We Have A Winner!

Wow!  514 comments!  Mr. RNG chose one of the first commenters though!

  Pink Stitches said...

Yay! Fabric! I love simple charm quilts. Can't go wrong with those!

Congrats to Bonnie of Pink Stitches!  Bonnie was giving away an awesome 241 tote on her blog!  I entered to win that one, but don't let that influence you, Bonnie, when you announce your winner! :)  If I don't hear from you, I'll email to get your address soon.


I just love giveaway day!  I've won 2 that I know of already!  Can you believe it!  I have crazy giveaway luck.  Have any of you won anything from SMS giveaway day?


As a side note, when entering giveaways, please don't tell the person who is GIVING away something that you don't like or don't use what they are giving away.  Why would you enter a giveaway that you didn't like the prize?  Why would you diminish someone else's chance?  Someone else who might actually LIKE the prize.  Manners  people.  Manners.

So amazingly lucky!

Our guild did a little scrap swap where we each brought in some scraps and our partners would make us something. We figured it was an easy way for everyone to get something they liked since it would be made from your own fabric. Kelly (SewKellySews) got my scraps and this is what she made!!!

Isn't it awesome?!?!?!?!? I gave her a bunch of scrap pieces of dot fabric plus one piece of Dick and Jane text. I got the chills when I saw it (and I may have teared up a bit). She was so very thoughtful and Flickr stalked me to come up with something I'd love. I absolutely adore it! Thanks Kelly!!!!!

 My partner, Ashely, gave me the scraps from her Fall couch quilt.  I opted for a pillow cover in a simple design with a little bit of interest in the quilting.  After seeing what everyone else in the guild made, however, I felt like a loser!  Luckily, Ashley didn't make it to this meeting so I have time to whip up a little something else with the scraps I have left! :)

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!!!!

I love SMS giveaway day!  It's so fun to hop from blog to blog and discover new creative people!  If you haven't been to my blog before, feel free to browse around!  If you'd like to check out my etsy shop, I have a coupon code for 15% off until the giveaway closes on December 16th.  Just enter "GIVEAWAY" at check out!  This code also applies to my Wonky Alphabet pattern!

This year I'm giving away three charm packs to one lucky winner!  Two from the talented Tula Pink--Plume and Hushabye, these are hard to find these days!  The third is from Liesl Gibson, City Weekend.   

To enter, just leave a comment!  That's it, no hoops!  If you want, you can tell me your favorite precut pattern since I have a precut addiction and I love finding new patterns for them!  International entries welcome!

Be 100% sure I have a way to contact you!  If you are a no-reply commenter, please leave an email address in your comment!

Good luck!  Giveaway will remain open until December 16 at 5 p.m. PST.  I will use the Random Number Generator to choose a winner on December 17th!  

And The Winner Is......

Mr. RNG and I are up early this morning and he said the winner is #10, Ali!!!!!!!!  Congrats to Ali!  It's always fun when someone you know wins! I'll get the Traveling Stash in the mail to you today or Monday (along with the other box of stuff I owe you!).  If you guys want to follow the Traveling Stash, be sure to check in with Ali's blog http://www.asquaredw.com  for her post.  

Just so I don't have a post without a picture, here is our Christmas card picture this year:

Sadly, this was the best of the bunch!  

So I opened my mail and said...

HOLY FREAKING SHIT! Sorry, but that's what I said! I randomly messaged Laurie (Wisbrun) to see if she had any more of the Christmas donkey/Wellington boots fabric I used here

so I could buy some. She kindly searched her stash to see if she had any scraps only to find none. She said she found some of the Spring Donkeys and asked if I wanted some....uh, YES! I offered to pay and she declined--I thought she was sending me scraps! She sent 1/2 yard cuts of the boots and the donkeys!!!!  Then, she adds a stack of Christmas boot hexagons and a FQ set of her new line. A-MAZ-ING! Thank you Laurie for being oh-so-generous and kind to a stranger! Off to plan my projects......

Oh, for those of you who love Laurie's fabrics, she's having a sale on some of her limited edition prints in her etsy shop!

The Traveling Stash Giveaway!!!!

I was lucky enough to win a box of goodies from Staci (the confused quilter).  It's a box filled with random fabric, notions, books, etc called the Traveling Stash.  You can read more about it here.  I thought this was such a cute idea!  If you win the box, you can remove whatever you like and add items from your own stash before you pass it along!  Now here is where things get interesting, when I received the box, there wasn't much in it that was my style.  The box was filled with more traditional fabric and patterns so I had an idea--I'll donate almost all the items in the box to my local quilt guild and fill the box with more modern fabric and patterns from my own stash!  So here is a sample of what's in the box now:

I will probably be adding more fabric and patterns to this, but I want to keep some things a surprise!  In the box now is Amy Butler home dec, Ikea home dec, Heather Ross, Denyse Schmidt, Urban Chiks, Laurie Wisburn, vintage sheet scraps, and the hugely popular Swoon pattern just to name a few!  I will stuff a LARGE flat rate box full of goodies!  

To win, just leave one comment--maybe tell me your favorite fat quarter pattern (besides Swoon). 

FINE PRINT!  You must be:
1. an active blogger
2. a US resident
3.  You must promise to fill the box back up after you have taken out what you'd like to keep!

I will leave the giveaway open until 11pm on Friday, December 9th.  I will have the Random Number Generator choose my winner.  Good luck!

Math and Christmas

Finished up this sample quilt for Ali based on her paper pieced pattern for the equation y=1/x. 

There are a couple of firsts in this quilt for me.  It was the first time I've made an entire quilt from a paper pieced pattern.  It's the first time I've used 505 to spray baste a quilt--by the way, I think I'm in love!  It's also the first time I've used the start/stop function on my machine to free motion instead of  the foot pedal.  I've always wanted to try it, but if you pin baste, the start/stop button isn't practical.  I'm still not sure I would ever take the time to spray baste a large quilt, but it was sooooooooo much faster to FMQ this since it had been spray basted I might consider it!

I used some Habitat for the binding since it had a lot of the colors I used in the top.

The back is an AMH flannel print.  It's super soft and cozy!

I love how the quilting show up on the back!  

I'm now working on a stocking for my nephew!  I still have to add the cuff and add some details to the other side.