Giveaway Winner and some WIPs...

This weekend has been action packed. I went to a quilt shop in SHolih with a friend and that was awesome. We found some great fabrics including my backing for my Portugal quilt. Saturday we went to IKEA in Pittsburgh. WOW we spent 4 hours there. I found great stuff. But know what? I bought a POANG chair and foot rest. Um there are several wood colors...have you been to IKEA? well I wrote down the aisle and bin # for the chair...and I got a dark wood chair when I got home and a beachwood foot rest. I was sick about it. My hubby says I need to go back and get a beachwood chair (what I REALLY wanted) and a dark wood foot rest. He wants the dark wood chair for the room that has our Salt water aquarium. That's basically his room....and it would look good in there. So not a total loss...but still a bit frustrating.

Despite all the travel, there are a couple of quilts that are in progress in the loft actually. This is made with 2 Moda Layer Cakes of Portugal fabric line done in a pattern from a Design-Originals books for Layer Cakes. I used the starch method of applique for the paisley drops. It's BIG too...88X88 when finished...love it. These blocks are the beginning of a French Roses quilt by Heather French. I am using Darla fabric line and i LOVE them...I have all the flowers cut now I just need to sew them!

Oh and for anyone interested...here's the progress on my braided rag rug..I am at 16 inches...LOTs more to go..I'm hand sewing it UGH...and YEAH! at the same time. I can't wait until it's done.

I did stitch one more birdie for my Big Birdie quilt...so slowly working on that too.

Oh and the winner of the giveaway is........... FINN at Pieces of my scrapbag!! How fitting is that? the scrappy quilter wins a scrapbag....yeah yeah!! Finn please email me your address.

Now I wish I could give you all a scrapbag..but at 146 or so comments that'd be about $1500.00!! So best that I can do is tell you to keep checking my blog periodically as I know I will have another giveaway soon. I have this Spring fever and it's side effect is purging...including yarn and fabric. I have a good friend that I am giving the yarn to but she doesn't quilt. Her loss may be your gain.