It's true. When I was a senior in high school my parents took me to Chicago to the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation to find my aptitudes. After a couple of days of groovy tests and whatnot we sat on the opposite side of a gargantuan mahogany desk and listened to the results. Among other revealing insights, they revealed I'm not spatial. My mother has assured me time and time again that I am in fact special. I'm just not spatially inclined.
Hence my phobia of patterns.
Anywho . . .
I've been working on a quilt from a pattern called Bento Box. And I'm making a king sized quilt. It requires 224 small blocks like these.
Which will then be assembled to make 56 large blocks like these. (Somebody shoot me!)
So, the entire king sized quilt is made up of 50+ different Amy Butler prints. I used a small bit of this decorator weight fabric from her August Fields line. But I have four 1/2 yard cuts left over. I thought you might like it.
And making a king sized quilt means lots of scraps leftover. Along with the August Fields yardage, I thought I'd also give away all the scraps. Cause scraps are good. Especially if you are crafty like Amy or AmandaJean. So I'll give you all these scraps too.
And, I'm getting ready to start a brand new quilt made with nothing but the delectable Daisy Chain line so I'll throw in all of those scraps too.
Interested? Leave a comment for your chance to win. I'll let the random number generator pick a winner on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 sometime after 6pm.
Good luck.
-dana
P.S.
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I would absolutely love to win your scrappage, although I know that if this is entry #1, I have absolutely NO chance. Still, somebody has to be first, right? Here's me, takin' one for the team. And that little red corner - love it - Amy Butler or no! :)
I would love to win some scraps, beautiful scraps at that, that will be put to very good use. Thank you Dana.
Oh, I'd love to turn those scraps into a coin quilt! They'd be just perfect!
Your quilt looks beautiful - can't wait to see the finished product!
Mmmmmmm - those look yummy! I'd love to be the winner!
Scraps are great! I would be over the moon if I won!
My hubs might shoot me if I win, but it would be fun! It would give me a reason to make a new quilt...for no reason!
Love what you are working on...you will get finished. The fabric (and scraps) are awesome.
Thank you for this post.
I was tested for gifted in middle school and "passed" everything except spatial. In this category, I have a learning dissability.
My parents did not share this information until my college graduation.
I struggle with any pattern and therefore have to do things my own way(often the hard way). Thankfully, my personality is to not give up.
Please include me in the gernerous givewaway.
Thanks twostrawberrygirls.blogspot.com
Oh, I would love to make a quilt from all those scraps... perfect since we just found out we're expecting a 4th little blessing and need a quilt or two! Thanks for the chance to win!
material....love love love! count me in!
I need to make a Bento quilt sometime. I have always been attracted to the pattern and your prints look wonderful in that pattern. I love scraps! I do hand applique and sometimes you just need a little bit of something. Fingers crossed.
ruthrberke at yahoo dot com
That's going to be one beautiful quilt. I love the Bento box pattern. I'd love me some of those scraps, pick me! : )
I bought a rotary cutter and mat last week and my mom told me that now I could make a quilt (my mom has been quilting everyday for more than 30 years...she's an addict). Maybe your pretty scraps would be the start I need. Thanks Dana!
wow! I can see all kinds of possiblities with these scraps....please enter me.
Glenda in MS
nadeaug@wildblue.net
I'd love to win those lovely scraps!
Oh! Pick me!!!
bshepar1013[at]gmail[dot]com
What a cool quilt! How awesome too that you are giving away the extra material and scraps! Please enter me!
Oooo, I would LOVE to play with these & create something fun:) Great job on your projects:)
Love the colors, love the fabric, love the quilt. I already have an idea for my quilt if I win!!!!!!!!!
You are so generous! and good luck on the bento box quilt. It is going to be beautiful!
Looks wonderful!
ooooh oooooh pick me pick me! i need a new quilt and we have started an absolutely no spending pact in our house! so i could really use this.
What a great giveaway!! I'd love to win your scraps :)
um, heck yeah still love you!!!! ;-) this is going to be ONE gorgeous quilt! but i'd love a chance at the scraps...'cuz those are some SUPER fabrics, so count me in!
