It’s Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!
If you’re stopping by Mama Love Quilts for the first time, welcome! Feel free to browse around.
The giveaway is closed!
I’m Nicole, a modern quilter, who loves making quilts and other small projects using improvisational and traditional techniques. Here are a few of my makes so far this year.
1. Wonky Star Class Sample, 2. baby life quilt_words, 3. Blue Daze, 4. Circle of Geese, 5. Baby Life Quilt and bag, 6. wonkystar
In celebration of Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day, I’m giving away a charm pack of Simply Color by V and Co. Simply Color is a great collection of blues, greens, oranges, yellows, pinks, and purples.
You’ve got three chances to win:
1. Leave me a comment with a tip for using up fabric scraps (one entry). My scrap bins runneth over! How do you use up your scraps?
2. Follow my blog (via Bloglovin, Google Friend Connect, email, RSS, etc.) and let me know in a comment. If you’re already a follower, leave me a comment letting me know (one entry).
The giveaway will stay open until May 10th at 8 p.m. EST.
I’ll let Random.org pick the winner. If you are a no-reply blogger, please leave your email address in your comment so that I can contact you if you win.
The giveaway is open to everyone, including folks outside of the U.S.
Good luck!
The giveaway is closed!
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I don't usually use scraps. I give them away to a local guild that makes charity quilts. I figure it's better than hoarding them.
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I let my son play with the scraps. They become food in his play kitchen, beds for stuffed animals, that kind of thing
Scrap quilts are my favorite, but the scraps still seem to multiply.
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I would like to make some more Great Granny squares to make a full size quilt – I only have 5 blocks complete so far and charm packs are ideal 🙂 Thanks for the chance!
I love using my strip scraps for String quilt blocks. and other sizes for Quilt as You Go tote bags.
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I have been stitching my scraps together to make pincushions lately. I am a little crazy about pincushions though.
I follow your blog by email and always enjoy visiting.
Katy Jones Scrap vomit is a great way to use up scraps. Thank you!
I use up scraps ok, but make more scraps faster
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I made a great log cabin scrap quilt recently, it's one of my favorites!
I've done scrappy ticker tape quilts, scrappy trip alongs, lots of options! I also sew scrappy 2 1/2 inch squares together as leaders and enders…
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I love scraps. My favorite way to use the smallest pieces is to make tiny blocks for key chains and refrigerator magnets and pincushions and such. Thank you for the chance to win the Simply Color charm pack. This is one of my favorite fabric lines … 🙂 Pat
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I send some scraps to my sons Kindy. They love them too! Others are being cut for my long running hexagon quilt project
I use up scraps by making small blocks. Love the Shasta Daisy pattern!
I use up scraps with applique or paper piecing. Some of the tiniest pieces work in the intricate paper piecing patterns! I'm a huge paper piecing fan lately.
I cut my scraps into 2 1/2" by 4 1/2" bricks and sew 18 of them together to make 12 1/2" blocks. Each block has no repeat fabrics. Then I sash them with a color usually black or grey but sometimes I just sew the blocks together. These make wonderful baby quilts or charity quilts but a couple have become backs!
I like to use scraps for applique – usually shirts for my kids, although applique doesn't use nearly enough scraps, I still have a ton!
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I make string blocks, and then turn them into pot holders and such. Hides spaghetti splatter. 🙂
Most of the time I end up using my scraps in paper-piecing blocks. The current Quilt Magazine has some great string quilts that would work very well with scraps!
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Appliqué projects, doll clothes
I have no unique ideas for using up scraps, sadly. Thanks for hosting!
Make a crazy patchwork something. Forgo the embroidery stitches and it won't take up too much time.
I don't use them up as well as I would like. I still save them, but my sister just accused me of being a hoarder. I tried justifying some of them and she said, "Yeah, that is what the people on the show say, too!"
I cut mine into 2.5" squares and will use them in a scrap vomit quilt sometime
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Saving all of mine to make a scrap vomit quilt. I have a sizzix cutter and use it to cut the pieces.
I have been making yoyos as if there were no tomorrow!
I love scrappy quilts! My latest scrappy make is a tripalong which I love! Thanks for the chance to win this lovely fabric 🙂
I started following you on GFC!
I liked your FB page!
I have not been sewing long enough to acquire enough scraps to do a full project yet. I am hoping to eventually make a stripe scrappy quilt in warm tones.
I make binding with scraps, it is a great way of getting biased tape!
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I'm the wrong one to ask about scraps. I have tons, but they are organized!
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Man I have a ton of scraps too. I'm gonna read the comments here to learn what to do with them, lol.
(LOVE that circle of geese quilt!
I use scraps to make mug rugs and an improv pieced quilt I'm working on now. Thanks for the giveaway, Nicole!
Scrappy pillow covers or quilts! Use ALL THE SCRAPS! 😀
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I use pieces as leaders and Enders then piece them together for new fabric.
I've been making some fun matching games for my little guy with my scraps. He loves it!
I use the thin fabric pieces like the salvage for wind catcher craft projects for the kids. Tie them to an old jar lid and hang outside or in a bedroom! SO bright and fun!
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I am in live with making scrap vomit quilts (courteously of Katy from ginger monkey) as my go to scrap buster project.
I found a way to use scraps by making Crazy Quilt Blocks. I found the tutorial on the Sew Can She blog. It's been pretty great so far. Another thing I do is make scrappy binding with scraps. Thanks for the great giveaway!
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Stitchedin color has some excellent scrap alongs 🙂
I'm saving my scraps for an eye spy quilt.
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I really need to use my scraps too! Uhm… ticket tape quilts are always cute. If they are odd shaped scraps or too small, you can always use them for stuff smaller items like pin cushions!
I hardly have any scraps, so no tips I am afraid 🙂
I follow you on Blog Lovin 🙂
I use my scraps to make things for my girls' dolls.
I love scraps – I would always take them and solve your problem quickly! Seriously, though – you should get the book Sunday Morning Quilts because they show ways to use even the tiniest of scraps!
I follow your blog and have you set up in two new readers that I am trying out.
I play with mine as leader/enders. It'll be fun to see what I've got when I go to put them together in larger pieces!
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Stuff them inside the newest childrens' soft toy creation 🙂 b(dot)moews(at)gmail(dot)com
I also follow you on Twitter via @AlphaBecky.
I use my scraps with paper piecing!
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I love making patchwork totebags. Thanks for the give-away!
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String quilts!! That's the best way to use up scraps 🙂
My new favorite method to use scraps is to use them before they even get to the scrap bin. After I've finished a quilt I take all the scraps and make paper pieced scrappy stars. They are really fun to do and I end up with little to no scraps! Thanks for the giveaway.
The only thing I've used any scraps for is labels on my quilt. Needless to say they are accumulating faster than I am using them.
I have tons of scraps, too…I'm thinking of trying to make an old-fashioned spider web quilt like my grandma used to make.
I hoard all my scraps for paper piecing those strange shaped pieces always come in handy!
I sort them by color, and store them in clear shoe boxes. Lately I've started to fold them or lay them flat as well. That way I don't have to iron them before I use them! Thanks for the give away!
I am so loving scrappy quilts right now. I just made a baby one by making 16 patch blocks of all one color (Yellow, red, orange, purple, pink, blue, green, teals, and blacks), then sashing it all in white. Love how it turned out. Thanks for the chance to win!
I am already a follower of your blog!
I save the scraps hping one day I will be able to make a quilt from them. Thanks for the giveaway. Ana
I sort my scraps by color and sometimes use them for paper piecing. I'm going to start some improv piecing and will use them for that as well. Thanks for the chance to win!
I really like the string quilts and Scrappy Trip Alongs for using up scraps. Thanks for the giveaway!
