Wednesday’s Works and Ponderings
Hi, I thought I would share what I have been working on this week.
I finished piecing the last available pieces of the Dr. Seuss scraps into a Stacked Coins design that I centered into the backing for the baby quilt.
I was able to cut three stacks of 4.5 inch wide coins and two 4 inch wide coin stacks. They ended up about 16 inches tall and I added a 2.5 inch strip of blue in between them all. I took the last of this shade of blue yardage and cut it down the middle fold and added the length to both sides of my coin stacks. I had plans to add in a red solid stripe divided into the blue spanse on each side, but it appears that I have enough length without adding in more fabric. I plan to use the red solid as binding.
Yesterday, I got some fun “squishy” mail. A package of fabric that I won during the Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day back in December finally arrived. I won a jelly roll, a charm pack and three mini charm packs from the blogger ChooChooSkadoo.
Here is my jelly roll strip set. I am not sure what line they are from as a whole, or if possibly they were a theme of fabrics pulled from many lines by a fabric shop (it appears there are various makers.)
White on white to black on white prints.
Black on white prints to black solid. (Butterflies, Koi fish, a chrysanthemum flower of sorts and ginkgo leaves)
Red solid to red with white and black prints.
I have not used too many jelly roll sets in the past in my quilt making. I have cut my own strips from yardage. These fabrics are quite pretty and I am sure I can come up with something to do with them.
Here is a Kona Solids charm pack in the Botanicals coloring. Mini charms of Snowman Gatherings, The Boo Crew and V&Co’s Color Me Happy fabric lines. I needed more solids for my stash and I have seen a solid colors Framed quilt made up that I have had my eye on this week. I have not used mini charms yet, and these can make up some cute pillow tops.
I just have not had the chance to pull out my quilt tops and get them basted together to start quilting yet this week. Our daughter started back in college this week and everyone is adjusting to new schedules around the house. We are planning on getting a king size bed this weekend, so we are going to need new bedding and quilts. Two of my four quilts needing quilting will be going on our new bed, but the two smaller quilts are to be gifts, so they should take priority to being finished. Our daughter will be getting a different bed and would like a new cover for her comforter. I have had fabric set aside for this purpose, for quite a while. She likes Cowboys and Horses and the general, all western theme.
This is Alexander Henry’s Wranglers (Pin up Cowboys) fabric. I have 5 yards of it. And somewhere in this house, but for the life of me, I can not find it…is another 5 yards of a cowboy and cowgirls riding horses fabric on a light sort of minty green background. I know I am not imagining it or dreaming, as my daughter remembers that we have the two prints to make reversible comforter. I made up a quilt kit bag from a large zip loc bag and had the fabrics in it, but the other print is missing. How do you lose 5 yards of fabric?? 🙂
While digging through my fabric bins and chest of drawers, I come across a fun project from last year. I started making Disappearing 4 Patches from a red with white hearts print fabric. I had this fabric yardage back from when I made primitive fabric dolls back in 1999-2001 for wholesale market. This fabric was used to make a Raggedy Annie doll dress.
I think I started out with 10 inch white and print squares. It makes up a 18.5 inch block. I think it was based on the Missouri Star Quilts tutorial. I cut up all the red/white heart fabric I had left and ended up with 8 blocks.
This is 2 rows of 3 blocks sewn together. The blocks are sewn but the rows are not yet. With having 8 pieced blocks instead of 9, I am not sure how I want to or should lay them out. Take the last two blocks and piece in a plain block in the center, or piece the two blocks together and end with the plain block. Either way, the plain white block could have some sort of applique applied to it, or do some sort of Valentine’s Day redwork embroidery??? Any thoughts??? If made into a 9 block quilt, it would finish off at around 54 inches square.
I plan to baste the Dr. Seuss baby quilt and get the Plus Dash and Boxed In and Out quilt tops ready for basting in the upcoming days. No matter how fun it is to think about playing with new fabrics, I need to get back on schedule.
Thanks for stopping by. I will be linking up with the various midweek linky parties.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Scrappy Dr. Seuss Baby Quilt Flimsy
Hi, I would like to share my Scrappy Dr. Seuss baby quilt top that I have been working on this week.
This top is approximately 38 by 53 inches. I created it from leftover 2 inch strips from 20 some different Dr. Seuss prints that I originally had fat quarters of and made a quilt for a new nephew in 2011. This is my take on Sweet Jane’s Picnic In the Park quilt pattern. Her pattern uses 2.5 inch strips and I sized the finished block down from 10 inches to 8 inches by using the 2 inch strips that I had.