Dana!! What a GORGEOUS quilt that's going to be! Who are you making it for? I'm not one for patterns either. I'm quite in love with the scrappy quilt that Jodi has designed on her blog "Simply this or that"! No measuring!!! That's my kind of quilt--just wing it!
Does this mean that you have finished your quilt for Razor? I'd love to see it!
Well, I'd LOVE all your scraps! Especially those Daisy Chain!! but who am I kidding--who doesn't love some Amy Butler or any fabric at all!!!! Thanks for the chance to win!
Kelly O.
skotten at distributel dot net
ha! i was wondering if you's fess up to that bit of flea market fancy. :)
count me in amongst those who have an inordinate fear of quilt patterns (all that measuring and perfection...shhiver) and also those who love to win scraps!!!
xxx
My heart has melted. Right now I'm just a big sopping pool. Oh how I would loooooove to win all things Amy! *Sigh*
oh my goodness, pick me pick me!! I would LOVE to win all those Amy Butler scraps!
Good luck with your quilts as well. I love the bento box pattern, and that is going to be an upcoming pattern for me as well.
I'd love to have them...i mean, who wouldn't?!?
meredithmcdaris(at)gmail(dot)com
Count me in! Great giveaway!
I cracked up at your mom assuring you that you're 'spacial'! ;-Þ
Count me in, please! :-)
Oh, yes, me, please!!! You can never have too many scraps!!! No, not ever!! Love the new quilt project, all of those little blocks!!! Love your blog, always to special, even if your not spatial...... ;-)
Sharon
What a generous giveaway! Bento Box - yes, I have the pattern waiting for me too. Love the quilt. Have a great day!
I have seen that pattern before and I have always been drawn to it. I think I saw a quilt done up in that pattern in a quilting magazine. I don't really like patterns either. I like to figure it out myself.
oh, wow ... what GREAT prizes!! i'd love to win any of them. thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!!
Looks great. I'd love to win.
What??! Perfect! I have my own small pile of Amy Butler fabrics that I'm planning on making into a scrap quilt soon, so of course these would be perfect!!
Please pick me. Beautiful!
oh, one can never have enough amy butler scraps! pick me, pick me!! and the quilt is gorgeous!!
I totally feel you on the pattern thing! I love your new quilt - it's going to be so lovely. I've always loved that pattern. Winning your scraps - oh my, I'd be so happy (and what a nice wedding gift that would make for me!) :)
Thanks for the generous giveaway!
Dear Raandom Generator Number Picker People of the Randomness, make me your Random Number that you pick!!!
Wow, the possibilities with all those scraps. Hmmm...
You have taken on quite the king size project. Im looking forward to seeing the result. Thanks for the giveaway.
Wow, Dana, what a great giveaway. I would love to win this fabric! C'mon random number generator, pick me!!!
Your work is beautiful.
Beautiful fabric - can't wait to see the finished quilt!
What, what a generous giveaway; enter my name please. Your Bento Box is looking terrific! I bet a quick survey would reveal a LOT of quilters who are not spatially oriented, which is pretty ironic.
I am making a bento box too - luckily only the queen size, and have been wondering what to do with all my scraps. It is a very cool idea to give them away.
Cant wait to see your finished product, maybe it will motivate me to start working on mine again.
I love Amy Butler!!!!! I would love to win it!
strawberryblonde18@hotmail.com
Lucy Hansen
I can't type anything you haven't heard. I am new to your blog, I found it via my sisters. I think your quilts are wonderful and would like to be included in the give away. The fabric you work with is imaginative and really gets the thought process going..
Wow - I'd love these! The fabrics are awesome. They'd find a good home with me, I promise!
I can't wait to see the finished quilts!
I love that Bento Box block! (say that 5 times fast, lol) Thanks for giving us a chance to win some great fabric, I would love to be entered.
Good luck on your quilt, I know it's going to be fabulous!! :D
The Bento box is looking great! That is going to be a beautiful quilt. I love scrappy quilts so I would love to win your scraps.
