Giveaway Winners

   "Autumn"  made in 2012

                                                                                           
Congratulations! to the two winners of the scrap fabrics which you could use in Stephanie's new Rummage quilt. Be sure to go to her blog and let her know that you want her two new patterns when they come out.

The USA winner is RoseMary from the blog called He(ART) and Soul.
Carole from the blog called Wheels on the Warrandyte Bus is the other winner. She is from Australia.

I am sending you each an email to let you know you won so you can email your address to me. Enjoy your scraps.

If Mtntopquilter is reading this post you won a prize from my blog post on Sept. 14. I sent an email and haven't heard from you yet. I left a comment on your blog so please reply back with your address. If I don't hear from you by next weekend I will pick another name.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Old meets New

I am so excited to share this new quilt with you. I shared a sneak peek on the previous post.  For those of you that regularly read my blog you know that I sometimes test patterns for the very creative Stephanie. She calls her pattern testers Supremes. She has a new blog called Rummage. She shares the most fun stuff on her blog. One of the things she shares is awesome new patterns that she has created. This is one of her newest. Stephanie is calling her new pattern Rummage but I am calling mine Old meets New.

I am calling my quilt Old meets New because of the fabrics I used.  Stephanie sent some lovely feedsacks and other vintage fabrics for me to use. The photo below is actually some that she sent as a gift several years ago. I also added new fabrics in the quilt that looked vintage.

This is one of my favorite feedsacks so I used this as my guide for my fabric choices.

I also won some vintage bed sheet fat quarters several years ago. I have been saving them and the feedsacks for the perfect quilt and Rummage was it. Some of those bed sheets were used in the quilt.

Stephanie will be making the pattern available soon. All her patterns are in pdf form now. Go by her blog to let her know you are interested. You can also see her lovely quilt.

Can you find the vintage fabrics in the quilt? This is the fabric I used on the back of the quilt. Isn't it cute? My friend Laura did the machine quilting for me.

You can see another quilt that Stephanie created on Candace's blog. So pretty. Ask Stephanie about it too.

I thought I would have another giveaway so you could make a Rummage quilt too. The photo above is 2 fat quarters  (vintage bed sheets), half of a fat quarter vintage bed sheet, and the pink is part of a feed sack. If you live outside the USA this giveaway is for you. Just let me know you would like a chance and what country you live in.

I am giving this 5" high stack of scraps to someone who lives in the USA. These scraps would be great in the Rummage quilt and some pieces would work for a string quilt. Have fun going through them. I always love someone else's scraps better than my own. ;0)

If your enter either of these giveaways please make sure that I have an email address so that I can contact you if you should win. I noticed a lot of you that entered my giveaway from the last post did not have your email address under your profile. You might have been the winner on some other blog giveaway but there was no way to contact you.

I will announce the winners next weekend sometime. Good luck!

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Sneak Peeks and Winners

Here are some sneak peeks of some things I am working on. My log cabin quilt top is finished. My long arm quilter, Laura, has it now. I will show it as soon as I get it all done.

I am doing some big quilt stitches on this project.

This one is done but you will have to wait a little longer before I can reveal it. It is a pattern I tested for Stephanie who has a new blog called Rummage. Her blog used to be called Loft Creations. If you have not seen her new blog yet you are missing a lot. Stephanie is also the one who wrote the book called Uncommonly Corduroy that I mentioned on the previous post. I forgot to mention her blog. Sorry Stephanie.

Look who is 5 months old! My little grandson is learning to do new things every day. Such fun to watch.

Now on to the winners of my giveaway. I will be sending you all emails so that you can let me know your street addresses.

Prize #1
 Janet of Mrs. Sew and Sew  and Jacqueline (no blog)

Prize #2
 Marsha of Grandma's Quilts                      

Prize #3
Raewyn of Love to Stitch

Prize #4
Jusmom1 of UggaBearCottage

Prize #5
Barb of Fun with Barb

Prize #6
Jeanna of Slammin' the Screendoor

Prize #7
Sheila of Sheila's Quilts and Susan C. (no blog)



Prize #8
MtntopQuilter and Dar of Dar's Patchwork Garden


Congrats to all you winners. Thanks for all your kind comments on my quilts. It was fun to share some of the prize with my readers.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Feels like Christmas

For the past 5 years I have donated lap size quilts to Quilters Dream Batting Hopes and Dreams Quilts Challenge for ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease. 

Last year I donated these six quilts.

 This year I have only gotten around to donating one quilt. This pattern was from Stephanie's book Uncommonly Corduroy.

 I received an email last week telling me that I had won the category "Sew Lovely" with the above quilt. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever win any of the categories for prizes. I just send the quilts because I want to share with those that suffer with this horrible disease. So last week the UPS man brought this huge box to the house. I definitely was not expecting all these goodies in the box. I had so much fun going through it.

 There are so many patterns that I will never get around to using. See that stack in the middle of the photo?  I thought I would share some of the prizes with you. I am also taking some stuff to my guild to give them for the door prizes during meetings.

So here is how it will work. You can pick the number of the giveaway you like and enter that number in the comment. You can put any or all of the numbers in your comment but you will only win one prize. Put your preferences from first to last if you like.

 #1 giveaway. I was given three sets of these Minick and Simpson patterns. I will be giving away two sets.

 #2 are these cute little woolie patterns.

 #3 are these little patterns that you can use for the table top hanger.

 #4 Another group of patterns for the table top hanger.

 #5 This is an Iphone cover. This is just decorative not protective. It measures 4 1/2" long. I have a Samsung so I can't use it.

 #6 Patterns for tea towels.

 #7 Two people can choose a Oliver + S dress pattern. Size 4,5,6,7+8

#8 Two people can win a bundle of cat lover's fat quarters.

So just let me know which number prize you like in the comment box. I will share the winner's names this weekend sometime. I probably will not respond to comments unless you have a specific question only because I am going to have a super busy week.

Good luck!
Carrie P.

Show and Tell

This past Thursday I went to my Applique Addicts bee. I thought I would show you a few of the quilts some of the ladies have finished. 

Jane made this stunning quilt. I think it was a BOM from a local quilt shop. I love the way she finished the quilt.

 Patti finished this quilt and

 this quilt.

 Marlene has been working on these cute little angels. I think she said she would be putting the blocks together soon.

 Everyone worked on some applique but nothing that was at the point of sharing with you all. Maybe next month. My show and tell are these tomatoes and

cooking pumpkins from the garden. As far as sewing goes for me, I am putting my log cabin blocks together.

With Passion,
Carrie P.