I started saving my fabric scraps because other people made me feel guilty for tossing them out. They’re perfectly good pieces of fabric, I’ve been told. Plenty of life left in them.
And that is why I now have 1-1/2 outdoor trash bags filled with scrap pieces of fabric. Know what I’ve done with them? Pretty much nothing. Instead, they are taking up space in my laundry room and life. I think y’all know what that means.
Yes, I’m giving them away! Three lucky winners will receive a Flat-Rate Envelope stuffed with scraps. Most are pre-washed; some are not. I’ll try to stick with all wovens but I make no guarantees about sizes — just know that anything 1/2 yard or smaller ends up in my scrap bag. Amy Butler, Sis Boom, imported European and Japanese fabrics. You name it; there’s probably a scrap there.
And more scraps than you can shake a stick at can be yours. Just comment below and you’re entered. I’ll draw three names from my lucky Junior League ballcap on Tuesday, Sept. 9.
What are you waiting for? Good luck!
5 September, 8:57 pm
I have a scrap addiction, I admit it. But I use at least SOME of mine! LOL!
5 September, 8:59 pm
I’d be happy to use up some of your scraps! Good for you getting rid of what you aren’t using. I have been doing a lot of that this summer as well.
5 September, 9:08 pm
I love good scraps! I would be happy to make something great with them.
Jens last blog post..Fun Stuff to Add to My To Do List
5 September, 9:16 pm
Hmm, I’m sure I could something adorable to do with them!
christys last blog post..Happy Anniversary
5 September, 9:17 pm
How generous of you!! I would love some more scraps.
Stephanies last blog post..Relieved
5 September, 9:21 pm
I would love some scraps to mix in with my own! What a great idea!!
sarahs last blog post..dreamsicle lollipops!
5 September, 9:28 pm
Girl! You know I’d be loving a scrap bag–enter me into the little league lottery and see if you can’t find a way to pick my name out!
Heathers last blog post..Coming soon!
5 September, 9:29 pm
there’s always something exciting about someone else’s scraps!
sarahs last blog post..one big crime and one little lie
5 September, 9:36 pm
Ooh, I would be mroe than happy to take some scraps off of your hands!!!
Harleys last blog post....calling all stampers!..
5 September, 9:56 pm
because I need more scraps… At least they would be something new
Katies last blog post..No more brown bagging it..
5 September, 10:36 pm
I would love those scraps. I couldn’t get rid of any of mine!!
Janices last blog post..4 days
5 September, 10:40 pm
i’m game
Heather~Domestic Extraordinaires last blog post..the newest fall fashion
5 September, 10:45 pm
Yay scraps!
5 September, 10:48 pm
What a neat giveaway! (Please note that you apparently have two blog readers named “Mika”–pretty neat-o, if you ask me. I’m not the same person as the “Mika” in comment #1–my online handle is usually mikawendy.)
5 September, 10:57 pm
My heart goes pitter-patter just thinking about scraps!Thank you for thinking generously when you decided to give them up!
5 September, 11:00 pm
Ooh!! I have a scrap quilt I’m working on, all from bitty pieces of left over projects. It’s going to be crazy and wild, I’d love to add your scraps to it!
5 September, 11:14 pm
Thanks so much for the e-mail back about patterns and ideas. I’m on the search for a good peasant shirt to try out, and along the way accidentally found a beautiful and simple dress pattern I can’t wait to try. Hooray!
Little people have such little clothes – I’d love some scraps that would probably end up working to make some lovely embellishments!
Christinas last blog post..Oregon Vacation – Girls at the Ocean edition
5 September, 11:14 pm
Scraps are my favorites…they make the best quilts and I just love scrap quilts. I love other people’s scraps even more…different tastes and different fabrics than the scraps I generate. I would LOVE to win these!
5 September, 11:14 pm
Woo hoo! Scraps are fun…especially when they come from other people. Such an adventure.
