Blog Post #500!!! I am having a Give Away

Comments are now closed on this blog post, winners will be announced shortly. (edited 1/22/ 11:59)

I started blogging in April of 2007 – almost 3 years ago – wow how time flies.  At first I really didn’t know what to write and didn’t write very frequently.  I finally decided to just write as I talk as though I was actually chatting with you.  I am not very good about formal sentence structure and I know it!  I just don’t care anymore – I assume if that is what a person wants to read they will go elsewhere   About a year and a half ago I really got into it and started blogging on a very regular basis.  To celebrate this 500th anniversary I am having a give away – winner will be announce in one week on Friday the 22nd of January.

There will be two winners.  The rules are simple.  Leave a comment and tell me where you are from and you get one chance. Blog about it and make sure you tell me and you will have two chances.

prize #1 included 20 light aqua hoffman batik 6" squares, 20 dark aqua hoffman batik 6" squares, a McKenna Ryan pattern and the other things in the photo.

prize #2 is another stack of both colors of batiks, another McKenna Ryan pattern and an assortment of other items in the photo.

The two aqua fabrics are the ones that I used in my Dutch Treat quilt which originally was going to be much larger than it ended up being.  I had cut a lot of 6″ squares in preparation for the quilt so had a lot left over.  The 3 bears pattern featured in the second grouping of prizes is the one that I used for the wall hanging in the motorhome.  It is like new as you trace the pattern on to fusible web so the pattern is not disturbed in anyway.  I had cleaned my sewing room back in the late fall and filled a basket with items that I do not used – possibly used slightly but not so you would notice.  Some things were given to me that I never used as was not something I needed or use.  I still have a basket – no longer overflowing but still full so plenty for future give away’s.

And the weather today with this warm up that we are having and enjoying!

slightly out of focus as I had to stand over to the side so my shadow wouldn't be on it. The little boy has no jacket this time and no little snowman in the corner Someone asked the last time I posted a photo of the thermometer what kind is it. It is from the Weather Channel and is digital.

I have been busy today organizing fabric – yes once again.  I have decided that I will go ahead and start soon on the Little Brown Bird quilt after all.  I have been undecided about it.  I do not know if I will make the whole thing, but I am going to give it a start and decide as I go.  I will be using a lot of almost solids – batiks and moda marbles.  I want to make sure there is no bleeding so I have been washing fabric and pressing all day!  And still more to go through in my wire baskets on the shelves.  I will use a little of the other fabrics (prints) here and there but most of them I will wash as needed.

The Red and Green Traditional Applique quilt I will be starting first.  I have the background fabric for both quilts on bolts on the shelf.  The Red and Green quilt will be mainly moda marbles and batiks also with prints thrown in here and there.  I have been collecting batiks and marbles for sometime now in preparation.  I mainly get fat quarters and I have plenty of them.  I might be organized enough tomorrow for a photo.  My fabric needs organizing and I have a feeling it will take several days of working on it to get it all under control (and I have a very small stash compared to some of you I know).