A finish!

My Cosmic Burst/Precious quilt is done! I love love love it. I kind of wish I had made a bigger version. Definitely going to make this one again.

with kraken:





Two amazing wins came this week. One from Laurie Wisbrun of her new line, in the raspberry/lime colorway. Sooooo gonna get yardage of this when it's around.



AND I won a bundle from the Fat Quarter Shop:



I'm super super excited for summer. I have lots of ideas/designs in mind. I want to learn how to use TouchDraw. I signed up for Rachel (over at Stitched in Color)'s summer camp in Handstitching. I think there are still spaces if you want to sign up! Have a wonderful Mother's Day! I'll be dancing and sewing and chatting up my mom!

Giveaway winner!

I ran the comments through Mr. Random. #2 won. e Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 2 Powered by RANDOM.ORG Anyone out there who can tell me an easy way to cut and paste the little image? Also, I'm tired...so now might not be a good time to explain it. Hadley, I'll email you to find out your fabric preference! Ooooo...I finished my Precious/Cosmic Burst. It's still in the dryer. Pics tomorrow.

Giveaway and post 200!!!!!

I'm fashionably *cough* late on my 100 follower giveaway, but here it is. Ironically on post 200!

 So, two big milestones. My original plan was to giveaway a fat quarters, but I'm going to do a giveaway with a slight twist. Some audience participation, as it were. I picked out 2 fat quarters from my LQS during a shop hop to give away to followers. I'm still giving those away.

These are the FQs in question:


 Here's where the twist comes in. I will also give you 1 yd in addition to these FQs, in the form of either a straight yard or 2 half yards, of a line of your choosing, as long as it's available at my LQS...luckily, my LQS is pretty awesome. So, you can request more of Malka or give me a line or a designer you love (just not Melody Miller or Kokka...because as much as I love y'all, I can't manage $25 a yard with postage...) ESPECIALLY since I'm making this open to International Folks and the postage on top of Kokka would kill me.

 So....this is for followers only. Give me a favorite designer or line (not out of print) that you are loving. I'll try to make it happen if you win!

 Comments will be open until Friday, around 9pm EST. I'll mail the package out this weekend if you're domestic, by Monday if you aren't. WOoooo!!!!!! Thank you, dear followers, who make blogging fun and some of whom I look forward to meeting at Sewing Summit!

 And, for other picture-y goodness, more bee blocks:

oops...

I was supposed to post a giveaway. I'll post it tomorrow. Tonight I ended up going down for the count. And then the dog peed on my favorite wool carpet. (Yes, it's a handwoven folk Polish folk runner.) So I had to wash that in the bathtub. And I didn't get any pics of the giveaway items. Or any sewing done today. Eep. My apologies.

Whew...

I have a tutorial mostly done, except for pasting in photos and scanning my templates. So so proud! If you haven't already signed up for the The Intrepid Thread's newsletter, please do. (Hint, that's where it will appear.) I also sewed bee blocks...and I fluffed one. I'm going to wait for some extra fabric to come my way to redo it. (Note to self, don't cut when you are feeling math challenged.) I *finally* got something done in time to link up to the Zakka Sew Along! Bee Blocks:

Stash winner!!!...and some sewing.

Not a ton done today.  I had dance, but I'm having trouble coming up with the choreography on this one.  I think part of it is the setting.  I'm going to be dancing in an amphitheatre set up (in a house, but that's the closest equivalent) so the audience will be above me...and it will mean going up and down stairs if I want to interact.  Must be the show woman in me, but I find it far easy when you can work the audience.  Can't do that easily while one is being stared at from above.  Hrm.

I've been working on my Modern She Made swap item.  It's not due for a bit, but I tend to get things done early...cutting things close stresses me out.  This will be a sewing machine cover, I think.


I didn't get a screen shot, but the random generator picked comment #1 from Cherise!
I'll be emailing you to get your info to send out the box ASAP.

I tried to train the animals to pick for me...they appear to be loving each other more this week.  Today we all napped for 20 min in a lump.  Cat snuggled dog, draping a front arm jauntily over dog, who responded by snuggling and making happy dog grunty noises.  So So Cute.
Proof they love each other:

Reminder...traveling stash!

A quick reminder to go here:
http://throwawenchintheworks.blogspot.com/2012/04/few-more-finishes.html
if you want to enter the giveaway for the traveling stash.  (Post there, not here.)
I think I'm closing it off today.
Let's say 7pm EST.
It's US only, sorry international peeps who are so lovely to follow me.
I've got a giveaway for my 100 followers that is way over due.  I'm adding to that one as I go to try to make up for its extreme tardiness.  That one will be open to all....