Like many of you I have been itching for spring to arrive.
That the weather will stay 'nice' and play well for us.
In the spirit of Easter and spring coming I was tempted to make some fabric eggs. I pulled out some of my 1930's scraps and used Retro Mama's tutorial. I have made 7 so far...I'd like to make more with Verna? I have to finish a quilt in Verna first and see what scraps I have left over..yeah it's for Moda Bakeshop.
Sometimes my eyes are too big for my stomach....
relate that to fabric...my stash is too big for my time LOL. I really want to finish this quilt in Verna.
I also have another Moda Bakeshop project that is soooo nearly complete.
I can not wait to show it. I simply love it. And I hope you will too.
It just dawned on me that today is National Quilting Day. Gosh...how could I have missed that? must be all the crazies going on at my house.
Hmm....well since I am not doing a quilt a long, sewing saturday or any of that...maybe I should have a giveaway.
How about a Botany Layer Cake??
1. Leave me a comment about what you'd like to see a tutorial of..or a pattern of.
2. Become a follower and leave me a separate comment so I know.
3. Follow me on Twitter and leave me a comment
**Note**
I updated my sidebar to show the link to my twitter!! Thanks for being patient.
**Note**
I updated my sidebar to show the link to my twitter!! Thanks for being patient.
4. Blog about my giveaway & comment to me the link so that I can check out your blog.
I am always looking for more blogging friends!
The only way I will be able to track the entries is through the comments this time so please leave a separate one for each thing :)
EDIT: I will choose the winner on Tuesday March 23, 2009!
EDIT: I will choose the winner on Tuesday March 23, 2009!
181 comments:
Happy national quilting day! The Botany line is beautiful - what a great way to celebrate the day.
I am always in search of the 'perfect' bag pattern and easy-but-adorable softies and intriguing quilts.
I follow your blog via google reader :)
follow your blog
follow you on twitter
linked on my blog
what to see at tutorial of??? hhhhmmmmm.......i am not sure, you do a pretty amazing job with what you do anyways!! something simple and quick!!
Lovely fabric! I'd love to see a bag pattern made with that fabric.
Lotta in Sweden
I follow your blog through GoogleReader,
Lotta in Sweden
Follow your blog!
Botany is so beautiful! I'm still looking for tutorials for quick and easy wedding gifts.
Posted a link to your blog on mine.
http://inventhope.blogspot.com
I am always looking for a bag pattern with lots of pockets inside and out.
I am a follower. Such a nice giveaway!
I love the Botany line! I would love tutorials that use anything spring'ie or summery right now!! I really like the easter eggs.
Lovely give away. I am already a follower and love to read your posts.
I don't twitter, unfortunately, but I follow you on google reader!!
Love your eggs. I am always looking out for smaller things to quilt like cushions, bags, small gifts etc. And I love prairiepoints or scallops but never tried till now.
Happy National Quilt Day to you too! Mmmm a pattern - I have enjoyed your table runners and your Ziggy so maybe another lap quilt.
I follow your blog.
I like those eggs and was excited about the link you posted...then I kept reading and got really excite about your giveaway! I don't even know how to Twitter.
I'm a follower...have been.
Woo Hoo....got you on the blog with a link back here! (that I can do!!)
Tutorial....I think just about anything is helpful to so many. I enjoy seeing them all so I will leave this one up to the others.
Vickie, I just love those eggs!! Especially in the 30s. I think that I may just have to make a few myself!! Thanks for the link to the tute. I love it when you do a tutorial for a new pattern that you have come up with. Enjoy National Quilting Day!
You know I am a follower!
Follower! And mama said being a follower wouldn't get me anywhere lol
I don't know what tutorial I'd like to see, it's funny how you don't know what you don't know until you see it lol.
Vickie Happy National Quilting Day! I'm off to a local quilt show to celebrate. One of my guilds will be having a quilt show in May and we are looking for some easy to make items that the guild can sell to benefit the scholarship fund for high school seniors. So I would like to see a tute on an easy salable items for our guild's boutique table. Thanks
I have been a follower for awhile now!
I'd love a quick apron pattern. Happy National Quilting Day.
Kathie L in Allentown
Also, I'm currently a follower of your blog, and love reading it.
