And the Winner is....

Rebecca from Our Busy Little Bunch....

Thank you everyone for letting me know that you are still out there and still reading.

Have a great weekend!

Leslie

Scrap Happiness!!

This week i decided i needed a fast and easy project(i am talking 24 hours from piecing to binding). I also wanted to have a go at some of my scraps!! A personal scrap challenge, if you will, which I found to be harder than i thought. I just can not help myself, i always want to make the fabrics match!

In comes husband....i asked him for help. "Please Hubby, go through my scraps and pile up the ones that look good." He sure did and even snuck in a challenge piece to see if i would use it...can you find the pirate ship?

This denim wonky star is my favorite one. I always see scrap quilts and am stunned at how great they look when nothing is the same color and everything is random.

Right down to the bindings i used scraps...these had been in my bucket all ready to go from previous finished projects.

Today i want to say thank you to the blog friends out there that are still reading my blog. I would love to send you one of these mug rugs as a thank you!!! Please just leave a comment to let me know you were here and i will choose a winner by the end of the week.

Leslie

Winner

Thank you everyone for being so interested in my giveaway. I threw your numbers into the random number generator and the winner was

LUCKY 13!!!!

Eli, please contact me so i can get this gorgeous fall fabric mailed to you.

Giveaway!!!!

I thought it was high time i had a little giveaway!!!

In honor of my 700th post and the beautiful fall weather we are having here are 7 Forties Fat Quarters from my stash.

pretty!!!

No hoops to jump through, just go ahead and leave me a comment and i will pick a winner on Friday. Feel free to spread the word around to your blog friends if you think they might be interested.

Leslie

And the Winner is...

...drum roll please!!!! The winner of the Robots Quilt is Kimberly of Perfection Not Included. I sure hope that you love it and it gets a wonderful new home with you and your family. I am going to go e-mail you right now!!!!

And thanks all of you ladies that entered...makes me feel like you know i am still here. I swear i will quilt again someday. :o) Perhaps there will be something coming up with some brand new fabirc that just came in the mail...i love good mail. I will be sharing it with you soon.

Giveaway Time!!!

The time has come!!! This quilt needs a nice new home!

What do you think? Is anyone interested?

This was originally made for the possibility of having a little boy, but as any of you faithful readers know, we had Delilah and she is certainly not a boy!

So, if you are interested, no jumping through hoops is required, just go ahead and leave a comment. I will leave this open for a few days and pick the winner Sunday. How does that sound?

size: 40"x 33"
made with: Cogsmo by Cosmo Cricket

Lucky Me!

I have recently won some really fun things from a couple blogs i love to read.

Cathy at Quilting on Turtle Hill makes these gorgeous handmade Waldorf dolls...right down to the cutest little outfits. She had a giveaway on her blog and the winner got to choose what she wanted her doll to look like...so this sweet little girl is a combination of her ideas and mine. Cute, right? Thank you so much Cathy, she fits right in here at our house. Go have a look at her other dolls, here. Cathy, does she have a name?

I also had the pleasure of winning these cute little baby shoes from Beth of Wee Pereas. She makes them herself and sells them in her etsy shop. I think they are just going to get stashed away in case we need them for a gift down the road. They are surely too small for Avery.

Thanks so much ladies. It was so fun to get these packages this week.

Fun Treasures in the Mail

I recently discovered a quilting blog called Modify Tradition. It has lots of great tutorials and holds frequent giveaways and has tons of tutorials. I was very thrilled when i won one about two weeks ago. I received my package on one of our snowiest days....just when things needed a little brightening up.

This cute little apron is reversible...pocket on one side and a lovely strip of fabric on the other sewn onto two dishtowels. I love it!!! But better than just the apron was the extras that were included....i was so excited to find a set of dishcloths and these adorable hand warmers. How cool are those and so appropriate since we have so much snow right now.

Thank you so much...i love everything!!!

And the Winner is....

...drum roll please... Congratulations Tricia you are the lucky winner of my 2, count them, 2 fat quarters of Heather Ross Matroyshka in lilac fabric. I hope that you love them and make something wonderful with them.

****don't give up hope. there are more giveaways out there. go on over and check out this giveaway on Sew Many Stitches Later blog. She is so generous and is sharing some fabric and a few other treasures. go on go look, you know you want to.***

Fast Finish and Giveaway

By Sunday afternoon i had pinned the whole top of my Matroyshka Quilt....then i started asking myself. why so many other unfinished projects? The only thing i can come up with is that i was not terribly invested in this one. Mostly a stash buster with nobody for it to really go to...just made it because i liked it!

Avery got to be my holder this afternoon since she was the only one around. The wind was giving us a little trouble but it was the only minute of sunshine we have had in days. Almost did not know what it was!

When i went on the hunt through the stash to find something to back this with i was really at a loss....then i remembered this tablecloth i bought. I just loved the colors... but it did not match anything in my house. Turned out it was the right size and the right colors.

So i got to quilting...just a simple straight line outline of the blocks.

Now for the fun part....to make this quilt i only used one of my 5 fat quarters of this Heather Ross Matroyshka fabric. Simple math says i still have a few left...so i would like to share with all of you nice ladies and giveaway 2 of the fat quarters to one lucky winner. So all you have to do is leave me a comment, just say hey or whatever you feel like. I will plan to choose a winner over the weekend. Sound good? Please make sure to leave me your e-mail or some way to contact you.

Drumroll Please!!!

and the winner is Jingle

Jingle said...

Wow! congratulations on your 500th post! That is impressive! It looks like you have a wonderful blog! Thanks for the fun giveaway.

Thanks everyone for coming and commenting. And welcome all you new followers. I hope that you continue to come by and say hello. I appreciate it. I never thought there would be such a huge response. Jingle, I sure hope that you enjoy the Wonderland Layer Cake!

Giveaway Day

Sew Mama Sew blog is hosting a giveaway day on December 2nd. I am so thrilled to be a part of this. I enjoy their sight so much and have found so much great inspiration through the blog and the links they share there all of the time.

So for this giveaway day i am going to be giving away a Moda layer cake, Wonderland by Momo.

Come comment on my post by December 6th and you will be entered to be part of my random giveaway. Become a follower and you will get and additional entry. If you are already a follower be sure to let me know in your comment so that i can count you in for two from the start.

I am willing to ship internationally. Please be sure to leave me a way to contact you, ie e-mail address or blog address, in your comment so that i can notify the winner right away. Please remember that if i can not contact you i can not let you know you won!!!!!

Now it just so happens that this post coincides with my 500th post. Yeah me!! I can not believe that this much time has gone by and that i have posted this much! Who knew i had so much to say and share. I have recently met lots of new people in blogland and have gained many new followers. I am so glad to know that there are people out there interested. It is what makes blogging fun for me...the comments, sharing ideas, being inspired. I can not wait to "meet" more of you through giveaway day!!!

**by the way, family not included. cause i know you guys would do nothing with it!!!**