With careful cutting of my pieced strip segments, I was able to make 15 blocks.
I added a white border to finish off the outside of the blocks. I took my ThingOne ThingTwo fabric and cut 2 1/4 inch strips for a middle border and found a blue solid in my stash and cut 4.5 inch borders. I thought my ThingOne Thing Two fabric was longer than what it was and ended up being a bit short for the longer side borders so I improvised and used the longest strip of a coordianting red fish bowl print and cut corner rectangles.
Here is a closer look.
Or even closer to look at block details.
I have just a few pieces of these fabrics left. 2.5 inch strip segments that were left over from piecing the other quilt. I thought they were too nice to throw away and can cut them down to make stacked coins for a pieced backing for this quilt.
It has been fun reworking this prints into a new quilt top. It will be a nice playmat quilt for our new family member.
I will be linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts, and Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? and TGIFF this week.
Thanks for visiting my blog this week. Hope everyone is staying warm. It’s been quite frigid here in Iowa this week.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Playing with Scraps: Baby Quilt WIP
Hi, I have been in a bit of a quilting/sewing funk these past couple of weeks. If you by chance read Goodbye 2014 post last week, you know I have alot of new fabric and patterns to play with in the upcoming year. I could just dive in and cut up some of those pretty fabrics and create something new or I have four quilt tops needing quilting (two for gifts and two for us.)
I decided to pull some of my fabric scraps out and play with them and make yet another project to quilt (it’s bitterly cold and snowing here yet again….) In February there will be a new baby in the family, so I thought I would make a fun baby quilt for my sister inlaw so the new Grandma has something for the new baby at her house. A quilt is way nicer than having to throw a towel down for the baby to lay or play on.
I made a quilt back in 2011 from a set of Dr. Seuss fat quarters that had like 22 different prints for our new nephew at the time. I do not have a good photo of it to share. I had a stack of 2 inch by 22 inch strips leftover.
This photo is actually half of the strips cut down to 11 inch strips.
In the last 5 years, I have become some what of a “Quilt Pattern Collector”. I have cut way back on the patterns I purchase since I found Pinterest. I collect my ideas there for a while then purchase the patterns I like the most after that. I have numerous fun patterns that I could make, but have not for whatever reason. I have many that use precuts like jelly roll strips and that is one precut that I usually do not have or use. I end up cutting my own from my yardage or fat quarters.
I have collected various quilt patterns made by Susan Pfau’s Sweet Jane. She sells on Etsy. This week, I pulled out her Picnic In the Park quilt pattern. It of course is supposed to use 2.5 inch strips but I have 2 inch. So playing around a bit with what I have to work with, my blocks will be 8 inches square instead of 10.5 inches square. I will follow her instructions as close as I can otherwise.
I have 6 blocks made and should be able to make at least 12. I do not plan on making the pieced scrappy border as I do not have extra fabric. If I rework how I cut the next set of strips, I may be able to make more actual blocks. I like the pieced blocks more than the scrappy border.
I have a piece of the Thing One Thing Two print that is 10 inches by the full 42 inches that I plan on making a border to the quilt with. Possibly adding red or navy to finish it off. I have various other Dr Seuss scraps from the other quilt I made that can be used to make a scrappy backing for the quilt.
I thought a small quilt would be a fun way to practice some different types of quilting on like spiral quilting or an allover scalloped/wavy stitch. I do not make too many smaller quilts anymore.
The baby is due around February 8th and they do not know the sex, so hopefully Dr. Seuss is universal enough for either a boy or girl. I will make a more suited quilt after the baby has arrived.
I am linking up with the newly formed Oh Scrap linky party over at Quilting Is More Fun than Housework and my usual weekly linky parties that are linked on the front of my blog.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope to show you the finished quilt top by the weekend.
Happy Sewing until then,
Shelley
Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015
Hi, Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year’s Eve. Today we welcome a new year and new beginnings. 365 days that have potential for greatness. 365 days to work on new quilts, of course.
I have only been blogging for 5 months. It has been a pretty rewarding experience. I have met many new friends, participated in the Around the World Blog Hop and shared my quilt projects on numerous weekly quilt linky parties. For such a short time blogging, I am happy with my blog having received 17,319 page views in that 5 month period, with October being my best month with over 6,400 views just that month. I had the honor of testing new quilt patterns for 3 different quilt designers this past year. I hope that I will get the opportunity to do more pattern testing in the new year.