Kathie L in Allentown
Well, how nice....first and foremost, I want to say Vickie that I cannot wait to see this Verna quilt that you speak of. I love that line. :) And as for the future...hmm, I always like tablerunners. Thanks for the giveaway.
I already follow you via google reader.
You are such a busy girl, I can't believe you blog as much as you do! We love it! Thanks for the giveaway.
So, i do follow you on google reader too. How about some cool placemats?
I'm already a follower and love to read your posts
I think would like to see some bag tuts; girl can never have enough bags
I am looking for a tutorial on making a travel/airplane quilt and pillow. I saw one once and can't find it again.
What a great giveaway to celebrate!
I'm always looking for tutorials of bags/purses that are just a little bit different than what's out there already. : )
thanks for the giveaway, id love to see some more table runner or place mat ideas...quick projects!
I have been trying to come up with something fun and fairly simple in the way of placemats. Got any ideas?
I follow you in my google reader and link to you in my blog. Always fun things here!
I follow you in my google reader!
Adorable eggs! I loved the St Patty's Day table runner you did~ how about another table runner? Thanks for the chance! :-)
I've been a follower. :-)
I'd like to see more quick and easy projects too--things that are great for beginners. Thanks for the giveaway!
lissie.loo@gmail.com
I am also a follower.
I salivate at all of the tutorials our there, I'm not hard to please. I guess when you are a newbie, everything looks yummy!
I LOVE Botany and don't own any yet!
I am and have been a follower!
I like patterns of things you can use around the house. Or quick gifts.
I am now a follower.
and on twitter too!
I love softie patterns, but really i just enjoy the inspiration I get from your blog!
I follow your blog via Google Reader! Thanks for the giveaway!
I'm already a follower!
Boy would I love the botany layer cake. So pretty. I'm always looking for a good quilt tutorial.
Hi! i'd like to see a tutorial on a crazy quilt -- there may be one out there already but I just recently started following blogs and haven't seen anyone do that. or maybe a string quilt.
Thea
I already follow you - but anonymously.
Please pick me! I am already a follower, love to visit you and your girls :) I'm thinking of making placemats and would be interested to see what your take on that is! Happy National Quilting Day to you too.
I would just love to see tutorials using simple traditional quilt patterns. Everyone is always trying to reinvent the wheel and make something original. So simple and basic is nice.
luverlie@gmail.com
I'm a follower.
luverlie@gmail.com
I'm feeling rather inept - I can't figure out how to follow you on twitter.
Your blog is on my google home page. Even the title makes me smile. The Botany layer cake would be great to have. So much potential. Yes a bag tutorial would be cool, as so many have comments.
Posted a link to your blog on mine: http://mixedupover40.blogspot.com/2010/03/saturday-giveaway.html.
Love this line!!! have only seen it online, none of my quilting stores carries this =(. would look great as a quilt using the disappearing nine patch.
I follow your blog and love your tutorials on the Moda bakeshop. And have made new blogging friends through your blog!! thanks so much
can never have to many quilting friend.
I follow you on twitter also!!
I follow you on google reader..
I have ONE charm pack and would love a pattern to utilize it and some yardage....
something besides a baby quilt
I'm a follower!
Happy Quilting Day!! I love all and any tutorials, expecially of quilts!
I am a follower of your blog! I have had you on my blog list for quite some time now too!
I too love to find new blogger friends.
Love the egg, what a great way to use up scraps.
Hey followers 298. Looking forward to reading all your post.
Allow me to say that I wish your "finishes 2010" list was linked to the projects--I'd love to see them!
Also, I'd like to see the thinking before, during, and after the project. The Ziggy quilt was basically "here it is, there wasn't a lot of math, I think I'll do it again." I want to know--what were you thinking when you chose the colors? something like "well, I wanted to soften the other colors and adding grey did that." or whatever! As a newer quilter, what are the things that come naturally to you that I will need to learn? that's what I want to know! the only way for me to figure out what I don't know is to follow your thinking and identify what doesn't come naturally. maybe a quilt-a-long for beginners that incorporates fabric choices, your design, and step-by-step instructions?
My apologies if this is above and beyond what you were asking for! Maybe I should stick with "EASY!" :O)
♥Duff
I don't know. Everybody had such nice ideas already. But something quick and easy is always good.
And I am a follower already.
I love tutorials for table runners and small quilts - just beginning this quilting thing, so I'm still just doing simple stuff!
I follow your blog through Google Reader!