Your trash, my treasure!
That quilt is going to beautiful!
I would love to win those scraps.
Wonderful quilt you are working on, please throw my name in for your drawing I love scraps especially other peoples scraps,all new to me and so inspiring.
Oooh! I'd love me some Amy Butler fabric!
My head is already deciding what to make from them.....Hmmmm.
Would LOVE those scraps for my daughter Meghan who is just learning to quilt and LOVES all things Amy. Her teacher budget rarely allows her to indulge...so I am keeping fingers crossed. Thanks for the chance!!! XXX Annelies
Oh those scraps look like so much fun! Count me in!
I would love to be entered.
i love your fabrics in the bento box. very pretty. and who doesn't love scraps?
I love leftovers.
I love Amy Butler! Thanks for doing this.
kim r. in nyc
You know how much I love Amy Butler don't you? Oh how joyous would it be if I won this!
I can't wait to see both of these beauties finished!
Hip hip hooray for Amy B.!
Scraps are good! I would LOVE them! Count me in please.
Ooh, law, law! My sister is a long arm quilter, loves Amy Butler prints, and I would love to surprise her with this! :)
~J
My husband would hate more scraps in the house, but I would be absolutely thrilled!!!!!
Wow, love this pattern. I have been wanting to make a quilt like this for myself for quite a while. Hopefully I will get around to it sooner rather than later!
I am always up for some new material. I am just getting into quilting and this would give me a great start!
Thanks.
I'm not a pattern person either, I'm more of a throw it together and hope it looks good in the end kind of quilter. :) I do love me some scrappage though! And some Amy Butler! -Allison cluckclucksew@gmail.com
You are too adorable!! As someone who is not spatially inclined I give you crazy mad props for working on a quilt from a pattern!!
I love it! I can't wait to see your final product. But in the meantime, I would love to take the scraps of you hands.
Thanks for the great giveaway.
I would so love to win!! I can't even imagine making a huge quilt like that! I also can't wait to see the end result :)
I probably won't win but I'd love too and so would my thousand pyramid charm quilt that needs little bits. =D
Plus who doesn't love a Bento Box? You've (again) chosen lovely fabrics for it!
would love the material. how generous!
Interested??? OF COURSE!!!! Love the bento box. I have had that quilt on my list for a while. Excited to see your finished piece.
Very cool! I'm drooling looking at all those wonder colors!!! Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh, my! Great work. I would love to win this :) I have started my own quilt and it is going well, but I am not the professional that you are. I still love them just as much though, and yours are amazing!
Thanks for being so generous all the time, it is very sweet.
I would love to have your scraps. I gather everyone's scraps at our weekly sewing group. I just recently took a class on the "Quilter's Wallet" and those would make some very lovely wallets for my friends. I also love reading your blog and seeing what you're working on. Thanks so much for sharing.
Jo Ann
what a creative giveaway! i love the idea of it being something you may not use but you could find someone who would really appriciate it and make something out of what might otherwise be tossed!
Wow, those are some beautiful scraps! I have a great love of scrappy projects and love using up the smallest bits. Crossing my fingers to win this haul! Thanks for your generous giveaway, and, as always, beautiful eye candy and inspiration.
Would love to have your scraps but they definitely would not be in the Bento Box. Did one once and something about it makes me nuts!
Love the bento box pattern . . . and I love scraps :) I would put them to good use!
Perfect timing! I am working on a quilt made from all Amy Butler prints. I am just building my stash for it so these would be perfect!
P.S. I can't wait to see how the quilt turns out!
This year I passed the "finished my first quilt" milestone...now I have so many ideas for so many more quilts, and this giveaway just fuels my excitement! I also adore Amy Butler fabrics but have yet to own any...so scraps from a whole bunch of them sounds too good to be true...!
Sign me right up lady! :D
I'm thinking of sending out scraps for my month of the quilting bee I'm in, and I'd love to have a bigger selection!
I dont know what it is about scraps but they make me go weak in the knees!
I need more scraps like I need a hole in my head! But, really? Amy Butler....yes please!
