65 Present Perfect Blog Tour & Giveaway.

Hi there! I'm excited to be a part of the Present Perfect blog tour today. It's a new book written by Betz White and published by Interweave/F+W. The book offers 25 projects, all items that are perfect for gift giving!

I decided to share my Coffee Cash Coin Pouch project, since I had already made one up to test the pattern for Betz. This pouch is so quick and simple to make!

It has a magnetic pouch frame inside, so there's no risk of all your change falling out. It was much easier to insert than I would've expected too, which makes me want to use more of these frames!

I used one of my favorite linen prints from Melody Miller's Ruby Star Shining collection for Kokka, along with some Chicopee, brown wool felt and some vintage lace trim. It was nice to be able to use up some precious scraps for once!

There are lots of cute projects throughout the book! Some I want to keep for myself, like the Sweet Life Pillow! :) I'd love to make a Gentlemen's Travel Case for my husband too!

You can find out more about the book in Betz's Present Perfect trailer! You can purchase a copy in the Interweave store or on Amazon.


I've got an extra copy of the book to give away to one of you today too! Simply leave a comment on this post. I'll choose a winner on Monday (10/20). Make sure to leave an email address so I can contact the winner.

Update: This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to the winner, Lisa Marie!

Make sure to check out all of the other stops on the tour too!

Happy Home

Sew Mama Sew – Make & Bake Apron excerpt – Mon, 10/6

Stacy Sews – Falling Leaves Appliquéd Placemats – Tue, 10/7

House on Hill Road – Hot Mitt House & Tea Towel Set – Wed, 10/8

A Happy Stitch – Sweet Life Pillow – Thu, 10/9

Memorable Moments

Sew Sweetness – Wool Courier Bag – Fri, 10/10

Raspberry Sunshine – Gentlemen’s Travel Case – Mon, 10/13

Pink Chalk Fabrics – Pasha Pleated Clutch – Tue, 10/14

The Long Thread – Eye Candy Glasses Case – Wed, 10/15

Made with Moxie – Cargo Tablet Sleeve – Thu, 10/16

Bijou Lovely – Coffee Cash Coin Pouch – Fri, 10/17

New and Little

Flax and Twine – Forest Friends Finger Puppets – Mon, 10/20

Imagine Gnats – Bib, Rattle & Burp Baby Set – Tue, 10/21

225 Giveaway from Shabby Fabrics: Best.Day.EVER! FQ bundle.

Today I'd like to introduce you to one of my newest sponsors, Shabby Fabrics!

Shabby Fabrics is an online fabric store specializing in floral quilt fabrics and unique quilt kits, including laser-cut applique kits.  They also offer a variety of Block of the Month programs and tons of other great products.  Shipping is free within the US for orders over $75, and international shipping is 20% the published shipping rates.  You can also earn 5% back on every purchase in Loyalty Points that can be used on your next order.



Shabby Fabrics just turned 9 years old last week, and has started a new Birthday Club to celebrate. You can sign up by creating an account and get a coupon for 20% off everything on your birthday!

There are lots of new collections in stock in the store, including Oh Clementine by Allison Harris, Miss Kate by Bonnie and Camille, and Best.Day.EVER! by April Rosenthal.

You can follow Shabby Fabrics on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, and the Shabby Fabrics Blog.  You can also sign up for their newsletter here to keep updated on what's happening in the shop!

Shabby Fabrics has a great giveaway for you today, a fat quarter bundle of Best.Day.EVER! in your choice of colorway!

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post!  Followers get an extra entry by leaving an additional comment.  Please make sure to leave your email address so I can contact you.  I will choose a winner on Wednesday, 9/17.

Update: This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, Sarah Fredette!

Shabby Fabrics is also offering a coupon code to all of you!  Save 10% off your order by entering the code BijouLovely10 at checkout (expires 10/12/14).  You can also enter the birthday party giveaway on the Shabby Fabrics blog for a chance to win another prize!

Thanks so much to Shabby Fabrics for the giveaway and support!  I hope you all have a great weekend!

168 Fat Quarter Style Book Tour & Giveaway.

Hi there!  Welcome to my stop on the Fat Quarter Style Book Tour.  This is a great book from Fat Quarter Shop featuring 12 pretty patterns using fat quarters.

I was asked to make a block from the Primrose Quilt, which was really fun and fast to sew together!

I used fat quarters of three prints from Jeni Baker's Dreamin' Vintage for the block, and I think it turned out pretty cute!  Since I don't really have time at the moment to make a full quilt with this, I think it will become a mini!

The Fat Quarter Shop sent me an extra copy of Fat Quarter Style to give away to one of you!  To enter, simply leave a comment on this post.  Make sure to leave an email address so I can contact you if you win. I will choose a winner on Monday (8/25).  You can also purchase the book here if you'd like!