That's a cute layer cake!! I'd love to see a nice messenger bag tutorial. I love my ready made one but I would like to make one.
following you now on blogger! I did have you in my google reader but never did click that follow button. Not sure why...
I left a comment on the wrong place to be entered in your drawing! Sorry about that! I think table toppers are always good and they don't take forever to make!
I just blogged about your giveaway!
OK I feel like an idiot because I can't figure out how to follow you on twitter. I did a search for your blog name and your first name (lots of those on twitter!) but no luck.
Oooh, love that layer cake! Maybe a pattern for using a layer cake?
I have posted about you on my blog: http://fairydustmusingsbypam.blogspot.com and shared you with my friends on facebook.
I am also a follower.
Happy Quilting Day. Thank you for the great giveaway!
Tutorial..a wall hanging would be nice. I love your blog and your work is just beautiful.
I'm a follower! :)
Thanks for the beautiful Botany
layer cake giveaway. I enjoy reading your tutorials and like to try easy quilt or bag tutes.
Happy National Quilting Day! Looking forward to seeing your Moda Bakeshop project.
I am a follower of your blog.
I love journals and I'm always looking for new designs to cover them with, so I'd have to say a really easy journal/diary cover tutorial would be great. Thanks, Lizzie
XXX
and now I'm a follower (wouldn't want to miss out if you do a journal cover!).
Lizzie
XXX
I would like to see a tutorial on your favorite star pattern :-)
I follow your blog :-)
I'm a blog follower (er, stalker) :) I'm a beginner, so I read any and all tutorials! ...and I've been contemplating buying Botany for awhile now, so i'm totally diggin' this give-away!
I would love to see a tutorial on how to put magnetic closures on tote bags.
I am already a follower
I just started following your blog through bloglines. Love the stuff you make!
What a great giveaway! Thanks for a great blog!
I follow your blog and have it linked on mine.
http://mysewingroomsara.blogspot.com/
I am always looking for patterns for a non-traditional way of using traditional blocks.
Wow - like that Botany! I would like to see a new quilt pattern using turnovers.
I'm a follower!
I follow you on Twitter!
your instructions confused me! sorry to be so thick headed...............
I love those little eggs. Now I want to make some too!
I'd love to see a tutorial of wonky stars that everyone seems to be making. I'm sure there are tutorials out there, but I haven't really looked (I'm afraid I'll start yet another project).
Happy National Quilting Day! I hope you had some time to do what you love!
I'm a blog follower!
I am a follower....and LOVE your blog!!!
I have to say that I pretty much love all the tutorials...though I just had the cutest ever Granddaughter, so would love some inspired baby items????
I like all the tutorials with precuts. Simple and quick are my favorite. Would like tutorials with 12 or less fat quarters as well. Your project ideas are so cute. It was hard to come up with a suggestion. :)
Thanks for the giveaway. I just found your blog so I am not sure what to suggest for a tutorial, but I am sure it will be great.
And I just blogged about you.
kamisquiling(at)blogspot(dot)com
And I just became a follower.
What a lovely giveaway, I haven't seen that fabric before, it looks lovely. I have never owned a layer cake either. I will bookmark your blog.
I am now a follower too. Thanks for a lovely giveaway.
Forgot to say I would like a tutorial for a bag or needlecase, or sewing accessories.
Oh, I love Botany! thanks for the giveaway.
I'd love to find some more clever ways to do something with a charmpack, apart form linking the squares or making table runners. any ideas ? :-)
I am allready following you
hi!
thanks for doing this great giveaway!!
i would like to see some easy quilting tutorials for people like me that need to learn all the "secrets" of quilting
like a step by step learning proces thing
thanks!
and i follow you
thanks!
and i blogged about it
thanks!!
Love those eggs too. I printed out that pattern some time last year and intend to make some for easter this year. How cool that the first time I visit your blog and your having a giveaway and with that lovely Botany line which I havn't seen in the shops down here.
I have become a follower too. Have had a wee look around but will be back to snoop some more. I like making bags so a tutorial on some sort of bag would be great.
I'd love to see a tutorial for a quilt using Honey Buns. I bought some recently because they were cheap, and I'd love a project to use them for.
I'm a follower! Thanks for the giveaway.