And can't wait to see the Bento Box quilt all put together. :)
I would love to win your scraps. Our quilt guild makes quilts for Shriners Hospital in St Louis and I could make one that would appeal to a teenager...
Oh, please! Oh, please! Oh, please! I would love to win these and give them to my mom!!!
We can't wait to see your Bento Box. Mom made one... but STILL hasn't quilted it yet. Sigh.
Luv,
Dave - Guide Dog for the Color Blind
PS: Here's our Bento: http://armyoffourdigest.blogspot.com/2007/05/bento-box-to-eat-or-not-to-eat.html
I NEED these. My stash is down to almost nothing. Love your playlist by the way.
Having these scraps would be wonderful. Perfect for piecing together pot holders and such.
OOoh I can't wait to see your completed quilts! You are such an inspiration! Thanks for the chance to win some scrap goodness!
Isn't fabric wonderful? Even scraps are exciting! I have a Bento box quilt on my 'to do' list so let me know if it's a crazy idea! It will look wonderful!
I've been working on some scrap quilts and never thought I'd be so happy working with scraps. I'd love to add your scraps to my collection. Can't wait to see your finished product.
Hey Dana come on over and enter my giveaway when you get a minute :o)
Oooh I think Rob would be furious if I brought home any more scraps, but we'll leave it up to fate :o)
Can't wait to see the quilt, I'd ask if you ever trade for quilts but I would owe you my entire shop! I'll be back for soap soon
Hugs
Canela
Hey Dana come on over and enter my giveaway when you get a minute :o)
Oooh I think Rob would be furious if I brought home any more scraps, but we'll leave it up to fate :o)
Can't wait to see the quilt, I'd ask if you ever trade for quilts but I would owe you my entire shop! I'll be back for soap soon
Hugs
Canela
Amy Butler scraps and fabric - AWESOME! Love your blog, and hope to win.
I <3 Amy Butler! I won't hold it against you if you pick me. Promise!
Love the idea of giving away your quilt scraps so you don't have to throw them out! You have some beautiful fabrics-thanks for the giveaway!
Throwing my hat into the ring!
I'm amazed that you can whip up stuff like this so quickly! Can't wait to see the fnished quilt!
must. have. fabric scraps.
Thanks for mentioning me too!
Your quilt looks like it is going to be awesome!
Interested? You're so funny. Interested might be the understatement of the year. Your quilt is going to be so beautiful...please show us when it's done!
omgosh what a fun package that would be to receive in the mail!!!!
imagining all the little quilts I could make with them...
thanks!
Kathie
Wow! That's one incredible project, big and incredible. I would love all those wonderful scraps. Thanks for the chance. Your work is so pretty and quite inspiring. :)
Hi,
It's me again. The one not so crafy reader of your blog. I wouldn't know what to do with that stuff. Just wanted to say I love the new quilt you are starting! Is it for your bed? What do you do with all of the quilts you make? If you ever need to get rid of one because you have to many feel free to send it to St. Louis!
Awesome Sauce! I have never made a quilt.....but this would be an awesome start since I have always wanted to make one :D
Ohh...scraps are the best! So fun to see what you can do with leftovers! Send them my way!
loves.coki.beach@gmail.com
wowsa!!! what an exciting and thoughtful giveaway!! I am in the middlle of a scrap quilt and could certainly make use of some new and BEAUTIFUL scraps....
becca
Sweet Holy Moses that is some luscious fabric.
Am I interested? Why yes I am. Thanks for asking. What a generous giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win.
oh oh oh! I've been on a buying freeze since before Amy Butler was making fabrics. I know I know - it's horrid. But there's nothing in my rules against winning more fabric!
I would love to win your scraps. I am a new quilter and am collecting fabric to make all these cool quilts.
Wow, I am sure slow, but I have the will to win!
what am amazing opportunity!
I am in love with the spider web blocks that are all the rage right now and I cant stop thinking how amazing it would be to have an entire amy butler spider web quilt.
