As the temperatures begin to cool down, I long for fabric arts. This year, I am learning how to quilt.
Fabric arts are an important part of any sustainability plan! Knitting, crocheting, weaving and quilting are all important skills for at least one member of the family to master.
Fabric art skills will not only serve your own home and family, but these skills are also very useful for bartering!
Quilting makes use of our fabric scraps, which many of us have a difficult time organizing…myself included. Over the years, I’ve developed a personal plan to organize and use my scraps (see video).
However, after stumbling onto “Cut the Scraps” at the library, I knew I had to own a copy. Even as a novice quilter, I was not only motivated by Joan’s system, but inspired to go beyond my own preconceived abilities and go for it!
Hummingbird Highway is graciously giving a copy of “Cut the Scraps” away to one lucky Morristribe reader!
All quilters know one thing for sure: a fabric stash is a living thing.
It grows imperceptibly at first, but soon takes over your sewing room, and, if you’re not careful, your life.
Joan Ford is a quilt designer who recognized a need to clear the clutter among her fellow quilters and came up with a fun and effective way to deal with it. Enter ScrapTherapy, Ford’s feel-good method for organizing the mounds of fabric — from yards and fat quarters to skinny scraps — and turning them into quilts and a wide array of accessories.
In this innovative book, Ford offers step-by-step instructions for cutting a fabric stash down to size — quite literally — and provides 20 original patterns for quilts, pillows, table runners, and more.
How to Enter to Win?
*Visit Hummingbird Highway’s website and look around a bit. Don’t forget to check out the freebies! Come back here and leave a comment letting us know what you liked best.
* “Like” Hummingbird Highway on Facebook and let them know that The Morristribe sent you. (Leave a comment and let me know what you did)
* Share this giveaway on YOUR Facebook page, one entry each time you do. (Leave a comment, you can do this as many times as you want!)
Drawing for the book will take place October 1, 2012 at 9pm, good luck!
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Absolutely love hummingbird highways snap sack kits on the website!, what a neato idea
Shared on my fb! Would love to win! Tho my scrappy collection is mostly flannel from making cloth diapers and denim from mending jeans, I’m sure as my kids get older I’ll start using my quilting fabric collection more frequently & end up with even more scraps!
I liked the orphan block ideas. It would make a unique quilt!
Liked hummingbird highways on fb.
love the hummingbird pattern – thanks!
Went to the Hummingbird Highway website…LOVE the stained glass pattern! I will definitely make that one some day. I’ve been interested in quilting for quite awhile, but don’t find much time to indulge with my three small kids around! I figure I’ll collect ideas now and save them for later. A few years ago, I inherited my husband’s grandma’s scrap collection…all 10 boxes of it! The woman was an avid quilter, and I hope to transform her scraps into my own masterpieces. I love scrappy quilts and would love to own Cut the Scraps. I liked their Facebook page and I’ll be sharing on my own as well. Thanks!
I have to try her recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies. I can make every kind of cookie except a soft, flexible oatmeal raising. Hers look yummy.
Shared this on FB. Loved the scrap packs. Everything right there to complete a project. How fun!
Kelly, I love the hummingbirds! They will make great Christmas tree ornaments and gifts for teachers, friends, etc. I love the book.
Love the snack sack items. Just the right size for that quickly needed gift and you don’t want to go to the store and buy something but want to give something you’ve made yourself. Thanks for letting us know about this site.
I “liked” them on FB!
I like the snap sack kits, wish somebody carried them closer to me though. Maybe it’s time for a day trip:)
I like Hummingbird Highway LLC on Facebook!
I love her blog, amazing photos!
I liked Hummingbird Highway on Facebook
Great site–I like the Liberty Belle Snap Sack and the freebie treat bag pattern.
Love the free tote pattern. Can a homeschooler ever have too many?
I just like the whole concept of using the scraps. It is not new to me, but I think too many people out there think you need top buy all new fabric to make a quilt. I have never bought fabric especially for a quilt. They have always been from scraps saved from my sewing (I have some pretty wild prints from the 60′s and 70′s according to my children). I “inherited” my grandmother’s scrap box and her rolls of wool fabric all ready to make braided rugs. I am so glad I was able to learn these skills from her.
I love the snap sacks, what a great idea to get you going on a project.
Liked Hummingbird Highway on Facebook!
Shared on my facebook page too!
Oh those hummingbirds are wonderful!
I love the idea of USING scraps!!! Thank you!!
Have made many quilts from donated blocks as a guild project for our charity quilts.
The more orphan blocks you have, the easier it is to put them together.
Quilters lose those “guilty” UFO’s and children get a unique quilt to cuddle.
What a great feeling! Can’t wait to see the challenge results.
I get the Hummingbird Highway e-newsletter and I love that she sets you up to USE your scraps and go back to your abandoned projects, even if you use them for a new purpose. The inspiration is great!
We were just commenting on quilting this Tuesday during Stone Soup! There was a Mom who uses scraps that make a triangle that would fit into a nickel after its sewn onto the quilt square- she saves EVERY scrap possible! We now are trying to start a quilt square making hour. For those times we are not canning or drying or picking the harvests.
Love the different ideas! It is definitely a SHARE this BOOK!!! Thanks
What a cool book! I’m wanting to learn how to quilt this year too and have been overwhelmed by trying to keep my growing fabric supply organized in a limited amount of space. I visited the website and I’d have a hard time limiting it to just one thing that I really liked. I love her little snap sacks. That is a great idea. I also love her freebie pattern for a hummingbird ornament. I would love to make one of those.
What is not to like over at the Hummingbird Highway. I love everything. thanks for a chance to win her book.
….Liked them on Facebook.
I am a liker of HH on Facebook
…and I shared it on my page. Thank you!
I love this book and have checked it out from the library many times! It would be great to have my own copy for inspiration. Joan has a great website. enjoyed her blog.
Love Joan’s way of using her scraps! Love cutting the scraps up into useable pieces so they can be in “used” and not just collect dust. Love the patterns in her book. Have checked it out at the library numerous times and would love to have my own copy! Thanks Joan for such an AWESOME idea for scrap therapy!
Love the site and the freebies–especially the treat bag pattern!
I really liked the hummingbird ornamanet. I may have to look into getting this book for my mom. She has bins full of fabric.
Liked them on Facebook.
Shared the giveaway on Facebook.
Really like the free pattern for the “Treat Bag”.
i liked them on fb
Liked Hummingbird Highway on Facebook and told the I was lead there by the Morris Tribe! I shared the giveaway on my Facebook page. The thing I liked most on the page was all the uses for scraps! Thank you for this chance!
oo, i love the freebies!
I also love the freebies, I love hummingbirds!
Thanks
I really liked the idea of a quilt label. I’m just getting back into stitching, and I’ve never seen this before.
liked them on FB ! Love Scraps for quilts. Thank you for a chance to win. Janita
I visited her blog and I like Scrappy Trails and Halve your cake. Thank you for a chance to win . Janita