I've started making log cabin quilt blocks to use up my scraps.
I use a quilt as you go method to make flowers from my scraps.
I tend to use a lotofmy scraps in appliqué or paper piecing projects. Also, my hubby has yet to hold a quilt for me in a photo shoot! I have to photograph all my quilts on the ground. 😛
I have the same problem, so I'm probably not the person to ask. I have made yards and yards of scrappy bias tape with them, and use it to trim up various projects.
Scrappy quilt-as-you-go blocks are great for using up little bits. No need to measure, just sew, flip, and press. And each block is unique!
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this is so horrible…. but i have NO clue what to do with scraps so i just give them to a friend of mine who quilts too and she makes fabulous stuff out of them!!
I am a scrappy quilter. I sort them mostly by size, so someday (when I have time???) I can get a lot accomplished. Every Sunday after church, I take a handful of my the smallest, thinnest pieces and make a couple wonky log cabin-ish blocks, 8 inches square. I figure by next summer I will have enough blocks for a really scrappy quilt full of memories.
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I follow your blog! Thanks for the giveaway.
I follow your blog. Thanks for the chance to win.
I'm a scrap sorter. Strips, small scraps and large scraps. I use the selvege and other tiny scraps to make fire starters for my wood stove in the winter.
Sunday Morning Quilts is my inspiration for using scraps up making 'slabs' of fabric. A cool concept.
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Ticker tape quilts are my new fave for scraps! I'm actually on my first one, but it's kind of a record of everything I've made in the past (most of which has been given away). It's like the Smash book of quilting!
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I use them up on monochromatic quilts or kitchen sink quilts. That way I don't worry so much about whether a scrap is the *right* shade of the color or is modern, repro, or somewhere in the middle. Made a few log cabin quilts – those will use up lots of different sized scraps.
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scrappy quilts are my favorite. sometimes i'm cutting into new fabric for a quilt, but really getting excited to use the scraps in another quilt someday, haha! I need better ways to use them too though. running out of space!
I'm brand new to quilting so I don't have many scraps yet, but the very first quilting book I bought was Sunday Morning Quilts, which has lots of beautiful scrap projects I hope to make someday.
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I'm currently using my scraps to make personalized pillow cases for each of the girls invited to my daughter's pajama party birthday.
I haven't used my scraps yet. I'd love to see some ideas.
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depending on the scraps, I will make rugs with them if they are long scraps or scrap quilts if not.
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HI! I USUALLY MAKE LARGER QUILT PROJECTS,SO EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I JUST HAVE TO TAKE THOSE LITTLE SCRAPS AND MAKE PLACEMATS! AMAZINGLY THEY TURN OUT SCRAPPY,BUT SO NEAT! THANKS FOR A SWEET GIVEAWAY!
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fun giveaway! for long, thin strings, i'll sew them together end-to-end and use them for knitting throw rugs or wrap them up in colorful fabric balls. 🙂
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I usually make hairbands for my three girls with my scraps! atabanana29@gmail.com
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I've not been quilting long enough to have too many scraps leftover (bummer!), but one of my friends has a gorgeous, scrappy log cabin quilt that I'm hoping to copy one day.
I'm following via GFC. 🙂
My daughter usually plays with them 🙂 julia.glotova (at) gmail (dot) com
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I love to make hot pads and placemats with scraps
Oooh… scrap management! I have 10 bins, one for each of the following categories: green, aqua, blue, neutrals, orange, multi-colored fabrics, pink, red, purple, yellow.
I cut all of my scraps into the following size squares: 5", 3", and 2.5". Anything that can't get cut into those sizes, gets cut into strips for string quilts.
With these sizes, I'm able to just go and start piecing scrappy projects, which is just awesome.
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I make a lot of little quilted zip bags.
I love a super scrappy quilt (and hexagons) so that's where all of my scraps tend to go. Thanks for the giveaway!!
I'm not great with using up my scraps, but I'm hoping to make some coasters for family this year. I also love scouring Pinterest for ideas, although I think I find too many projects on there and will never get to them!
A confetti quilt is a great use of scraps and doesn't require a lot of preplanning.
I have all of these wonderful ideas about using scraps to make wall hangings but then I just move on to my next project!
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I'm using up a lot of scraps in a "Scrap Vomit" quilt (hate the name, love the pattern), although it does not seem to be reducing the scraps pile at all.
I love scraps to use in applique. I save the littlest pieces! thanks for a chance to win.
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Modern mosaic quilts ala Elizabeth Hartman.
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as soon as you figure out how to use up all of your scraps, how about you let the rest of us know too?!??
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I've been using my scraps to make fabric bracelets. Any that are too small go to the guild to use for dog beds! And there there are those that I just keep and covet…why? I have no idea. Thanks for the chance to win!
Have you seen those string blocks? People sew a bunch of scraps together and make blocks out of them. They look really cool
I follow on FB karrie smith
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I cut down my scraps into usable sizes (2.5" squares, 2.5" strips, smaller strips) and collect them in boxes to sew then into my next project. Currently I'm working on my 2.5" squares box as leader-ender for a postage stamp quilt.
Check Bonnie Hunter's quiltville.com for the Scrap User's System, it's really handy.
If you want to get rid of your scraps, I volunteer. 😉
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Happy Monday Nicole!!
I've been a faithful Mama Love follower for a while now!!! 🙂
I love string quilts as a way to use up fabric. It goes really fast and the result is colorful and fun!
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Journal quilts are a great way to use up fabrics..
I love a good scrappy quilt!
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String quilts is a great idea. I like the scrappy ideas quiltville.com has including the scrappy trip around the world. My daughter takes a bunch of my scraps and does little things with these. If you like hand stitching creating hexi's is a great option.
I use my scraps to make my bee blocks ; )
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Most of my scraps get used up in applique work. audiodropzone (at) gmail (dot) com
Make string quilts like Bonnie Hunter. 🙂
I also love string quilts for scraps 🙂
little boy ties are a great use for scraps!
I have used Quiltvilles free patterns for my scraps. It still doesn't use enough! But I keep trying. Thanks for the giveaway.
Anna Marie Horner's free feather quilt pattern is great for scraps!
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I want to make some salvege projects
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I use up my scraps in crazy quilts, table runners, and place mats.
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I make log cabin or string quilts and recently sewed a bunch together to make scrappy fabric, it was fun.
use scraps to make barbie clothes for the little ones.
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I am a scrap hoarder! I have yet to use most of them, but I can't bear to get rid of them. I'm thinking I'll make a string quilt one day.
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You are on my FB list of liked pages!
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Scraps grow faster than I can use them, but I am trying to do a couple of scrappy trip blocks every week just to keep my bin under control
I like to cut my scraps into strips and small squares and make pineapple quilts, charity quilts for kids, and quilt as you go scrappy quilts. Thanks for the chance to win.
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With small strips, bits and pieces I "ticker tape" and make blocks for pillows.
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I started cutting my scraps the way Joan Ford suggests in "Scrap Therapy: Cut the Scraps!" and use them (mostly) for donation quilts to Project Linus. Plus cutting down the scraps is a great activity for those nights when my brain cannot be trusted with anything fancy, but I still need to play with fabric.
I made a color book where I took red scraps and ribbons and such and sewed them on a page and did this for all the colors and made them into a book.
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i use scraps for appliquee 😉
have a nice sunny day.
Scraps are great for machine applique
Thanks for the chance! I use my scraps for small paper piecing projects!
I buy and collect scraps; I love them. I am working on a scrappy string star quilt (16” blocks), an EPP 1.5” hexagon project, and the occasional paper pieced pillow cover or sewing machine cover!
