Happy Mother's Day ... and we have a Winner!

Happy Mother's Day!

 We have a winner to the fabulous 

Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway!

Comment # 4 

Congratulations to Lea Anne 

@ 

Podunk PrettiesApril 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM

"....And a blog subscriber"

I am sending and email to our lucky winner!

May all of you have a happy day today with family and friends!

<3

~ My Grand-Darling ~ My best Mother's Day gift ever! ~

<3 

Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway ~ Have You Entered?

Click HERE to Comment for your chance to win!


Winner will be announced on Sunday, May 10th!

Best of luck!

Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway!

 Here is my newest project ~ 

a new cover for Butterfly's favorite pillow!

For this project I started at the big beautiful new website at

Fabric N Quilts

I am loving there new look and all the new features ...

• FREE US shipping-all day, every day, no minimum, no limit, no coupon  ~ PLUS great international rates, including first pound to Canada is free (which would include an order of up to 2 yards of fabric)
• It is easy to shop by color, designer, brand, collection & style!  Just hover over those teal bars on the left & jump right to what you are looking for!  Of course you can also search by any keywords near the top of the page too.
• You can now shop by the 1/4 yard. 
• Once you have all your goodies in your cart, you can audition your fabrics in some quilt block designs!
• Gallery - the virtual show & tell of customer quilts and our quilts is expanding
• Gift certificates in any dollar amount - purchaser can even send a personal message to recipient, and the Gift Certificate is valid immediately after purchase
• Preview fabrics that are on the horizon & sign up for email alerts for its arrival with a 5% coupon code when the fabric is in house. No payment in advance.
• Even more Fabrics N Quilts patterns!  ~ Free patterns ~ are also on the new site & more will be coming soon including some video tutorials in the coming months too.

Did I mention FREE US SHIPPING?  Free shipping is one of my favorite things ... ;)

I made this pillow cover for my Butterfly's favorite pillow from these fabulous fabrics :

I started with this KIT .

The pattern was for a bedrunner but I easily adapted it to make this pillow cover.

For the pattern: Click Here

(then click on "Bedrunner" link)

These free projects were designed by Shannon at Fabrics N Quilts for Quilting Treasures

Since the pillow is smaller, I used the extra strips to make a pieced back to the pillow.

I also have a cut of the turquoise butterfly print and some extra fabrics and am working on designing a small toss pillow with the help of the

new preview and design feature.



It is really  nice to see how the colors and prints work together before purchasing the fabric.

I always find wonderful fabrics, notions, patterns and inspiration at Fabrics N Quilts

When Shannon @ Fabric N Quilts asked me if I would be interested in

helping her celebrate by posting on my blog,

I was very happy to help!

I love this shop and always find lots of beautiful fabrics and inspiration.

To celebrate, Shannon is offering a 

generous giveaway here on my blog!

One lucky reader will receive a 

$35 Gift Certificate and

This gorgeous Half-Roll of  Robert Kaufman strips!

To enter:

You must give me an email address where Shannon and I can contact you that you are winner.

Oh, no!  I am getting a lot of "no-reply" comments!
Please be sure I have your email address in order to be eligible to win!

Post all your comments HERE on my blog.

As my blog does not allow anonymous comments, if you cannot post a comment for any reason, you may email your comment in quotes to me and I will enter your comment for you. 

You have  FOUR chances to win ...

Comment Entry #1 

Visit Fabric N Quilts and browse the shop and come back and tell me what you would place in your cart if you are the winner of this wonderful giveaway

Comment Entry # 2

"Like" Fabrics N Quilts Facebook site and come back and tell me that you did.

Comment Entry # 3

Sign Up for the Fabrics N Quilts Newsletter and post a comment to tell me you did.

Comment Entry # 4

Follow the Fabrics N Quilts Blog and tell me how you follow.

This Giveaway will close at midnight EST on Saturday, 
May 9th.

The winner will be chosen at random from all comments

and will be announced on

Mother's Day, May 10th.

This giveaway is now closed.

Winner announced HERE

Congratulations, Lea Anne!

'Cause you know making and giving a quilt

is like sharing a warm motherly hug.

Butterfly says, "Thanks for reading and good luck!"

<3 

On My Cutting Table Today

Aren't these fabrics sew pretty?

 Bloom by Amy Weeks @ Quilting Treasures

They are really brightening a very gray and rainy day here.

I found them in stock at

Fabrics N Quilts

There are TWO FREE PATTERNS  patterns for these fabrics on the the Quilting Treasures

 site for these pretty fabrics: 

Click Here

These free projects were designed by Shannon at Fabrics N Quilts.

Which one do you think I am sewing?

;)

Are you going to Quilt Week?

Are you going to 

Quilt Week ?

