Thank you

Thank you to all who entered my giveaway sponsored by

Sew Sisters Quilt Shop. 

Random Number Generator chose comment 

#55

Snowy South western Ontario. My favorite flowers are my roses, hybrid teas. I hope they survived the winter. Thanks for a chance to win.

I have sent you an email. 

I too hope her roses survived this rotten winter. 

My tulips are slowing try to grow outside.  In the meantime I'll have to enjoy the grocery store indoor kind.

April showers in the fabric way

Wouldn't it be lovely if April Showers came in the form of fabric showers rather than rain (or if you are in Alberta, snow)? 

Pretty colourful Fat Quarters falling from the sky ever so gently.  Dreamy

Or perhaps in your corner of the world you are tired of April Showers or dreary fall days and need some brightening up of your day. I think I have just the thing. 

I have been asked to host a giveaway from a fantastic quilting shop.  

Sew Sisters is a Canadian quilt shop dedicated to all things quilting. 

For the past decade they have offered Canadian quilters great quality fabric, notions, books, kits and patterns, both in our store in Toronto and online. 

At Sew Sisters we believe you should buy fabric, not postage! So we offer terrific shipping rates on orders within Canada.  They will also ship internationally too.  They also host weekly giveaways on Facebook. 

Look what will be raining down in the giveaway.

Timeless Treasures Basic Rain 

10 FQ bundle  You can see more of it here

The colours remind me of my garden when it blooms with blue delphiniums, red petunias, yellow daisies, pink cosmos, purple irises and blue skies

My garden last June

If you would like this wonderful bright bundle to rain on you just leave me a comment of where you are from and your favourite flower.
If you are a follower or want to be leave a second comment for a second chance.

Giveaway open until Saturday April 19th
International comments welcome

Happy stitching or gardening if you are so lucky to be out doing such.

Lee

Giveaway is now closed

Blog Hop Party with Giveaway

 

Its that time of the year again. Time for some fun hopping all over the world from the comfort of your own chair and computer.

Speaking of around the world. I was recently on a trip far away from home.  

Anyone recognize which city I was in?   

I will have a give away for two of my pouches 

(small and medium size, fabric to be chosen by me)

Leave a comment here telling me where you think I was and tell me how far away from home you have ever travelled. 

 This trip took me over 10,000km (6800mi) away from home!

If you so desire become a follower and you won't miss out on my ramblings

Good luck and have fun hopping! Don't forget to go to the Quilting Gallery late Friday afternoon to see all the other hoppers.

Lee

Thanks for stopping by
Give away now closed. 
off to make some pouches!

Quilting Gallery’s Blog Hop Give-away and more…

Not only is Michelle at Quilting Gallery celebrating her 5^th anniversary of her blog starting Dec 10th, but I am also celebrating my 300^th post (actually this is #302). Hop over to her blog to get the full list of participants. Have fun hopping around blog land and good luck.

If you are a first time visitor to my blog, welcome. I hope you will come back often to see what I am up to. (Become a follower or like me on Facebook)

I have been quilting off and on for over 20 years depending on what life throws at me.  I love working with scraps and putting  my own twist on a pattern.

Since I am celebrating my 300th post and 150 followers and the Blog Hop party, I will have 3 giveaways!  (I’ll ship anywhere)

This giveaway will close on Saturday December 15th

#1 a holiday dish towel

#2 Quilting ornament

#3  gift or business card holders (4)

It’s really easy to enter my giveaway for a chance to win one of the above.  Just leave me a comment letting me know where you will be spending Christmas day! (with family, friends, on a beach, in a mountain cabin, church, movie theatre, on the road??)

 

If you are interested I am hosting a Winter White Block exchange and would love some more participants.  Find out more here:Enjoy blog hopping!

Happy Stitching

 

Lee

 

 

This giveaway is now closed. thank you for entering, becoming a new follower or commenting.  

A winner has been choosen!

And the winner is......

SHORTBREAD -16

that is the most popular cookie on my very random Christmas cookie survey.

followed by:

 Peanut Butter cookies - 11 including Buckeyes

Gingerbread/molasses - 8

Chocolate cookies -7

Sugar or cut out cookies - 5

tied with -3

Coconut macaroons

Snowballs

Mexican wedding

tied with - 2

Mint

Oatmeal

Thumbprints

Pecan

Pizzelle

others:

Mince pies

Bourbon balls

haystacks

Brunsli

Springerlie

Kourambiedes

Italian

Cake Batter

They all sound delicous and I loved the stories behind them. Thanks for sharing.