Happy National Quilting Weekend. :)
I'm new to your blog so I'm not sure what you've given tutorials of already. I do know that I've always had a little trouble putting sleeves at the top of wall hangings; they always look messy. Could you do a simple how-to for nice looking sleeves.
I just became a follower.
I'd like to see a no-fail tutorial on connecting the two ends of binding. Every time I do it I have to rip it out two or three times. Sigh.
And I follow you in bloglines.
I just blogged about your giveaway.
Great giveaway! Just became a follower!
Have been drooling over Crazy quilts for years. Would love to see a tutorial.
I would love the Botany Layer Cake; one thing I would like to see is a tuitorial on how to turn layer cakes into quilts. I'm always looking for new ideas. There aren't as many patterns for the layer cakes as there are for jelly rolls.
Char
WOW!!! This is really some wonderful candy.. Thanks for a chance to win..
saluti dall'italia rosa
I'd love to see a bag pattern made with that fabric.
public the post on http://blogcandymania.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-candy-di-spun-sugar-quilt.html
Hugs, rosa
I became a follower!
I am very much addicted to bags right now. That would be a great pattern to see.
Pretty fabric giveaway! Love to have a tutorial on prairie points and/or scalloped binding.
Beautiful fabric, I hadn't seen that line before!
And I'm following your blog...
Your fabrics eggs are so cute!
Please count me in your draw, I'm your follower :)
Best wishes,
Tatyana, Russia
The Botany line is gorgeous!! As far as a tutorial, i would love to see one on how to make a pickle dish block.
I'm following with goggle reader!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Vickie love the Botany layer cake my friend & neighbor "Sandy in Stitches" sent me over we should all get together for lunch sometime!!
Hugs
Sandy
I'm a follower!
I just posted it on my blog fingers crossed!!
Hi, I love bag patterns too,from totes to purses. I can never have enough of them. Sharonj
I have become a follower too, thanks for having a give away! Sharonj.
I love bags, so tutorials or patterns for any kinds of bags are always welcome!
MGM
I'm a follower too!
MGM
Very nice blog, I love bags so a new bag pattern might be fun. Thanks for the giveaway, I've never had a layered cake, a quilt would work up fast.
I about missed this one - can't believe it - but here I am.
Marie
I am a follower - wouldn't miss it.
I love bags and purses and accessories, but would also like to see a new pillow tutorial. Oh, what the heck - I love them all!
And now I'm following your blog.
Happy belated national quilting Day! I follow you now!
I just signed up to follow you on twitter!
I just became a follower.
Just signed up to follow you on twitter!
Vickie - I HEART all your projects, but so far my favorite has been the Skinny Verna for MBS. I would love to see some more table runners that are quick sews like that one was!
I follow your blog!
I also follow you on Twitter
I'm a follower already, love reading your blog.
Would love to see more small things, like the eggs those are great!
Would love to see more small things, like the eggs those are great!
I'm fairly new to quilting, so I love any new tutorials I can get my hands on! LOL!
What a great giveaway!
I follow your blog!
I follow you on twitter!
I would love to see a tutorial on a bag!! They are so much fun.
Oh, and I am a follower! :-)
I don't have any botany yet....I would love some. PS I like your quilt block design better for the jelly roll quilt along than the one published. I'm making mine like yours!
i can't think of any tutorial in particular. really i like any suggestions
I'd love to see a tutorial on attaching binding with no hand sewing :-)
Thank you for your giveaway, would love to be entered in your giveaway. Would like to see a tutorial on nice pillow shams. I am a follower, read it the old fashioned way on the laptop, don't do twitter. Cheers!
Whew! that is a lot of comments. I am here via Quilt Hollow. I have never had a layer cake so it would be fun to win one.
Any tutorial for small gifts would be great.
Love those eggs.
I just found your blog and love it.
I would like to see a tutorial for a layer cake project.
Springy Table Topper would be a great tutorial, I am looking for a longer more narrow one for a bookshelf in my sewing room. :) Or some machine or hand quilting techniques would be good. Always looking for those new ideas. BTW, LOVE YOUR EGGS.
Hi Vickie!
Maybe you could do a tutorial on mitered corners in borders?
You are in my reader....
Oh Vickie! You know that I follow you on Twitter! ;)
...and added a little blurb about your giveaway to my latest post.
http://quiltcetera.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/day-one-the-easter-mini-quilt-along/
Good luck to ALL!
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