2009 SMS Giveaway Day!

New people: thanks for coming! Return visitors, thanks for coming back!

It's that time again-- Giveaway Day! Here's what I have for you at the Sweat Shop:

Some fat quarters I've been saving/hoarding from Anna Maria Horner:

Also, a pillow I made. Here's the front (careful viewers will see some AMH in here, too):

And here's the back, made out of super soft corduroy:

It's on a 16" pillow form and it's an envelope back, so I suppose if you hate the pillow you can just use the form.

Now, the details:

I'll leave this contest open until December 6, 2009. To enter to win, please leave a comment, and tell me something interesting about yourself, and then I'll pick a winner. Here's something about me: my birthday is December 23, and I love having it so close to all of the holidays because I feel like everyone gets to celebrate with me!

Thanks for playing!

100th post giveaway!

It's my 100th posting on this little webspace of mine. I figured a giveaway was in order, and I happened to pick up a Neptune charm pack today, just for giving away. I have some other goodies I"ll throw in, too, but that's a surprise. I really am grateful for all of your support and feedback. Sometimes creating can be a bit lonely, but knowing there are other (mostly) women out there feeling the same way about fabric and design makes me feel good. Leave a comment on this post, telling me your favorite thing about your hometown, and I'll pick a random winner on Monday. Good luck, and thanks for reading!I've started on a long term quilt project, just for me. After seeing all the half hexagon quilts out there, I decided it was a good use for my Hello Betty charm pack. I also used an American Jane Snippets pack, and have been scouring online looking for other 1930s charms. If you have any good sources, let me know. I don't normally choose those fabrics, but looking at the quilt so far, I really like it:After all of those blasted nine-patches, I think I needed a break from squares. It's a lot of fun to play with the fabric placement on this one. Speaking of nine-patches, I have about half of the quilting done on that quilt. I decided on stippling it, but adding some loops. I also used bamboo batting for the first time, and it's amazing, like everyone says.

IKEA giveaway winner

Wendy from Smalltown, NC is the winner of my IKEA bounty. Congratulations, Wendy! Thanks to you all for playing along with me.

an IKEA giveaway!

My vacation was wonderful, but I didn't get any crafting done-- not even work on my needlepoint pillow. That's OK though, because in honour of Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day, I'm going to give one of you four jumbo half-yards of my favorite IKEA home dec fabric. I call them "jumbo" because the fabric is 54" rather than the usual 42" wide:

I'll pick a random commenter, but you'll get a bonus entry if you either: follow my blog/ use a reader, blog about my giveaway, or tell me what you'll do with this IKEA bounty. I'll leave it open through May 31, and will ship internationally. So what are you waiting for? De-lurk, and let me know you're here!