Giveaway!!!!!!

It's GIVEAWAY time!!!!!  I had originally planned to participate in the Sew Mama, Sew giveaway in May. Things were just a bit too busy for me to enjoy the giveaway. I love to visit your blogs, respond to your comments and just plain make new friends. This week is better for me, so....

Pat Wys  and B.J. Laird of Silver Thimble Quilt Company have donated 4 packages of B.J.'s sewing inspired notecards. Each package has 3 notecards of the same design. I have a thing for paper products - notecards, notepads and writing paper.  I'd love to have packs of all  4 of these designs. My friend Kristie purchased some to put in frames to decorate her sewing room. Great idea! I may steal that idea:)

 Sewing Girl

Pincushion

Birdy Sewing Company

Sewing Basket

To enter the giveaway, visit the Silver Thimble Quilt Company website.  Tell me your favorite card design from the many listed on the page.I love the Halloween cards and I know that I've never needed a Halloween card before now. For a second entry, tell me your favorite pattern from the pattern page. Followers of my blog receive a third entry. Just comment separately for each entry. Giveaway will end on Sunday, June 10th. Thanks to Pat and B.J. for sponsoring this giveaway!

Leap Year - the Giveaway!

Happy Leap Year, dear friends!  I've joined the blog hop at Such a Sew and Sew blog. What a fun way to celebrate an extra day to the year.  This is a one day only giveaway. It begins tonight and ends tomorrow evening at midnight (Feb. 29th) I'll use the random number generator to choose the winner on Thursday morning, March 1st. My giveaway is for one of my favorite patterns to use with a fabric line. 

Strawberry Pie by Silver Thimble Quilt Company is jelly roll friendly. I've made this quilt several times. I've actually purchased fat quarters/quarter yard cuts of a fabric line for the strips and a little over a yard for the focus blocks. It's my go-to pattern when I love a fabric line, but don't know what pattern to use. Leave a comment on this post. Tell me your favorite new or old fabric line. Happy Leap Day, friends! And Happy Birthday, Bev! 

Miscellaneous Monday

I admit it. I have no shame. I've entered the Bernina Sewing Room Make-over. I'm begging you to vote for me. I've "outgrown" my bedroom sewing room. We have a finished room in our basement that I could use, BUT it needs heating, cooling, lots of lighting and storage. Here is my room:

Here's the link to vote for my room.  My entry is number 403.  You can vote once a day until Thursday. Thanks so very much!!!!!!




Giveaways - Don't miss them!

Linda at Stray Stitches has 2 giveaways in progress. Her birthday giveaway for a fabric bundle ends  Monday, May 30, at 7:00 pm PST and a gorgeous pincushion for the Sew Mama Sew giveaway which ends Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 7:00 a.m. PST. Linda is a phenomenal blogger. Definitely check out her blog.

My friend, Pat from Silver Thimble Quilt Company is celebrating her upcoming book, Spotlight on Neutrals with Martingale Publishing. She is giving away four books published by Martingale. Put her book on your calendar for October. You will want this one:) Her giveaway end this Thursday May 26th at midnight Eastern time.

Jocelyn at Happy Cottage Quilter has a giveaway for some wonderful Denyse Schmidt's new fabric line. Her giveaway ends on Thursday, May 26th. This fabric looks wonderful. You don't really need to go and add your name:)

Edit: 2 additional sites I meant to post.
Gundrun of GE designs has a book hop this week and is giving away copies of her new book. 
Table runners and recipes! Yum!


Visit Sew, Mama, Sew blog for a MANY, MANY, MANY, giveaways. It started today and ends on Wednesday, May 25th. Good luck!

Happy Birthday Week

It's birthday week at our house.Don't you just love the LSU Garden Gnome. I didn't even know they existed. It is a gift to  DS to his Dad. Thursday was DH's day and Saturday is our oldest son's day. Since this week was a bit wild for both of them, we celebrated last Sunday. Sorry, I forgot to take photos, but the  meal and cake were fabulous:) Today, the landscapers arrived to do the work in our front yard. A tree needed to be removed, shrubbery replaced and sod added. DH was in his element. For years, we've done all the work ourselves. His treat this year was to hire someone else to do the work. 

A finished job!

Giveaways around Blogland!

Mary at Quilt Hollow has a copy of the book Country Comfort by Cheryl Wall. Cheryl has a second book coming out in the Summer of 2012 with Martingale & Company. Enter the giveaway, visit Cheryl's website. If you need a long-arm quilter for your quilts, Mary does AMAZING work.

Pat Sloan is hosting a Blog Hop for her new book, What A Novel Idea. Visit Pat's post on Monday. There is still time to visit all the blogs, but Friday is the last day.
Tuesday – 4/19/11       Carrie Nelson: - lavieenrosie.typepad.com

Wednesday  – 4/20/11
Victoria Findlay Wolfe – bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com/ 
Amy Ellis –amyscreativeside.com/

Thursday – 4/21/11
Amanda Herring – thequiltedfish.typepad.com/the-quilted-fish/ 
Barb and Mary at Me and My Sister – meandmysisterdesigns.com/blog/

Friday – 4/22/11
Gudrun Erla – gudrun.typepad.com/
Erin Gilday – http://patchworkunderground.com/blog/

Please remember to enter my giveaway for a Lapel Stick.