5 September, 11:48 pm
I’d love some pretty scraps to start a little scrappy quilt!
Maries last blog post..A Chance Meeting…
5 September, 11:50 pm
I love scraps!! I hope I win.
5 September, 11:51 pm
Ooo, ooo, enter me in please!! I need some scraps to practice making scrabble tile pendants!
Amys last blog post..Another Gorgeous Niece
6 September, 12:17 am
Oh my goodness, that would be just like Christmas morning…..except 3 1/2 months earlier! Thanks so much and may you and yours have a safe and blessed weekend!
6 September, 12:23 am
I keep saving my scraps too. I hate to through anything out.
Robin LaLones last blog post..Fabric postcards
6 September, 12:48 am
Wow! That is a lot of scraps! I’d be happy to help you out with that.
JaimeMs last blog post..Back 2 School Bot
6 September, 1:09 am
After seeing Melly and Me’s post this morning of her scrappy cabin quilt – I think I need to make myself one, so I’d love to be entered to win
Ambers last blog post..Berry cobbler
6 September, 1:29 am
How fun! Feel free to send some of your scraps this way–I would love to make a few patchwork balls for my daughters to play with and maybe a new blanket for their baby doll…
6 September, 1:50 am
Thanks! How nice of you.
6 September, 1:51 am
me! me! i love scraps!
lizs last blog post..Flower::
6 September, 3:14 am
How fun! I only buy fabric when I begin a particular project so it would be fun to start my own fabric collection even if they are scraps. Please put my name in the hat. Thanks.
Jerilyns last blog post..Another School Year!
6 September, 3:17 am
I would love my name to be in the hat too. Hope your lucky Junior League ballcap is lucky for me too!
Yvonnes last blog post..Tardiness
6 September, 4:27 am
Are you doing this to lure me out of the closet of reading your blog? I confess. LOL.
6 September, 5:02 am
Just found your site and would love some scraps for my first quilt.
6 September, 7:44 am
I love the scraps! My only problem is that I always seem to buy the bare minimum of fabric,so my scrap collection has only produced one pieced together quilt!
Love the site!
6 September, 7:45 am
Holy crap – I hope I win!!!
6 September, 7:51 am
UMMMM! Yeah enter me, just don’t tell my Hubby!!:-)
Renees last blog post..Look at what I found yesterday!
6 September, 8:03 am
This sounds fun.
Sarahs last blog post..Bleeding into Fall
6 September, 8:15 am
I would love to win some scraps! I enjoy reading your blog.
allisons last blog post..A hike in the Park (on a very hot day) part 2
6 September, 8:58 am
I’ll take an envelope of scraps and whip them up into something that’ll make you wish you’d never given them away. (now you have to pick me to win, just to see what I’ll make)
Katies last blog post..A Little Update on my Garden
6 September, 9:11 am
Gotta enter this one. I love scraps (although I’m terrible about saving them myself).
Lauras last blog post..Motions
6 September, 9:23 am
A girl can never have too many scraps. At least that is what I tell myself so I can justify it to my husband! Plus I love your scraps. I keep itty bitty pieces, compared to mine your scraps, are scraps on steroids!
Stefanies last blog post..Life Happens
6 September, 10:04 am
Hannah has taken an interest in hand sewing lately, so I would LOVE to win some scraps for her. She’s saving her allowance to buy a mini fashion designer kit!
Lis Garretts last blog post..Waffling No More (I’ve made my decision about blogging)
6 September, 12:06 pm
I love your blog! I am getting back to sewing after a long break. I would love some scraps. Don’t have hardly any to mess around with!
6 September, 1:56 pm
Oh please count me in! I’m beginning my very first quilt and could use some scraps to liven things up.
