Scraps, Inc. Vol. 2 is hitting the shelves soon and I am thrilled to have a quilt in it. Published by Lucky Spool Media, this follow-up book to the widely popular and beautifully done, Scraps, Inc. Vol. 1, is much like the first. It is chock full of great quilt projects, all of which are designed with using scraps in mind. There are patterns for 15 different quilts made by 15 different designers. It's also a visual feast with gorgeous photography by Nydia Kehnle.
I made my quilt, Argyle Medallion, last summer over the course of a few days. At the time, the hydrangeas in my yard and down my street were awash in pink, purple and blue blooms and that directly inspired the color palette. I think it would be striking in a monochromatic palette or using a true, anything goes scrappy vibe. The quilt uses a few different piecing techniques, a variety of shapes and is very fun to put together. I'm a fan of negative space and I think that this quilt has that in spades. Natalia Bonner quilted it and she did the most amazing job with zero direction from me. She made it sing!
There are so many wonderful quilts in this book that I am anxious to make. Each quilt specifies what kind of scraps it uses – squares or strips. I love this little bit – it makes digging through and sorting scraps for projects that much easier.
Scraps, Inc. Vol 2 is available to order in the Tauton Store. To make it even sweeter, save 30% through February 16th by entering the code Scraps30. I am also giving away a copy of the book here on the blog. To enter, leave me a comment and let me know what quilters inspire you with their use of scraps. I'll leave the giveaway open until Sunday, February 14 at 6:00 pm EST.
Want to see more? Be sure to check out the blog tour stops!
Monday, February 8
Amy Smart, Diary of a Quilter
Nydia Kehnle, Nydia Kehnle Design + Photography
Tuesday, February 9
Amy Friend, During Quiet Time
Alexandra Ledgerwood, Teaginny Designs
Wednesday, February 10
April Rosenthal, April Rosenthal – The {Studio} Blog
Dorie Schwarz, Tumbling Blocks
Thursday, February 11
Erin Harris, House on Hill Road
Janice Ryan, Better Off Thread
Friday, February 12
John Adams, Quilt Dad
Kari Vojtechovsky, Craft Happy
Saturday, February 13
Katie Blakesley, Swim Bike Quilt
Kati Spencer, From the Blue Chair
Sunday, February 14
Melissa Lunden, Lunden Designs
Allison Harris, Cluck Cluck Sew
Sherri McConnell, A Quilting Life
Bonnie Hunter’s scrap quilts inspire me.
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I am a huge Bonnie Hunter fan, too. Also inspired by Amanda Jean Nyberg!
What a lovely quilt – and you’re right that the quilting really makes it shine. I am frequently inspired by Amanda Jean Nyberg’s use of scraps.
Wow! To see your work in print must be a great feeling. I am also very inspired by Amanda Jean Nybery and Cheryl Arkinson. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Amanda Jean Nyberg always impresses me with the purposes she finds for tiny scraps, and the work of Chawne of Completely Cauchy always blows my mind.
Love your medallions! I am always challenged by Amanda @ Crazy Mom Quilts.
I think Bonnie Hunter is the grand master of using scraps. She always inspires me.
Beautiful quilt. I’m inspired by Amanda Jean’s use of scraps.
Love it. I like that you’ve switched up the techniques a bit, yet fit it altogether as a whole. Once in a while the last bit of those every block the same quilts can be a slog, but this looks like fun to the end. Crazy Mom Quilts really got me to see scraps in a new way.
I like your mix of squares around dresdens. Also a fan of Amanda Jean
Bonnie Hunter and Shannon Brinkley
I wasn’t much of a scrap quilt fan until I started following this blog hop so I’ll say I’ve been inspired by all who contributed to this book!
I am always inspired by Bonnie Hunter, and the wonderful variety of quilts she creates from scraps. I also enjoy the many and varied scrap projects of Amanda at Crazy Mom Quilts. I really haven’t seen a scrap quilt I didn’t like!
Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict uses a lot of scraps, and makes them into quilts that she and her church group give to people with medical or spiritual needs, and I find that very inspiring.
That’s a great question, one I haven’t really thought about! I think Amy Smart is good with scraps. Your quilt looks amazing!
Bonnie Hunter is probably the most inspirational when it comes to using scraps. I am looking forward to seeing this book and enjoying the blog hop. Thank you for sharing.
Rita Hodge is amazing and her quilts are beautiful.
Love your quilt! I’m so excited about this book. I think Lee Heinrich and Faith Jones always do fun things with scraps. So inspiring! Congrats on being included in the new volume, and thanks for the giveaway!
