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GIVEAWAY and New Sponsor Fat Quarter Shop!

This giveaway is now closed. The winners are #368 Anita and #236 gccmom! Congratulations!I am really excited to share with you a great giveaway from my new sponsor, Fat Quarter Shop! Fat Quarter Shop is the best place on the internet to shop for precuts, quilt patterns, and quilt kits...the largest selection, bar none! If you take a look, you will...

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GIVEAWAY and Book Review: New Crewel

This giveaway is now closed. The winner is #154 Ramona!I had the pleasure to get a chance to review New Crewel: The Motif Collection by Katherine Shaughnessy. I only have a couple of embroidery projects under my belt, so I was completely unaware of what exactly was involved in creating crewel works of art. I saw that it was a form...

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GIVEAWAY! Pellon Batting and Interfacing

This giveaway is now closed. The winner was #127 Amy! Congratulations!Have I got another great Pellon giveaway for you today! One lucky winner will be the recipient of this great prize pack, courtesy of Pellon:- Lutrador (1 yard) - Lutrador is a translucent web that is great for painting on, printing, using for     scrapbooking, etc. Here's a cool video...

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GIVEAWAY! Pellon Quilting Supplies!

This giveaway is now closed. The winner is #42 christy. Congratulations!!Have I got a great giveaway for you today!! If you have been following along on our New York Beauty Quilt Along, perhaps you will be needing some batting in the coming weeks! Or maybe you're working on another project and could use the supplies! Either way, anyone may enter...

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GIVEAWAY! Pellon Embroidery Stabilizers

This giveaway is now closed. The winner was #272 stitcher! Congratulations!Today's giveaway is a good one! One lucky winner will receive the Pellon prize pack pictured above! The pack includes all the embroidery stabilizer you could use:Retail Value: over $90!!1. Sol-U-Film Lite 12" x 9 yards    This is a wash-away stabilizer. It's good for monogramming and decorative stitching.2....

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GIVEAWAY! Glass Half Full Quilt Pattern!

The giveaway is now closed; the winner was #78 Beth. Thanks for entering!I'm super-excited today to bring you a giveaway from my pal, Lindsay from Lindsay Sews. Besides having her own blog, Lindsay also co-blogs over at Craft Buds (which, by the way, is a *fine* blog to follow if you are looking for cool sewing ideas and weekly giveaway linkys!).The .pdf...

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Pellon Bag Interfacing Giveaway

It's time for another Pellon giveaway! I'll bet you can't wait to get your hands on this prize pack, especially if you have some bag-making in your future! Good luck!!One lucky winner will receive the following:- 2 yards of Pellon Peltex #71 one-sided fusible - this is great for making a wonderfully stiff bag!- 2 yards of Pellon #810...

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I’m featured today on Amy Lou Who!

Today, I am featured on Amy Lou Who via an interview! I 'met' Amy over a year ago, and she is the reason that I began blogging...hers was the first sewing blog that I ever read! She also helped me a ton on my beginnings into the world of quilting...what kind of ruler to buy, that I should get...

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GIVEAWAY! Amanda Murphy Quilt Patterns!

Blossoms quilt pattern with Veranda fabrics In honor of her guest post today on Buttons and Buttonholes for my Sewing Back-to-School guest post series, Amanda Murphy is giving away a 6-pack of her new quilt patterns!Amanda also has a new fabric line, freshly released for Robert Kaufman fabrics, called Veranda. I've actually used some of her patterns,...

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Giveaway: Echino Bag

I made this Mabel Bag last year from a Jenna Lou Designs sewing pattern (my most-used pattern!). You can find my pattern review here! Anyway, I haven't really used this bag; I'm not sure why, since it's totally cute! It has zippered pockets inside, and an adjustable strap. It has a purple magnetic snap closure. I thought it would...

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Giveaway: Cynthia Rowley Sewing Patterns

I went through my box of sewing patterns recently, to organize them into my new Amy Butler tool caddy that my mom got for me at Marshall's. I filtered through some patterns that I might not get to, including these 4 clothing sewing patterns by Cynthia Rowley.If you participated in the Jamie Dress Sew Along, perhaps you have the confidence to make...

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