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I like to use my scraps in 9 patch quilts or strip quilts. Always have one or both going on!
My daughter likes to make yo yo with scraps. We are going to make garland for her bedroom.
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Learning better use of my scraps is something that I want to work on this year. I really enjoyed the scrappy trip along in January, but now all my scraps are too small for such endeavors. Edith at the Inch by Inch blog has a great scrappy log cabin that I want to try next.
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I use scraps to fill up the empty bags in my sewing room….
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I don't use make scraps either, but I want to make a trip around the world quilt, or a string quilt.
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I really enjoy scrappy quilts, so that's usually how I use my scraps.
I follow you with google reader! Love the blog!
I love making Mug Rugs with scraps!
I'm a hexieaholic so I use scraps for hexie projects. You didn't say you wanted them used quickly…. 🙂
I love scraps and use them to make scrappy quilts and bags.They are great to use in string quilts, nine patch and Trip Around the World. Thank you for the giveaway.
Right now I'm using them to make a million (give or take) half square triangles, to turn into something like this: http://figtreequilts.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/09/winner-winner-chicken-dinner.html
Recently, I used a bunch of scraps up making scrappy key fobs for a group of ladies for a webinar conference. Another good way…improv patchwork for a sweet scrap basket!
Make crazy quilt blocks!
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For larger scraps I make a scrappy quilt. For anything small like 2" pieces I make potholders and small accessories (zip pouch, flowers clips ets.) I don't throw much out.
I like to use scraps in small projects, a zippy pouch, wall hanging, doll clothes, etc. Thanks for the chance to win.
I left you a message on FB. I usually use 2 1/2 squares for making pinwheels and then use them again to add a border around the pinwheel blocks. This is so neat because I had a charm pack of Simply Color and started making a baby quilt but wanted it a little larger and ran out of the charms. I just thought that maybe luck may be on my side and I could win another charm pack to finish the quilt. I just love the colors in this charm pack. Thank you for being a part of Sew Mama Sew giveway and giving me the chance to enter and maybe win. I so like the idea of finding a nice package in my mailbox.
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I love to make mike a minute quilts aka scrap chaos quilts.
I usually use my scraps for charity quilts. I did improv log cabin blocks, a scrappy trip around the world, and a string quilt sort of thing (that really describes it, doesn't it?) I am actually low on scraps just now, better get busy making some more quilts!
I use them for scrappy quilts and to make little baby toys and stuff. One of my favorites is little fabric books for babies.
Doll quilts, all kinds!! I use the smallest scraps you can imagine on them.
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I use scraps for anything from little project like pincushions, coasters, barbie clothes to patchwork items like placemats, quilts, pillow covers…
I can't say I've been good at using up scraps. I am finding the "Farmer's Wife" quilt is good for that but I have a long way to go.
I've got quite a bin going too. I'm hoping to make a postage stamp quilt this summer!
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I'm still trying to figure out what to do with all my scraps too!
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I like to free piece my scraps randomly, then trim those random pieced chunks into squares and sash those in white or a solid (just to help it look less busy), then I toss those blocks into a pile and some day they'll become a quilt…
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I use my scraps for making doll quilts and stuff. But all I really have is scraps, so its what I make everything out of. Also I know this is something I personally would never do, but I found out recently you can compost fabric. I know its crazy, but it is an option.
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string quilts are great for scraps!
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I learned the hard way that I personally will not end up using my scraps unless they are in commonly used sizes (5×5, 2.5×2.5, strings, etc). When they are cut & organized into those sizes, I actually use them 🙂 It also helps me to spend a day every month cutting up whatever scraps have accumulated. Thanks for the chance to win!
I use them or appliqué. Thanks for the giveaway!
I have a love-hate relationship with scraps. I want to buy more fabric, but scraps give me a guilty conscience and accuse me of neglecting them! To solve this problem, I try to use up the scraps from a project for the back of the quilt.
String blocks are the best way to use up scraps! Great giveaway!
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I love using my scraps in string quilts. I just keep making blocks out of them and when I have enough blocks I make a quilt
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i make baby quilts out of them
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I love this! Thanks for such a great giveaway! I wish I had some more ideas for scraps, I feel like I have tons. I use bigger scraps for key fobs, change purses and pot holders 🙂
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I love scrappy quilts so am always using mine. I have made Drunkard's Path blocks all in scraps, wonky stars, a mosaic quilt using 144 different fabrics, so many ways to use them. Scraps are the best. Thanks for the giveaway and the chance to win.
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applique is a great way to use up small fabric scraps.
I use them in bee blocks!
String quilts are great for using up scraps.
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I don't have a tip for using scraps… my scrap bin runneth over, too! Thanks for the fun giveaway!
I sew my scraps into blocks for crazy quilts.
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I keep a bin under my sewing table for scraps (anything less than an FQ) and when it gets full I'll separate them into strips for string quilts or cut down into sizes that I use often and store them that way.
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I am always on the look out ofr scrap quilt ideas….I have lots!!!! I like the Wonky Star
I will make a string quilt
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I really like using my scraps to make journal covers for bee mates. Orphan blocks also work great for this too.
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Scraps get sorted by size. Then I make hexagons, save up for string quilts, and the little bits are passed on to a friend who does paper piecing.
how to use my scraps is something I'm still trying to figure out. I seem to accumulate them faster than I can use them! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love scraps and take all I can get. They are great for not only scrap quilts but for applique projects, zipper pouches, card making, etc.
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I save my bits of fabric for making strip pieced wristlets for presents.
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I've been making monochrome wonky log cabin blocks. Quick and fun! And so many different ways to set the blocks by themselves or with others.
A few quilts come to mind for using up scraps, I've made 3 of them: Scrappy Trip Along, a classic string quilt, and a grandmother's flower garden (English paper piecing). The other is a scrap vomit quilt 🙂
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Like on Facebook, i use scraps for tote bags,
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I have no idea how to use up scraps. Paper piecing seems to work a little bit for me, but mostly I just collect them so far.
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scraps are great for testing out new blocks and in machine applique projects
Stained Glass mosaic blocks are how I like to use my scraps. I do blocks that are warm and ones that are cool. I've branched out and started using various solids as my connectors which makes for interesting blocks.
I've made some mini bunting garlands with my tiny scraps. They are super cute, but you can only use so many garlands.
I follow you via Google and now through BlogLovin'. And the actual source where I read: Feedly, I prefer its interface to BlogLovin's.
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Of course I am a follower, and enjoy seeing you at the guild meetings, I am meaning to take one of your classes soon I hope 🙂
I use my sraps for paper piecing, but I still have many left 😉
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I have been using a whole lot of scraps on quilt as you go projects (like the swap we had for tote bags) or for coffee cup sleeves for gifts
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sew the tinniest pieces you can find into a huge sheet and then use them to make stars which you can set in solids or in white. Its a really cute effect. I also follow you on blogger
I usually use scraps to sew scrappy cushions/coasters.
Terrific giveaway, thanks for the chance to win!
I used some of my scraps this year to make Lori Holt's Row Along quilt. I love it! 🙂
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I use my fabric scraps doing "scrappy trips around the world" quilts! They make up so fast and look SO cute when finished!
I am officially a bloglovin follower! Thank you for the giveaway! Blessings on you!
thank you for the chance to win. I collect scraps but i am not great at using them up..lol
I love making coasters or string blocks with scraps!
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I am actually working on a scrap quilt right now which has been fun, and I also try to use up my scraps in improv blocks for charity.
thanks for the chance to win!
A big scrap quilt is the best way to use them up I think – planning to do something like this myself later in the summer!
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I like to use up my fabric scraps on mosaic blocks or on paper-piecing. 🙂
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I love making scrappy pinwheels! That's one of my favorite blocks. They are so cheerful!