I have many things or ideas in the works for 2015. I am not one to make New Year’s Resolutions. I am more of a list or note maker. So I will share some of the things that I am hoping to work on/plan to make in the upcoming year.
Works in Progress To Be Finished
1. My Boxed In and Out Quilt I am working on finalizing on what I want to applique on the back of the quilt. A Minnesota Vikings head, or just the Minnesota Vikings name logo. I do plan to applique our friends’ last name “The Elliotts” on the back. The quilt designer makes up a team logo applique for the front of her version of this quilt. I am not sure where I want to put the design, go smaller on front or larger on back.
2. My Plus Dash Quilt The top is finished and the backing is finished. I just need to start basting it. Since this top is ready to go, it should be pushed ahead of the Boxed In and Out for a faster finish.
3. My Looking Glass Quilt The top is finished and the backing is ready. Since this was for our bed and not a gift priority, it has been on hold for finishing. It’s queen size so I need to rethink where I have been sewing on my quilts to make a place that I can properly hold up the quilt, while quilting it easier.
4. My 39 Shades of Charming Quilt The top is finished, and I have fabrics pulled to make the backing. This quilt is 105″ square so it is between a Queen and King size quilt. This top has sat on the back burner the longest, due to size and not knowing how I wanted to quilt it.
New Fabrics to Play With
1. I won a fat eighth bundle of V and Co’s Color Theory from Bear Creek Quilting Co. during Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day in December. I think it has not been released to market yet. I am pretty excited to have all those pretty fabrics to play with. Fat Eighths are my new favorite precut to use.
2. I have been collecting fat quarters of Indelible. I have the fat quarter set in Darkened Ink colors, and have most of the prints from the Subtle Watermarks colors. I think I am just missing two prints from having whole collection. Three of the prints I have 1/2 yard cuts.
3. A Layer Cake of Bali Batiks Crackers in Rum Raisin coloring. I gave away one of these lovelies on Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day and I had to have one for myself. I am thinking of making up Lucky by Thimbleblossoms in these pretty colors.
Stashed Fabrics That May Finally See Use Soon
1. Fat Quarter Bundle of Sweetwater’s Authentic line. I have had these fabrics since 2010. They have reached their peak ripeness. lol I have one of each print. One print I have two fat quarters and another print I have 3 fat quarters.
I have decided to make the Nina Quilt by GE Designs that you can make with the new Stripology ruler. (I do not own the ruler yet, would love to have it, and am waiting to see it available locally somewhere as I am anxious about it arriving in one piece in the mail.) I am thinking if I add cream and black solids I can extend my prints out to the largest size quilt I can make. Pair up the green and cream prints with black solid and the black and lighter green prints with cream solid.
2. Fat Quarter Bundle of Denyse Schmidt’s Hope Valley. I have had these fabrics also since 2010. It’s time to use them.
I have pinned so many different quilts to my Quilt Pinterest boards made from Hope Valley. I have had the Swoon pattern saved for a while now as well. I am thinking that my Hope Valley should meet Swoon. I have all 24 prints and the pattern calls for 18 fat quarters, so I can pick and choose my favorite prints.
Is there anyone else out there that has not made a Swoon quilt yet??
New Quilt Patterns to Make
(Batiks or some of the leftover fun bright colors that were chosen to be included in Plus Dash.)
2. Impromptu by Rachel Griffiths Designs
(I am thinking this is a great way to use a patriotic themed layer cake I have. Make a nice quilt for a friend’s birthday in February.)
(Possibly combine the rum raisin batik layer cake with a nice gray solid)
4. Mod Gears by Don’t Call Me Betsy Elizabeth Dackson
(Love the gray and black in the quilt, add pops of color from batiks or the like)
As you can see I have lots of future plans for projects in the upcoming year. I hope you all will stick around and check out what I am working on next. I will be linking this up with Fresh Sewing Day and other linky parties.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
My Top 5 Quilt Finishes for 2014
Hi, As the year 2014 is quickly coming to an end, I would like to look back and share the top 5 of my blogged quilt finishes. I have made many new friendships this past year and have learned so much from my fellow quilt bloggers and friends. I look forward to being able to share all my new quilting projects in the upcoming year.
(By clicking on the numbered titles, you can go to the actual full blog post about each of my quilts.)
Which one was your Favorite?
