SCQ Blog Birthday Celebration - Giveaway sponsored by Fabric Spark

Welcome to the next celebration, because I've hit some quilty and internet milestones:

• My 5 year blog birthday is in less than a month - on March 12, 2016 
• I have over 6000 blog followers
• I have over 6500 instagram followers

To thank you for being here, as part of my quilting community,  I have arranged for some giveaways from my sponsors over the next few weeks, and I will have a giveaway from me in the week of my actual blog birthday too.

Today, I'm giving away this beautiful bundle for 12 fat quarters that Daryl at Fabric Spark invited me to curate for her Monthly Sparks Fabric Club. This is the March bundle for this club, and Daryl was kind enough to cut an extra one to help us celebrate my blog birthday. Thank you to Fabric Spark!

Fabric Spark is a Canadian online fabric shop run by my friend Daryl out of the Toronto area. I have had the chance to meet with Daryl in Toronto, where Fabric Spark is based and also at Quilt Market. She is fabulous and has been a supportive sponsor of my blog for a long time now.

Daryl personally curates each fabric choice for Fabric Spark, and only stocks fabrics she loves. When you stop to look at a particular fabric in her shop, you can read not only about the fabric, but also about Daryl's spark, her ideas and thoughts about the fabric and what it might be used for.

Fabric Spark regularly receives new fabrics - quilting cottons and also a wide range of other substrates too. Daryl also stocks Big Wool which is a lovely, soft, very chunky yarn in beautiful colours. She ships in both Canada and the USA for very reasonable prices and her orders arrive quickly. Daryl is lovely to deal with - her customer service is top notch.

There are a few ways to enter this giveaway which will be selected by the random number generator:

• Leave a comment on this blog post. 

• If you have not already done so, sign up for the Fabric Spark newsletter - go here and scroll to the bottom -  and then come back and leave a second comment letting me know that you did - or that you already receive it. 

• If you are a follower of my blog - existing or new - leave a third comment here letting me know how you follow me.

• Follow the instructions on my instagram post about this giveaway - I may have to wait to post that until later today, please keep an eye out for it.

• To clarify, you can enter by leaving comments here as set out above and also by following the instagram post instructions if you would like. I will take the entries from both and draw from the entire pool.

• Help me lovely people - if you don't have your email attached to your commenting profile, please leave it in your comment (emailhandle [at] provider.comorwhatever - is a way to make it more secure if you like.) If I cannot contact you I will immediately draw again. 

The giveaway will close at Midnight on Friday, March 4, 2016, MST, and I will use the random number generator to draw the winner from the comments on this post and on my instagram post and announce the winner on Saturday.

Isn't that just the best bundle- it was so fun to curate it.

Thank you for all the inspiration, support and encouragement while I travel along my quilting journey!

Edited: This giveaway is now closed.

I still have not really been able to sew since QuiltCon - just too much inspiration overload - but I have a plan for later on today after work. Wish me luck.

Best,

Leanne

The winner of the Fat Quarter Shop SCQ Blog Birthday Giveaway

Thank you all for entering this giveaway, both here and on instagram. There will be a couple more, I have been enjoying this blog birthday celebration and I hope you have too.

And thank you to the Fat Quarter Shop for sponsoring a wonderful giveaway of t this Cool Colours, Blueberry Park Rollup designed by Karen Lewis Textiles.

The lucky winner is Terry (blog comment #263), who kindly left me her email in her comment too. Congratulations Terry, I will send you an email in a minute.

I am hoping to spend my day in my sewing space, getting over the crazy quilt overload from QuiltCon. I have photos of quilts to edit and share with you too, but I have just been unable to do anything quilty this week, it was just so much to process but I think I am done now. Stay tuned.

Best,

Leanne

SCQ Blog Birthday Giveaway - Sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop

Welcome to the next celebration, because I've hit some quilty and internet milestones:

• My 5 year blog birthday is in less than a month - on March 12, 2016 
• I have over 6000 blog followers, as of today
• I have over 6000 instagram followers

To thank you for being here, as part of my quilting community,  I have arranged for some giveaways from my sponsors over the next few weeks, and I will have a giveaway from me in the week of my actual blog birthday too.

Today, the Fat Quarter Shop is sponsoring a wonderful giveaway of this bundle of this Cool Colours, Blueberry Park Rollup designed by Karen Lewis Textiles.

The Fat Quarter Shop was the very first sponsor of my blog, and they have been a great and generous support to me and to all the quilting events that I have presented here. I think that you might already know that the FQS is a great place to shop for pretty much anything you will need for quilting -  from fabric to thread to notions to books, and anything else too.

