January Bee Blocks go in the Mail!

Happy Sunday afternoon! Most of the weekend has been filled with sewing Bee Blocks and Swap Blocks for the month of January. The completed blocks will go out in tomorrow's mail! The first two pictured blocks are for Mary from the Block Party Bee on flickr. The Block Party Bee is alot of fun. We are using the book "Block Party, The Modern Quilting Bee" each month. Mary chose a String X Block and each Bee member is making two blocks for her. Mary picked really cool fabrics to have her blocks made!

The next two blocks are for Melissa from the Mod Mosaic Bee. This is the first month for the Mod Mosaic Bee. Mosaic Blocks are made from Elizabeth Hartman's Mosaic Pillow Tutorial. Melissa requested monochromatic Mosaic Blocks. She is receiving two blue blocks from me.

Block 2 for Melissa, Mod Mosaic Bee on flickr

For the Sew & Bee Happy Bee on flickr, Cindy requested a Stargazing Block from the book "Modern Blocks, 99 Quilt Blocks from Your Favorite Designers." This block was a bit complicated to construct and took several hours to make. I used scraps to make the three wonky stars in the block. It turned out really cool!

There is one more block going out in tomorrow's mail for Nancy of the Block Swap Adventure. Nancy requested a Bears Paw block in Red and Cream colors. My blocks for the Aqua and Red Bee on Flickr will be finished some time this week and mailed by weeks end. Well, time to make some dinner. Have a Happy Sunday and Happy Quilting!

Winner! Sometimes being Number 2 Means being Number 1....

Seven days ago I wrote a post for the winner of my 900 Follower Giveaway. I had a no reply blogger win in the random number generator. A no reply blogger is someone who keeps their settings private in Blogger. There was no way to contact her, so I wrote a post and waited seven days for her to contact me! The seven days have passed and there has been no reponse.
The purpose of this blog post is announce a new winner of my 900 Follower Giveaway! So being the number two choice really makes the new winner Number One!
The new winner is:
Sallie of the Sallie's Sampler Blog
Sallie said...
Congratulations! I'm a happy follower. Thanks for the giveaway!
January 7, 2012 9:37 PM

CONGRATULATIONS SALLIE! I WILL EMAIL YOU FOR YOUR ADDRESS! 

Have a very Happy Sunday and Happy Quilting!!
PS..Be sure to scroll down and enter for a chance to win 2 really cool patterns in my sponsored giveaway from Kat!

Flutter from.Kat Pattern Giveaway...

Happy Saturday! I am a little late in writing this post because I had to think about what to say. I met my friend Kat through the Sew & Bee Happy Bee on flickr. They had a member drop out last year and I was lucky enough to replace her. My friend Kat has a blog called Mummas Time to Create. She is super creative and it has been just so much fun to get to know her! We share a crazy love for modern fabrics and have mailed so many packages back and forth filled with fabric and scraps. I have loved reading her blog posts and watching her create so many fantastic projects!

Kat lives in Australia and has an Etsy Shop called Flutter from Kat. Over the past year I have oogled at her projects that she completed on her blog and was so excited to see she made several of her projects into patterns for everyone to recreate and enjoy over and over again! The patterns are available for purchase in her Etsy Shop as PDF files.

As a special gift to one lucky follower of my blog, Kat is generously giving away one copy of each of the yummy patterns pictured below!

 The first pattern is of an uber cool Scrappy Pouch! 

The second pattern is an easy to construct and beautiful to enjoy Zipper Pouch!

The patterns are easy to follow and go together quickly for the construction of the pouches! Winning this giveaway is easy peasy:

1. Be a follower of my blog or become a new follower!

2. Visit Kat's Blog and become a new follower! Then leave a post here.

3. Visit Kat's Etsy Shop and leave a comment on my blog about what you like!

4. If you facebook, follow Kat on facebook and leave a comment on this post.

5. Leave a comment about whether you have made a zipper pouch or a Velcro pouch before.

6. Blog or tweet about this giveaway for another entry!

THIS GIVEAWAY WILL END ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012 AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN STANDARD TIME! THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012.

Many hugs a cross the miles to Kat! Thank you for sponsoring this giveaway! Have a very Happy Saturday and Happy Quilting!

Saturday Stash Report on a Wednesday?