I do scrappy blocks with my scraps, it surprisingly takes a lot to do one block.
I just love to make mug rugs and notebook covers with my scraps 🙂
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Hi Nicole, hmm, my scrap basket overfloweth at the moment too – thinking sashed 9-patches, or just a scrappy squares quilt. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Ohh, I love your round flying geese! And I love the simply color line! I make scrap quilts usually, just throw things together in my own fashion. Like this star quilt http://mtnmommy2.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-progress.html. Thanks for a great giveaway.
Right now, I use scraps to test out the tension in my machine stitching!
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I am hoping to use my scraps for string quilts. There are quite a few of those that I really love.
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I used up a ton of scraps when I did the Craftsy BOM class (but it was hard not to add in a couple new fabrics!), also have been making scrappy lanyards for folks at work.
I like using my scraps to make log cabins pillows or blocks
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I use scraps for quilt as you go small projects.
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I gosh, this is going to sound terrible. I don't really keep scraps. I don't have a large stash – I usually buy for the next project as I go!
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I haven't been quilting long enough to acquire too many scraps. I've been saving them in little trash cans from the dollar tree, by color. I have some scrap quilts pinned to make when I get enough!
Hi. Foundation piece them. Like a crazy quilt. Sew them together to get the size block you'd like..
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Making String blocks or slab blocks are the best ways to use up lots of scraps, but I usually prefer to mix my scraps with a healthy does of solids to give them a lot of punch!
It depends how small.. I make hexies and if they are tiny, I store them to fill pillows, etc. 🙂
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My favorite quilts are scrappies. Love the nine patch and dresden plate among others. Thanks!
I would like to make a string quilt with scraps.
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I use my scraps for paper piecing! Or for improv panels for pouches, pillows, etc.
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I recently joined the Scrap Attack – String Fling at Stitched in Color and have just about finished a string quilt. I am enjoying using some of my scraps in small swap projects too. Thanks for the chance I love Simply Color.
Really, I'd rather sew with scraps than yardage most of the time. Spiderweb quilts are great if you have a lot of stringy scraps. I'm also a big fan of wonky stars. Basically- any quilt in Gwen Marstons Liberated Quilts II.
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My mom and I save every little scrap, just in case it might come in handy someday. Mom will either make a scrappy or I-spy quilt, or I will sew some sort of small object for the kids to play with.
I don't keep small scraps but the bigger pieces I use for American Girl doll clothes.
I think that the best use of my scraps right now is to keep my toddler occupied while I try to get some sewing/crafting done when she isn't at day care. Probably not the best use but it does allow me to get some sewing in!
Hoooo boy. You ask a good question! I am telling myself that I am saving my scraps to do a string quilt someday.
I use my scraps to make placemats for my ALS support group. I am a follower of you and enjoy your quilts. My daughter's name is Nicole.
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I tend to make potholders – just stich your scraps together until you have a couple of pieces that are big enough and quilt them together with some insul-bright, add binding and voila.
My ever-growing collection of scraps will someday soon become a Scrap Vomit quilt. Playing with scrap fabric is one of my favorite parts of quilt making!
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I love using scraps in applique quilts. Thanks for the giveaway!
Snack bags or zippered pouches for bigger scraps… small scraps, I quilt together into potholders. shern9@hotmail.com
Mini quilts are the best way to use scraps! I need to do another myself. Or maybe two.
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Bonnie K. Hunter of Quiltville has a Scrap User's System and lots of free scrappy patterns that you should check out. Even the small crumbs and strings can get pieced together into blocks.
String blocks use up lots of scraps. Use them in quilts, runners, potholders, etc.
Make dolls and teddies! You can use all sorts of wee bits for all the different things – hair, clothes, shoes, cute patches…
I donate them to a nearby kids' art school. Okay, okay, some of them I just hoard because they're pretty.
Scrappy coasters and throw pillows make great gifts!
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I still haven't made my first scrappy trip along, I think I'll probably make 10 or 20 to get rid of some of these scraps. Plus I'll probably have to buy a bunch of yardage to make sure everything coordinates…but that's my plan for using up my scraps!
I use a lot of my scrapes to teach my daughter to sew different things. Mug rugs, scrappy apron, all kinds of things.
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I use scraps for crazy patchwork covers for notebooks or photo albums which are sold to raise money for charity
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I have been making pin cushions with my scraps as well as appliqueing which is an amazing way to use up scraps.
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With my scraps I tend to either make baby shoes or I use them as add on pockets to little miss skirts 🙂
Hi Nicole! I have a scrap invasion too! I love mug rugs and bee blocks to use up those precious scraps, but the reality is, every project breeds more scraps!
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I like to make bunting with scraps – just pick a color theme & go for it! I use the bunting as decoration for parties, etc.
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I am learning about this too…I have kept in the largest strip I can get because you can always cut smaller, but you can't cut bigger! I just today finished cutting more 2,1/2" sqs and will be sewing them assembly line style to white to make a scrap quilt..hopefully it will work! THanks for the giveaway!
haven't found the latest greatest for scraps…. but am saving them all …. just in case…..
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I havent done it yet, but I was thinking I'd use mine in a I Spy quilt.
A ticker tape type of quilt with scraps sewn directly onto a larger piece of fabric. I like to do it in a rainbow.
One great way to use up scraps is to incorporate them back into the project at hand. Such as the back side of a quilt,inside of a bag,and so on. Some other ways is to make key fobs,fabric roses/flowers,fabric yoyos…
If I knew how to use up scraps I would give you ideas, but since I have a bin full, I'm not help!
I like to cut my scraps into 1 1/2 inch strips, when I get enough, I'll start another log cabin quilt.
Have to do a scrappy quilt from time to time. Sparkle punch quilt maybe.
I haven't found a good use for my scrap other then filling a box. I tend to play specific projects and shopping for new fabric is part of the fun.
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I try to make useful things like key fobs and coffee sleeves
I cut my scraps right away into 2" squares or strips and put them in a drawer with the others. If they're already cut then I am more likely to use them.
Sorry, I don't have any brilliant tips for using scraps! I do like to make small things like card wallets and coin purses to give away… 🙂 Thanks for a lovely giveaway!! 🙂
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I use scraps for making those door draught sausage thingies – you can use the bigger scraps to make the sausage & then all those small useless scraps to stuff it with!
I have started cutting all my scraps into 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch squares for a future, unknown project.
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I am pretty dedicated to sewing together even the tiniest of scraps into something useable – the too small to use ones get used as stuffing.
String quilts really blow through the scraps.
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I find ways to work them in to projects. It might take a while, but everything eventually finds a home.
I like to just start sewing my scraps together! Sometimes its ends up as a quilt square other times a pillow!
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Scraps? If they're a little longer, the Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt is fun! I made one, actually my first quilt! (http://www.craftyhour.com/2013/02/a-scrappy-trip-around-world.html)
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I think scraps would work great for the center of Sarah Fielke's North by Northeast quilt! Or how about a scrappy trip around the world?
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I cut them into squares and my sixth graders are currently sewing placemats.
I've decided to use my scraps in a scrappy hexagon quilt! It's a way to showcase some of every fabric I've used in projects 🙂
Scrap quilts of different patterns.
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I still working on making a stash of scraps. But when I have enough I plan on making a wonky quilt.
I have a couple cats and I've made a couple scrap filled cat beds for them with the scraps I don't see myself ever using (too small or what not). But I've been trying to train myself to checks my scrap bins before I start any project. I almost always find a few usable pieces in there. I like the idea of donating that someone suggested, gonna have to look in to that.
I make mug rugs – they're great for teacher appreciation and little gifties like that!
