Sunday Stash Report, Week #44 - and a winner for my giveaway!

 

First up, I'd like to thank everyone for reading and commenting on my last post!  Unfortunately, life got in the way and I wasn't able to reply to everyone nor even do the draw last week like I was supposed.  On a positive note, I got through those bags of fabric (it was a great stress reliever!) and have 5 + yards of 6" strips to give away to:

 

 

 

 

#10 - Debbie. 

 

I hope you are reading, Debbie, because you don't have a reply-email set up.  I'll wait until Wednesday, then draw another number if I don't hear from you.

 

And today, I assembled the remaining rows of Easy Street:

 

 

This quilt is assembled on the diagonal - the longest row is over 12 feet long! 

 

 

Most people use quilt racks to display quilts - me, I use them to assemble all my pieces on! Here are all eleven rows and two corner pieces ready to go.

 

 

And here it is!  All sewn up and ready to go to the long-arm quilter's.  I have draped it over the kidlets' bunk bed, what you can't see is two more rows at the top.  This quilt is huge!  I'm keeping it here until I can drop it off, no wrinkles that way.

 

(Sorry for the washed-out colours, but our winter rains have started and it's hard to get a good shot. The colours in the middle picture are the closest to actual.)

 

Now, a drumroll please.... this is 20 yards out!  Talk about making a major dent in my numbers.  Adding in the 5 yards of my giveaway and that is more than half of my used total for the year.  Nice to see some progress, finally.

 

Added since my last report: 0 metres

Added Year-to-Date: 200 metres

 

Used since last report: 25 metres

 

Used Year-to-Date: 69.5 metres

 

Net used/Added for 2013: 130.5 metres

 

It's been roughly three years since I discovered quilting blogs, and one of the first sites I can across when I was trying to deal with my scraps was Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville.  I became a firm believer in her Scrap-User's System and started using Leaders and Enders for all my sewing.  Mostly, I use parts from various stages of one quilt project (for example, when working on a mystery quilt such as Easy Street, as soon as Bonnie released Week Two's clue, I would start that one, and use Week One as my Leader and Ender).  But when I didn't have any parts on hand, I would reach into a small bucket of 2" squares and assemble 4-patches.

 

 

I got a lot of 4-patches done while I was making Easy Street!  In fact, I have enough to finish what I call my first Bonnie Hunter project.

 

 

This is where I left off the last time I emptied the bucket.  The center square is 16x16 1.5" squares, with a 1.5" white sashing, then a ring of 1.5" squares, 8 squares high.  Maybe I'll get this one done next week! Other projects call, and Christmas is fast approaching.

 

Thanks for visiting,

Terri in BC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Sunday Stash Report Week 42 - and a giveaway!

Two weeks have passed, and no new fabric has entered my house!  Good thing, I totally overdid this year, and that gift I received pushed me to the limit.  My sister and my friend were thrilled with the bags I gave them and I have finally gone through the last bag.  I have a giveaway at the bottom of this post, read on!

Added since my last report: 0 metres

Added Year-to-Date: 200 metres

 

Used since last report: 3.5 metres

 

Used Year-to-Date: 44.5 metres

 

Net used/Added for 2013: 155.5 metres

 

 

I've started my Christmas sewing and last Saturday, my sister and I got together and made 6 pairs of pyjamas in about 6 hours!  We bought the fabric at the big New Year's Day sale this year with great intentions, and I'm happy to say we did it.

 

 

My sister has four grandsons, and she made them all the one-piece jammies.  We have had a family tradition of new pyjamas to open on Christmas Eve since I was a little girl.  They were always from my great-grandmother, but since my mom is no longer around, I'm keeping it up for my grandbabies.  It's such an ingrained tradition that my adult daughters won't let me drop it, so I end up getting new pyjamas for everyone in the family.

 

I hope to change the used number by the end of today!  I finished the last of my Easy Street blocks yesterday (why do I procrastinate so long?) and laid them out this morning.  In between housework and cooking dinner since the kids are coming over today, I'm going to sneak in some sewing the rows together! 

 

 

This is one big quilt!  Even with all the furniture moved aside, I still ran out of room on my "design floor".

 

 

 

It will measure about 110" x 110" once finished.  At least I won't have to make borders!  My daughter wanted purple so I used darker and lighter purples where Bonnie Hunter had aqua and lime greens where she had her purples.  (I still like the version that is more aqua, but this isn't for me)  I already have the backing and batting, so once it's put together I'm taking it to Quilted Cats Hideaway to be quilted.  No way I am tackling this monster myself!  It will be finished just in time for Bonnie to announce her newest mystery American Thanksgiving weekend.

 

Last weekend my kids went to a cabin in the interior of BC to meet their cousin for Thanksgiving, so I went to my sister's for dinner.  I was thrilled to see how much my great-nephew loves his I-Spy quilt!  He drags it everywhere.

 

 

Now for my giveaway!  Remember those bags of fabrics I was given a few weeks ago?  Are you a Bonnie Hunter fan? When I divvyed up the quilting cottons between my friend and I, I cut a 6" strip off of the larger pieces.  Why did I choose a 6" strip?  If you follow Bonnie's Scrap-user's system, you can easily cut it down into her recommended sizes.  You can get 4 1.5" strips, or 3 2" strips, 1 each of 1.5, 2, 2.5" strips, or any other sizes you want.  If you make I-spy quilts, there are some prints perfect for 5" squares.  Most are quilt shop quality, a few are chain-store prints, but are perfect for scrappy quilts a la Bonnie.