Happy Wednesday!! I haven't written a Saturday Stash Report in a while. Traditions are sometimes meant to be broken...So here goes! I have been working on this acquisition for a while. The Moda Charm Packs and Jelly Rolls have come from Corri's Etsy Shop, QuiltTaffy.  The Michael Miller Couture Solids in Charm Packs were purchased at a shop in Mercer, Pennsylvania called the Gallery. Just yummy and so much fun to look at!

The Michael Miller Couture solids were purchased to sort out and use in various Bees and swaps throughout the year. The solids are bright and the fabric is soft and gorgeous! From Moda, I have been oogling over Aneela Hoey's "a walk in the woods line." (I also purchased a fat eighth bundle of a walk in the woods.) Pezzy Prints and Half Moon Modern bring color pallets of very bright, primary colors to my stash!

I love the versatility of charm packs and jelly rolls to created with! It saddens me sometimes when I run out of a particular charm pack or jelly roll. Especially if the colors are as vibrant and  cheerful as these fabrics!

It was so exciting to receive this box of goodies. The fabrics were all from designers that I love and Moda makes everything look so pretty! My next big purchase will be the re release of Denyse Schmidt's Flea Market Fancy fabrics in March sometime! 2012 will be a great year for sewing! Have a Happy Wednesday and Happy Quilting!

Saturday Stash; My Reading List...

Happy Saturday again! Do you have books that inspire you as a quilter? There are so many blogs online that have great tutorials and I go back to them over and over again. But for me there just is something about a good book that leads me back again and again to read over and over...

I have two big book shelves filled with art books, sewing books, magazines and quilting books. The books that I love to read over and over again for instruction and inspiration are pictured below.

The leap to Modern Quilting is fairly new for me. My brain relates to the perfect wonky imperfections of Modern Quilting. The books on my reading list are:

Fresh Quilting by Malka Dubrawsky

Thinking Outside the Block by Sandy Cummings

The Practical Guide to Patchwork by Elizabeth Hartmann

Liberated Quiltmaking by Gwen Marston

Create your Own Free Form Quilts by Rayna Gillman

Stratavarious Quilts by Barbara Pershing and Mary Hoover

Block Party The Modern Quilting Bee

The Gentle Art of Quiltmaking by Jane Brocket

There are also several books on my list to acquire this year:

Modern Blocks:99 Blocks by Your Favorite Designers by Susan Woods

Intuitive Color and Design; Adventures in Art Quilting by Jean Wells

Ideas and Inspirations; Abstract Quilts in Solids by Gwen Marston

Gee's Bend; The Architecture of a Quilt

Quilting Modern; Techniques and Projects for Improvisational Quilts by Jacquie Gering

Nancy Crow by Nancy Crowe

Do you have books that you go back to over and over again? What is your favorite reading list for quilting and inspiration? Do you like Modern or Traditional blocks? What will be your inspiration for 2012? Quilting is all about being creative and having fun! It would be awesome to learn more about what inspires you!! Well I better get back to sewing for now! Happy Saturday and Happy Quilting!

Winner!!! 900 Follower Giveaway!!!

Happy Saturday everyone! The mailman will be very busy this week! 18 packages are going out in the mail this month to members of my birthday club! Happy Birthday to everyone that is participating and has a birthday in January! May the coming year be filled with many happy quilting days! I received an email from Superior Threads. They supply the luscious King Tut threads for machine quilting! A ten pound box of thread is on its way to me to share with members of the Birthday Club this year! Thank you so much Superior Threads!
The winner of my 900 follower giveaway is a no reply blogger. Her post is:
Laurie T said...Wow! This has got to be the best giveaway yet! I have too many UFO's to count this year! 2 wedding quilts and another one to start ... a bd quilt for a little girl ... a xmas quilt not finished this year :( ... a quilt with my guild ... and hopefully a birdie quilt! ;) Thanks for the chance to win!
January 8, 2012 11:05 AM
Laurie T...you will have to contact me! Leave a comment on this post with your email address or email me directly through my blogger profile...You will have 7 days to email me and then your prize will have to be awarded to another entrant...(if I do not hear from you!)
For those of you who have your blogger settings as private, I am asking you to make them public...It is very difficult to email you if you are a no reply blogger...
This weekend for me is filled with a trip to the post office today, some laundry and then sewing!! (Time to complete the rest of the Bee Blocks!) I hope that you have a happy Saturday and Happy Quilting!!