I promise if i win to actually make the quilt and to share many pictures.
and yes, we still love you for adding the non-amy butler fabric, because really if he had come out with that fabric we would have loved it anyways
so in conclusion (hehe) pick me please!
I would love to get my hands on those scraps. I have so many different ideas that I'm just itching to try.
WOW! Dana...
Just WOW! you are one brave girl... with a wealth of talent! WOW! it is going to be amazing!
I love scraps. I can see all kinds of projects in them even though I'm not a quilter. I love your quilts.
INTERESTED!!!??? YES!!! I love scraps and beat myself up for it at times, so I'm glad to have some confirmation here! Thanks, It's all wonderful and good! Your projects are awesome
Your scraps are lovelier than any scraps I've ever seen. I'd love to play. Thank yo ufro sharing your projects. Can't wait to see them finished.
I find scraps irristable... even if there is a 1 in 250 chance of getting them. What fun
Janet McKinney
O wow... someone will be very lucky!!!
great quilt!! I am not much for patterns either, so don't think you are strange. It shows your genius. Pick me!!! Thanks- Pam
love love love!! How fun, someone eles's stuff! k2hanson@msn.com
That is going to be pretty! I'd love your scraps. Thanks for asking!
these are soooo lovely.
me!
I love scraps!!
Tin H
I love all of Amy Butler's fabric.
Thanks for having a drawing. I'm sure it will be put to good use.
Those are beautiful fabrics! My daughter owuld love them since I have just started her on quilting. Scraps are all the rage around here right now.
I'll take your scraps any day! Thank you for the chance to win.
oh, i really like the bento box. i'll have to try that soon. would love to win your scraps!
robinred23@suddenlink.net
I'm also working on a Bento Box quilt! Mine is fuchsia and lime greens and is for my 3-year-old daughter's first big girl bed. I'm aiming for a twin-ish size... I think I need about 120 blocks and I have 96 done. I love the Bento Box pattern - this is the second quilt I've made.
Anyway... I'd love to enter your contest and I can't wait to see how your king sized quilt turns out.
Jodie
www.sew-handmade.blogspot.com
Seriously? You are amazing. I love your give-aways, but I always love hearing about what you're doing and thinking to myself "someday I'll be like her".
Plus we are kindred spirits in music taste :)
Rock on girl...you're an inspiration.
All of those scrapes look like a load of fun. Especially knowing they are Amy Butler scraps. Thanks for sharing!
MMMMMmmmm scraps! love em! and they would help to boost moral aroudn here in my scrap tub. :) Would add a lot of colorful cheer :)
You are so generous to think og sharing them with someone lucky. THanks for the chance!
Love from Texas! ~bonnie
Wow! How generous! I'm so excited to see your finished quilt, but I'd be even more excited about it if I won a few scraps.... ;) Have fun sewing!
Love the jar your scraps are in! What a great way to display some treasured fabrics! Count me in!
I love it that you can even MAKE a quilt...I'm sure that I'm also spatially challenged and throw in "sewing machine" challenged and that's me! But I love fabrics and use them in my scrapbooking and cardmaking, so thanks for the giveaway!
I love the Bento Box pattern, and I love Amy Butler fabrics even more! Good luck with the quilt, and I'm hoping to have some luck myself :-)
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This would be the best early b-day present a girl could win ! :)
what a great give away idea!
I have my fingers and toes crossed!!
jinii_boren@yahoo.com
Thank you! Please enter me.
Tina
dragonfryehill@yahoo.com
I would so love to give your scraps a good home, I am in such stash envy of you!
Thanks for the chance.
Sue Cahill (sbonetsue at yahoo dot com)
Please enter my name into te 'hat'! I'm sure your bento quilt would be amazing!
Scraps... Awesome!!! Please please pick me random number generator, for I have never won anything and I love scraps!
OOOH! I love scraps...and your block.
Hello, sweet Dana,
Here is my comment to add to how many? 151?? wow. Who doesn't like free-bees? But what would I do with scraps? If you pick me I'll pick someone else to get them for me. This is just fun and I wouldn't want to miss out on it.