Update: This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, Mindy!

Don't forget to check out the other tour stops as well to see more blocks from the book!

August 2^nd: Fat Quarter Shop Kick off

August 4^th : The Sassy Quilter http://www.sassyquilter.com/

August 6^th : My Quilt Infatuation http://myquiltinfatuation.blogspot.com/

August 8^th : Leigh Laurel Studios http://www.leighlaurelstudios.com/

August 11^th : Sew Can She http://www.sewcanshe.com/

August 13^th : Jana Machado http://janainamachado.blogspot.com/

August 15^th : Stitchery Dickory Dock http://www.stitcherydickorydock.com/

August 18^th : Freshly Pieced http://www.freshlypieced.com/

August 20^th : Bijou Lovely http://www.bijoulovelydesigns.com/

August 22^nd : Film in The Fridge http://filminthefridge.com/

August 25^th : Why Not Sew? http://whynotsew.blogspot.com/

August 27^the : Pretty By Hand http://prettybyhand.com/

August 29th : Diary of A Quilter http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/

August 30^th : Fat Quarter Shop closing of tour

248 Giveaway from Fabric Spark: FQ Bundle

Happy Friday! It has been yet another busy week here, I hope you all had a good one!

Today I'd like to introduce you all to a new sponsor of mine, Fabric Spark! It's a shop based in Canada, and is all about loving fabric and seeing it as inspiration. The owner Daryl is super sweet and buys what she loves, which usually means she wants to make something each time new fabric arrives in the shop!

Fabric Spark has a great selection of fabric, with lots of prints we all know and love, and some really awesome prints that are a little less common.  Here are a few of my favorites that I hadn't seen before!

Clockwise from top left:  Flora Stripe Grass, Waves Green Tea Icecream, Rashida Skin Taupe, Dwellings Confetti Green, Empire Tradewind Sandstone, Blast from Rocket Age

Fabric Spark is having a summer sale this week, with 25% off any purchase of $50 or more until midnight on Saturday using the code "Summer Sale"!  Make sure you check it out.

I had the opportunity to curate a bundle for the Fabric Spark shop recently, which was fun!  You can find it here.  I love those Dreamin' Vintage prints mixed in with some really graphic blenders!  Today Daryl is offering the chance for one of you to win this exact bundle!  

To enter, simply comment on this post.  As usual, followers get an extra entry by leaving an additional comment.  If you follow Fabric Spark on any social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) you can also get another extra entry.  Please make sure to leave an email address so I can contact you!  I'll choose a winner on Monday, 7/21.

Update: This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to our winner, Ronnie!

Thanks so much to Fabric Spark for sponsoring my blog, and to all of you for supporting my sponsors!  Hope you have a great weekend!

280 Giveaway from Stash Fabrics!

Hello!  It has been a little while since I've posted here, lots of sewing going on and no time to post!  I'll have some fun things to share with you next week.  Today I have an awesome giveaway from one of my sponsors, Stash Fabrics!

Stash Fabrics is an online fabric shop with an amazing selection, and a shiny new website!  The shop just recently moved from Etsy to it's own site:  www.stashfabrics.com!  The new site has some really useful features when it comes to fabric shopping.  My favorite is the New Arrivals page.  I love being able to visit an online fabric shop and see what's new immediately, as that is usually how I shop for fabric!  You can also shop by collections, designers, manufacturers, etc. and you can even shop by color, which is a great way to stock up on colors your short on, or to choose a bundle of fabrics to use in a quilt if you already have a color scheme in mind.

There's also a Design Wall feature, which is a really fun way to put together fabric bundles!  I put this one together today and want to sew something with it immediately! :)

There's a sale going on at Stash Fabrics right now where you can save 15% off clearance fabrics with the code "CLEAR 15".  Bella Solids are also on sale for 20% during the month of June.  There are tons of fabrics available for preorder that are releasing in July, including Cotton + Steel, Brambleberry Ridge and Far Far Away!  Shipping is always free on orders over $50 too.  So head over there to check it all out!

Beth from Stash Fabrics is giving away a $30 gift certificate to one of you today!  To enter, simply comment on this post.  Tell me your favorite way to shop for fabric, what you're working on right now, or what your plans are for the weekend.  Followers get an extra entry by leaving an additional comment.  Please make sure to leave a way for me to contact you if you win!  I'll choose on winner on Monday, 6/23.

Update: This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, Paula!

Thanks to Stash Fabrics for the great giveaway and congrats on the new site!

25 Log Cabin Quilting.

Creativebug has been putting out some amazing month-long classes lately!  I enjoyed Lisa Congdon's Line Drawing class so much, I'm still practicing.  Last month's class was Pattern Drafting with Cal Patch, and while I haven't made it through all the classes yet, I did take the first one and learned so much!  This month's class is going to be great too!  It's Log Cabin Quilting with Susan Beal, a subject I'm betting most of you are interested in. :)  I met Susan last year at QuiltCon, and she is so talented, sweet, and easy to talk to.  We had a lot of fun chatting during our block printing class with Lotta!