My cookie try last year!

Oh we also have a winner of the give-a-way.

Random number gadget chose #35.

Sheila (Sheila's Quilt World):
"I love shortbread cookies at Christmas, always a treat"

Thanks for becoming a new follower too Sheila. (not sure where you are from but I will be sending you an email.)

Thank you to all of you for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment and for becomming new followers. I was thrilled everyday to see you had stopped by.

I will have some finishes to post later this week...but for now back to more baking!!

Until next time,

Happy Stitching, or baking, or shopping, or wrapping, or decorating or whatever you are doing!!

Lee

Blog Hop Party Giveaway….

What a great time to have a giveaway.  Everyone is in a festive and giving mood so I thought I would join along.
We are celebrating The Quilting Gallery’s 4th anniversary…yahoo…..such a great resource for so many things like quilting blogs, quilting stores, patterns, contests, swaps.  Michele is always coming up with something new and exciting.  If you have never visited, it is a must.  www.quiltinggallery.com
There are over 250 participants from all over this world in this amazing blog hop party.  The links will be posted on Saturday, December 9th (midnight EST).  Click on this thumbnail and it will take you to the list of participants.


And now for my give away…….

I love snowmen and I hope you do to!   This little wall hanging or table topper (14” square) could be yours.

For two chances to win all you have to do is:

1) leave me a comment telling me about your favourite holiday cookie.  I recently surveyed my family to see what their favourite was and they all chose the same one.  (Figures it was the one I like to make the least!) They all had a different second favourite, so I guess I better get baking soon.

2) why don’t you become a follower?  I love hearing from fellow bloggers from all over the world, so be sure to tell me where you are from too. (leave a second comment telling me you are now a follower)

I look forward to hearing from you.   I also look forward to checking out all the other BLOG PARTY participants tomorrow.

I will announce the winner on December 17th. Good luck everyone
Until next time,
Happy Stitching,

Lee
p.s. if I hit 110 followers I will add a little something extra to the giveaway!!

COMMENTS NOW CLOSED

And the winner is....

The winner of my little giveaway is Katherine at Sew Me Something Good.  

I had my son draw the names out of a bowl as he was walking by the computer. 

Lucky for me, Katherine and I live in the same city. So when she is back from vacation and we have the kids all settled at school we are going to meet up.  Isn't that cool? I think we will meet at a quilt shop!! Then she can collect her winnings.

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

As promised in previous posts, I said I would host a giveaway if I reached over 50 followers...well I have!!!.

Batting scraps!

I will keep the entry 'rules' pretty simple.

 See this pile of batting scraps?  I have a few bags full of these scraps. For some reason I save them thinking there is a great use for them.  Can you help me come up with a way to use them.
Leave me a comment for their use and you are entered.  (simple enough)

For another chance to enter, become a follower of my blog!!

Oh you want to know what is up for grabs.

Well I made 'you' 3 little note cards (with envelopes) using up scraps (thanks Katherine for the idea),  1 of these medium pouches  which is one of my favourite gifts to sew and one charm pack of 'A Sip of Summer' from Connecting Threads.

giveaway gifts

Giveaway will be open until August 22, 12:00 MST.  Tell a friend if you wish. International entries are more then welcome.

A winner and an update

Finally a moment to pick a winner from my 100th blogiversary.

There were only 11 entrants

Nothing fancy when drawing the winner's name just the good ol' names in a basket, stirred up .......

Picked.....

And the winner is.......

Lisa Marie, a fellow Albertan, her blog is scrapsofthisandthat Congrats. I must say I have used her tip already... Number wooden clothes pin and clip to the rows before sewing them together.. They really work. Thanks I will get your pouches off in the mail, I hope this weekend.

Update:

I sent out my mini fall quilt to my partner in Alabama. She is living in her RV this year so i didn't make my mini quilt as a wall hanging, but rather as a table topper. Denise blogged about her quilt here.

I received this one from Carol. I love the fabric and her detail quilting of the oak leaves. Thanks so much.

Currently I am working on a string quilt for my niece as well as a little wall hanging for a friend's birthday. Haven't had as much time lately for sewing, too many soccer games, working days and housework.

What are you up to?