Look what I won!

This just arrived in the mail; look at what I won!

I won four cuts of fabric from Tula Pink's Neptune line by Moda!

And I also won three cuts of fabric from Sanae's Arcadia line, also by Moda!

I actually had a honey bun and a piece of yardage from this line from about a year ago, when I participated in the Friendship Bag Swap (I blogged about it here and here). This is what remains:

So, along with the new acquisition, I think I have enough for at least a small quilt!

Now, where will I find the time?!!

Thanks again, AllieKatMom, for such a lovely gift. :)

Giveaway!

Win the cookie cutters that make these fabulous cookies! Go to Lisa's blog to enter!

There's this giveaway...

...and I'll bet you want to enter it! Click here to hustle your hindquarters on over there to enter.

And, tell them I sent you. :)

Giveaway winners!

We have not one, but TWO giveaway winners!

I was overwhelmed with your kind comments and well wishes, and had no idea the number of followers would more than double! I will therefore be giving away TWO sets of the batiks!

I asked Thing 1 and Thing 2 to pull names for me:

I SO wish I could give every one of you a batik pack; I just want you to know that. :)

Congratulations to...

Cindy of Just About Cindy!!!

Nicole of Diary of a Mad Woman!

Check your email, you two, and reply to the email I have sent you.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

A giveaway!!!

To celebrate reaching 25 followers, I promised you a giveaway; here it is!

There are eight beautiful batiks shown here. These are Timeless Treasure batiks in the Tonga line. The lucky winner will receive a quarter yard cut of each one of these! Just think; two full yards of batiks!

All you need to do is leave me a comment below, and you will be entered into the giveaway. Because this is to celebrate my followers, you will receive two entries if you are (or choose to become) a follower. PLEASE make sure that I can email you!!! Some of you do not have your email addresses attached to your user name, so unless you include your email in your comment, I will not be able to enter you into the giveaway.

Also in celebration of the 25th follower, I will give you 15% off your total in my Etsy shop. (Wait for the discounted invoice before you pay!)

This giveaway and shop discount will close on Friday, June 25th at midnight EST.

A Mother's Day Surprise

Imagine my surprise last week, when I went to Paula's blog and saw that I had won the apron giveaway!

It is beautiful; it is reversible, and it came with oven mitts. It arrived just in time for Mother's Day!

Many, MANY heartfelt thanks to Cynthia of Heavenly Hostess for the fanciest apron I will probably ever own, and to Paula for creating such a beautiful fabric line and being a part of this giveaway! Muah!

Looking for some great giveaways?

Modern Quilts giveaway - SCORE!

The Fresh Modern Quilts group in flickr just celebrated its 2000th member by hosting a huge giveaway. Guess who one of the winners was?  :)

ME!!!

There were 29 winners, and I think I was the 8th person to win. I was given one of my first two choices; I LOVE this color combo!

And it was sent by Ashley, of Film in the Fridge! I love her quilts; they are creative, inventive, and absolutely amazing!

OK, now I have to start dreaming of yet another quilt, and how I will design it, and what additional fabrics I will need to buy!

We got lots of goodies in the mail!

Last week, we received lots of great packages in the mail!

Many thanks to Laural; she had a few giveaways, and I won this one:

This is six--SIX!--charm packs! The fabric is Moda, the designer is Mary Engelbreit, and the line is called The Caroler. It is a Christmas fabric which just happens to blend perfectly with some other ME fabrics that I have left from this quilt. Look for something wonderful close to the end of the year!


I also received this--super quick--from the folks at Hawthorne Threads. I'd heard other quilting bloggers talk about how fast Charlie and Lindsay are, but my goodness! They must have been just waiting for my order, and when they got it (probably at midnight or something), they cut it immediately and personally flew it out to me!

In typical Laurel style, I fell in love with these two fabric lines once they went out of production. Fortunately, they are not too difficult to find yet (unlike, say, Flea Market Fancy). The top is Anna Maria Horner's Garden Party line. The bottom two fabrics are part of a (costly) Japanese import line by designer Etsuko Furuya, called Echino Spring 2009. These prints reminded me of Aslan; I just had to have some! You'll be seeing the Garden Party fabrics very very soon; I need to acquire some more fabrics before I do anything with the lion fabric.


We also received these skeins of yarn:

Hershnerrs was having an unbelievable sale on this yarn. It is Moda Dea, and the yarn is called Sassy Stripes. It is sock yarn, and it typically costs several times more than what they were selling it for. Since DD1 is a knitting fiend, this was a logical purchase. She immediately snatched it up and hurried away to her room with it; I had to request it back just to get this photo. I think that means she likes it. :)

I won a fabric bundle!

Guess what? I won a bundle of fabric!

photo source: Hawthorne Threads

I never win anything, but I won this!

It all started when I was looking at some pictures of Houston 2009 Quilt Market, and drooling over some of the new fabric lines. Among many beautiful ones, this one caught my eye:

What a stunning quilt!

So, now that I am coveting the Paula Prass Woodland fabrics, I am visiting all sorts of blogs that make mention of this line. One of the places, Hawthorne Threads, is having a giveaway for a bundle of the fabric. So, not really expecting anything, I entered.

And I won!

Go run over to the nice people at Hawthorne Threads to see it for yourself; there are three great colorways for this line of fabric. Woot!