one shabby chick

Winners and a flash sale

I have quite a few winners to announce so let's get to it, shall we?

The winners from my birthday giveaway are:

#8 - Beth Curtis - Sew Fresh Fabrics Gift Certificate

#13 - Laura - Fresh Squeezed Fabrics Gift Certificate

#74 - Jehn - Fabricworm/Birch Fabrics 2 yards of fabric prize

and the winner of the Alison Glass giveaway is:

#73 - Jodie!

Congrats to you all! I'll be sending you emails tonight!

And I thought it would be fun to do a flash sale for the weekend!

OK - Hope everyone has an amazing weekend!

Alison Glass blog tour

 

I was completely thrilled when Alison emailed me about being part of her blog tour for her amazing new line.

 

(I mean, they are GENIUS designs - serious must haves!)

I met her in Portland at Quilt Market (you may not know this about her but she is hilarious). And really down-to-earth and fun.

Of course I was thrilled when I saw she was coming out with all these amazing designs - in all different colors!

And texts - you know how I love text fabrics. And this one is SO great!

I chose to use the eggplant color and as I was looking over the poetry/story on the design, this line popped out at me.

So I had to use it in a word pillow.

I used the feather print on the back too!

The designs are just so versatile and easy to mix and match - great staples to have in your stash.

I can't wait to use the white on white text instead of a solid for a quilt!

The best part is there's a couple of chances to win some of this great fabric.

Comment here and let me know which design is your favorite and you will be entered to win a fat quarter set of a few of the fabrics and also an embroidery pattern of your choice (the three choices are in the picture below).

You can also enter to win the HUGE prize at the end of the tour on Alison's blog here - go enter! It's a great prize!!

The blog tour is going to be so fun and there are so many chances to win along the way. Check out each stop and all the wonderful ways everyone has used these fabrics.

 

Group 1 – Feathers, Text, Party Streamer

8.19.13 - Olivia Jane Handcrafted

8.21.13 - One Shabby Chick

8.23.13 - Silly Mama Quilts

8.26.13 - Threadbias

8.28.13 - KD Quilts

8.30.13 - April Rhodes

Group 2 – Feathers Quilt Pattern

9.2.13 - The ADD Crafter

9.4.13 - Sew Sweetness

9.6.13 - I’m A Ginger Monkey

9.9.13 - Ellison Lane Quilts

9.11.13 - Olivia Jane Handcrafted

9.13.13 - Imagine Gnats

Group 3 – Clover Sunshine

9.16.13 - Crafty Fox

9.18.13 - One Girl Circus

9.20.13 - Sew Sweetness

9.23.13 - There and Back

9.25.13 - J.M.B.

9.27.13 - Modern Maven

Group 4 – Corsage, Bike Path, X & +

9.30.13 - Gen X Quilters

10.2.13 - Don’t Call Me Betsy

10.4.13 - Canoe Ridge Creations

10.7.13 - Jacey Craft

10.9.13 - Bijou Lovely 

10.11.13 - Fresh Lemons Quilts

Giveaway is now closed!

 

Thirty-something

39 actually.

And this week has been pretty fun so far.

I have a hilarious contest/sing-a-long happening on Instagram if you are on there.

And I figured I'd have a fun giveaway over here to celebrate too.

My wonderful sponsors donated three amazing giveaways so three of you can win a great prize!

 

 

 

 

 

Leave a comment telling me your current favorite song.

Mine happens to be Titanium (which is part of the contest on Instagram).

Giveaway is over. Comments are now closed. I'll announce the winners soon!

New Look

 

I had some fun playing around with Adobe Illustrator and some clip art from Going Home to Roost (I signed up for her roost tribe) last week.

And gave my blog and Etsy shop a new look.

I finally picked a winner (well, actually my younger son did) for the blog-versary giveaway:

 #3 - Anna

And I have another giveaway tomorrow for my birthday so stay tuned! It's a good one!

And since it is my birthday this week, I made a little sale coupon for all of you!

Enjoy!

What I'm up to lately

I recently got bit by the star-making bug.

I can't seem to stop making star quilts.

I have three in progress now:

I'm quilting the yellow one right now.

I am also working on a few orders for the shop:

Knife cases, guitar straps

and some oilcloth zip pouches.

I had to decorate a little onesie for a game at the baby shower this past weekend - I realized after I made it that if people looked closely at the quilt I made, they would be able to guess which onesie I made. Oh well...

OK I'm off to sew....

summer in snapshots

(my two oldest on their way home from Mexico - they had a day layover in LA)

(Junior High - 10 foot long ice cream sundae)

3 little quilts

I've finished up some baby shower gifts this week.

The first two are for a set of twins that were born in May but I'm just now finishing them up.

I used Elizabeth's wonky nine patch tutorial.

The fabrics are a combination of Les Amis and Tula Pink - just different colorways for the two quilts.

The third quilt is for a baby shower I'm going to today.

As soon as I saw Jolene's pattern in Modern Quilts from the Blogging Universe, I knew I wanted to make it.

Our friends are having their first baby (a boy) so it seemed like the perfect fit. I love Jolene's use of different neutrals in her quilt so I did something similar.

Then I quilted it with large loops and bound it in a stripe from Patty Young's new line, Just My Type.

And with that, I'm off to the shower!

6 years

So I totally missed my 6 year blog-versary.  But it was just the other day so I'm still close.

Wow - 6 years! That's a long time to have my voice out in blogland!

As I look back at my first posts, I have definitely grown as a quilter, blogger and just as a person too.

Which I know is good!

I do have some fun goodies in store for this month (as it's my birthday month too) so I think I'll save the big giveways for then.

But I can't let this anniversary go by without some sort of giveaway right?!

So....how about a fun package filled with handmade goodies and lots of fabric?

 

(these are by Mo Bedell and remind me of Hawaii so much)

Leave me a comment telling me how long you've been blogging (or if you don't blog, how long you've been reading blogs).

I'll pick a winner next week sometime.