Susan let me stitch up the Week 1 project for her Log Cabin Quilting class early, since I'll be traveling a bunch during the next few weeks!  I made a block for her first project, the log cabin pillow, and I am definitely looking forward to getting home to finish it!  The sewing here was super simple, and I think it took me longer to decide on what fabrics to use than it did to sew it all together! :)

Turns out Lotta's Mormor collection plays pretty well with Leah Duncan's Meadow!  These are not really my usual colors but I really like them together.

Log Cabin Quilting starts today, May 6th, and a new class is released each week for four weeks!  Make sure to check out the trailer for Log Cabin Quilting here, read more about the class on Susan's blog here, and I really recommend subscribing to Creativebug and taking the class!  These are affiliate links, but this is truly my honest opinion (and I pay for my own monthly subscription!).  I have taken several classes and have never been disappointed, they are really all great!

Creativebug is giving away a 3 month subscription to one of my readers!  Simply leave a comment on this post, telling me your favorite Creativebug class you've taken, or if you've never taken one, what types of classes you'd like to see!  I will choose a winner on Friday, May 9th.

Update:  This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, Ang-e!

120 Shimmer Blog Hop & Giveaway.

Welcome to my stop on Jennifer Sampou's Shimmer Blog Hop!

I was really excited when Jennifer asked me to participate.  I love metallic everything, and am thrilled that metallic fabrics are becoming more popular!  Shimmer is Jennifer's latest fabric collection for Robert Kaufman, and all the prints have the prettiest metallic sheen to them!  The colors are really sophisticated too, so I thought they'd be perfect to make some fancy clutches with!

I picked out a few of my favorite prints from the collection and started working on a new clutch pattern, which I am calling the Luxe Clutch!  I wanted to incorporate some asymmetrical shapes to make it a little more interesting, so I experimented with inserting the zippers at several different angles.

I used a gold metallic vinyl on one side of two of the clutches, which really brings out the metallics in the Shimmer fabrics!

Using two different fabrics also makes them reversible, which is pretty fun!

The linings are all Shimmer prints too, and while they are hard to photograph they are really pretty in person!

I am in the process of writing up a Luxe Clutch pattern, which will hopefully be available soon!  I plan to sew up a few more clutches to perfect the shapes, they are fun to make and pretty quick too!

Robert Kaufman is giving away a charm pack of Shimmer today, in case you want to make something with it too!  To enter, simply leave a comment on this post.  I'll choose a winner on Sunday, 4/20.  Please make sure to leave an email address so I can contact you!

Update: This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, Tyler!

The blog hop is almost over, but make sure to check out Jennifer's blog tomorrow for the last stop and check out what beautiful projects everyone else has already made on the tour!  Check out the Shimmer Look Book too for even more inspiration!

April 1: Robert Kaufman/Jennifer Sampou
April 2: Janice Ryan – Better off Thread
April 3: Alissa Haight Carlton – Handmade by Alissa
April 4: Julie Herman – JayBird Quilts
April 5: Natalie Barnes – Beyond the Reef
April 6: Stash Books – C&T Publishing
April 7: Amanda Jean Nyberg – Crazy Mom Quilts
April 8: Lee Heinrich – Freshly Pieced
April 9: Cheryl Arkinson – Naptime Quilter
April 10: Christina Cameli – A Few Scraps
April 11: Elizabeth Hartman – Oh Fransson
April 12: Faith Jones – Fresh Lemon Quilts
April 13: Gemma Jackson – Pretty Bobbins
April 14: Katie Blakesley – Swim Bike Quilt
April 15: Amy Smart – Diary of a Quilter
April 16: Laura Nownes, Jennifer Rounds, Pati Fried, Darra Williamson – See How We Sew
April 17: Holly DeGroot – Bijou Lovely
April 18: Jennifer Sampou – Wrap Up

229 Giveaway from Discover Fabric: Pattern Dancers Bundle.

I can't believe it's already Friday!  We are getting hit with yet another snowstorm today.  I am so over winter!  Today I want to introduce you to a brand new sponsor, Discover Fabric!

Discover Fabric is a new online fabric shop that opened in 2013.  They are a small but growing business dedicated to supplying the needs of quilters, crafters, and sewing enthusiasts. Their goal is to delight customers with colorful modern fabrics that inspire creative sewing projects. They offer designer quality fabrics, sewing patterns, books, threads, organic fabric,  organic cotton batting and many other sewing supplies. All fabrics are high quality quilting cottons perfect for quilts, apparel, and crafts.  They are continuing to add new fabric lines with lots of new designer lines on order that will be arriving over the next months.  Their fabrics are by companies/designers you know and love such as Camelot Fabrics, Riley Blake Designs, Blend Fabrics, Clothworks, Michael Miller, Henry Glass, Robert Kaufman, Marcus Brothers, Quilting Treasures and more on the way.  

