winner

the winner of the Pooches and Pickups fq bundle is:  

Melissa @ Love affair with my brother, 

who said...

Love the fabric! Perfect for a little boy :) Your quilt is gorgeous too!

I've sent you an email, I look forward to hearing from you soon.

pooches and pickups--giveaway-----closed------

giveaway closed!

Have you seen Laurie Wisbrun's new line of fabric for Robert Kaufman?  It's so cute, and soooo boy.  She sent me some fabric to play with and I came up with this fun quilt. 

Here's something I don't believe I have ever mentioned on my blog, I grew up on a farm--a real life working dairy farm.  I loved my childhood, and find myself wishing my kids could experience the country way of life.  It was the best.  I associate pickups with farm life... I grew up riding in their beds, driving them before I was 16 and feeling like that was totally normal...and there was usually my dog, Scratches, riding in the pickup...but she was pretty lucky and often got to ride in the front seat.

I made 4 random blocks, and then sashed them with this great tweed fabric from Robert Kaufman.  It gives the quilt so much texture, but is actually really soft.  I imagine my own little boy driving his trucks and cars around the quilt, using the sashing as a road.

Isn't this truck the spitting image of the one on Laurie's fabric?

I backed the quilt in this green dot.  I think it works perfectly.

here's the fun part, Laurie has sent along some extra fq bundles (6 total) for one of you!  Leave a comment to be entered in the drawing.  One entry per person.  Please be sure I have an email address to contact you!  Good luck!

I'll choose a winner on Sunday, June 5th.

adornit giveaway--giveaway closed.

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I've recently been introduced to a new fabric company, Adornit, and they have graciously offered to give away a fat quarter stack and a coordinating pattern book to one of YOU.

Take a look, this a sampling of the Buckaroo collection:

 this is a sampling of the  vintage groove collection: 

their Bugaboo Line: (don't you love those prints with words?)

 

their Long Live Vintage line:

 Now for the giveaway.  Just leave a comment, one comment per person, and you will be eligible to win: 

 

One Buckaroo Fat Quarter Stack (includes 13 fat quarters) with a coordinating ADORNit Buckaroo Pattern Book

- OR -

One Vintage Groove Fat Quarter Stack ( includes 14 fat quarters) with a coordinating ADORNit Vintage Groove Pattern Book

I will randomly select a winner on Saturday, May 21st.

thanks for stopping by.

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adornit has offered to give away both bundles, so 2 winners were selected and have been contacted:

mimi  

robin

wip wednesday--courthouse steps.

I started another quilt.  I have more projects "in progress" than I would like, but I'm completely out of batting and haven't bought more.  Hopefully soon, batting will move to the top of my list of things to get...

linking up with freshly pieced.

wip wednesday-rainbow scraps

I'm a day late, but still wanted to share.  I needed to clear out some scraps and decided I wasn't sick of rainbows yet, and made this rainbow quilt.  I always think it will make a bigger dent in my scraps than it does, I'm still almost overflowing.

I try to keep my scraps from getting too out of hand, so I have a method that seems to work for me.  Scraps first go to a drawer in my sewing table.  The scraps in this drawer get used a lot, it's kind of my go to bin for fabric.  Once that drawer is full, I start sorting by color.  I have a shoe size bin for each color (2 bins are missing from this photo). This is my limit--if the bin won't close I just have to start a scrap quilt.  Currently my blue and pink scraps are really, really full.  I've got to figure out a blue and pink scrap quilt I guess.

anybody have any great tips for managing scraps??

rainbow geese quilt

I've been gone from the computer for a while, first our internet wasn't working and then we were out of town.  I had hoped to post this before we left, but it just didn't work out.

I am going to be totally honest here, I LOVE this quilt.  I only wish I had made it bigger, it's pretty small, baby size.  I want to make another that's throw size.  I'm not sure I will though.  Maybe if I make the geese bigger.

I repeated the rainbow theme on the back.

My pink-loving know-it-all kindergartener informed me that pink isn't really part of the rainbow. and she's right, but I do like it with pink.

I bound it in white, which goes against EVERYTHING I know as a mother. Kids are messy! The less white the better, but I couldn't come up with a better alternative.  I do love the white, and the little piece of rainbow on the binding.  Hopefully it won't get too dirty.

WIP Wednesday--dear jane

 I almost don't want to admit that I started the dear jane quilt.  It's been on my radar for several years. I eventually bought the book and it sat on my shelf for a year or more, and then out of the blue last week, I decided to just jump in.  I've heard to just take it one block at a time.

if you aren't familiar with this quilt, you can read more about it here.  It really is the most amazing quilt I think I have ever seen, and the reason I'm so nervous to admit that I started it is because these blocks are small (4.5" finished) and have so many pieces--I am not a super precise quilter.  It's going to challenge me.   I'm a little nervous I'll give up.

here's the original, It truly is a work of art.

I'm using Anina's tips and tricks.  Most of the blocks she paper pieces and since I don't have any freezer paper, I've just worked on the regular pieced blocks so far.  They are also the pretty simple ones.  Wish me luck...one block at a time.

(linking up with freshly pieced again!)