And the winner is...

and comment 7 came from...

Congrats! I will be emailing you for your postal address. Thank you to everyone who took part!

Less than an hour left...

...to enter my giveaway, check it out here!

Blog hop party reminder

 

If you haven't already, click on the pic above and pop over and check out all the blogs taking part in the bloghop by hosting super giveaways! I have done L to Z so far! To take part in my giveaway, go here.

HELP!! I have tried several different tutorials to help me number the comments but none of them seem to work :( I followed the instructions precisely but still no numbers! Any suggestions?

My makes - a review

It's Diane at 'from blank pages' 2nd blogiversary! To celebrate, she is having a linky party and a giveaway, and she has asked us to make a mosaic of all our makes! So here is mine:

I couldn't fit absolutely everything in, but this is most of my makes since I started blogging.

I'm not gonna lie, I hate reflecting! My biggest fault is looking back and dwelling on things I've done badly, wrong choices I made, ways I could have been better. Like, I look back on that list and think I should have achieved more.

So my motivation for this post is purely because I want to win Diane's giveaway! She is giving away a 5" charm pack of Anna Maria Horner's LouLouThi collection. Not a pre-cut, oh no! She will cut the fabric from her stash! This means she has a decent size piece of every fabric in the collection! Naughty-naughty fabric hoarder! Look, isn't it beautiful!

It's giveaway time!!

Apologies, but my giveaway is for UK entries only!

Whoop, it's finally here!! Giveaway week!! Fingers crossed I will win a few: if you saw my recent post about my pathetic stash you will know I'm in need of it!

Anyway, without further ado, here's my little bundle of loveliness:

 

Here's how to enter:

• This giveaway is open to those in the UK only (but I'm nearing 100 followers, so will probably have another giveaway soon, which will be open to all!) - comments from internationall visitors will be deleted!
• For one entry - leave a comment telling me what you did over the BH weekend
• For a second entry - become/already be a follower and leave a comment telling me so  
• I will use the Random Number Generator widget to pick a winner on Monday 3rd September at 8pm GMT and will announce it straight away on my blog.  If you are a no-reply blogger you can still take part by leaving your email address in your comment.

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

The blog-hop list will be available here from midnight on August 26th so why not go and check them all out?! I love these events because not only are there loads of chance to win, you find new blogs and meet new blogging friends, and your little blogging family gets a bit bigger.

 

Thanks to Michele for organising another great quilting event over at:



WIP Wednesday #10

I'm linking up with:

Completed:
Tohoku tote (pattern from 'I am momma hear me roar':

Sewing machine cover using fabrics left over from my New York Beauty quilt:

Made progress on:
Jubilee picnic bag/rug for Lily's Quilts. Just the handles left to add:

Charlie's quilt (a new addition to the list). I am making this up as I go along. The fabric is Athill Range by Cabbages and Roses for Moda:

Apologies for the rubbish photo, it was starting to rain, so we had to snap it quick! This is for my friend Charlie, at her request, she saw one in Next that she liked and asked me to make her something similar. It's basically a layer cake sewn together with a border added! I took the solids out and have cut them into petal shapes, which I am going to applique on as flowers.

No progress:
Nicey Jane quilt-as-you-go
Flower quilt made from leftovers of Oasis by Three Sisters jelly roll
Bali Pops Peace Medallion
Alphabet baby quilt
Batik mini quilt

Not started yet:
Butterscotch & Rose jelly roll quilt
Hunky dory jelly roll quilt
2 x Red and black jelly roll quilts

Stats:
Finished: 2
Made progress: 2
No progress/not started: 9

In other news, I have been stash raiding!! First of all, let me show you something really pathetic. This, dear reader, is my stash:

Note the 22" x 18" cutting board behind!

Top drawer - scraps, a couple of jelly rolls and a charm pack

2nd drawer - scraps

Bottom drawer - pieces, mainly fat quarters.

Pathetic, isn't it?! So I played on the sympathies of my dear mother, and convinced her to part with a small portion of her ENORMOUS stash. It's only fair, right? Share the wealth and all that! So here is what I managed to persuade her to part with:

Pieces 1 metre x WOF or bigger

Fat Quarters.

Yay for mums!

On a related note, as my stash is so small, I really couldn't spare anything for the upcoming Quilters' Bloghop and Giveaway week, so I have been out and bought a little bundle especially for you! Do you feel special?! Here it is:

If you're all reeeeeeally good, I may also have a rootle around and see what other matching notions I have. So be sure to pop back and take part on Saturday!