More than that, the Fat Quarter Shop enthusiastically supports the quilting community. They are involved in Quilt Alongs, Block of the Months, and Charity events. The Fat Quarter Shop regularly shares knowledge with the quilting community through their YouTube Channel and on their blog. They pretty much do it all.

There are a few ways to enter this giveaway which will be selected by the random number generator:

• Leave a comment on this blog post. 

• If you have not already done so, sign up for the Fat Quarter Shop newsletter - go here and scroll to the bottom -  and then come back and leave a second comment letting me know that you did - or that you already receive it. 

• If you are a follower of my blog - existing or new - leave a third comment here letting me know how you follow me.

• Follow the instructions on my instagram post about this giveaway - I may have to wait to post that until later today, please keep an eye out for it.

• To clarify, you can enter by leaving comments here as set out above and also by following the instagram post instructions if you would like. I will take the entries from both and draw from the entire pool.

• Help me lovely people - if you don't have your email attached to your commenting profile, please leave it in your comment (emailhandle [at] provider.comorwhatever - is a way to make it more secure if you like.) If I cannot contact you I will immediately draw again. 

The giveaway will close at Midnight on Friday, February 26, MST, and I will use the random number generator to draw the winner from the comments on this post and on my instagram post and announce the winner on Saturday.

Thank you for all the inspiration, support and encouragement while I travel along my quilting journey!

I am on my way home from QuiltCon this morning and I'm writing this at the LA airport - which is less glamorous than it sounds. I'll share about QuiltCon tomorrow, it was a lot of fun.

Edited: This giveaway is now closed.

Best,

Leanne

The winner of the Green Fairy Quilts Giveaway

Thank you all for the well wishes and the entries into this wonderful giveaway sponsored by Green Fairy Quilts.

The lucky winner of the wonderful giveaway of this bundle of 40 fat eights of Strawberry Fields Revisited by Fig Tree & Co, sponsored by Green Fairy Quilts is Maria Villar (mvillar on instagram).

Congratulations Maria, and thank you to Clint and Judi over at  Green Fairy Quilts!

I'm off for another day at QuiltCon, I'll have lots to share when I get home on Monday.

Best,

Leanne

Don't forget to join in my blog birthday celebration

Don't forget to help me celebrate my 5th blog birthday and other internet quilty milestones.

Go to my Monday post here, or my Monday IG post here to enter to win this beautiful  bundle of 40 fat eights of Strawberry Fields Revisited by Fig Tree & Co. sponsored by Green Fairy Quilts. (comments on this post will not count).

I'm at QuiltCon, I'll share more with you when I have time or when I get home.

Best,

Leanne

February Scraptastic Tuesday winners

I don't know quite how I managed to never have a moment to post this yesterday - rushing to finish work and organize the family to manage without me and packing for QuiltCon took all my time.

So now I am at the airport, and there is nothing to share about me except that I am on the way to California for QuiltCon!

Now its time to award the prizes for the February Scraptastic Tuesday link up.

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A huge thank you to our generous sponsors for providing the following prizes which will have been awarded randomly among the record 98 people who joined us:

• Fat Quarter Shop - $25 gift certificate: #6, Indiannadreams on Instagram

• Sew Sisters Quilt Shop - $25 gift certificate: #40, Allison from Instagram

• Sew Me a Song - $20 gift certificate: #48, The Lilac Cat on Flickr

• Fluffy Sheep Quilting - a €20 (20 Euro) gift certificate: #62, Sandra, Musings of a Menopausal Melon

• Green Fairy Quilts - $25 gift certificate: #16, Sue at Sue Daurio's Quilting Adventure

• Karen Lewis Textiles  - scrap pack: #80, Linda at Flourishing Palms

• Mad About Patchwork - a $40 gift certificate, #90, Kat at Kat's Craft

• Massdrop -  Cats Fat Quarter Bundle - #51, Desert Sky Quilting

Congratulations to our winners! I'll be sending you each an email today to get you connected to your prizes.

Thank you for joining Nicky from Mrs. Sew and Sow and sharing so much scrappy inspiration. Please plan to join us again on the second Tuesday in March - on March 8, 2016.

Best,

 Leanne

SCQ Blog Birthday Celebration - Green Fairy Quilts giveaway

I've hit some quilty and internet milestones:

• My 5 year blog birthday is in less than a month - on March 12, 2016 
• I have over 6000 blog followers, as of today, 5955 on Bloglovin' alone
• I have over 6000 instagram followers, as of today 6292

So it's about time for a celebration. To thank you for being here, as part of my quilting community,  I have arranged for some giveaways from my sponsors and I will have a giveaway from me in the week of my actual blog birthday too.