I think what Rita at Red Pepper Quilts does with her scraps is amazing. She’s so prolific with her quilts. I don’t know how she does it. I always looks forward to seeing what she makes next. She’s such an inspiration to me.
Bonnie Hunter has inspired so many with her scrap quilts. Your quilt is one of my favorites in the book! One way or another, this book will be in my library!
Bonnie Hunter, Amanda Jean Nyberg, Cheryl Arkinson, and Lynn Tyler of the Patchery Menagerie all inspire me with their use of scraps. I also take a lot of inspiration from vintage and antique quilts.
Bonnie Hunter is a master of scrappy quilting, but Judy Martin is the Queen of Scrap Quilts IMO. She inspired me to love and make scrap quilts, when everyone else was doing matchy-match quilts 25 years ago. If you’re not familiar with Judy’s designs and many books, check her out! Congrats on the new book and thanks for the giveaway!
Your quilt is beautiful. I am inspired by Bonnie Hunter.
Great quilt Erin Love the Sunday Morning Quilts
Your quilt is fabulous. My favourite scrap quilt designer is Jen Kingwell!
Your quilt is awesome. Bonnie Hunter only sews with scraps I believe and she makes amazing quilts. I am working on one of her patterns now 10,000 pieces strong. I started on a quilt from the Sunday Morning Quilt book and am working my way through Cultural Fusion Quilts by Sujata. She often uses repurposed clothing for fabric.
There is so much scrap quilting inspiration out in blogland. I love it!
I also love Bonnie Hunter’s work. Every quilt I have seen on this blog hop has been amazing.
My great grandmother Nameen made quilts from scraps of clothing. I am lucky to have one. A treasure to be sure. She would be thrilled to see all the gorgeous quilts that are being made these days! Thanks for a chance to find this book in my mailbox, Erin. Your sample is just lovely.
BonnieHunter and Jo Krame r inspire me. Love your Argyle medallion!
I find many blog with scrap challenges all inspiring
the first one that I made was a leader and ender by bonnie hunt
Your quilt is beautiful. Thanks for a great giveaway. Would love to win. Thanks.
I love your quilt. And Erin Harris is such an inspiration to me.
I’m so inspired by Amy Friend of During Quiet Time for Stolen Moments,
for her paper piecing in particular.
Also Jennifer Sampou, fabric artist for Robert Kaufman, for her description of color, how to contrast, select prints that go beside one another.
And Amanda Jean Nyberg of Crazy Mom Quilts, especially her pin cushions and rag rugs knitted from scraps.
Thank you Erin for sharing Argyle Medallion and the hydrangea inspiration. I do love blue one’s so much.
Your quilt is beautiful! I really like Rita’s simple patchwork scrappy quilts (redpepperquilts)
I’m definitely inspired by Amanda at Crazy Mom Quilts, best scrap quilts!
I have been following Heather at the sewing loft and she has been doing a ton with scraps lately!
Wow! All the quilts in this book looks amazing! I always enjoyed how Crazy Mom Quilts uses her scraps.
I appreciate the techniques in Sunday Morning Quilts that Amanda Jean and Cheryl offer. Love the low volume options presented. Thanks for the giveaway!
Way too many to list even if I knew all of their names. I’d have to start with all of the anonymous quilters who’ve mastered the use of scraps for generations. I’d love to win a copy of the book.
I love what you have done with this quilt. It is beautiful. The book looks fantastic too; so full of scrap-busters. Thank you for the lovely giveaway. I am inspired by the quilts by Nydia Kehnle. I will probably never be able to use colors in such an dynamic and yet fitting way but I love to see her work and really feel inspired by it.
Beautiful quilt! Last summer, my daughters decided to use my bin of scraps to make themselves quilts for their college dorm rooms. The quilts turned out great – very random – and now I am working on one. Thanks for the chance to win this lovely book.
Bonnie Hunter. Love the leaders and enders method.
Amanda Jean Nyberg is my quilting hero!
Bonnie Hunter, of course.
Amanda Jean Nyberg makes me want all my fabric to be scraps.
HI, Like Amanda Jean Nyberg! Thanks for the giveaway!
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I am a big Bonnie Hunter fan. Love your blog and thanks for letting us have a chance to win this book.
I love Amanda Jean Nyberg and Amy Smart’s use of scraps but the best part of book tours on blogs is discovering new inspiration.