I sure wish that I was.

One of the places I would be sure to stop by is to say hello to my friend

Shannon @ Fabrics N Quilts

If you are going, please stop by her booth 

Booth # 4503 in the Pavilion 

and tell her

"Pat Sent Me!"

You just might find a little surprise waiting for you if you do ... ;)

Have a wonderful time at the show!

If you are not going to the show, you still can do some fun shopping at

Fabrics N Quilts

and do not miss a chance to enter one of Shannon's great giveaways.

Click Here to for the Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway Week 2 Details

This week there will be giveaways on the these blogs:

Quilting Gallery

Mary Mack Made Mine

and  be sure to come back her to my blog next Monday, April 27th

for my turn to giveaway a $35 Gift Certificate and goodie bag from



Fabrics N Quilts!

Best of luck winning one of these wonderful giveawways!

~ <3 ~

Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway Blog Hop

has a new look and a great new website!

Fabrics N Quilts is one of my favorite online shops.

Fabulous fabrics, great quilty goodies and and fast and friendly service.

My kind of quilt shop!

To celebrate her big beautiful new website,

 Shannon is holding a month of giveaways!

Click HERE for all you need to know!

Here are all the participants in the 

Fabulous Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway Blog Hop 

This week:

Fabrics N Quilts

Persimon Dreams

Quilt Shop Gal

Next week:

Quilting Gallery

Mary Mack Made Mine

Weekend of 5/1:

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Life in the Scrapatch

That's right ... I will be hosting a giveaway from

Fabrics N Quilts

right here on my blog!


I will be posting April 27th.




I am sew happy to be able to offer my readers this "shopportunity!"


Thank you, Shannon!

Friendship x and + Swap Update

The last of my Friendship x & + Swap Blacks in progress!

My online quilting friend Dorian @ Ridge Top Quilts 

and I have been making and swapping these blocks for the last few months. 

Click Here for More Info

These blocks are made from the wonderful

x & + Blocks Tutorial

from

badskirt

These are the pieces needed for the 8" unfinished block.

My friend and I have decided to to make a medium size lap quilts.

Half of the blocks will be mine and half will be hers.
We have been making six blocks per month and sending three.

Since January, I have been playing catch up most months making and sending blocks every other month. This is a very easy and relaxed swap between two friends who understand each others' more important commitments and that sometimes life just gets in the way of our sewing fun.

Here is the layout for my quilt.

It is 7 rows and 8 columns.

56 Blocks.

The blocks measure 7.5" finished, 

so the quilt will be 54.5" by 62" plus the binding.

I am going to use a gray binding.

Dorian and I decided to use up our scraps and to use some of our gray scraps
 somewhere in each block so I am calling my quilt ... 

"Everything Goes With Gray"

I am making the last of my blocks this week.

Yay!

I will be sewing my top together soon!

Thanks, Dorian, for swapping blocks with me!

I am scrappy and happy!

Are you scrappy, too?

Have you seen this great scrappy challenge?

Scrap Challenge Quilt 4

@

Fabrics N Quilts

I am thinking this Scrappy Friendship Swap Quily may
make a great scrappy quilt for this challenge!

Linking up today with all the crafty people
@

and checking in with what's buzzing
@

Click on the buttons to see all the inspiring links and


Have a happy quilty day!

:-)

Winner of the Fabrics N Quilts Gift Certificate ...

 ... and the winner is ...

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Comment # 33

krislovesfabricJune 4, 2014 at 8:29 AM

What a beauty of a picnic quilt...love the checkers! And how neat that you got to visit the basket outlet...I might be jealous :)

Congratulations to
Kris@ Kris Loves Fabric

who has her own lovely Perfect Picnic post with a beautiful quilt, flowers, delicious food ...
 and two yummy pies.

Enjoy your shopping at

Fabrics N Quilts

Thanks to all who stopped by and left so many kind words on my quilt and picnic post.

I wish I had something for all of you.

Please visit me again.

Hope to have more fun giveaways soon!

Thanks, again, to

Shannon @ Fabrics N Quilts

for generously offering this giveaway to my readers.

This has been such a fun fun fun blog hop!

Looking forward to the next hop announcement from

Madame Samm @ Sew We Quilt

who always brings sunshine and happiness to my scrapatch!

A view from my back porch.

The sun just broke through the clouds here after two hours of rain!

Have a happy quilty day!

:)

My Perfect Picnic

 Welcome to the picnic in my hometown!

How about a game of quilty checkers?

The center of my quilt is a real checkerboard!

My hubby painted wooden disks for the checkers for me.

When I saw this blog hop in the works from

Sew We Quilt

I knew I wanted to join the fun!

