A UFO Finish for May

This past week, I spent three lovely days at Brenda's cabin in the north Georgia mountains near Blue Ridge. Brenda blogged about our visit on her blog. At the top of my sewing list was to add borders to my retirement quilt. I needed additional yardage for the borders. The fabric came in the mail just in time for me to take this project with me to the Cabin. This is one of those quilts that is not very "photogenic." It is lovely in person. The blocks are signature blocks signed by wonderful co-workers, book club members and dear forever friends. In addition, each forever friend wrote the title of their favorite book. The Library Dragon, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Quiltmaker's Gift, The Mitford books, and Rebecca are just a few of the titles mentioned. This quilt is on my UFO list for 2012. It's probably not the right number for May, but it's a finish. That's all that matters for me:)

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!

Design Wall Monday

Happy Monday! Last week I began putting the blocks for Patches and Pinwheels (Swap 2) on my design wall. A group of us traded strips and blocks of Civil War repro fabric. The blocks are truly scrappy. The blocks are all made - 169 blocks. This is a huge quilt. It probably is bigger than my design wall. This quilt has been a work in progress for several years. There is lots of mindless piecing on this one. That's great for our group sewing (Thimbles) where there's lots of talking. It's exciting to think that this one is getting closer to becoming a quilt. To view lots of wonderful projects, visit Judy's Patchwork Times blog.

Thanks for Voting!!!!

"I’m so excited to share the winners with all of you – thank you all for taking the time to nominate and vote for your favorite quilts. I know that all the quilters are honored to have been nominated, and the category winners will be ecstatic! " ...

The winner of the Favorite Two Color Quilt category, Becky, has won a Quilt Journal, a set of Note Cards, and an Eco Tote from Pattern Spot!...   from Amy's Creative Side blog.

That's me! Ecstatic!  I received an email from one of you before I received the Bloggers' Quilt Festival Winner email from Amy. Thank you, dear friends, for taking the time to vote for my quilt.  This was so much fun having a quilt nominated in a category. I don't know who nominated my quilt, but THANK YOU! Also, THANK YOU, dear friends, for taking the time to vote for my "It's All Black and White" quilt. Thanks to the many, many sponsors of the prizes. Thanks, especially to PatternSpot.com for their donations for the Two Color Quilt prizes!