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Right now I'm using my scraps to make dresses for felt "paper" dolls.
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I am very successful at collecting scraps but not so at using them.
Love your quilts! Don't know how to use my scraps. Don't have a lot yet. I just started quilting.
I like to use my scraps in small projects, like a journal cover or even patching up some old jeans or covering buttons or a scrappy headband or something. I've also had fun doing a scrap swap. Those scraps are very valuable in a quilter's stash.
I like scrappy quilts, but recently used the smallest scraps to make some crumb fabric which will be included in a post on Friday. Thanks for the chance to win! xo
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I think scraps would be great for a postage stamp quilt. Thanks! wonderlandbyalyce at gmail dot com
Hi – I sort my scraps into darks and lights, then string piece onto paper strips, which can be joined to make many different patterns.
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I don't make many large quilts, so my scraps are somewhat under control. I use them for applique work, or small projects like mug rugs.
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I use scraps to make improv baby quilts. They turn out faaaabulous and unique every time.
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this is what i do with some of my scraps
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Scraps are perfect for Lolly Pop Trees appliqué. Thanks for the give away!
I am trying to sort my scraps as I sew – I usually cut what I have left over from projects into 5" squares, 2 1/2" squares and 60 degree triangles and strips. Then they are on hand for a quick project!
In terms of fabric scraps, I don't have many to speak of because I'm such a new quilter. But I have used some in the creation of coasters and potholders, and since they're by their nature small projects, the scraps work like a charm. I just have to have enough insulated batting on hand!
I have been making lots of garland with my scraps. SO fun. Thanks
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I give scraps away but a friend of mine uses them for pincushions, mug rugs, bindings, anything she can. Thanks for an awesome giveaway
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I'm saving up my scraps to make a "postage stamp" quilt.
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I cut my scraps down to 2.5 in squares or strings and do leaders or string blocks. Or mug rugs.
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I'm going to be using up some of my scraps with paper piecing. Thanks for the giveaway!
I really wasn't into scrappies until I started swapping and sewing up blocks of 1-1/2" postage stamp squares. I'm almost ready to put those blocks together into a real quilt! And I did seven pinwheel quilts using up remnants leftover from my late mom's sewing projects, pinwheels were all scrappy with snow sashing — all looked great if I say so myself.
I make string or improv quilts with my scraps
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I saw a friend yesterday who had used hodge podge (?) to re-cover her shoes with fabric scraps! Awesome!
I give the scraps to my daughter to sew with or to stuff things.
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I make "baby" wallets that are perfect for business cards.
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I'm working on a scrappy quilt right now, but I wouldn't say that I am good at using up my scraps! Many of mine usually go to my two daughters.
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I follow your blog on my blog feed. thanks for letting us be part of the fun.
if the scraps are big enough, I reuse them in paper piecing other projects. if they are just trimmings, they go in a sack and hopefully they will be used to stuff toy aims or homemade pillows or something.
I'm taking up paper piecing to use scraps, though I'm afraid I will just accululate more.
Thanks for the generous giveaway Nicole! I like to applique with my scraps – cushions, kids clothes, tea towels, you name it!
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I have been using my scraps sewing for charity. Last month is was stuffies for kids on foster care. That used up a hunk of scraps:).
Hi, I'm a new quilter, so I have only been saving scraps so I'm just saving them right now.
I would like to learn improv quilting so I hope to use them for this!
I love scraps for making small details in my kids clothes.
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Givemy scraps to a grandma who loves to make quilts for her family, but is on a tight budget!
I think paper piecing or EPP are great ways of using scraps. Also, if you have lots of long scraps, I think scrappy chevron quilt or spider web quilt would be great.
I just used scraps to make a frayed-edge applique snowball quilt. I also used them to make random strips to put in a curtain panel. I use my scraps all the time! I don't keep really small pieces, though, they get tossed. I couldn't take it any more.
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Scraps are good for coaster and mug rugs i think
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I saw such a cute idea where someone had loaded a heap of tiny scrap into clear baubles and made christmas decorations. It looked really fun!
I just got a new sewing machine so right now I use my scraps to figure out my stitches. I am planning on making a scrappy block quilt for my daughter in the future when I have more scraps! Thank you for the giveaway.
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I LOVE the book 'Sunday Morning Quilts' for using up scraps. Or, some improve blocks (great for cushion covers!).
I've seen scrappy quilts which are exquisite due to the color combinations! I'd love to do one like that.
I like using them on applique cushions. Thanks for the opportunity.
I don't have a machine that allows me to adjust my stitch widths etc, so I havn't tried paper piecing yet. In the meantime I've just been sewing them together to make it an obvious mishmash so that it does'nt have to be aligned properly! I am using this to make up a few extra filler blocks for a lap quilt I am working on at the moment! which is ironically made from leftover mishmash blocks from another quilt I made before I learnt how to make them properly!
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Lots and lots of log cabin blocks.
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I usually make a quilt once the scrap bin is full. I love playing with them. Lovely give away, by the way.
I've become a big fan of sewing the same coloured scraps together to then make patchwork scraps to cut other shapes out of. And I've seen your work, so I know you love a good string quilt! 😉
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Hmmm… Haven't been so good about using scraps myself. But I'd like to make a scrappy string star quilt (with some white added in for somewhere to rest the eye).
Using ive recently been using scraps for improv curves 🙂
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I actually keep piling up on scraps because I can never use them enough! I tend to make bags and pouches more so than quilts, so I'm always finding little bits I can't fit anywhere… Maybe I need to get on that.
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I have been making baby quilts with my scraps. Thanks for the chance
some ideas:
– make a tickertape baby or dolls quilt;
– paper piecing will use up loads of scraps;
– make a fabric soccer ball as a baby toy
Recently I have been using my scraps as appliqué decoration on baby grows for my pregnant friends, they go down really well! Thank you for offering the giveaway.
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I really need to find a project or two to help me with the same problem. I have made one selvage pillow & I love it. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
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This past week I've made two quilt tops from just scraps, they're both string quilts, one has 6" blocks and the other 12" blocks.. a great way to use up some of my scraps.
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I am not so great at using my scraps, but lately I have been trying to cut them into 2.5" inch squares for a scrap vomit quilt.
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Surprisingly the best thing for my scraps was to join a Bee. With a Bee or even a BOM (where you commit to scraps only) you are only doing a block so it is much easier to use scraps. Made a big difference for me. Or find a quilt pattern that uses scraps and commit to no purchase! Its fun!
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I use my little scraps in paper piecing projects. They often call for one tiny scrap of a few colors and i don't like to cut into my larger pieces of fabric for that.
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I am making a postage stamp quilt right now with a ton of my scraps. Thanks for the chance to win.
i love scrap busting projects. i just used a bunch making bookmarks for just about every adult at my kids school for teacher appreciation week. 🙂
I LOVE string blocks and string quilts for scraps. As well as using scraps in bee blocks. If it's a scrap I probably love that fabric and I love to share them with friends too. 🙂
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Basically for my scraps I look up quilts on pinterest and see if anything looks "small" enough for my scraps! Or I make little baby gifts (like the baby toy leash). Problem is, it's never enough! There's always leftovers!
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I save out scraps and cut them in 1.5" and 2.5" squares for two "SOMEDAY" English Paper Pieced postage stamp quilts
I am new to sewing and don't really have scraps as such yet but my best advice is head over to my friend Jodi G's blog (http://tickleandhide.blogspot.com.au/) she is on a 1 year fabric fast to use up her scraps (6 pillow cases worth) some of the quilts she is making are amazing… actually all of them are 🙂
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My scraps runneth over! I use them in place mats and table runners, hot mits and coasters and of course quilts. Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful fabric.