5. MPC Pegs Quilt made in V& C0. Simply Color
4. Scooby Doo Crossing :2 Quilts Finished
3. Broken Frames Quilt Finished
2. High Tea Quilt : Batik Version Pattern Tested
I of course love them all. 🙂
Many more quilts will be in the works for 2015. Hope that you all will continue to stop by and see my latest quilt creations.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Sewn Christmas Gifts
Hi Everyone, Hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday spent with family and lots of good food. I would like to share some items that I sewed up as gifts for this Christmas. I wanted to finish quilting Plus Dash and Boxed In and Out as gifts but it just did not work out for me. I tend to over do it, but since part of our Christmas will continue on into possibly the middle of January, my quilts will get extra care and be completed at a later date.
Our two Grandsons and their Great Grandma all got Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablets for Christmas. I decided to make up sturdy cases for them that stand up by themselves when you want to watch long videos. The boys love Netflix.
I used a pattern that I found on Etsy. The pattern was originally able to be purchased and the designer could draw you up one to fit your tablet computer. Our grandson had an off brand tablet that was larger than these Samsung ones. I see that the designer Sew Spoiled has updated her pattern for 2014 and sells them for Ipads. We had purchased the original pattern back in 2012 and his tablet was a good inch wider and close to 2 inches taller than what his new one is. I had my outer cases made before I realized that there was a difference in size of tablets. Luckily I could just move the corner tabs and elastics to fit the smaller tablets.
I made this one for Grandma Beckie. I used some fabrics from my stash that I had made her a tote bag for her knitting two Christmases ago. The fabric was called Heart and Soul by Whimsicals for Red Rooster Fabrics. I had three of the prints left and I added solid brown and bound the edge of my pieced tablet top.
I used the third print as the lining of the case. I fused the lining with a medium weight iron on interfacing. The outside of the case had a firm interfacing Pellon Peltex or Timtex applied to it. Once I sewed the two top layers together, I slipped another piece of really heavy fiberous stablizer product into the case before I sewed the channels for the tile pieces. I cut a couple linoleum tiles instead of masonite boards.
Here is the tablet case standing up.
Here is Shaderek’s case. I made his out of a fun Transformers cotton print I found on sale at Walmart.
Yellow for the inside of his case, since BumbleBee is his favorite Transformers character.
Sawyer likes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He calls them the Monster Turtles.
I pulled red cotton from my stash. I know one of the turtles wears it as a mask color.
I purchased the Ninja Turtles and Transformers fabrics to make the boys quilts. I purchased 3 yards of each, and cut off 1/2 yard to make the cases. I have enough of the half yard of fabric left that I am making padded cases for storing or traveling with the tablets. I do have some scraps left of the Heart and Soul prints that I have a case cut out for Grandma as well. I have some neoprene type rubber that I have rectangles cut out that will help pad the front and back of the tablets. I have not decided yet if I want to make the cases zippered or make them closed with a flap that slids behind an elastic strap. (I made myself a case with the elastic band for my Kindle and like that style of case.) Future quilts made from the Turtles and Transformers fabrics can stay at our house for when they visit, especially since I put all that work into making the Scooby Doo quilts for the boys.
I made a special pillow for the boy’s Great Grandpa. It is color striped like the Italian Flag. It was one of my first flanged pillows.
Our daughter cut out of black vinyl, their family name Lasorella in a really neat script font and added a black outline of the Italian map under it and fused it on to the pillow with her heat press. (I unfortunately do not have a photo of it.) I made my own pillow form from upcycling a pillow top mattress pad. The wife of one of my husband’s coworkers works at a large name mattress factory and apparently employees are allowed to have the defective tops. Two king size mattress tops were given to my husband as they knew that we made furniture and did our own upholstery at times. It was not what my husband thought it was going to be, but when cut up and sewn together, it makes wonderful pillow forms. It is five different layers of foam and tuffed together with large circles and awesome machine quilting.
And the last gift I presented on Christmas Day was my finished High Tea batik quilt to Grandma Beckie. She loved it and was shocked that I would give her such a gift. Her birthday is January 1st so it made it better that I said it was a joint birthday/Christmas gift.
I will be sharing these finished items with various linky parties. Many thanks for the continued support of my blog readers. I hope you all have a healthy and safe New Years. I have many new quilty projects to share in the upcoming year.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Boxed In and Out Flimsy (Updated)
Hi, Welcome to my version of Santa’s Sweatshop. It is less than 10 days til Christmas and of course, I had to start one more quilt. Yes, I may be crazy. But I have a Plan.