You can follow Discover Fabrics on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+.  You can sign up for their mailing list here.

Here are a few things in the shop that caught my eye.

Blown Away by Josephine Kimberling.  Those hot air balloons and clouds are too cute and perfect for a baby quilt!

Andrea Victoria in Fuschia.  That Wishing Flower print is one of my favorites!

Pattern Dancers by Michael Miller.  I love a good rainbow!

Today's giveaway is for 1 yard of each of the five Pattern Dancers by Michael Miller prints above!  To enter, simply leave a comment on this post.  Followers get an extra entry by leaving an additional comment.  Please make sure to leave your email address so I can contact you!  I'll choose a winner on Monday (4/7).

Update:  This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, ittehgaps!

Thanks Discover Fabrics for the generous giveaway and for supporting my blog!  Thank you all for supporting my sponsors!  Have a nice weekend!

245 Giveaway from Quilt Sandwich: Spring Bundle.

It's finally Friday!  It's been a busy week.  I'm really excited because my friend Jeni is coming to visit today!  We've got a weekend full of projects planning, including some yarn dyeing!  Hopefully I'll have some things to share with you next week. :)

Today's giveaway is sponsored by Quilt Sandwich, an awesome online fabric store run by two fabric-obsessed sisters, Becca and Kris.  They've both been quilting for over 15 years!  The shop specializes in modern and contemporary fabrics from well known designers and stocks a ton of great prints.  You can follow Quilt Sandwich on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or the blog to keep up with what's happening in the shop.

Quilt Sandwich is giving away a beautiful spring bundle today, including 1 yard of this gorgeous floral from Alexander Henry (called Flores de Coyoacan from Folklorico) plus 4 half yard cuts of these Makower polka dots!  I think these would make an awesome quilt, pillow, or table runner to bring a little color inside for spring!

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post!  Tell me what your favorite color combination is at the moment.  I'm looking for some new combinations to dye some yarn!  Followers get an extra entry by leaving an additional comment.  Please make sure to leave your email address so I can contact you!  I will choose a winner on Monday (3/31).

Update: This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, Amber P.!

Thanks Quilt Sandwich for the great giveaway!  Hope you all have a nice weekend!

119 Giveaway from Little Pink Rose: Textures

Good morning!  It's supposed to be spring around here but it's still looking very much like winter unfortunately.  I spent the past few days working non-stop on a new photography website, Holly DeGroot Photography, and I'm glad to be able to give my eyes a little break from staring at my computer this weekend!  TGIF! :)  Today I have a fun giveaway for you from my sponsor Little Pink Rose.

Little Pink Rose is an online fabric store featuring modern fabrics, patterns, notions, and gifts.  You can follow Little Pink Rose on Facebook and Pinterest to hear about the latest collections and sales going on in the shop, and check out Marcia's blog for some pretty quilts!  Marcia has a sale going on this weekend on her newest fabric lines, so make sure to check it out!  Use the code "BIJOULOVELY20" at checkout to get an additional 20% off this weekend too! (expires 3/24)

Today Little Pink Rose is offering up a pretty Textures FQ bundle plus one yard panel to one of you!

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post.  You can get an extra entry by signing up for the LPQ newsletter here (on the left).  Please make sure to leave an email address so I can contact you.  I'll choose a winner on Monday (3/24).

Update: This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, Ali!

Thank you Little Pink Rose for the giveaway and thank you all for supporting my sponsors!  Hope you all have a nice weekend!

408 Giveaway from Bobbie Lou Fabric: 20 FQs!

Hi there!  I woke up this morning to a thermometer reading -13 degrees outside and a broken heater inside.  Not fun!  I hope you are all staying warmer than I am :)

Today I have an awesome giveaway from Bobbie Lou's Fabric Factory!  You should check out Chelsea's shop, she has a great selection of fabrics to choose from.

Sweet as Honey

Alexander Henry

Geometrics

Florals

Now for the giveaway!  The winner will get their choice of 20 fat quarters from Bobbie Lou's Fabric Factory!  To enter, simply leave a comment on this post.  Tell me what your favorite hobby is other than sewing!  Or anything else you feel like sharing.  Followers get an additional entry by leaving an additional comment.  Please make sure to leave an email address so I can contact the winner.  I'll choose the winner on Monday (3/3)

Update:  This giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to our winner, Linda Nelson!

Thanks to Chelsea and Bobbie Lou's Fabric Factory for the generous giveaway!