Hugs from GA
Yvonne
I would adore your scraps! and then I would put them to good use! lol
Thanks for the chance.
You are amazing in countless ways...spatial or otherwise! I'd be thrilled to brighten the world with something made with your scrap fabric.
Many thanks for the fun!
Angi in NH
Oh yeah, I'm interested!!
You have the most delicious scraps - and you are so very generous to share!!!
I'm in....pretty please...with a cherry on top!
Count me in! I would love to snuggle up in a quilt right about now - this crazy Indiana weather got cold again.
This has to be the freakin awesomest giveaway ever. I really really want to win!!!!
oooohhhhh mmmmmyyyyyyyy!!! thank you thank you thank you!
Love your fun choices in fabric. I hear ya on the whole "read and follow" the pattern thing. I read but don't always "follow" so good. I like to call it "selective inspiration modifications". Just got back from a weekend quilting retreat and I have a hard time throwing any sizeable scraps too....maybe we can swap sometime!
Oh random number generator, pick MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I love your quilts and your scraps will make one crafter very crafty. :)
Oh please pick me random generator thingy
wow what a giveaway! And "You got a friend in me" playing too...I'm in love! thanks for the chance, love your blog (I leave the tunes on for long spaces of time...)
Please pick lil' ol' me!!!
HC
Fingers Crossed! I'm just about ready to embark on a quilt!
Fingers Crossed! I'm just about ready to embark on a quilt!
Would love to have your 'remnants'... Jamie V in MT
amzanioli@yahoo.com
http://rem-nants.blogspot.com
I would love some scraps to play with! What a fun scrappy crazy quilt they would make!
That quilt will be lovely!
And that is just too much scrappy goodness. Heaven.
Please pick me I would love it!!
Woot Woot! Send some scrappy love my way, girl!
Wow! A delight and a total inspiration. Can I enter?
This is great!! I hope I win, I hope I win....
WOW! I would be thrilled to receive this, I especially love those scraps! So very kind of you.
Thanks for the chance to win.
jodie.marie
at
verizon.net
I love scrappy quilts!
pick me! pick me!
Even though you are not spatially good, you still quilt, just keep going! I love the fabrics you used and would love to gibe those scraps a try!
Wow! you're really generous! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would LOVE to win your scraps. Seriously. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!
this would be great. please.
Oh please please please. I am crossing everything!
Wow, all those fabrics look so good together!! I would love to win some of them!
Holy Moley, whoever wins this is one lucky quilter! I'd love to be that lucky person!
How nice of you to do a giveaway for us. I would love to win so I could actually develop a "stash". Your start on the quilt is so beautiful. Thanks again!
how can i resist?
This is going to be such a beautiful quilt. I'm finishing up my very first baby quilt and am ready to try something a little larger. Perhaps a coin quilt. Those scraps would come in handy. And I'm sure I could find something nice to make with the August Fields fabrics if I were to win one of those cuts. :)
I sure hope these scraps find their way to my front door! a.haun@sbcglobal.net
I LOVE all those fabrics! Please pick my number!
These would be so great! Thanks for the chance to win!
I need luck! I am a scrap-lover and try to make lots of different things with my scraps, which I organize the same way as Bonnie over at Quiltville.
I cross my fingers and hope that you might consider sending them to Sweden - that is if I am the lucky winner!
Agneta
agnetaquiltar@gmail.com
http://agnetaquiltar.zoomin.se/blogg.html
Wow, what an amazing gift! And what a beautiful undertaking your quilt is - so inspiring!
Thanks so much for your generous opportunity!
I would love to win the scraps. They are beautiful!
Oh my....I have never seen so many comments. This is my first time visiting your blog. Wow, love your style and ideas! I'd love to enter!
Of course I am interested.
I am very interested in learning to quilt and have searched and searched for someone to teach me. My mom is trying her first quilt right now made out of scraps of my grandmothers clothes. What a speacial thing to hand down to the family....
Wow! What beautiful scraps.
Wow they are beautiful fabrics I love the colours.
I would love your scraps...they look lovely!
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