6 September, 1:56 pm
Oh heavens…I should do this very thing myself…silly scraps!!
sadiras last blog post..Sweet Dreams…
6 September, 2:28 pm
Oh! I would love some fun scraps! A package in the mail would be just like Christmas!
loris last blog post..Labor Day weekend getaway
6 September, 3:47 pm
Oh me me me! I applique shirts for my girls, so a buch of bitty scraps would be perfect! Thanks!
6 September, 4:00 pm
Oooh, some yummy scraps. I’ve been itching to make some more scrappy log cabins from Melly & Me’s blog. Sounds like a perfect way to get yummy new prints for them
You are too sweet Mary.
6 September, 4:37 pm
I would love your scraps! All the fabric you use is so beautiful!
6 September, 4:37 pm
Wow, supercool! There is a lot of possibilities in those fabric scraps!
jenn
jenns last blog post..~I love quilts~
6 September, 4:38 pm
ooh… i love scraps! *crosses fingers*
becs last blog post..tomatoes!
6 September, 6:47 pm
I use scraps like crazy! Pick me! Pick me!!!
Emys last blog post..Beautiful room for a beautiful girl
6 September, 7:07 pm
Must not comment…don’t need more fabric….oh, never mind….I always need more fabric!
Kristins last blog post..What we’ve been doing….
6 September, 7:33 pm
ooh oooh oooh! I SO want this!
6 September, 7:57 pm
Oh, yes please. I think we live pretty close, bag the shipping, I will pick it up!!
6 September, 7:58 pm
I haven’t quite reached the stage of having too much fabric, but I am working on it! Count me in, please!
6 September, 8:32 pm
I love your fabric choices and would love to have some of your scraps to work with! Please count me in your drawing. Thank you.
6 September, 8:43 pm
Love it! I’m a user of scraps!
Emilys last blog post..Hair Blogs
6 September, 9:02 pm
Pick me! I ramped up my sewing and could use the fabric for holiday gifts!
Becky VanDerens last blog post..Just a Bit of Sewing
6 September, 9:36 pm
Oooh scraps! I love them and would love to help you get rid of them!
Monica Gees last blog post..Custom Orders – Now Available
6 September, 9:51 pm
I would love to win your scraps. I’m a scrap quilter.
6 September, 10:39 pm
Okay this is awesome. I’d love to win! (and how on earth is 1/2 yard a scrap?? LOL My scraps are just shavings in comparison!)
6 September, 11:00 pm
Wow, you’re so generous! I have just started reading your blog recently and totally love your creations. Please keep up the good work! Thanks! -Janice
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6 September, 11:13 pm
Ohhh, I love scraps. I use them all the time! I hope I win!
Hope
6 September, 11:15 pm
I would love these! I am not sure what I will do with them, but I love fabric and use it. Count me in! peggie dot loden at gmail dot com
Peggies last blog post..WAHM and Grandmoms Help Needed
6 September, 11:18 pm
What a generous give*away!! Judging by your beautiful creations, I’ll bet your scraps are FABULOUS!!
7 September, 2:01 am
Oh yah! I love fabric! I know what you mean about the scraps!
Andreas last blog post..Lots going on!
7 September, 8:53 am
Pick me pick me. I love little scraps too
7 September, 10:20 am
what??? its that easy?
Fabric is my obsession…and some days my sanity. (or rather, my therapy) the problem is, I rarely have time to *do* anything with it, but I love, love, love IT!!!!
7 September, 12:06 pm
I’d love to win!!
arizonas last blog post..A Taste Of Freedom
7 September, 2:33 pm
I make quilts out of scraps and would love to win.
7 September, 2:57 pm
It will be like a treasure box that arrives in the mail!
7 September, 4:24 pm
How generous and fun!
Erins last blog post..Two Scarves
7 September, 4:30 pm
Thanks for the chance to win! Can always use more scraps for little bitty projects, kids’ projects and scrap quilts!
7 September, 4:46 pm
Oh this is fun! I love any type of grab bag…especially a fabric one!