4 X 5 Bee Blocks Ready to Mail!

Time to get back in the swing of things with Swaps and Bee Blocks for 2012! The first set of blocks going out in the mail are for the 4 X 5 Modern Quilt Bee on flickr! This Bee is a quarterly bee that you rejoin every three months. There are six people in each "hive" that you swap blocks with. Each Bee member fills out a survey with color choices and then blocks are made with fabrics from modern designers. The 4 X 5 Bee is alot of fun to participate in. The five Wonky Star blocks pictured are being mailed to the Bee members on Tuesday morning:

Jess's Block

 Jill's Block

 Laura's Block

 Michelle's Block

 Naomi's Block

There are still many Bee blocks left to complete this month and blocks for swaps. I really am looking forward to the coming year and learning many new techniques. Much of my sewing will be done on the weekends when I am not working. Well, I better get some sleep. Work begins tomorrow at 7:30 AM! Have a Happy Sunday and Happy Quilting!

900 Follower Giveaway!!

Happy Saturday!! Happy New Year!! Before I write about the 900 Follower Giveaway, I wanted to let you know that several sponsors have joined "The Birthday Club Giveaway" The Fat Quarter Shop has generously donated one $25 gift certificate to be given away each month!! This gift certificate will mail out to one lucky person each month as part of their birthday gift!! There are several other sponsors that are donating items to send out in the gift packs. Their names will be revealed in future posts! I will try to include handmade goodies from me, whenever possible. The survey form is still open on the previous post, so be sure to add your name to be included in the monthly mailings! The January Birthday mailing will go out on Friday, January 20th!!
I started my new job this week! Yay!! It is so much fun to be back at work and selling a product that I am familiar with! The weather this week started out cold with a bit of snow, then quickly warmed up to 50 degrees! It was a bit scary to drive home from work because I didn't know what to expect on the roads. I moved pretty slow and probably made the people behind me mad, but oh well!! My car goes in the shop for a yearly state inspection on Tuesday. (My sister will be taking me back and forth to work on Tuesday)
This giveaway is to celebrate 946 followers!! WOW!! Thank you for following my blog!! 2012 should be a year filled with so many Quilting Adventures for all of us. Hopefully we will get to know each other better and continue on with our friendships as the year progresses. This month's giveaway will have one lucky winner that will receive :

Five Assorted Cuts of MODA Birdie Fabric and one Yummy Panel, by Me and My Sister Designs. This fabric is OOP and very hard to find!

Four Packages of Artgirlz Wool Felt Precuts. Very fun for Crafty Projects.

 One Aurifil Wool Color Chart and Several Spools of Aurifil Wool Thread!

 One Copy of "Spring Cleaning" by Atkinson Designs filled with some really fun projects for Quilts and Table runners!!

Entering this giveaway is easy peasy!!

1. You must be a follower of my blog or become a new follower on the sidebar.

2. Please blog about this giveaway and leave a comment for a second entry. (if you don't have a blog, read #3 for another chance to win!)

3. Leave another post if you made a New Year's Resolution..or if you didn't make a resolution, let me know how many UFOs you plan to tackle this year..!!

This giveaway will end Friday January 20, 2012 at midnight eastern standard time..Winner will be announced on Saturday, January 21, 2012! 

I am off to do some sewing...Happy Saturday and Happy Quilting!!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!!

Birthday Club Giveaway...

Hello everyone! The holidays and end of year are upon us! I would like to begin a Happy Birthday Club Giveaway to you, my followers! Our birthdays are the most important single event that we each experience every year!
During your birthday month, I will be send out a birthday card and a small gift to commemorate your special day and let you know that I am thinking of you! This is just my way of saying thank you for following my blog and another way to Pay it Forward. Your gift will be Quilt related and may be fabric, notions or a pattern!
Please leave a note on this post to let me know that you filled out the form! Happy Tuesday and Happy Quilting!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. ALL FOLLOWERS WHO FILLED OUT THE SURVEY FORM FOR 2012 WILL RECEIVE MAIL FROM ME DURING THEIR BIRTHDAY MONTH! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO FOLLOWS MY BLOG AND HAS ENTERED THIS BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY!