Tell me about your top 5 UFOs. What do they look like, what is stopping you from finishing? Do you still like the colors?
If you don’t have 5 UFOs, tell me about the UFOs you have or your current project.
If you are looking for the Creative Prompt, look here: https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/2013/11/creative-prompt-235-meal/
Prize:
Pretty Little Patchwork
Mean Mom Stuff
Substantive comments only. “Sign me up” comments will not be entered.
Comments on questions close tomorrow 11/30/2013 at 6pm PDT. I may not actually get to choose the winner until December 1, but no whining if you can’t leave a comment at 6:01pm on 11/30.
The books will be sent from Lark. I will send them the names and addresses and they will send you the book.
Everything else is coming from me and will be shipped the week of December 2.
International entries are welcome!
I will select winners using the Random number generator.
Make sure your email address works. If I can’t contact you, I can’t send you your prize
No whining, frowning or complaining. Whiners and complainers will be disqualified.
Winners first name and last initial will be posted on this page.
If you are looking for the Creative Prompt, look here: https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/2013/11/creative-prompt-235-meal/
#BFSI, Dudettes & Dudes. Get ready.
Start thinking about your UFOs, because we have some giveaways and I want to know about your UFOs.
Below is the Master List of Giveaway Prizes
One each of the following:
FQ Pack
I received this fabric from a giveaway, but it isn’t something that I will use and it is a brand spanking new, full FQ pack of almost an entire line. There are 16 pieces (retail value $29) from the line Christmas Peace. This Christmas fabric and would make great gift bags.
BFSI Giveaway
The DVD is brand new. It is called The Best of Fons & Porter Love of Quilting TV Series.
2 each of the following:
Stitched Blooms
Remember I reviewed Stitched Blooms? This is a book that I LOVED! I think you will love it, too.
500 Art Quilts is one of my favorites. I reviewed it in 2010, but I still think it is pure eye candy.
Pretty in Patchwork Holidays
I am tempted to keep Pretty in Patchwork Holidays myself as I have not gotten a sneak peek at this one. I get a lot of books from Lark, so I will pass this along and make goo goo eyes at Shannon in order get my own copy to review. 😉
Fat Quarterly Shape Workshop
I gave a copy of Fat Quarterly Shape Workshop away last year as well and the recipient was thrilled, though I don’t think she has had time to even look at it, but I am expecting great things from her.
Pretty Little Patchwork
I am not sure I have seen Pretty Little Patchwork either, but I might have. I am sure it is great and I promise not to keep copies. I’ll give them both away.
Bonus Prizes:
Stuffed AnimalsFlip Dolls
I haven’t seen either of these, but they look fun.
I’ll be interested to know what you think. There is potential in them for making grownup dolls and toys — not just toys for kids.
Now: get ready for the questions.
Thanks for Lark Crafts for their generosity. Check out their blog at www.larkcrafts.com
Still not happy? (Sheesh you are so hard to please!)
Check out the gorgeousness that Daisy is giving away: http://ldq.outlandishthreads.com/?p=633
If you haven’t heard, I wanted to let you know that there will be a Black Friday Sew-in on Friday 11/29. It is a way to sew with friends and stay in your pajamas. Many participants will be starting the latest Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt, Celtic Solstice. Many people will be catching up on Scrapitude and others will be getting ready for the holidays or finishing up year end projects for Tanesha’s UFO challenge.
I am giving away several books, a bit of fabric and a DVD. Some podcasters are also giving away prizes. There will be some giveaways on Twitter (use hashtag #BFSI to find tweets). If you do not tweet, you can follow along on Tweetchat at www.tweetchat.com, then choose the #BFSI hashtag.
Check the following blogs for more info on Friday. This may not be a complete list.
I am terribly behind on podcasts and I don’t know when I’ll be able to catch up. This means I haven’t heard whether any of the podcasters are organizing a Black Friday Sew-in.
BFSI Giveaway?
I will not be shopping on the 29th, so I will be tweeting while I am, hopefully, sewing.
I have a couple of gifts I will be giving away and I will be working with Lark Books to see about giving away some books as well.
As with my other giveaways, my request will be substantive. In a way, I guess this is fair notice about the potential quilt games I may be playing with you. One thing I will probably do is ask you something about your UFOs. That means that you may want to count up your UFOs, think about the status of them, how you might be stuck, etc.
FQ Pack
This is not completely selfish of me. Yes, I am interested in what your are doing, but I also think that your comments could start a discussion that could result in renewed interest in your project.
The Labor Day Sew-in was fun. What can be better than sewing in your pajamas and chatting with your friends?
The first thing I finished was four ATCs.
Bag in Process
I worked on the bag for the Purse Palooza. Putting this bag together was difficult, because of all of the layers. In some parts there were 7 layers. That doesn’t even count the areas where there were seam allowances. I had some trouble with a needle, so I tried a leather and a jeans needle.
I did finish it. DH had to help me with the rivets. I might make another one with canvas just to see the difference. Not sure I will finish it before Purse Palooza, though if I used the same fabric, I would be a bit ahead of the game since I cut some extras. We will see.
Hanging Out on Google
Monday, I worked on recovering our couch cushions. The last time I recovered them was when we were staging our old house for sale. The Young Man was a baby so about 17 years ago. One was shredding. Sheesh. What a pain. The fabric was terrible and I had all sorts of problems sewing them. The only thing that made the pillow recovering bearable was the Google Hangout with the other Twilters and podcasters. Look for a post on that project soon.
After finishing the cushion covers, I was a little bit at loose ends. I didn’t have a specific project that was really at the forefront of my mind. I didn’t have enough time to start quilting the Wonky 9 Patch, so I just puttered around tidying up and sewing hexagons together.
I didn’t get as much done as I thought I would, but some of these projects have been on my mind for awhile, so I am pleased with my work.
JulieZS wrote two posts! She wrote about Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. She is the winner with the most number of posts. Julie has been doing a great job posting frequently lately
In the United States, most of us get Monday off to celebrate Labor Day and all that hard work that we all do every other day of the year. “Off” is relative, of course, because I will be “working” at my sewing machine with my podcast friends, Tweeps and other bloggers.
We are all participating in a Labor Day Sew-in. You can, too. Get those fuzzy slippers and get to your sewing machine. Nowhere to go, no supplies to collect, just get to your sewing machine and sew. In your own house.
Quiltin’ Jenny has a hilarious post (she was first) about the LDSI. Very Lazy Daisy (who is nowhere near lazy, BTW) also put a post up accompanied by the hilarious tweet:
Daisy’s Tweet
Other pod-bloggers who have posted about the sew in (some of whom are hosting giveaways):
Pam posted a new podcast episode – 90 minutes long! What a bonanza!
I’ll add to this list as I see/hear of other posts
I took yesterday off as I was trying to piggyback an extra day off onto the long weekend to pretend I had a vacation. I still have errands and stuff to do today, but am already making some progress.
What’s on my list?
ATCs – I need them for next week.
Purse Palooza bag – don’t want to leave it until the last minute and I am considering making a second one.
Color challenge? Possible, but unlikely, though I did make the batiks.
Russian Rubix – I’d like to get started on that, but am having trouble selecting a background fabric.
There is an idea in the back of my mind to quilt the Wonky 9 Patch quilt. We’ll see how that goes.
Want to follow along?
First and FOREMOST: Sew!!!
Post a blog post with your list and link back here
Use the #LDSI hashtag on Twitter (let’s trend on Twitter, Tweeps!)
Yesterday I detailed all the BFSI comments you wrote (keep ’em coming!) and the prizes I gave away. I actually did get sewing done, which was great. I don’t feel like I got as much sewing done as I would have liked, but I got enough done. I guess.
As an aside: Is it ever really possible to get enough sewing done? I don’t know what enough sewing is, so I can’t say. I would like to try to figure it out, though.
Enough of that.
I know that there were a number of people who had to work, Kati had problems with her laptop, so could only follow along and others had family obligations, so I feel lucky to have gotten done what I did get done.
I started out the day by getting up a bit on the late side…for me. I got up around 7am and since we had 24 people over to eat the night before, I got the first load of non-china dishes going in the dishwasher while my tea steeped. There were also some things that needed to be soaked, so I put them in hot water as well. I could hear the call of Twitter, though, throughout the chores, so I didn’t stay away for much longer.. My phone has been acting up, so I gave it a good talking to, which encouraged it to work. I was able to use it during the day as well.
I kind of think that I did some #BFSI warm-ups earlier in the week with the cat beds and the donation blocks. Who doesn’t need a good warm up?
I promised to make two pincushions for the BAMQG raffle basket, so I decided to get busy on those. The meeting is next week, after all, so I didn’t have much time.
I used a charm pack from Sandy Gervaise called Objects of Desire and the Petit Gateau pattern from Fig Tree quilts. This is the pattern I used before and I liked it.
In general, I like Sandy Gervaise’s fabric designs. They are fun, generally cheerful or have a bit of humor. She also usually includes dots, which I love. I have found, thoughn that her color choices are usually a bit too beige for me. She often has a really good and fun print on the front of the charm pack, but as I pick through the fabrics (which is one reason charm packs are great!), I find many of the fabrics to be ‘Meh.’ I don’t hate them by any stretch, but they aren’t my favorites.
Pincushions in progress
Why choose ‘meh’ fabrics for pincushions, you ask? In small doses they are a relatively cheerful and a nice combination of fabrics for a pincushion. It took me some time to get them together, but once I made the half square triangles, they went pretty quickly. I sewed a couple of charms together to make the gusset piece. I thought about digging around in my fabric closet, but have plenty of charms, so that worked for me.
I have a lot of charms from the pack left so might make a couple more pincushions as gifts. They are fun and cute.
I have some hand stitching to finish, buttons to attach, but I am pleased with the way they look. They are cheerful and I like the different scales of fabric.
I also worked on the A-B-C Challenge. I know I talked about it before, but in order to get to the stage of FINISHED top, I worked on the border on Saturday as well. I spent most of the time that I worked on this piece on the grey inner border.
Patchwork Wheel #7 & 8
I also always need leaders and enders. That is mostly how I am getting the Patchwork Wheel blocks done. I doubt I will get a quilt top from them finished by the meeting next Saturday, but I can finish it by January.
Sandy talked about her BFSI experience on her blog. Sarah detailed her progress and she had to go to work! Pam did a lot of sewing work, but admitted to finishing the Star Wars quilt during the Black Friday Sew-in. Katie made major progress on her Orca Bay quilt. She was being good and trying to finish it before Easy Street started.
Unless you were absolutely not paying attention, or just discovered this blog yesterday, you will know that I participated in the Black Friday Sew-in. I was pleased to get some prizes from Lark Crafts (thanks, Shannon & Ray) to giveaway. I also had a few bits and bobs to round out the gifts.
I posted questions to which I was really interested in hearing the answers. You did not disappoint. Thanks for all of your thoughtful and complete answers. Except for Q2, of course, which was a blatant attempt to get people to use fabric gift bags instead of wrapping paper for Christmas. 😉 I don’t think I succeeded this year, but I hope springs eternal that I put a bug in people’s ear for next year.
I am going to have to send the books off a little at a time during the week as I don’t drive to work and can’t carry them all at once. Never fear! You’ll get your prizes. If you don’t like your prize or are mad that you didn’t win, blame my DH, he picked all the numbers. 😉 I won’t tell you where he lives, because I like him and would like to keep him in one piece. Thanks for playing along.
I hope you will write about the Black Friday Sew-in, your thoughts and ideas on your blog or on Big Tent (anyone, practically, can join) or somewhere, so those of us who organized the event and the giveaways hear what you thought.
I also hope you will go back and read the comments. People did a GREAT job answering and I was pleased to go back and read. If I haven’t responded, don’t worry, I will. It might take me a few days, but I will respond. I have read every comment!
I also have to say how wonderful everyone was when I emailed them about the giveaway. Everyone had such kind things to say about my blog and my writing. It gave me a real boost. Thanks!
I have posted questions throughout the day. This is the last question that will enable you to be eligible to win prizes during the Black Friday Sew-in. Some of the prizes will be awarded in a random drawing, but if I really like an answer, I might award that person a prize as well. My blog, my rules. If you object, don’t enter.
Question #4: What type of NON-QUILTMAKING books provide inspiration for your work?
I really like art books and books of plates of botanical prints, drawings and paintings. I also like John Singer Sargent’s work, so books of his works also provide inspiration. Glossy, expensive fashion magazines can provide excellent sources of inspiration.
I have a series of reviews for Lark Books that may provide some inspiration that might help answer this question.
I will be posting a series of questions that will enable you to win prizes for the Black Friday Sew-in. Some of the prizes will be awarded in a random drawing, but if I really like an answer, I might award that person a prize as well. My blog, my rules. If you object, don’t enter.
Question 3: Why do you tweet or not tweet? Do you follow along on Tweetchat. Do you have a blog (put a link below so I can take a look) and like to focus there?
Write it all out below. Optional bonus for posting a photo to Twitter or a link on Twitter to your blog where you post a photo.
