fabrics that are in her quilt. Thanks for the chance to win such a great giveaway! Karen (the5fords@aol.com)
Hello, hello!
I love your blog from Kansas City, Missouri. I'm not terribly good about using my scraps yet, but I sure have been diligent about keeping them. I look to you for great ideas.
Pick me, pick me!
I love ticker tape pieces. The thing I don't like is not having the variety that I know other have...I'm still fairly new to quilting.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Hello1 I'm Olivia and I live in Idaho. I love to work with scraps, however challenging it may be at times! I love the versitility in scrappy quilts, that are really hard to reproduce later on!
I live in NW Oklahoma. I love using scraps because I love using many fabrics in one quilt.
Scraps- too valuable to toss, and too valuable to use. My piles just keep growing. I enjoy your blog- and read it from Switzerland.
I do love scrappy quilts! The various fabrics can tell lots of stories. And looking at them is much more interesting than looking at a quilt with only two or three fabrics! They are unique. Erika/ehellmich@yahoo.com
I am in love with scrappy. I save scraps and love using them. I live outside of Philadelphia, PA - yesterday was the 4th so here it's a BIG deal.
dfair@nvnacc.com
hope i'm not too late for this giveaway...i'm from Ontario Canada and as a newbie to quilting, my scraps are quite small but i am working on building that up and one day i hope to be able to make a quilt right from the scrap pile!!
Oh I loooooove scraps this is so fun! I really like making things from scraps because you get to use so many beautiful fabrics! sometimes even when I love a fabric line I get tired of it when I work with it for too long, but the opportunity to revisit it later in a scrap quilt always makes me love it again! I'm in Chicago -- pretty hot for quilting, I'm glad I have AC!
Hope you haven't picked a winner yet! I'm starting to build my collection of scraps and would love to do some log cabin blocks with some remnants. I live near Charlotte, NC. Thanks for the chance to win!
mjwolanin (at) gamil (dot) com
I love working with my scraps. I moved to mexico 2 years ago and may scraps keep me busy. It's hard to find quilting fabric down here. With my scrap stash I am happy!
i'm a scrapaholic! i love remembering where else i've used the fabrics, and the mishmosh of color.
I love scraps. Projects kind of jump out of my scraps and present themselves- where the big pieces usually sit on the shelves like wall flowers. My scrap pile frequently dwindles. It is always accessible and looks like paint waiting to to go on a canvas.
Post a Comment