Picnics in the parks  that line both banks of the river that runs through my city are a regular weekend event  for us and many others. There are always many families and single people picnicing, playing ball, biking, walking, jogging  and just enjoying the outdoors. 
When I found these
Riley Blake Flutter Fabrics @ Fabrics 'n' Quilts I knew these were my perfect picnic fabrics  and immediately started working on the design for my quilt.

So I have made this Picnic Quilt with the idea that it would be a 1st Anniversary Gift for my daughter. The fabrics in the quilt top or "Flutter" by Riley Blake. I love this fabric line. I love the colors.   Riley Blake fabrics are so color rich and nice to the touch.  

I was the very lucky recipient of this beautiful laminated chevron fabric from our generous sponsor,

 Riley Blake Designs

These new laminates are very soft and flexible. 

The  laminate is only on the top.  The back of the fabric is a soft weave.

I read all the helpful hints from Riley Blake on the sewing and care of these fabrics, like these 

 Design Tips from Riley Blake

I love the the back of this quilt!

I consider this a two-sided quilt.

The backing makes a great wipe clean tablecloth if I want to save the front of the quilt from spills.

Thanks, Riley Blake, for sponsoring our blog hop

 and generously sending me a little extra backing fabric

 to make my 60" quilt!

I had a small piece of the pretty chevron laminate fabric left

so I made a pouch for the checkers. 

My hubby likes this quilt so much we have decided to keep it.

(I shall be making another one soon to send to my daughter.)

We also decided that we need a new picnic basket for ourselves.

So we decided to take a drive ...

Destination:

Peterboro Basket Factory Outlet!

Peterborough, NH, is about an hour and a half drive down some 

very pretty back roads.

We used to live in this part of New Hampshire 

so I have actually visited their factory outlet showroom before.

They offer great discounts in their no frills factory outlet

 where your can see the basket making process, too.

There is even a section of "factory seconds" which look pretty perfect to me.

Thanks, Peterboro Baskets, for sponsoring our blog hop! 

We found some great outlet prices,  so we bought two baskets.

One large enough for a my hubby and I to go on picnics ...


all ready to put the top down and ride ...

<3 ... just the two of us ... <3

...and one personal size picnic basket just for me!


I do not carry a large pocketbook or tote bag, but I shall carry this small picnic basket



with me with a snack and a hand project and a book tucked in. 

What do we like to pack in our big beautiful basket?

Pie is a must for our picnic basket.

This one is Strawberry-Rhubarb,


which is a spring favorite in my house.


You can find my recipe by scrolling down to my previous post

or clicking HERE

We, also, pack fresh and easy to eat foods in our basket,

like fruit, cheese, veggies, the fixin's to make sandwiches.

Both my husband and I love to make homemade bread.

Charlie made this loaf which is why it looks so perfect.

Do we play checkers?

Yes, we do!

We also bring a deck of cards,

something to read.

There are free summer band concerts by the river and we will enjoy laying out our quilt.

We also like to sit out in the evening and picnic in our own backyard.

<3

"Just Me and Charlie Talking"

<3


We are looking forward to many picnics

with this bright and pretty quilt!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Giveaway Time!


[This giveaway is now closed.]


I am thrilled to be offering my first sponsored giveaway!


The fabrics in my quilt top were purchased when 

I was the lucky winner of a giveaway from ... 

Now 

Shannon @ Fabric 'n' Quilts


is generously offering a  

$30.00 gift certificate to her webstore !

Thank you, Shannon!

To be eligible to win his giveaway:

please leave one lovely comment!

This offer is open to all, anywhere in the world.

You do not need to be a follower to win.

As a special thanks to my wonderfully supportive followers,

new and old,

I am offering a second chance to win.

If you are a follower, you may leave a 2nd comment 

telling me how you follow.

You do need to leave an email address where I can contact you 

to let you know if you are the lucky winner

I will be sending your email address to Shannon so that she may contact you directly 

as to how to redeem this certificate.

My blog does not allow anonymous comments to keep away the robots.

If you do not have an ID to leave a comment, you may email me

at the address under "Contact Me" at the the top of my blog 

and I will enter your comment for you.

This giveaway closes on 

Monday June 9th at Midnight EDT.

I will use a random number generator to choose the winner.

I will announce a winner on Tuesday, June 10th!

Best of luck!

Please be sure to stop by all these lovely picnics ... 

Wednesday June 4

Quilt Taffy

Pampered Pettit

Creatin' in the Sticks

Miss Priss Quilts

Life in the Scrapatch (you are here)

That's Sew Julie

Thanks, Madame Samm, for creating this wonderful blog hop!


Thanks, Mary, for cheering us on!

Please come back and play again soon!

Click HERE for a free tutoarial of how I made my quilt.  



Thanks for visiting!

It's your move ... 


:-)

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