Fair warning: You will not win or be entered in the drawing if you do not answer the question. If you say “please enter me in the drawing,” your manners do count for good karma. Thank you for saying please, but I will not enter you in the drawing. I want words, content and pictures!
As I may have mentioned, I am posting questions throughout the day that will enable you to be eligible to win prizes during the Black Friday Sew-in. Some of the prizes will be awarded in a random drawing, but if I really like an answer, I might award that person a prize as well. My blog, my rules. If you object, don’t enter.
Task 1 / Question #2: Make a gift bag. I have posted a link on my tutorial page for a few years that shows you how to make holiday gift bags. You do not have to make a Christmas gift bag (kind of silly, if you don’t celebrate Christmas!). You can make a bag to use for birthdays or general gift giving.
Reasons to make and use gift bags:
Festive gift bags save time during gift giving times, because they are quick to use.
Great use of all that festive fabric now that you have decided not to make a Christmas or ___fill in the holiday blank___ quilt.
You are not using paper that will get ripped off and recycled in a month anyway.
No tape.
Easy to open and look in if the gift tag falls off.
Fair warning: You will can only win or be entered in the drawing if you make a gift bag and show a picture of it somewhere.
I will be posting a series of questions that will enable you to win prizes for the Black Friday Sew-in. Some of the prizes will be awarded in a random drawing, but if I really like an answer, I might award that person a prize as well. My blog, my rules. If you object, don’t enter.
Question 1: What do you keep near your sewing machine or on your worktable to provide inspiration? Do you have a tableau? Do you have a shrine? Photos of your beloved?
Write it all out below. Optional bonus for posting a photo to Twitter or a link on Twitter to your blog where you post a photo.
Fair warning: You will not win or be entered in the drawing if you do not answer the question. If you say “please enter me in the drawing,” your manners do count for good karma. I thank you for saying please, but I will not enter you in the drawing. I want words, content and pictures!
11/23/2012 3:55 pm Update: Comments closed. Winner is Becky Greene!
I am hiding upstairs for a minute to breathe. I am Miss Popularity down in the dining room (she who brings food is popular) at the moment.
The Black Friday Sew in is on Friday (thus the name). Sandy organized all the things she wants to work on and I realized halfway through the main course that I had not thought about what I am going to work on tomorrow. Yes, I have to sort silver and put the china away, but I am talking about PROJECTS! Sewing projects!
Yikes!
The Spiderweb top is done and I am still ripping out paper, so I will start the back, etc after I finish the ripping. I don’t want to work on that, because I want to be at the machine and ripping out foundation paper is a good TV project. I have to put the borders the A-B-C Challenge, so I will definitely do that. BUT what else? I don’t know. I do hope something occurs to me before I waste a whole day staring at the machine.
T-shirt quilt, I think.
Patchwork Wheel blocks
Perhaps those two projects will keep me busy and I will get a lot of them done.
I am giving away books as part of the Black Friday Sew-in organized by Sandy over at Quilting…for the Rest of Us.
I have received several books (some multiples and duplicates) from Lark Crafts for giveaways during the Black Friday Sew In. I am not keeping these books, so if nobody responds to the giveaway**, I will be sending them along to podcasters as thank yous for producing entertaining shows.
On Friday (e.g. NOT today), I will be posting questions to this blog, yes, in this space, which you will answer in order to be entered into the giveaway.
I will let you know via Twitter when the questions are posted. If you don’t already follow me, please do so at @artquiltmaker to see the giveaway posts.
Thanks to Shannon at Lark Crafts and to Ray Hemachandra for sending along the books and being supportive of the Black Friday Sew-in.
**I don’t like doing giveaways, because they are a lot of work, often a big pain and I get little-nothing out of them except that I spread a little joy. That is worth something, definitely. Pretty please, follow the directions and no complaints. Thanks.
I am giving away books as part of the Black Friday Sew-in organized by Sandy over at Quilting…for the Rest of Us.
I have received several books (some multiples and duplicates) from Lark Crafts for giveaways during the Black Friday Sew In. I am not keeping these books, so if nobody responds to the giveaway, I will be sending them along to podcasters as thank yous for producing entertaining shows.
On Friday (e.g. NOT today), I will be posting questions to this blog, yes, in this space, which you will answer in order to be entered into the giveaway.
I will let you know via Twitter when the questions are posted. If you don’t already follow me, please do so at @artquiltmaker to see the giveaway posts.
