September Giveaway Time

Today's the last day of September and that means it's my last chance to have my monthly Giveaway.  Since I waited until the last day of the month, it's 3 different items for 3 different lucky winners.

3 Fat Quarters - purple & green

4 Sesame Street Fusible Iron On Christmas Appliques

One set of  20 Christmas 4" quilt squares.

To win all you have to do is be a follower or become a new follower and leave me a comment.  Easy, huh?  Of course it would put a big smile on my face if you told someone else about my monthly giveaways  too   :)

The deadline to enter is by midnight next Friday, October 7th, and the winner will be selected by my special random generator (calling one of my sisters) and announced on Saturday, October 8th.

(For you new folks and those of you who do NOT have a blog, please leave your email addy in your comment, so I can get in touch with you if you win.  Thanks.)

Have fun and good luck.

Thanks for visiting.

June's FREE Giveaway!

Gosh June is almost over and I haven't had my FREE Giveaway for this month.

Sheesh! my face is red.......

Well, here it is. Who doesn't love a pretty fat quarter bundle with 7 coordinated fabrics in pale lavender and greys.

I keep saying it over and over.....I love my AccuQuilt GO cutter. It is the best thing that has happened to Quilting since the rotary cutter. Every quilter should have one. So, I like to spread the word on how you can win one. Just GO to

AccuQuilt's facebook page and "like" their fan page. On Fridays, they've been giving away a Free Baby GO cutter .....can't beat that.

To get a chance to win these pretty fabrics:

1. Click on the picture on the top RH side of my page, where it says Get 22 Patterns Free from AccuQuilt. Sign up to receive their email newsletter to get the patterns, then come back here and tell me you did it.

2. Tell a friend about this giveaway and tell them to come to my blog and click on the picture for the free patterns, sign up for AccuQuilt's email lnewsletter and then leave a comment here on my blog.

Be sure to leave two separate comments that you did both to get two chances.

The giveaway ends at midnight on Thursday, June 30th and I'll announce the winner of the fat quarters on Friday.

Easy Peasy...Good Luck.

Oh...almost forgot.  You can now  subscribe to my blog by clicking on the Rss orange Feed Icon on the RH side of my page.

 

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Fabric Diet Warning!

Warning!  Never go to a quilt show when you're on a "fabric diet!"   It's worse than going to Baskin Robbins when you are trying to lose some weight.



I really enjoyed seeing the quilts and taking all those pictures, and was actually feeling a little smug about not visiting the vendors booths.  Ahhhhh  haaa!  I can do this.......get out of here without breaking my "fabric diet".......sure!

Then one of our Tied Together Bee members, Connie,  asked me to come with her to a vendor's booth to see a new scrappy template idea to see if she should buy it.  She is totally into doing scrap quilts and using up her stash;  there are foundation string quilts all over her house, and she's even making Christmas fabric ones for 35 Christmas stockings for the Elk's Lodge Christmas party for kids.  She's had a drought of sewing/quilting here lately 'cause they have been laying ceramic tile throughout their house for a couple months now.  I think she's ready to get back to it.

Ok...so we go to that booth, and watch the demo for the scrappy template ruler thingie (I forgot the name of it) and this new gadget is perfect for what she likes to do.  "Get it" I tell her....and "buy the book too".   I walk away.

Well, mmmhh....maybe I'll just make a quick walk around and there will be  some variegated quilting thread on sale.   BIG MISTAKE!

Oh....no....is that 30's reproduction prints fat quarters on sale?   MY FAVORITES!  But, I'm on a 'fabric diet'....... "Walk away"...I tell myself.  But, my feet took me right over to them anyway.   "I'll just get a couple of them".   They were all arranged so pretty....by color.  They looked like a garden of flowers.   My 'buy fabric trance' took over!  That's what I'm doing....picking flowers.

By that time a couple  other Bee members had come over to that booth to see what I was doing.   "Look at these......on sale....and I'm on a 'fabric diet'.   "Just buy a couple of them......that's not too bad",  Marilyn said.   (She bought 3 yards of fabric at the same booth.)


What's a gal who's on a 'fabric diet' to do?  The "buy fabric trance" is in full force!

Buy 12, get 1 free........BUY A COUPLE?  ..........sure!

Here's the 1st four I chose.

Here's the 2nd 4.  Love the yellows.

Last 4..... that makes 12.

And here's the one I got for 'Free'.....red, naturally.

I blame Connie and Marilyn for this.....it's their fault, not mine!

Well.......back on the 'fabric diet' again.........until the next show......or the next time I need some quilting thread.



Thanks for visiting!

2nd Day of AccuQuilt Blog Hop & Free Giveaways

These AccuQuilt owners are sharing some neato things this week...ya just gotta GO see them.

Some of us bloggers who own AccuQuilt GO cutters are having an AccuQuilt Blog Hop this week and here are today's blogs showing us new tips, hints, videos.......AND..........FREE Giveaways! 

http://b-quilts.com/blog/?p=1040 - FREE Table Runner Kit Giveaway

http://cottoncocktails.blogspot.com/ - FREE Fat Quarters and Flower Cut Outs

My scheduled day is this Friday, October 1st, so be sure to come back to see what's in store for you.

GO competes with Rotary Cutter. WINS! Hands Down!

The GO is  at work again,  from Splitting Stitches blog.  Great competition between the GO and using a Rotary Cutter.....both on time and fabric waste.   You can decide for yourself.  Just click on the title for the link.

That solves it for me today.  I'm going to go cut up some fat quarters!

Thanks again AccuQuilt.

CATS & CAT FABRIC OVERLOAD! GIVEAWAY!

I am as cat obsessed as I am sewing/quilting obsessed! I have 4-5 bins of cats fabrics, so here's another fat quarter of some Siamese beauties for my FREE Birthday Giveaway! The pile is getting bigger & better each day!

Each day through July 18th, I will be adding another sewing/quilting item to my FREE Birthday Giveaway in hopes to get 100 followers on my blog. All you have to do to enter for a chance to win this FREE Giveaway is comment on my blog, and put a link post on your blog. You can enter as many times as you want, just make sure you do both things each time; comment and post a link. The winner will be randomly drawn on July 19th, my Birthday.

Many thanks to all of you for helping me spread the word!

SHOP HOP GOODIES!

My sister & I went to 3 quilt shops on our local Bluebonnet Patchwork Shop Hop yesterday and had a good time. There are 12 different quilt shops participating with 3 of them being in the Austin, TX area and 9 of them in the San Antonio area. We hope to go to some more of them on Saturday. For every shop you visit, you get a FREE fat quarter! Here's a picture of the ones I got. Also got a pattern and a couple yards of some unique novelty fabric.