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A great week, stashing and giveaways
I may have had a couple of little splurges recently. I couldn't resist these beauties from Hawthorne Threads, some were needed for projects and commissions but the rest just fell into that online basket ;)
Cats Cradle in Raspberry, Catnap by Lizzy House; Buttons in Ivory, Home Grown by Maia Ferrell; Butterflies in Cream, Birds of a Feather by Allison Cole; Merry Scallop in Pink, A Merry Little Christmas by Zoe Pearn; Hana Dots in Sweet, Hello Tokyo by Lisa Tilse
Then I just had to get some more delicious double gauze from Miss Matatabi, I have the second print in another colourway already but I'm so glad I got this one too - it's hard to see but the white floral bits are metallic and how could I not have those metallic dots too?! The binding is for a project I will get to one day and again it's a gorgeous print with fabulous colours!
Pocho by Nani Iro (this colourway seems to be sold out but there's other Pocho prints available); Joy Flower by Nani Iro and Nani Iro Mountain View bias tape. I'm excited to work with these lovelies!
When I was in work yesterday I picked up a couple of much needed notions, I'm working on my English Country Garden BOM and realised Kerry is right and it will go together much faster if I glue! I've resisted a glue pen thus far but I think it will be more convenient and I do want to try and keep up (not even finished my first block yet so not doing too well!). I may even use it for EPP (argh!! That feels like sacrilege - I'm not quilt police or anything but I really do like basting with thread), at this point though I'm feeling the need for speed. I got a water soluble pen too because my other one ran out. I'm still loving my frixion pen but it's nice to have options!
Now I'm finally on IG I can enter all the fun giveaways and I won this gorgeous teatowel from Poppy Treffry. Sorry it's all creased, I couldn't help whipping it out and snapping it right away! It's great quality and I love that fun print. Thank you!
First up the Fat Quarter Shop has announced the 2014 Mega Quilt Market Sweepstakes to thank their customers and followers with prizes from the Spring 2014 International Quilt Market. This is Fat Quarter Shop’s biggest giveaway to date!
The total value of this amazing giveaway retails at over $6,300 and is divided into twelve prize buckets. The
prizes range from fabric bundles and books to notions and many more quilting essentials. All of the prizes are shown in the Sweepstakes video on their YouTube channel, so be sure to watch!
You can enter the Sweepstakes by visiting the Jolly Jabber blog and submitting a quick survey before 11:59 pm CST on Monday, June 30th, 2014.
It really is incredible and so generous!
Then Lily's Quilts is having a fabulous giveaway sponsored by Pink Castle fabrics and the winner will receive a year's subscription to the totally gorgeous Cotton and Steel monthly FQ club:
That's an amazing lot of prizes!
It's been a great week because I was utterly thrilled to learn I was nominated in the Viewer's Choice category of the Blogger's Quilt Festival. I'm in incredibly talented company and it's such an honour. They are all amazing quilts. I'm so grateful to my fabulous bee mates for their work in making feathers for my 'Bees of a Feather' quilt and although I am obviously completely in love with it and value every inch of it, it is rewarding knowing others see the beauty in it too. Thank you to everyone who voted! You can vote in the Viewer's Choice category here and I entered it in the Hand Quilted Category, which you can vote for here. Ta x
Have a great bank holiday Monday!
fabric on my mind
This blog has become more about fabric and less about me actually doing any sewing, just to prove a point here's another post about fabric...
I had a delivery, some yummies from Hawthorne Threads:
I know, YUM!!
These are my favourites and I am seriously crushing on them!!
I also woke up to a lovely email yesterday from Adrianne at Little Bluebell to say I'd won a FQ bundle from The Intrepid Thread! This is such a pretty bundle that Adrianne put together when shopping for her Peaceful Pagoda quilt. She posted about her process and I commented that I loved her choices at the time so I am so thrilled to have won! Thank you so much to Adrianne (for having great taste!) and Julie for the giveaway :)
If you're loving it too you can buy your own Peaceful Pagoda bundle here!