7 September, 6:22 pm
I love your blog, esp the confessions of goofed-up projects! The fabrics you use are so pretty and unusual (I usually only shop at Hancock Fabrics since its right down the street and I used to work there.) I would love to get some of the scraps. If I win some, be sure they will end up being used in a purse or some sort of pet-related project. Thanks!
7 September, 7:29 pm
Ok I just have to say that I need to win. This is not just a want…I really need to win. I am dying to craft but alas I don’t have fabric scraps to craft with my daughter. This would save me. Would you ever sell them?
Natalie Edwardss last blog post..THE BIG 29!!!!!!
7 September, 8:39 pm
Are you kidding me?!?! I would be over-the-moon to dig through a collection of your scraps. I just adore Jennifer Paganelli – absolutely adore her. The AB and the imports are all well and good – talent in the fabric world is overwhelming – but Jennifer and her Sis Boom creations are just fabulous. Oh to make something scrappy with your bounty… I’m grinning at the thought
Shelleys last blog post..finding my feet again
7 September, 11:17 pm
ooh!! scrappy projects are my favorite!!
8 September, 12:55 am
I am addicted to scraps!
8 September, 12:02 pm
I’d love to put those scraps to good use!
8 September, 1:55 pm
I can add them to my collection out in my sewing shed.
8 September, 3:43 pm
Oh, I’d love some of your scraps. YOu have great taste in fabrics!
8 September, 5:04 pm
Oh my goodness! I found your blog last week, and my mouth dropped open at this invitation! Holy cow! I love scraps, and I know I would love yours! Miss L is adorable, and I have had lots of fun reading back through your archives! Thanks for this great chance!
8 September, 5:13 pm
I love your blog. Your daughter is beautiful and I love the clothing you have been sewing for her. I found your site and have gotten lots of ideas for outfits for my still small neices.
8 September, 5:57 pm
Oh, I would love some fun scraps! I love reading your site and getting inspiration!
8 September, 6:40 pm
Count me in! I know you have good taste, so the scraps must be pretty good!
Susans last blog post..Sleepytime Bear Nightgown GIVEAWAY !!!!!!!
8 September, 10:41 pm
So, what can you do with scraps? Maybe you should do a blog post on just that lol. And what’s happening to those Christmas gift posts??? I’m missing them
Christis last blog post..House Quandary
9 September, 3:17 am
Me! Me! Me! Pick me!! It’s not too late, right?
Robins last blog post..WAHOO!!!!!!
9 September, 3:25 am
Dang, I hope I’m not too late… always love a good scrapbag
wendys last blog post..the end. lucky me.
9 September, 11:02 am
What a fantastic Halloween outfit! Thanks for doing the giveaway – scraps would be so much fun.
9 September, 11:05 am
Throwing my hat in
BTW, I love those trick-or-treat bears, they’re adorable!! Must look next time I’m there!
Sarahs last blog post..Not much wisdom left…
9 September, 11:15 am
I’m going to JoAnn’s today to use my coupons…that fabric is so cute, I’m going look for it.
I’m slowly starting to build my scrap stash…one day I’d like to make a scrappy log cabin quilt.
Micheles last blog post..Yummy Green Things…
9 September, 11:46 am
Never too much fabric! Hope I’m not too late!
9 September, 12:23 pm
how cool! I would love to get all sorts of fabric samples. And for free! That’s just the best!
9 September, 12:46 pm
I’d love a chance at this. Lately, I’ve been wanting to make dolls and other small projects that use up scrap pieces. Thanks!
Sarahs last blog post..Mismatching Fabric
9 September, 2:20 pm
Oh, I would love to win your toss outs.
9 September, 4:18 pm
If my wife hasn’t signed up for this yet she should. She’d be all over this. If I win I could be charitable and pass them over to her.
9 September, 4:19 pm
you are soooooooooooo generous!
9 September, 4:20 pm
oooooh, scraps….I love me some scraps! seriously….who throws those out?