My stash... and a giveaway!!!

I am a snoop. When we are driving home from somewhere and it is dark out (it's dark a lot at this time of year), I ask my husband to slow down so I can look into people's houses. Yep, I'm that person. The person that you close your drapes for just in case they drive by. "Oh look," I say to myself, "They hung their art way to high." "Ooooo, I like that paint color." "Time to rip out those 1970's room-divider shelves...."

I am pretty sure that there are more of me out there - or more like me - who like to see how everyone else lives. So, I'm gonna show you my stash today. I don't know if you frequent other quilting blogs, but oh my goodness!! the stashes that some of them have! Mine is shamefully tiny compared to theirs.

Here's my quilting fabric. Usually I have a huge roll of white too, but I happen to be out of it right now. It's loosely arranged by color, or theme, or by how I happen to be feeling.

I also have another cupboard of non-quilting fabric, but I'm not showing that today. You'll have to come peak in my window to see that.

The white box on the shelf contains my fat quarters or similiar sized pieces. See?

Then I have a big cardboard box that I throw my scraps into. Some people have their scraps arranged by color and size. Not me. I have a box. It's better than the floor.

Also, I have these fabrics pulled out for the current project.

Now, I organized my cupboard slightly for these pictures, and while I did that I pulled out the fabrics that I don't want anymore. Either I was given them and I hate them, I've over-used them and I'm sick of them, or I'm just not inspired by them (and I'm not gonna tell you which is which).

Does anybody want them? If you think you might use them (I'm not looking for a promise here, just a hope that you might find them useful), leave a comment on this post. I'm gonna send something little along with it, just as a thank you for taking these fabrics off of my hand, so I want you to put in your comment what you might sew with these scraps, and what your favorite color is (although I'm not making any promises that it will be included in your surprise). You have until Monday, January 24 at midnight to comment, then I'll randomly select the winner. The pieces are all around fat quarter size - some a little bigger, some a little smaller. I will ship this anywhere. Anywhere. Or I'll bring it to your door with my 4x4 if you live close enough.

And why would I need to use my 4x4? Well......

We've gotten some snow lately. I don't know what measurement it's at for snowfall, but I do know that the piles I've made by shovelling my driveway are over my head. The above picture was taken before we got the last 10" or so, too. I like this picture 'cause there is a cornice on top of the gate. This is our deck, and there is 12" or so of snow on top of the railing, and about 2' on the deck itself. I love it.

I love it because it makes me feel all warm and cozy and like I should be sewing. So I did.

This is a quilt top for my darling niece... more story coming later.