It really is good fortune since I had a giveaway of two charm packs of Kate Spain's 'Good Fortune' and didn't have any of my own! :) The bundle includes other lines too, check the link above to see the list in more detail.
If you're hating me a little bit please don't, why not do some winning of your own by entering the giveaways still open at the Fugly Fabric Party?!!
There's a few fashionably late links so go check it out - there's currently 67 links! :)
Remember tomorrow is the last day to link up your own fugly fabric posts before the party closes, click the button above to read all about it!
The winner of the Pezzy charm pack will be chosen on Tuesday.
I have been hard at work on the blocks for my secret quilt and was worried I wouldn't be making too much progress because it's half term here so I have 2 little ones under my feet for the next week, that means no nap time sewing!! - Honestly I'm glad to have them both around really, I miss the boy when he's at school!
Tomorrow, however, I have some boring stuff to do and my very kind and wonderful mother and step father have volunteered to have them both for the whole afternoon so I get a little me time too! I am SO grateful!
Once the jobs are done I should have about 2 or 3 hours free sewing time - yippee!! Hopefully I'll have something to show for myself! How much do you think I can get done??
I had a delivery, some yummies from Hawthorne Threads:
I know, YUM!!
These are my favourites and I am seriously crushing on them!!
I also woke up to a lovely email yesterday from Adrianne at Little Bluebell to say I'd won a FQ bundle from The Intrepid Thread! This is such a pretty bundle that Adrianne put together when shopping for her Peaceful Pagoda quilt. She posted about her process and I commented that I loved her choices at the time so I am so thrilled to have won! Thank you so much to Adrianne (for having great taste!) and Julie for the giveaway :)
If you're loving it too you can buy your own Peaceful Pagoda bundle here!
It really is good fortune since I had a giveaway of two charm packs of Kate Spain's 'Good Fortune' and didn't have any of my own! :) The bundle includes other lines too, check the link above to see the list in more detail.
If you're hating me a little bit please don't, why not do some winning of your own by entering the giveaways still open at the Fugly Fabric Party?!!
There's a few fashionably late links so go check it out - there's currently 67 links! :)
Remember tomorrow is the last day to link up your own fugly fabric posts before the party closes, click the button above to read all about it!
The winner of the Pezzy charm pack will be chosen on Tuesday.
I have been hard at work on the blocks for my secret quilt and was worried I wouldn't be making too much progress because it's half term here so I have 2 little ones under my feet for the next week, that means no nap time sewing!! - Honestly I'm glad to have them both around really, I miss the boy when he's at school!
Tomorrow, however, I have some boring stuff to do and my very kind and wonderful mother and step father have volunteered to have them both for the whole afternoon so I get a little me time too! I am SO grateful!
Once the jobs are done I should have about 2 or 3 hours free sewing time - yippee!! Hopefully I'll have something to show for myself! How much do you think I can get done??
So Bleeping Awesome! Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday!
Hello!! Today I'm hosting Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday! If you're new - welcome!
I'm not going to bother introducing myself and what I do because I'm simply too excited ;) If you would like to stay and look around after linking up that would be great! But I have to get on to the main event...
Now I'm not one to toot my own horn in normal circumstances but for this one - toot toot!!!
It is SO BLEEPING AWESOME (because it's a robot!!)