I am making Happy Quilting‘s Boxed In and Out. I am making my version in purple and yellow and white. This will be a gift for our friends whose family are very big Minnesota Vikings fans. They moved away to a new area about 3 months ago, and I think their wedding anniversary is around the corner. So one gift of a quilt can be a Christmas, Anniversary and House Warming gift all rolled into one.
The quilt pattern directions are well written and nice diagrams and charts. Lots of chain piecing. The quilt size I chose to make is the Picnic size that is 74 by 88 inches. It is 30 blocks made of of 3 sections. After Midnight last night, while pressing my 90 block sections, I discovered that 24 out of the 30 of the bottom sections of my blocks were sewn together wrong. The yellow and white segments were flipped. There was no fixing it, other than rip/snip apart the 24 block sections. Thanks to my trusty silver Gingher snips, I had them apart and resewn by shortly after 1 AM.
This quilt pattern has a really neat design addition that Melissa shares the how tos. She tells how to use MS Excel and take a sports team logo artwork and enlarge it to make a layered quilted patch to go on this quilt. When I originally purchased this pattern last year, I did play with MS Excel and used my Niece’s high school mascot of a Tiger’s head and managed to enlarge it til it was approximately 15 inches by 30 inches. It would not be too hard to cut out the design elements of the logo and fuse them on the quilt top or back. I also worked up the logo the school uses on jerseys. I was planning on using this idea on a different quilt top that I had made up to make for our Niece. I decided to put making a high school mascot quilt on hold, when our Niece was talking about wanting to change schools. I really liked Melissa’s mascot logo idea and hope to incorporate it in to a future quilt project.
(Printing the logos took the rest of red ink so that’s why they are splotchy. Also stretching out the outer oval band on the tiger face logo somehow gets cut off in the collage printing. It is easy to draw it back in. )
With there being a week til Christmas, I am thinking of taking our friends’ family name and incorporate into the design of the back of the quilt. I would love to try to make my own Vikings head but I do have the time to go into that detail at moment. Maybe I can give them a pillow with the Vikings head appliqued ???
As for Santa’s Sweatshop, I am hoping to finish this quilt, and hope to finish quilting my Plus Dash quilt. I am working on making our grandsons and another relative standing cases for their new computer tablets (one will be Transformers and the other will be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.)
I will be linking up this work in progress with various weekly linky parties.
I would like to wish all my blog readers a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year’s. I hope that you all will come back and visit in new year as I have many quilty things in progress that I hope to share with you all.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Winner
Hi, I would like to thank everyone that entered my first Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day contest. It was wonderful to receive 255 commented entries.
It was very interesting to read all about the different sewing machines that you all are using or learned how to sew on. Very neat to learn that many also learned to sew on a Kenmore like me and some also still owned that machine. Lots of Pfaff users out there too! I really hope to get a chance to get my Pfaff fixed. I so miss that IDT and the needle down function. I have a couple other machines that have needle down, but the needle does not stay in that position, you have to keep pushing the button again. That is a real pain.
Anyway, I am sure that you all would like to know who won the contest. I had 250 entries but my blog set up did not number them the normal way for me (1-255). I am going by the internal comment number so my entries are (568 to 829), which was entered into Random.org.
Comment 795 was Stacy Alfano. Congratulations to Stacy Alfano! I will be contacting you by email. I will try to get your fabric in the mail as soon as I can, as I am trying to avoid a delay from a possible snow storm.
Stacy’s comment
I follow you on Facebook! submitted 12/11/2014 at 9:06 PM.
Again, many thanks to everyone that has entered and commented. It is wonderful to see such a jump in the number of new followers to my blog. I hope that you all will stick around to see what I have to share in the upcoming weeks and New Year.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
My Oldest Flimsies: What Would You Do?
Hi, I came across my oldest quilt tops( that are long past needing quilting) while digging in my fabric storage bins this week. I thought I would do a write up on them and share while I am trying to work out the puzzle my current work in progress has become.
I created my version of the Let’s Play Dress Up quilt that was featured in the Traditional Quiltworks Holiday Quilts Plus magazine issue from December 1998/January 1999. Apparently it was originally a Block of the Month quilt pattern. At the time I made this quilt top, I was working for an online craft pattern store and sewing dolls, pillows and stitcheries from the patterns she sold and then my completed items were sold wholesale to the craft stores or quilt shops that want to carry them. I made this quilt for my daughter but she has long since outgrown dolls. She is my baby and will be turning 25 this weekend. A 14 year old work in progress, oh my? Actually I used to have an even older one, a quilt I made for my husband in 1991. I think I finally donated that top to charity last year.