Today, Green Fairy Quilts is sponsoring a wonderful giveaway of this bundle of 40 fat eights of Strawberry Fields Revisited by Fig Tree & Co.

Green Fairy Quilts has been a sponsor of mine for a long time now and I have to say that they are fantastic to work with. I love shopping at their store because I know that they will beat anyone's price (including shipping costs) on any of the products that they sell.

Green Fairy Quilts sells a huge selection of pre-cuts from Moda, Quilting Treasures, Riley Blake and Robert Kaufman. They also sell notions, books and patterns, batting, some yardage, and my particular favourite - a lot of different threads - spools and sets - from Aurifil, Superior Threads, Coats & Clark, Lana Wools, and Filtec bobbins. 

In the USA they free shipping for orders over $10 and for large orders outside the USA - over $250 Canada, $350 International - there is free shipping too. They have a special deal daily and special sales weekly. Clint and Judi Madsen run their family business in a such a friendly manner, it is always a pleasure to shop with them, and so I do often. And, Green Fairy Quilts gives too, they have supported charity work in Romania for years.

There are a few ways to enter this giveaway:

• Leave a comment on this blog post. 

• Sign up for the Green Fairy Quilts Newsletter, go here, and then come back and leave a second comment letting me know that you did - or that you already receive it. 

• If you are a follower of my blog - existing or new - leave a third comment here letting me know how you follow me.

• Follow the instructions on my instagram post about this giveaway.

• To clarify, you can enter by leaving comments here as set out above and also by following the instagram post instructions if you would like. I will take the entries from both and draw from the entire pool.

• Help me lovely people - if you don't have your email attached to your commenting profile, please leave it in your comment (emailhandle [at] provider.comorwhatever - is a way to make it more secure if you like.) The giveaway has been open for an hour and a half and there are already 14 people who are "no reply". That means that if their number is drawn I will draw again as I will not be able to contact them. 

The giveaway will close at Midnight on Friday, February 19 and I will use the random number generator to draw the winner from the comments on this post and on my instagram post and announce the winner on Saturday (from QuiltCon).

Edited: This giveaway is now closed.

Thank you for all the inspiration, support and encouragement while I travel along my quilting journey!

Best,

Leanne

Napkins

I made these 10 simple napkins today. My family has been using cloth napkins - mostly home made ones - for about 20 years. Estimating low, that is over 30,000 paper napkins that were not used and not thrown in the garbage. I wash them with our towels, and they don't change the number of towel loads of laundry either. And cloth napkins are fun.



But eventually they wear out, and I've been meaning to make more. When I found this bundle in my stash today of linen mochi dot by Moda which is 100% cotton but feels like linen, I decided it was a perfect match. I cut 16" squares. I folded and pressed the edges over at about 1/4" twice.  Then I sewed two opposite sides and then the other two sides. I used my walking foot as the corners are thick.

I'll wash them in the morning and give them a press and they will be ready for dinner tomorrow. We could use some more too, I'll look for another fabric choice tomorrow.

I was giving my sewing space a major tidy and reorganizing today. Maybe I will finish tomorrow and share some photos here - there are a couple on instagram if you want to see sooner.

Don't forget to join Nicky from Mrs. Sew and Sow and I for the February Scraptastic Tuesday link. You have until 10 pm MST on Monday night to join us. Go here to link up your scrappy project.

And, I'll tell you more on Monday, but I have organized some great giveaways over the next month to celebrate my 5 year blogging anniversary - on March 12 - and some other internet milestones too.

Best,

Leanne

if you were shopping... #52

Welcome to if you're shopping.... On some Fridays,  I share news from my sponsors, in case you want to do a little shopping, or even window shopping. 

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The Fat Quarter Shop has Valentine's fabrics on sale until midnight on Valentine's day. They have Sweetwater's new line First Crush and several other great fabrics in this sale.

Sew Me a Song has beautiful curated bundles, including this Voile bundle of Amy Butler and Victoria and Albert prints.

Fluffy Sheep Quilting has new fabrics, including Purebread.

Mention monochrome and most people immediately think of black and white or grayscale colour schemes. Think again! Oakshott Fabrics' NEW Monochrome Picks demonstrate the impact that can be created by designing with one colour, whilst producing a soothing effect which is easy on the eye.

Mad about Patchwork has a wonderful new website and beautiful fabrics including these 20 piece Ombre bundles by V & Co.

Fabric Spark has a lot of new fabrics in, including Nani Iro brushed cotton.

Green Fairy Quilts has Kate Spain's Aria in a Fat 16 bundle as their featured fabric of the week.

Sew Sisters Quilt Shop has two of my most favourite new lines - Avant Garde and Carkai -  in stock now.

Best,


Leanne