I'm not good at using my scraps at all — usually I only use them for quilting bee blocks. :}
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Scraps are great for blocks that are 2 1/2 inches. Thanks for chance to win.
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For christmas I used quite a few scraps to make sewing weights. It worked great. My next scrap plan is to make lots of small heat/cool packs to fill with rice or beans.
Make scrappy log cabins!
I "use" my scraps by saving them for a scrap quilt- I must need more fabric if I don't have enough scraps yet!!:)
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I love making throw-size scrap quilts to cuddle in the cold Wisconsin winters. I also sometime use small scraps to add a spot of interest to a backing.
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my scrap tidbit is to sort by color as you collect them and if it is a small piece use interfacing ironing on the back to make them easier sew together
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I have been using up scraps in paper pieced hexagons. Of course, one can only make so many…
I haven't made anything with my scraps…yet.
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I'm making a cathedral quilt to take care of part of my scrap problem.
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I like string blocks to use up my scraps 🙂
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When my scrap container start to overflow, I spend some time cutting the small stuff into either 2" squares or 1.5" strips. They store neatly and are ready at any moment for a scrap project. And the best part is, I throw away very little fabric.
I don't have enough scraps to do anything amazing with them yet, but I'm looking forward to patchwork pillows.
I decided to use my scraps to make potholders and as a way to practice some free motion quilting.
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I use a lot of my scraps to create applique fiber art. They also come in super handy for making ornaments at Christmas time. When I just have too many scraps, I give a bunch to my kids (2 and 5 yo) and they have a blast with them, so creative! They do collages, use them as pretend toys, etc.
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I could use some tips for using scraps! I'm hoping to save enough (without them driving me crazy) to use in a quilt.
I think scraps are fun for improv blocks… and I keep meaning to make a string quilt but mostly my bins run over too!
Right now I'm still a beginner and don't have a whole lot of scraps so can't really help you there. Good luck though and thanks for the giveaway.
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Blue Elephant Stitches makes some really cute scrap quilts. I would do a cute baby bowtie quilt with scraps based on her cute, cute quilt.
I have a few always running scrap projects that I will make a few blocks for every other month or so. I plan to just keep making the blocks and then pick a dozen or so of them out at a time and make baby quilts when I need to (which is fairly often!)
i just used a ton of scraps on a crochet rag rug. my bins are now back to a manageable size!
My children are using my scraps at the moment, sticking them on to cardboard cutouts of their initials, I'll cut round the excess and neaten them up before we put them on their walls.
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I use the Spool bird mobile pattern to make little colourful birds filled with toy stuffing and dried lavender or rose petals, and with a ribbon loop to hang them. Of course, it's not a terribly efficient way of scrap busting, but they're cute gifts.
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I like doing applique so most of my scraps end up being butterflies or the like, but fun scrappy quilt is always good. Thanks!
make a crazy quilt – just sew scraps together more and more and more and more and eventually you will get a decent sized top
As a new quilter I don't have much scraps. If I did I would love to make some EPP hexagons or even some QAYG scrappy crazy quilt blocks. Thank you! anglanouette(at)gmail(dot)com
I use scraps to make little flowers and yoyos or to back small stitched ornaments
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You can always do some wonky stars or blocks. I love those.
I made a sleutelhanger for my key… Curious? On my blog, there is a tutorial:)
I've been so busy makign the original projects that I haven't gotten around to scraps yet, but I love the scrap vomit quilt idea that Katy at I'm a Ginger Monkey came up with – just lots of small squares, basically, with some solids thrown in!
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My scraps always come handy in smaller projects like, pincushions, pouches, doll quilts ect..
I don't have a lot of scraps yet, but the ones I do are now earmarked for EPP hexagons. 🙂
I use my scraps as leaders and enders, making blocks as I go. Eventually they all get sewn together when I have enough.
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How about a scrap vomit quilt a la imagingermonkey??
I used a 20 gallon tote up of scraps on a scrap log cabin quilt that I gave to my 80th Grandmother.
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I had scraps leftover from the numerous vests I sewed after my beginning sewing class. I had them for years and finally gave them away to another sewer who was looking for scraps.
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Scrap quilts with crazy patchwork
I use Bonnie Hunter's leaders and enders system to use up scraps. Thanks for the chance!
I make small pouches as gifts.
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Honestly, I'm not very good at finding good uses for them either.
I've been making strip blocks (5.5 x 5.5) that I'll incorporate into a quilt when I have enough of them. Very scrappy but very cute.
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I like the look of scrappy quilts. Improv piecing is also very good for using up scraps.
Wow, just use your imagination! I love 9 patch squares, so that is a great way to use even the smallest scrap. Do a scrap exchange. That's what friends are for!
Good question about the scraps since I'm just now starting to get something of a pile of them. I haven't gotten there yet so I'm in the same boat as you. Thanks for the chance.
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I am busy useing my scraps to make mug rugs and string quilt blocks currently. Thank you for the chance to etner your giveaway.
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I love making string blocks with my scraps. Thanks for a super giveaway!
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I'm a newish quilter and am only just amassing a scrap collection. I haven't decided what I'll do with them but have been collecting a pinterest board of ideas. I do use some of them to make yoyo's for a future yoyo quilt.
My daughter likes using scraps for her Woodkin doll
My scraps get cut into whatever size pre-cut that works best. Nothing smaller than a 2.5 inch square stays. I just don't have the space.
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We make placemats with our scraps and then donate our placemats to Meals on Wheels.
I tend to use my scraps by… giving them away. I keep planning to make a string quilt with them, but then someone I know will say they've taken up sewing but don't have much fabric and I always wind up volunteering to send them an envelope full of useable size scraps 😀 Keeps the piles manageable.
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My scrap pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger! To make it more likely I use the scraps, I try to sort them into strings and squares, and then also sort them into ziplog bags by color. But I keep making more scraps than I use!
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my little bitty scraps I give to my sister and she makes wreathes and she uses them to stuff them.. my bigger scraps I been saving and cutting squares one day make a quilt!! I HOPE.
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i dont have many scraps right yet, i've only been at quilting a short while, but i'm cutting up fabrics and making 4 bom and other random things so when i do have a scrap pile i'm going to make a string quilt.
I make scrappy projects – quilts, potholders, dishtowels… I even use them as ribbon on packages. Small scraps I use for applique. I'd love to learn paper piecing to use with them.
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good grief, if I had any fresh ideas, my bins wouldn't be overflowing! I do like to have my grandsons go through them now and then, pick a stack and sew them together, then cut out their names, numbers, animals, etc.
I use my scraps for many things. I am big on paper piecing which is great for using them up, or making string blocks, my kids also like to play with them somewhat and when they are too small to use (or something that I wouldn't use) I pop it into a bag which is then donate to the local school for them to use in craft activities.
I'm fairly new to quilting so I don't have a ton of scraps but I'm planning on using them to make some improv blocks.
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I'm using my scraps for epp hexies.
I don't have a huge pile of scraps really, but it's growing. Scrappy quilts do tend to call for small blocks in my mind.
I've been using my scraps in a scrappy mini bowtie quilt and a postage stamp quilt. Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.
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I 'm making little house ornaments with mine.
Scraps are the best! I like to paper piece with them.
I use itty bitty scraps for stuffing toys or making fabric covered button earrings.
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I tend to save my scraps – lol. Not much of a help, huh>
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I love using my scraps for all sizes of zippy pouches!
I've started making the Scrapper's Delight blocks from Sunday Morning Quilts, but have also used quite a few scraps for my bee blocks this year.
I'm just getting into scrappy string blocks, but I know you've already tried that one. Sometimes you have to just let them go and donate them to a local school or quilt shop.
I have so many scraps, but rarely use them! I love keeping them organized by size and color…I spend more time doing that than I do using them! I hope to one day use them to make some scrappy quilts…likely a chevron pattern, alternating like and dark fabric scraps? Thanks! amhalverson(at)gmail(dot)com
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I use my scraps to make material flowers, and headbands. I sometimes make wee toys for my son. I just recently made a superman cape for him using all the blue scraps I had. He loves it so I am just happy with that.
That's serious commenting. I say scrappy cushions.
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I'm still pretty new to the sewing world, I don't have many scraps yet…but I'm thinking about how to make a quilt with them once I have them 🙂
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I like to use scraps for embellishments on clothing and bags by appliquing an interesting design.
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I've been saving my scraps to make a sting quilt. But I don't have alot of scraps yet… Thanks for a chance to win! 🙂
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I end up with allot of long skinny scraps from tearing sheets into usable chunks, before cutting into fat quarters, strips or charm squares. I wrap and knit the strips around hangers. It's allot faster than crocheting over the hangers, and it looks pretty cool. I also cut my other scraps into strips and squares as I go along, which makes using them up easier.
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I try to keep scraps in useful sizes…2.5 in squares or strips, 5" squares, or strings and selvedges.
I like to do applique and make zip pouches and tote bags with scraps!
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I'm making a spider web quilt with my scraps. It eats up even the smallest pieces.
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Oooh I love scraps and using them in scraps quilts. Just sew random scraps of one colour together until it's big enough to trim down to a 12.5" block then repeat with whatever colours and turn into a scrappy quilt.
I use my scraps for fun applique work or scrappy totes, purses, or makeup bags. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Love making bright modern baby cot quilts
I am currently scrap busting by making lunchbox napkins. they are 2 sided & "coordinate" but not necessarily "match" on each side 🙂
I am trying to use up my scraps by doing some QAYG panels. Thanks for the chance to win.
I usually make a collage or stick bits of fabric onto cards to make a birthday card 🙂
ive rectently made rotunda rags. which are scrapssewn together however you like then some sort of batting layer ( i used flannel) andan old tshirt back. stack all together and cut out in a circle and spiral quilt it. and bam new kitchen rags. thanks for the chance.
At the moment my scraps get sorted into selvedges for a friend who is using them in a quilt; useable scraps for a future scrap quilt; and scraps which I can't use which go to preschool for the kids to make collages out of.
My next scrap-buster plan is to make spiderweb blocks. I made a cushion cover completely out of scraps this winter, but wasn't able to see a dent in the scraps bin yet!
I like to make pot holders with scraps. A pair doesn't even have to match and somehow they match every decor.
I make doll quilts for my daughters (age 4 & 1).
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I like to sew strips of scraps together and then use it like any other fabric in a block.
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I hoard my scraps… it's a sickness i think. Mainly because i'm not really sure what to do with them! I guess maybe it's time for me to join a scrappy QAL 🙂
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I used a lot of scraps in a "Jewel Box" quilt…
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I'm making a ticker tape quilt with a whole bunch of my scraps. Other than that, I don't really know. Sometimes I'll make a scrappy little zipper pouch or something.
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foundation strip quilts for sure!! fingers crossed
I like to use them to make other crafts pretty…mason jars, picture frames! Thanks for the giveaway! Amy @ gasudimack(at)sbcglobal(dot)net
I create little scrap bags for my daughter to play with while I'm sewing. She's three and loves to play with pieces that she can handle. She has a little ironing board and plastic iron and pretends to press her fabric, just like mama. 🙂
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I like to make string quilts with one color (such as White) strip in the center of the square for consistency. I also have done a rectangle that is 6 1/2 by 12 1/2 with strings of varying widths in each color so one is purple, one is yellow, one is red, etc. then i laid them out with dark fabric between. Turned out really nice.
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I make scrappy quilts. I want to make a trip to California or I've heard it called Around the world, that would take care of a ton of scraps. Log cabins are great and also scrappy stars. Love your pictures. Thanks.
I have a jar with loads of tiny triangular scraps which I am (eventually) going to appliqué onto a quilt like tiny flags.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love doing scrappy pouches 🙂
I just made a log cabin pin cushion with some scraps and I'm going to try to incorporate some scraps in a painting I am doing for my kids room, or you could just send me your scraps, I LOVE SCRAPS, lol.
I am still a new sewer. So, using up scraps isn't a problem so far.
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I've been hoarding my scraps for years and still don't know what to do with them!
I have made some play mats where I use scraps for roads, trees, buildings, etc. Long thin strips become ribbon. Others are in lieu of tissue paper in packages.
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I made a scrap vomit quilt, that helped my scrap bin
Scrappy log cabins are my favourite.
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I'm saving scraps for a bottled rainbow quilt but some scraps i give to my boys school and they make cards on the holidays etc. Thanks for the chance :o)
I like to use my scraps in applique projects.
I make color books for the little ones in our extended family, and have had so much fun that now I'm making quilts with blocks of each color. Great way to use scraps, and it's fun to see favorites get out of the bin and into a quilt.
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I'm saving tiny scraps for a flag appliqué patchwork-type-thing, but covered buttons are also a great way of using up scraps.
Thanks for the giveaway.
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I love doing quilt as you go projects with my scraps.
I'm still new to sewing and don't really have many scraps yet. 🙁 All the more reason I'd like to win the fabric! 🙂
I love scrap quilts, so I have no problem using them up. The problem is finding the time to make them all! These charms would be a great addition to my scrap quilts. Thanks for the giveaway!
I use my scraps on quilts that have a lot of HST's.
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I use them for scrap quilts. Thanks for the chance to win.
I follow Bonnie Hunter's blog…she has a great system for using scraps. Right now I have mine in a bin with intentions of using them someday.
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I recently cut off all my hair so now I have been using my scraps to make little hair accessories.
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I use scraps for little loyalty card holders, wallets, coin purses, etc to include in my etsy orders.
I use them to make flowers/bows and other accessories for my little girl. christina112358 at gmail dot com
I don't have too many scraps yet, but a rainbow scrappy quilt is on the cards. if they're too small for stitching into anything, i'll use them to stuff my little handmade dolls.
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I'm an ongoing follower by email…keep those great posts heading my way.
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I'm with you when it comes to scraps. Mine are just making a mess at the moment. I'm thinking of organizing them and making a Sunday Morning rag quilt, saving some for a postage stamp quilt and just looking for some improv motivation from the mess of scraps. I look forward to seeing everyone's ideas!
Since I don't quilt, I don't have scraps. But if I did, I would probably use them for a little girl's doll quilt.
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Placemats, tablerunners, and more quilts.
Placemats, tablerunners, and more quilts.
I love those scrappy tree blocks that have been all over flickr lately 🙂
A crazy quilt is a great way to use up scraps
I use a lot of my scraps for paper piecing projects.
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I just got this great book 'Sunday Morning Quilts', it is all about scrap quilts!
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I have them all thrown together right now although I'm thinking of precutting them into a set size so I have a starting point. Thanks for participating in the Giveaway Day.
I have a friend on a fabric fast so that is certainly using up her scraps. Although you can't really tell with all the scraps she has…. Good luck finding inspiration and Thanks for the generous giveaway.
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I have two strategies for scraps: first I make fabric out of them using the 15 Minutes of Play blog methods; second I use the scrap users system outlined on Bonnie Hunter's quiltville blog. I still have scraps, but I feel like I'm taming the mess. I have been sewing for over 25 years. I started when my daughter was born (she's turning 28 this year) so I've got lots of fabric that I sewed into dresses and jammies for her. I honestly love the look of scrap quilts and my quilting buddies are now saving selvages and scraps for me. I'll take yours off your hands if you want. 🙂
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Hmmm what do I do with scraps? I just save them and eventually use them in mini quilts, or when I least expect to. Don't buy a lot of fabric so I don't have as many as some.