This is the 'Does Not Compute' pattern from the wonderful book Dare To Be Square by the talented Boo Davis. This book is amazing and I want to make every single thing in it. Already on my list is the hottenanny quilt (and I have the fabric ready and waiting!). The instructions are so easy to follow and she has great advice for someone just starting out but then she also has projects anyone would love to make! The robot was really simple because there's none of those pesky triANGERles. I quilted it very simply so the focus remains on the fun design:
I love the backing fabric from the I Heart collection by Rashida Coleman-Hale for Timeless Treasures. Those cogs are just so cool. A lot of the fabric I used for the top was given to me by my wonderful cousin, including the cute bee fabric:
I also love the binding fabric, which is the totally gorgeous Herringbone in Lake from the Modern Meadow collection by Joel Dewberry - as soon as this came back into stock at Hawthorne Threads, I snapped it up - even though I've still got some I'm wishing I'd got even more. My son has seen the fabric lying around and told me he loves it because it looks like cobwebs! (He had an own clothes day at school yesterday, guess who went dressed as Spiderman?!!)
Did you notice the crappy embroidery?! This quilt is clearly destined to be loved by my son so I attempted some chain stitching rather than a label (see why embroidery is on my list of things I want to do!!):
I'm planning on putting it out on his bed on Christmas day evening, I sort of think unwrapping a quilt isn't that exciting for a three year old but seeing it laid out will be a fun surprise :)
I've been plodding along with this one and it was only because of the TGIFF ladies and their kind acceptance when I wanted to host that it's actually finished - nothing like a bit of motivation! So thank you to Laura of Quokka Quilts and M-R of Quilt Matters! Also thank you to Rebecca for a bit of nudging!
I blogged about making this quilt in my third ever blog post back at the very beginning of September this year so it's only over 3 months since I started but it feels like this one has been hanging around forever! I think it's because I've made so many other things in the mean time!! I don't like having unfinished projects, it's just a bit tedious.
So have you managed to finish anything this week? Oh, you have?! How about linking up then ;)
Please link back to TGIFF in your post, you can grab the button here. Also spread the love and visit some of the other wonderful and clever bloggers who are linking up!
(fingers crossed this linky thing works!!) It's working! So go ahead and add your finish...
I'm not going to bother introducing myself and what I do because I'm simply too excited ;) If you would like to stay and look around after linking up that would be great! But I have to get on to the main event...
Now I'm not one to toot my own horn in normal circumstances but for this one - toot toot!!!
It is SO BLEEPING AWESOME (because it's a robot!!)
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| looks like he's waving and saying 'Merry Christmas'! |
This is the 'Does Not Compute' pattern from the wonderful book Dare To Be Square by the talented Boo Davis. This book is amazing and I want to make every single thing in it. Already on my list is the hottenanny quilt (and I have the fabric ready and waiting!). The instructions are so easy to follow and she has great advice for someone just starting out but then she also has projects anyone would love to make! The robot was really simple because there's none of those pesky triANGERles. I quilted it very simply so the focus remains on the fun design:
I love the backing fabric from the I Heart collection by Rashida Coleman-Hale for Timeless Treasures. Those cogs are just so cool. A lot of the fabric I used for the top was given to me by my wonderful cousin, including the cute bee fabric:
Did you notice the crappy embroidery?! This quilt is clearly destined to be loved by my son so I attempted some chain stitching rather than a label (see why embroidery is on my list of things I want to do!!):
I'm planning on putting it out on his bed on Christmas day evening, I sort of think unwrapping a quilt isn't that exciting for a three year old but seeing it laid out will be a fun surprise :)
I've been plodding along with this one and it was only because of the TGIFF ladies and their kind acceptance when I wanted to host that it's actually finished - nothing like a bit of motivation! So thank you to Laura of Quokka Quilts and M-R of Quilt Matters! Also thank you to Rebecca for a bit of nudging!
I blogged about making this quilt in my third ever blog post back at the very beginning of September this year so it's only over 3 months since I started but it feels like this one has been hanging around forever! I think it's because I've made so many other things in the mean time!! I don't like having unfinished projects, it's just a bit tedious.
So have you managed to finish anything this week? Oh, you have?! How about linking up then ;)
Please link back to TGIFF in your post, you can grab the button here. Also spread the love and visit some of the other wonderful and clever bloggers who are linking up!
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