Yesterday we celebrated my niece Grace’s 3rd birthday (it’s actually next Saturday), and today was my mom’s birthday. We went to Quilt Fest NJ to see her very first quilt entered into competition. A pretty cool birthday treat. My mom and I met up when the show opened to cruise the floor before Adam, my brother, and Grace arrived at lunchtime.
Tag: competitions
The Fabric Shop is doing a giveaway of Cloud 9’s new organic fabric line My Happy Garden.
I am in love with these fabrics. They are so whimsical and fantastic, and I’m dying to get my hands on them. So I’m blogging, Twittering, and commenting about this giveaway in the hopes of getting a set of fat quarters in all 8 patterns.
So I completely forgot to mention that I got a bag of goodies last week from Bee Square Fabrics for participating in the Dr. Seuss Quilt Competition. This assortment of fabric pieces came as a consolation prize, and I love it. I’m already trying to think of what to use the fabrics for, and there are some projects on my list that might make great use of these. So I’m thrilled that my first foray into the world of quilting competition was so much fun, and I placed third!
Whimsy & Spice, a confectioner in Brooklyn, celebrated their 1-year anniversary this past week with a contest on their blog. I commented, and I won! I’ve been reading their blog for quite a while, I even made the amazing chocolate butterscotch bars from their recipe last summer. I still dream about those bars….
I tied for 3rd place in the Bee Square Fabrics Dr. Seuss quilt contest. Yay!
The first new project I’m starting this spring is another table runner like the Christmas Runner. I liked it so much, and it was such a great project for practicing applique and hand sewing that I decided to make a year-round runner to leave on our dining room table. This project of course came from the supremely inspiring Purl Bee, and it was originally conceived as a Thanksgiving Runner. The benefit of having made one already is that I already know measurements and difficulty, and now I can tweak to make it better.