I love your quilt it’s beautiful! And I love it when a quilter use her scraps and mix them in a way which creates her totally own style like Amy Sinibaldi does (from her I know that everything looks better with a little bit linen mixed in;-)
I’m always inspired by Amanda Jean of Crazy Mom Quilts. Her scrap projects are amazing. I would love to add this book to our guild library. We have the first and it’s a popular one to check out. Thanks for the chance.
I am a fan of Amy Butler. Thanks for the giveaway!
Really like Dorrie Schwartz and Amy Friend’s work in this book. All the quilts are inspired in their use of scraps!
I’m inspired by any quilter who uses lots and lots of different fabrics in a quilt. Carrie Nelson does that in spades and I have made a lot of her patterns.
I love scrap quilts and if I see a scrap book I get it. But I don’t follow names, I just look at the quilts. Sorry. This blog hop has been wonderful. Thanks.
Your quilt is fabulous! I am inspired by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Kaffe Fassett.
I’d have to say Amanda Jean Nyberg also! Did you see that quilt she made with those teeny triangles!?
So many great bloggers out there that create amazing quilts from scraps. I think Amanda Jean Nyberg may be the scrap queen in my book, but there are many others I find inspiration from as well!
Crazy mom quilts always amazes me- both her use of scraps & her speed! Looking forward to checking out scrap volume 2. Thank you!
Your quilt is gorgeous!
Riel Nason, who blogs at the Q and the U, just blows me away with her creative use of selvages.
Bonnie Hunter, of course! I also follow Sherri McConnell’s blog to see what she is doing with scraps and Carrie Nelson (now at Moda) who designs great scrappy quilts.
Amanda Jean Nyberg is amazing with her use of scraps! Seriously so impressive!
Crazy mom quilts…!
Laurie Meyers makes A-LOT of scrap quilts, and I love them all! I really neeeed this book so my fingers are crossed! Ps I love your quilt and want to see a full picture of the whole thing!!!
Bonnie Hunter’s quilts inspire (and intimidate) me. But I also see frequent blog posts from lots of different quilters that show wonderful scrappy quilts that I wish I had time to make!
There are a lot of blogs I follow that have some great scrap quilts — Crazy Mom Quilts, as several others mentioned. I also like several of the scrap quilts on Quilting is the More Fun Than Housework blog. Thanks for sharing yours. The book looks great.
Cynthia Brunz of “Quilting is More Fun Than Housework” from Eugene, OR always inspires me with all her quilts!
Sherri McConnell and Bonnie Hunter are just two of the fabulous quilters out there with scrap quilt ideas. Great inspiration is everywhere.
Love your quilt! I love that you took your inspiration from your yard and turned it into a beautiful quilt. This is my first visit to your blog and I have found lots of inspiration here, as well as from the other bloggers on the tour. Two of my favorite quilters for scrappy inspiration are Amy Smart and Amanda Jean.
Crazy Mom Quilts always inspires me – she seems to have organized her scraps above & beyond what I would ever do – very inspiring! I absolutely love your quilt – and how about that quilting, Miss Natalia – one of my favorite quilters!
I am always inspired by the amazing scrap quilts my St Louis Modern Quilt Guild members come up with.
I had the opportunity to see an exhibit of the Gee’s Bend quilts several years ago. Truly inspirational use of scraps!
I love Bonnie Hunter!
I am a big Bonnie hunter fan. But I would also have to give a nod to those early pioneers who relied on old clothes and feed sacks to make amazing things. Congrats on your book
Of course Amanda from Crazy Mom Quilts inspires me with her use of scraps- those huge scrap vortex quilts she makes are amazing!
I love scrap quilts! I am inspired by Bonnie Hunter and Sherri of A Quilting Life.
I am inspired by so many all around the net. but one of my favorites right now is Cynthia from Quilting is more fun that housework. Your quilt is so happy and cheerful I love it!
I am inspired by Cheryl Arkison.
I love your quilt – very inspiring indeed. I also like the work of Cheryl Arkison (fellow Calgarian) and excellent instructor. I am discovering other inspirational quilters via blog hops such as these – too many to list.
Love scrap quilts like yours that use a wide variety of colors! The more the better.
HAHAHAHA! Your scrap quilts inspire me, you little Louisville treasure!
I have to say inspiration comes from so many great quilters it would be hard to narrow it down to just one. However, Amanda Jean Nyberg would make anyone want to horde every scrap for brilliant future use.
Your quilt is beautiful, I love the way your framed with the blue scraps. As for inspiration, I am a new quilter, so read/look at lots of quilters, of course Bonnie Hunter, and I am enjoying seeing all the quilters in this book.