There are twelve different dolls. You can choose hair styles, hair color of course, dress style, with or without aprons. I used all sorts of different homespun plaids as the pattern showed. I handcut out all the pieces and fused them to my blocks and machine embroidered around all the pieces with coordinating thread colors. This was one of my first major quilts made with my then new to me Pfaff Creative Designer 1473 sewing machine.
The first 6 dolls.
The second 6 dolls.
Here is one of my favorite dolls.
The quilt top is approximately 58 inches by 82 inches.
Here is the magazine that had the pattern.
And the article and sample quilt photo.
What I would like to know is how you would make this quilt top more modern or up to date? Would you take the top apart and use the blocks and add a different sashing set?? Since my daughter is long past being interested in having this quilt on her bed and I have grandsons and the youngest girl in our entire family is 16, is there anyone out there in my blog viewing area that would be interested in this quilt top as a project?? I would be open to any kind of trade, maybe some fabric or thread etc.??? Something that I can use to create a new work in progress <lol>. That way we both have something new to work on in the New Year?? I will throw in the magazine too, so if you would like to make this pattern differently or if you might be interested in the other quilts. That Mexican Star quilt on the front cover is beautiful.
I also found another quilt top needing to be quilted. I came up with this design myself. I was inspired by an antique red and white quilt I tried my darndest to win on Ebay as a gift for my sister, who loved, loved red and white quilts. I did not win the antique one. My husband would probably thank me for that. I got out the pencils, graph paper and calculator and came up with what I thought was the desired design. I learned later the design is a version of Puss in the Corner.
It is made with a white on white print and a red with tiny white pindots. The top finished at approximately 69 inches by 90 inches.
I ended up making a top for my sister and a matching one for me. Hers got quilted, mine did not. I do still really like the graphic design of the quilt block. It just does not work to have a quilt with so, so much white in it at our house. I have two very large hairy dogs and two cats that love quilts. And now I have two grandsons who I have learned should not be around white fabric.
I am offering up this quilt top as well. It is well put together with solid 1/4 inch seams (before I was taught to use a scant 1/4″). This top could make a nice project quilt to do some elaborate fmq or hand quilting if that is what you like to do. Hey, this would be a wonderful Christmas quilt. You could be a step ahead on quilting for next year’s Christmas??? Give me an offer, I am open to suggestions. Both of these quilts deserve to be finished.
I will be linking up my oldest WIPs to various linky parties.
Many thanks to all the wonderful comments on my Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day. You can still enter til Friday night at Midnight. I am giving away the Bali Batiks Layer Cake in Rum Raisin with 3 quilt pattern pdfs from Meadow Mist Designs. I will announce the winner on Sunday.
Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day
Welcome to Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day!
Today I am participating in Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day for the first time. I have been a long time follower and reader of Sew Mama Sew’s blog. It is a wonderful source of the lastest and greatest of sewing and crafting. I love seeing all the new tutorials and meeting new designers and reading their blogs.
For those of you who maybe new here today, I am Shelley, The Carpenter’s Daughter and I have been quilting on and off for over 20 years and am new to blogging this year. I have been fortunate to have the honor of testing new quilt patterns for three different quilt designers. Here is a photo of one of these new quilt finishes:
Up for grabs today, I am offering a lovely layer cake of Bali Batiks Crackers in Rum Raisin. There are 40 different batiks in this set. Along with the fabrics, my friend Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs has generously offered me the chance to give away a set of 3 of her quilt patterns( in pdf form) that will help you get started making your own lovely batik quilt.
I am giving away a copy of Meadow Mist Design’s Charming quilt pattern, Scrappy Tiles and Peanut Butter Swirl which are all layer cake friendly quilt designs.
To enter this contest, Please leave a comment telling me what brand of sewing machine you are currently using or what kind of sewing machine you learned to sew on? (I learned on a Kenmore, which I still own and currently sew on a Viking and Pfaff.)
For old and new followers of my blog, you can get another entry in the contest by leaving me a comment on how you follow my blog. There are links on the front page to email, Bloglovin or Facebook.
Please leave your email, if you are a non blogger so we have a way to get in contact with you.
This contest is open to both US and Overseas. The contest will be open through Friday, December 12th. Winner will be announced on Sunday, December 14th.
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