Winners!!

The randomly chosen numbers were 7 and 26, which means that our winners are...

angela from Chicagoland
who blogs at My Three Sons
and shares my family's tradition of opening gifts one at a time on Christmas eve

and

Lynn from the Bay Area in California
who blogs at Craftstew
and has the cutest frisbee catching dog!!

Congrats and I hope you all have a great weekend!

Oops Giveaway!

I recently splurged on a bunch of new fabric including an order from fabricworm.com. I really like Cynthia's selection and the customer service is great! I recently saw pictures of her brick and mortar shop and I really wish that was my local quilt shop! I also just ordered a fat quarter set of Hope Valley that I'm really excited about!

By mistake, they sent me my first order twice and when I contacted Cynthia about the error, I asked if it would be okay to give away the extra fabric on my blog. She said yes!! So here we go...


5 prints from Heather Bailey's new Nicety Jane line and Amy Butler dots in tangerine

I will give TWO winners a set of 6 fat quarters (one of each print). I'll leave the contest open until Thursday at 9pm Eastern and send the fabric Friday morning. Leave a comment to enter, I'd love to know where you're from and what your favorite holiday tradition is!

I live in upstate New York. I love the village that my parents have set up under their tree that was started by my mom's parents (way before Department 56). I'm looking forward to when it gets passed on to me! Check it out here!

Spoiled Rotten!

Blogland and Flickr have really spoiled me recently. I'm always in awe of the generosity of this community.  First, I won a giveaway from Anne at Film and Thread and got this really cute cowboy fabric. Whoever is having a baby next should expect a quilt with this! I can't get over how cute the cowboys are!

As if the giveaway wasn't enough, she also sent this great embroidery pattern and thread! I'm just starting to try out embroidery and these patterns are perfect! I love the colors (could it be because they're so similar to the Neptune fabrics??)

 

I also won a giveaway over at By Small Means! April made coasters and was giving away the winner's favorite. I picked these ones and I'm really excited for them to come in the mail.

For Traveling Threads, I sent out Christmas fabrics and I've received almost all of my blocks! I need to make a couple and there's one set that's coming soon. I'm going to post more about that soon since I want to get some feedback and since I'm committed to finishing it for this Christmas season. I also joined LauraJ's Christmas Quiltalong to encourage me to keep at it.

The set of blocks I received from Leslie had an unexpected and wonderful extra! She made Jon and I ornaments for our tree. I think they're really cute and so thoughtful. I'm excited to put them up!

 

 

Thanks Blogland!! You've really spoiled me rotten!

Color! In the Mail!

This has been a good week for getting awesome colorful things in the mail.

I won Upstate Lisa's giveaway and she sent this super cute package...



containing this amazing mini-quilt! I'm so excited to hang it on the wall. Not only is it fabulously inspiring, it's also wonderfully bright and cheerful. Lisa is also full of great advice and encouragement. Thank you so much!



I also got a Kona Color Card this week!



It's so big it hardly fits on my kitchen counter for a photo!



I was waiting on one from Hancock's but they've been on back order for a couple of months (and won't be getting more until August), but Pink Chalk Fabrics came to the rescue and had one in stock!! It looks like they have 30 in stock if you want one.



I'm already using it to plan out a summer quilt for Jon and I. We love our comforter, but in the summer, it can be a little much and a single sheet is too little. I'm thinking an ultra light quilt inspired by the ones below will be perfect! Click on the photo to see where these beauties came from.