Amy Gibson used scraps for a couple quilt blocks in the Craftsy 2012 BOM. Scrappy blocks can be pretty awesome.
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I make scrappy quilts galore. I almost don't have room in my schedule for anything else because I'm overrun with scrappy quilts. Right now I have three postage stamp quilts on the go.
I usually use the scraps to make quilted coin purse, pouches and pincushions:)
How about just sewing small stripes together, cut them straight and use them then for a quilt? I really like the random pattern you can create with this!
On the other hand I like using small scraps for little card holders or to create jewelery with them! 🙂
Hi Nicole, well I am using my scraps all cut into 1 inch pieces!!!! and making a quilt. The size is just growing and growing and when I run out it will be finished!!! Thank you for a chance to win this fab charm pack.
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I have lots and lots of scraps too! I am making a house quilt – wonky, wobbly and wonderful houses out of scraps. It has really been fun.
I tend to donate what I don't hoard but I hoard a lot just in case!
I'm using up my scraps on a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt, and I've started following Bonnie Hunter's scrap user's system. It's quite handy to be able to reach into a bin of pre-cuts, and I'm still working on getting my smaller pieces cut.
Well I am a sucker for pouches. I like to use scraps to make designs for zippered pouches.
I love Bonnie Hunter's patterns for scrappy quilts. She has great ideas on organizing your scraps as well.
I'm a new quilter, not too many scraps yet, but I hope to use some for applique and the rest, I don't know yet
I'm a follower of your wonder blog. Great giveaway!
I like to use my scraps in an all cotton crazy quilt! I use different stitching on the blocks to make the crazy stitches between the different fabrics in the blocks.
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I’d love to win! I don’t know if my email will show up, since I’m a WordPress user and by the looks of things, that means that even though I’d be willing to share my information, it might mean it won’t show up… 🙁 (I read about this here: http://piecemealquilts.com/2011/09/08/no-reply-no-kidding/ after trying to figure out what a ‘no-reply blogger’ was! On WordPress we always see the email addresses of those who comment.
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I am so new to quilting, that I don’t end up with a lot of quilting fabric scraps… Wining a charm pack would definitely help me get started! With fashion-fabric scraps I usually pass them on to my mum who makes doll clothing – my too-small scraps are just right for dolls!
I try to make something with the scraps as soon as I have finished a quilt I've made table runners, place mats, rug mugs, and even another complete quilt. They are great as presents for friends.
I plan to use my scraps for either stuffing amigurumi or turning them into little bookmarks, keychains, or whatever my kids steal them for.
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I'm not very good at using my scraps except for in paper piecing so I tend to donate them.
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I have been using up my scraps by making bow tie blocks for a while now. My goal is to have a king sized quilt made of bow ties!
I used fabrics scraps in a sewing class for girls to make d-ring belts.
I'm wanting to try the scrappy trip along quilt sometime. Honestly, most of my favorite quilts that I see are scrap quilts, but then I get nervous trying to put all of my scraps together. I might do better using a solid mixed in with my scraps — a postage stamp quilt with a solid every other square.
I have been using the sunday morning quilts book as part of a bee. There are so many great patterns in there that I could see myself making quilts out of.
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I love the look and resourcefulness of old fashioned scrap quilts. Muslin is so cheap to buy and, once washed, makes an easy base for the scrap quilt.
Even better, once I sew down all of my fabric pieces I can do decorative embroidery (super old school scrap quilt like) while zoning out watching tv or on road trips. Keeps my hands busy & is so relaxing!
I love using my scraps for the hexagon project that I've been working on… someday it'll be a lovely, scrappy hexagon quilt!
Scrap quilts are my favorite. Hallo from Slovankia, Jana.
I have started making some string blocks to use up my longer scraps have yet to figure out what to do with smaller.
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I have a mega huge pile of scraps. I try to use them in small purses, coasters and some I cut up and make appliques from. the7thsphere@gmail.com
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I am a brand new quilter so I haven't really got any scraps yet, but I have seen some wonderful projects made with them, many of them by Bonnie Hunter.
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I just grouped some scraps by color and was thinking of making pillows.
i make scrap bags that are really cool or put them on criagslist for scrappy control
I took small scraps and made a Chinese coin quilts with columns. I've sandwiched two and will be using them for learning machine quilting. I've also used scraps to make table scarves. In the past I've made dolly quilts for my grandnieces. They love to play with these.
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I use my scraps in charity quilts, purses, mug rugs and mini quilts for my grand daughter's dolls
Hi, I think a scrap quilt with different patterns and colors is pretty neat idea.
I like scraps for scrappy zip pouches. Thanks so much for the chance — I love the Simply Color line but haven't gotten any.
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I've given away a lot of my scraps locally. Thank you for doing a giveaway.
My kids use my scraps for playtime. In the past I've used them to stuff pillows and make zippered bags.
knot the scraps together and then knit them (with huge needles) into a rug! super fun
I am going to try to use up some scraps in some improve some day…. but I need to work on that. Maybe once I have more scraps! For now I keep them in a paper shopping bag under my sewing table.
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I use scraps for test sewing, applique, and for accessories (key chains, d ring belts, etc.).
I used a bunch of scraps to sew the alphabet for my 3 year old nephews!
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I use mine for string quilts, mug rugs, potholders. 🙂
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I use some scraps for mug rugs. 🙂
I think a charm quilt is a great way to use scraps.
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The smallest bits of scrap I use to make little tags on everything…
I use little scraps for appliqué or if they're really small I donate them to my sons kindy where the kids use them for craft and "making".
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I have been making some organizing basket from scraps…here is my link..
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Scrappy pillows!
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I either cut my scraps into 3" squares, or if it's smaller than that they go into a bucket to become doll stuffings.
I have made a couple ticker tape mini quilts with my smallest scraps and was very happy with how they turned out. I'm new to the blog, but may be coming back soon. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I love the scrap quilt designs from Bonnie Hunter on Quiltville- they're gorgeous in her traditional colors as well as bright modern scraps.
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I try not to keep scraps that are too small, but I do tend to use my scraps as practice fabric for new blocks I'm trying. I would love to make a granny squares quilt with my scraps… someday! 🙂
I'm not so great at using up my scraps either! The bits that are too small or I just don't care for much, I give to kids I know. They braid them, glue em, hand sew em…
Scrappy quilts and placemats, yet the scrapbasket is always full! Thanks for the giveaway chance!
I use all different sized scraps! I use them for various quilting patterns. I like to sew I Spy quilts the most.
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A friend of mine is going to use her scraps for some pillows. ppoe529@comcast.net
Since I started out sewing clothing and, using a lot of cotton, I couldn't stand to discard the scraps; I've been using scraps for awhile and have a generous collection. 🙂 I guess I should really write a whole post on my own blog about it. But here are a few ideas: 1) String quilt blocks and strips. 2) Paper piecing. 3) Patchwork with smaller size half-square triangles. 4) Hot pads. 5) The smallest pieces can be used to make bookmarks (I paper piece fronts in usually simple designs, then put a back on it with no batting and hand stitch or top stitch the end closed.) 6) At present I'm designing my own "confetti quilt" – again paper piecing, but randomly. 7) Make new "cloth" by sewing many pieces together then cut a larger piece from that. (Haven't tried this yet but have seen a tutorial and photos.) Hope this helps get ideas going. 🙂
I like your style after looking around a little. I'm following through Google Friend Connect. 🙂
I let my kids play with the scraps while I quilt:)
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