 

I appreciate all your comments, I'm not the best at responding especially the last few months due to work, but things are getting better and I see more free time in my future!  This giveaway is my way of sharing the goodies I've been given and to show my appreciation to fellow bloggers, commenters and everyone who shares so generously in the blogging world.

 

I have about 5 yards of strips to give away to one lucky winner who posts a comment to this post.  That's it - that's all you have to do! I'll use the random generator next Sunday to select a winner.  The giveaway is open to Canadian and US residents, and if you are willing to share postage, international as well.

 

 

Thanks for visiting,

Terri in BC

 

 

Another blogger giveaway!

Bloggers are so generous!  Quiet Quilter over at One More Quilt is having a very large giveaway celebrating her one-year blogiversary - click on the link to get hooked up!

PS:  Friday Night Sew-In was a bust for me, but on Saturday I helped my daughter make curtains for her camper, and on Sunday I got the crib skirt finished.

What are you doing today?

Yesterday was my birthday but I had to work, so today I'm having a Sew Day.  I'm staying in my favourite jammies, throwing a bunch of movies in the DVD player and sewing my heart out!  I've also shopped online to get my supply of Sunkissed by Sweetwater before they are all sold out.

I'm working on this:

Happy Quilt-along in Pure by Sweetwater 

Mug Rugs from from scraps (aprons I made)

Finishing Block One of my Vignette quilt before Issue Two arrives

And remembering how I celebrated a milestone birthday last year!

P.S. Krisgray has claimed the Moda tin giveaway - and is giving part of it away as well - she plans on making the mini-quilt for her gramma (shh, it's a surprise for Mother's Day!).  Congrats again, Kris!





A different winner!

lvitzthum (no blog) has not claimed her prize, so I'm giving another person a chance at the giveaway! Luckily, I kept a spreadsheet of all my followers up to 50, so I can easily find out who

#17 is - krisgray from http://farmgirltransplant.blogspot.com/.  I've sent her an email, same thing - if she doesn't claim it in a week, I'll draw again ( I sure hope she does, cuz I'd love to give this away).

This is my birthday week, so I treated myself to a small trip to my LSS, where I picked up some It's a Hoot charm packs, and some fat 1/8ths from the bargain bin.  Not sure what I'm going to make yet.

I'm almost finished going through my boxes of crafts and sewing supplies and I'm accumulating a pile of things I'll never get accomplished in this lifetime.  Watch this space for some RAKs, possibly as early as tonight!

And the winner is....

The time has come to draw a name,

and in all fairness to the game,

Assigned numbers Fifty to one, 

lvitzthum (no blog) is the one!!

Thanks for to all of you for signing up as followers to my blog.  Lvistzthum has won the Moda Limited Edition Charm Pack Tin!  She had contact information on her signup, so I've sent her an email, but if I don't hear from her within a week, I'll have to redraw to be fair to all of you.  Thanks again for following, Terri in BC

I get to see my new granddaughter today!

At 11 am PST, we are having a little sneak peak at that sweet baby!  She's not due until June 1st, but I'm treating my daughter and her husband to a 3D ultrasound, complete with a DVD to take home and an internet broadcast for those who live back east and in England.  How far technology has come!  I'll be back to post pictures a little later today - now I'm off to the sewing room to decide what to make for that little girl today.

PS - Invite your friends to follow my blog!  We need 3 more followers so I can give away a little gift. 

Congratulations and announcing another giveaway!

I'm sorry it's taken me a little bit of time to post the winner of the draw from Stash Manicure.  Congratulations to Laura from http://lauralovesquilting.blogspot.com/ who said "Thanks for your great post on Stash Manicure. It is very encouraging. I would love to win that book (and, of course, not begin a single project in it until I finish a UFO, ha, ha, ha)."  She sounds like a girl from my own heart!  Madame Samm was so generous to offer up a book by Marie Osmond called Heartfelt Giving when I posted at Stash Manicure.

And now that I am rapidly approaching a significant number of followers, I thought I'd have a little giveaway of my own.  I have been hanging on to this cute little collector's tin from Moda for a few years now, but I never managed to get any more of them (well, except for Spish Splash) so I going to do a draw when I hit 50 followers! 

It is a charm pack of Fig Tree Quilts' A Day in the Country for Moda and was made in 2006. 

It even includes the pattern for the little quilt shown on the front of the tin called "Honey Bee" - so cute!

Here's the back of the tin with all the details:

If you are already a follower, you are in the draw.  Get your quilty friends to join so I can do the draw sooner!  I'll ship it to anywhere in the world from my little corner of Canada.

Giveaways on the 'net!

Since I've discovered quilting and sewing blogs, I have found that there are a huge amount of generous ladies out there giving away FREE stuff!  As I go through my boxes of stash, I'm putting aside some things I've never used, never finished, or just plain will never get to and will have a giveaway or two of my own down the road.  In the meantime, these lovely ladies ask that we share the news of their giveaways on our own blogs, so here is one I found today (now if I could only figure out how to put those cute buttons up!):

Jenn at Little Ladybugs Creations is giving away a honey bun (1 1/2 strips of a full fabric line) called Clementine by Me and My Sister Designs for MODA.  She is apparently lucky enought to live near the MODA warehouse.  This fabric line is full of sunny oranges, lavendars, sky blues, and lime greens with fun, funky prints and patterns. What a perfect way to add some sunshine to these gloomy winter days!  Here's a picture:

 

And for some great ideas for what to do with Honey Buns, Jelly Rolls, Charm Packs (and the definitions) check out MODA's Bake Shop - it's filled with free ideas and tutorials.