Upcoming giveaway

I'm going to be taking part in:

...which is being organised by the lovely Michelle from Quilting Gallery. Host a give-away on your blog starting August 25th and lasting until September 3rd (or longer). What you choose to give-away and how you wish to run the give-away, is totally up to you. However, give-aways that require visitors to make a purchase before being entered in the give-away are not appropriate for this blog hop party. You must register your blog to participate and only quilt related blogs are eligible to register.

I have registered to take part, so check back on Saturday to take part!

Kona solids giveaway #3

And here is my third and (possibly) final entry. I call this one "I love candy!"

I used azure, banana, bright pink, bubblegum, magenta, papaya, lime and peacock.

Kona Solids giveaway #2

I love this one, I am so excited about it! I call this one Yeah baby!

For this one I used bahama blue, bright pink, canary, charcoal, papaya, purple, red and turquoise.

Kona Solids giveaway

I am entering the Kona Solids giveaway at Fluffy Sheep Quilting. Here's my first entry:

I used Ash, Basil, Bone, Coal, Navy, Pepper, Turquoise, Lime.

Check out this giveaway!

My friend Stef is giving away one of her gorgeous bracelets to celebrate 100 Facebook likes. Here are a couple of examples of her work:

I would love it if you would toodle along over to her blog and take part, she'd be happy to see you :) plus you get to see her gorgeous bunsters, have I mentioned I LOVE bunnies?! :)

I intend to post again later, it's been a while. Somebody comment and tell me off if I don't!

Beautiful parcel!

I won, I won! Thank you so much to Maria of Not only quilts! And oh is it a beauty! Look look look (or, as I said to my mum earlier, "Let's see your beautiful fabrics from Malta? Oh yes, that's right, you haven't got any. I HAVE!!) LOOK:

Look how much fabric! it's about 2 half yards and 2  fqs, I think. The patterned ones are by Kitty Yoshida:

 And she sent lots of extra bits, ribbon and buttons,etc:

Her blog is so inspiring, and she's one of the Moda bakeshop chefs (oh and she's gorgeous, cow! lol) so go check out her blog :)

Giveaway winner!

Well, there weren't as many entries as I'd hoped :( but ah well, my follower numbers went up from 33 to 39, and some new followers didn't even enter the giveaway, so they must just like what they see and want to stay, so thank you!

So a huge welcome/thank you to follower new and old!

Anyway, on to the draw! There are 10 comments, so I boshed that in Mr Random Number Generator and the winner is:

 Well done Amy!! She said:

I will be emailing you to get your address!

Thanks to everyone for taking part. I wish I could give all my followers and commenters something, as it means so much to me :)

I won't hear a word against Royal Mail!!

Wow, what a day for parcels! Firstly these, from Doughtys, to continue with my New York Beautys:

These were really good value, at around £1.75 per long quarter.

But what I'm really impressed about is that I ordered these fabrics at 3pm yesterday from Needle and thread and Carole's Crafts and they arrived in this morning's post! Not signed for, not special delivery, just first class post and here they are:

I love love LOVE them, they are for a baby quilt for a colleague. I have bought this pattern:

Can't wait to get started!

And finally, the fat quarter I won from Canadian abroad arrived today:

I love it, and am going to make a cafetiere cover and either mug rugs or tea caddy covers with it. Thanks Susan!

I'm going to draw the giveaway in about 20 minutes - if you haven't already, you still have time to take part :)

My first giveaway!

To try and make up for being absolutely pants and being away from my sewing and my blogging for so long, I've decided to have a giveaway! Now don't get too excited, I'm an only child, so it doesn't come easy to share stuff, so no way are you getting any of my beautiful fabrics! But I do have this fab book that I imported from Australia for my mum, but then when it came the patterns just weren't enough of a stretch for her - she's pretty advanced now! It's not really my thing, but there are some beautiful patterns in there, so I though I would give you guys the chance to win!

It's this book:

And here are some of the patterns included:

Giveaway only open to UK residents - sorry but I just can't afford international postage :(

You have two chances to win:
1. Follow me, and leave me a comment to let me know that you do. If your commenting name is different than the name that will come up in my followers list, please let me know - I've had that problem before!
2. Leave an additional comment, letting me know your favourite website to order fabric from in the UK.

That's it! Simple! I will use Mr Random Number Generator to pick a winner at 9pm GMT on Saturday 31st March.

Giveaway!!

Spotted this great giveaway, and had to have a go! so here's my entry:

Took me so long to get this far, I didn't have time to name the fabrics too! Will do it later though!