Who knew? Let me tell you--I was beyond overwhelmed by the response to this giveaway! Thanks to all who stopped in and many thanks to the 101 new followers and the 40 original followers that make me feel like someone wants to hear about my crafty nonsense!
I read each and every of the 526 comments and kept my husband updated too. When the comments were in the 280s I told him how excited I was and he wanted to know(again) why there was this much traffic. And then with a look of sheer panic, wanted to know how many bags I had to make!
I wish I could make one for each of you, but all in good time!
Edited to add: The giveaway will close at midnight mtn std time!! so you've got 4 more hours!
Welcome to Tinkerfrog! I am happy to be participating in Sew Mama Sew's May Giveaway Day! Once you've registered for this giveaway, make sure you head over there for the literally hundereds of giveaways going on!
I'll be making someone lucky this beautiful bag in the color of their choice! We have a big selection of Amy Butler Love at my LQS, Mama Said Sew, and I'll be happy to go pick some up for the winner!
To enter, just leave me a comment with your favorite colors. To gain an extra entry, become a follower and leave me a separate comment. Make sure your profile allows an e-mail address to be seen, otherwise I have no way of reaching you! The giveaway is open until May 20th and the drawing will be random. Some extra prizes might be thrown in, too!
Life is crazy and every time I plan on posting I don't get it done--I'm gonna turn over a new leaf here and make a concerted effort to post more often!
So, firstly(love that word!), we have another amazing retreat planned at the Inn with the incredible Amanda Jean Nyberg, aka crazymomquilts. If you were lucky enough to join us last year, you know how much fun we had--and this year shall be even better!!! The dates are November 12-14, 2010 so think hard but not too long!.
Only 8 more spots available and only two more rooms at the inn!
Here's a quilt that I've been working on for my 11 year old niece Becca. She has her own blog and it always makes me smile. I used a layer cake of Boutique by Chez Moi for moda. It was an experiment--now I realize why you don't make a nine patch, slice it diagonally into quarters and sew it back together. A few truncated corners and slightly odd shaped blocks later, I decided it worked anyway! I mean, what was I going to do, throw away $35.00 worth of fabric?
It measures about 80 x 80 and it'll go on her full size antique iron bed(the one I grew up with!). I still need to piece the back and quilt it. I'm more than nervous about the quilting as it's over twice as large as anything I've machine quilted, and I can't say that any of those looked great. But practice makes perfect(or at least passable) and I've got to start somewhere because I'm not paying someone else to do it as that would eat up my fabric budget for about 6 months!
I'll also be participating in the Sew Mama Sew May giveaway day next month, so be sure to come back and see what fabulous prize I will be giving away!! I'm sure I'll come up with something good in the next few days!
I'm a huge fan of the Twilight books and not remotely ashamed of it! So when I saw on Ravelry that someone had written up a pattern to make Bella's mittens a la the movie--I knew that my 10 year old niece Becca HAD TO HAVE THEM!!
I knit them out of Cascade Pastaza and they turned out great!! We did a photo shoot with some felt apples--Tade wanted to hold an orange--and you get to see how I was able to finish these mittens! He has learned to count to 30 by himself due to his penchant for tattoos. I think they should be right side up and on his biceps, but he doesn't get a very good view that way! I think I'll have him start counting to 50, so it continues to be a learning experience!
We also have some exciting news on the chicken front! Tomorrow will be 4 weeks since our 5 hens began laying. If we get three more today, then we'll have gotten 100 eggs in that short time frame. They don't taste all that different( I expected them to taste "more" somehow!), but they're still very special! On Valentine's I got to have our first double yolked egg for breakfast! Made my day, I tell you!
One of my recent quilting projects has been to put together these log cabin blocks. When I was helping Wilma's family with the estate sale, I went through lots of boxes of fabric. Some treasures, a lot of polyester, and some very funky prints later, I found this bag full of envelopes and inside were all of the pieces cut and ready to go! Along with 4 blocks already sewn together, 2 by hand and 2 by machine. They went together so fast! The combination of fabrics is one I would never have chosen, but it really works! I sewed them into columns using an old sheet for sashing, It's now in my to be quilted pile, but I have to bring it down to work where I have enough space to make my sandwich--maybe next month!
Congratulations to HaveFaith! She is the winner of the Wonderland honey bun and she'll be making a quilt out of it for a May baby, if her comment is to be believed!! Please e-mail me your address as you have a no-reply e-mail and I have no way of contacting you! I'll draw another name if I haven't heard from her in a week! Between the comments and followers I had 54 entries! Very cool...
I finished this block for Lizzie whose month is February in our Bee Balm online quilting bee. She sent the brown background fabric with the only instructions being to make a 16 1/2 inch block of our choice. She wanted it to "represent" us. After much deliberation, I decided to do a little "thread sketching." I've been playing around with this for a couple of months--a couple of pillows and a sketch of my in-laws house for Christmas, so thought this appropriate. Very pleased with the results! Here's hoping that she likes it!
So, technically it's not my 100th post, but it turns out that I blog in my head quite a lot! I take pictures and plan on what to write, but it never seems to get typed in. So I figure if I had posted all of the times that I planned on, it would be right about 100 posts!
I'll be giving away a Wonderland by Momo Honey Bun! Plus some extra surprises! I found a great sale and bought 5(!) of these and have a bit of a surplus. I made this baby quilt for a friend expecting her first baby in April, delivered it to her this morning and she loved it! Actually, so do I! This was made using less than one honey bun, the scraps from this will go into another quilt!
And I've not blogged about this quilt either!! When Amanda came in November for the quilting retreat at the inn, she brought lots of samples to show us. This quilt was made out of the leftovers from her film strip quilt that was made to giveaway at the retreat. Mama urchin is now the proud owner of the film strip quilt, but lucky me was given this one as a thank you for setting up the retreat! I feel so special. Especially since Amanda isn't blogging anymore--I really feel the void in blogland!
So---to enter this giveaway, just leave a comment on this post. All of my followers are automatically entered, if you become a follower, you will get an extra entry, and if you blog about this giveaway and leave me a separate comment, you will be entered again! So, three chances to win!
And check back often because the info about our 2nd annual quilting retreat with Amanda will be posted soon!
SO, I've been a bad blogger of late and had so much to tell you, but then I figured no actually cared about our Halloween costumes any more, so I'll spare you the details.
Moving on!! I saw this tutorial on One Flew Over, and thought it looked like a quick and easy project and I was right! I made 7 scarves yesterday! I love them! I've already got plans to get some more linen, since I've used all I bought yesterday!! Great way to use up those scraps! Most are Kaffe Fasset, but a couple are Amy Butler scraps--don't know which I like better, but these seem the perfect pay-it-forward prize that I need to be getting in the mail!!
I also made a scarf out of vintage hankies that I'm giving away! Six of the vintage hankies that I won in Rosamund's giveaway last month went in to this delicate, lightweight beauty! Just leave me a comment to win! I'll draw a name on Wednesday, December 2nd and get it shipped to you in time for you to re-gift it for the holidays!!!(Of, course you could keep it all to yourself!)
My awesome husband just made me a custom sewing table that I'll be showing off as soon as I get it painted! I am so thankful to have a husband who not only loves and cares for us, but who gets excited at the prospect of making ME a sewing table! Coolest feeling in the world--and no amount of money could have gotten me a more perfect sewing table!
