Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Scraps


 Such lovely photos here of my hoarded leftover scraps from too many projects and years to remember.  I have dug through these piles and pulled out pieces but most of it is not that useful especially when I can't find what I'm looking for. I have admired Bonnie Hunter's quilts from Quiltville for so long and I finally decided to finally organize them like she suggests. Marianne is kindly helping me.
 And Bonnie is helping me too!  I was the lucky winner of her brand new book when I commented on Bonnie's post over at Stash Manicure.  I love the patterns in Bonnie's book and am feeling inspired to put my scraps to use. Until my stash is cleaned up, I am not likely to go shopping for shirts like she does but I will sure enjoy making these quilts.
Thank you, Bonnie!

15 comments:

  1. Your are a good girl! I donated my scraps last year to a good cause. Bonnie does have wonderful ideas!

    ReplyDelete
  2. How lucky you are to have Marianne help you! She looks to be doing a wonderful job!! Actually...I was so lucky the other day that while I was sewing...my husband was watching TV and helped me sort out all of my wool pieces into small totes by color!!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Congratulations! You are so lucky. I bought a copy of Bonnie's latest book. I started organizing my scraps into usable sizes per Bonnie's method and do find it easier to use them. Also easier to find what you have/need.

    ReplyDelete
  4. OK, after you and Marianne have finished organizing your scraps please send her to me. She'll be ready to help me. :-)

    Can't wait to see your organization.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Let us know if the organizing Bonnie's way works for you. I am not sure that I want to cut up a lot of fabric into strips, squares & triangles for future scrap quilts.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Have fun organizing your scraps :) What a great book to win!! Enjoy :)

    ReplyDelete
  7. That's alotta scraps! It's a good thing you have Marianne to help out or you may never get finished!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Congratulations! It's amazing how much work it is to sort, cut up and organize your scraps ... good thing you have help.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Congrats on your win! Why is it kitties always feel the need to plop down on what we want to work on or read? LOL

    ReplyDelete
  10. Oh my you do have a lot of scraps! Before you know it, you and Marianne will be organized and ready to make one of Bonnie's quilts! It is a great book. I just got mine in the mail recently. Congrats on the win!

    ReplyDelete
  11. How fun is that? Please bring the book on Saturday as I'd love to thumb through it! I would still love to do a string quilt or 2...and I want to see "after" photos of the stash!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Congratulations! bonnie does have some great patterns. I did her spider web design when she came to our guild.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Lucky you, to win a book, I have a plastic bin of scraps, but you have me beat! I am trying to use up scraps as well. It is kind of fun to see what you can do only with scraps.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Have fun! Can't wait to see what you create with your scraps.

    SheilaC

    ReplyDelete

Thank you so much for visiting my blog. I love receiving comments. To avoid sharing the increasing number of spam comments from Anonymous though, I am trying this moderation choice to see if it helps.