You are my sunshine...

Yesterday I received a special award, the Sunshine Award, from Staci, The Confused Quilter.  It was awfully sweet of her to think of me. 

As Staci put it, this is a fun networking award to share blogs you love that others might not be aware of.  And here are the guidelines to follow when you're nominated:

1. Save the image above and post it on your own blog.

2. Pass the award on to 12 fellow bloggers.

3. Link the nominees.

4. Let nominees know they have won this award by commenting on their blog.

5. Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.

I'm tickled to share the following blogs that I just love to read. 

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

BOM Quilter

Busy Liz

Country Log Cabin

Empty Field

Fleur's Place

Lavender Ridge

Life's a Stitch

Mrs. Sew n' Sew

Needles, Sticks, and Hooks

Sew Lovely Embroidery

Teddlywinks

Uberstitch

To my nominees, thank you for sharing your craft with me and the other readers that follow you. 

I look forward to the many posts you have ahead of you. 

Y'all ROCK!!!



P.S.  If you choose not to participate in this my feelings won't be hurt. 

Just being able to let you know that you're appreciated is enough for me.

Helping Bloggers In Need

As you read in my last post, I'm going for 100 followers to become one of AccuQuilt's Blogging Friends.  Well I'm not the only one.  There are lots of bloggers out there that could use your help! 

Stray Stitches

KQ Sue

Disconnected Stitches

Flat Out Quilting

A Needle Pulling Thread

North Hills Quilters

Please check them out and become a follower.  I know they'll all appreciate it.

P.S.   If you are a blogger that is going for the "100" and I haven't listed you,

drop me a line and I'll add you to the list.

You are not going to freakin' believe this!!!

This message just arrived in my email.

"Congratulations!  You entered our drawing for a $250 gift certificate by signing up for our email list in August and you are the winner of the AccuQuilt Gift Certificate."

Oh my gosh!  I'm dyin' here!  This is just too cool!  I don't even have a GO! yet...but I don't care...this is awesome! 

Which brings me to another subject related to accuquilt.  Recently they sent a call out on their Facebook page looking for bloggers interested in receiving a GO! and being a featured blogger. 

Well, long story short I submitted my blog and I got a response back!  They are interested in blogs with 100+ followers and I don't have that many...*insert sad face*.  BUT...they ARE interested in speaking to me further once I reach that magic number.

Here's where you 55 followers can help me!  I need 45 more followers and then I can get a GO! and I'm guessing have to opportunity to give away a GO! like you've seen on several other blogs. 

And as a incentive, I'm going to do another giveaway...a BIG giveaway!  Here's how its going to work. 

• Tell your friends about this post in any way you like (i.e. word of mouth, email, blog, etc). 
• Each person you send needs to become a follower and comment on this post that they are a new follower and tell me who sent them (meaning you and your blog's name).  Then both you AND that new follower are eligible for the drawing as a pair.

Each time someone you know comments and mentions you as the person who sent them, you're entered again...so the more people comment here via you, the greater your chances. 

So I bet you want to know what you're trying to win.  Once I reach 100 followers I will use a random number generator, and the winning commenter and the person who referred them will each win a....

$50 gift certifcate from the Fat Quarter Shop compliments of me!

So there you go...will you help a gal out?

Thank you fellow bloggers from the bottom of my little quilted heart!

Only 12 more to go...

...and I'll have all of Ms. Crocket's blocks done!  Here are 

blocks 13 through 18.

I can't wait to see how all these blocks are going to come together!  Stay tuned...

Celebrations and a Giveaway!

Today I'm celebrating!  Why you ask?  Because I just turned...

I've been freaking out and feeling old...like the other day when the news announced that Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was turning 19!  I swear it was seems like only yesterday when that song came out.  But you know what?  I woke up this morning feeling happy and excited to be "40".  Go figure.

My other celebration is I have 50 followers!  Never in a million years would I have thought to have even get 25.  You gals ROCK!

So to celebrate I decided what better way to do it than to have a giveaway!  Here's a little something I put together.  Its nothing super stupendous so don't go getting too excited.  *wink*

I have for one lucky winner "The Directory of Quilting Techniques" by Caroline Rodriguez, 2 Civil War Homefront charm packs and a pinkeeper/cushion made by moi.

How do you win?  It's simple.  There are two ways to win and no trivia questions to answer this time.  Simply leave a comment on this post...birthday wishes not required...and that will get you one chance.  For a second chance, post about the giveaway on your blog and leave a second comment telling me you did it.

Easy peasy...right?  On Friday I'll do that random number thingy to pick a winner!

Now I'm off to spend some time with Ms. Crockett.

A really good idea...

Do you have unwanted craft supplies collecting dust? 

If you said yes, then you need to go check out

Becky's Craft Supply Swap. 

I know I have tons of stuff I'd love to give away so I'm going to start digging throught my studio closet this weekend and see what I can find.

Elizabeth Crocket Quilt - Blocks 9, 10, 11, & 12

Well here I am nearly half way done with the Crocket Quilt.  As you can see from these four blocks, some of the blocks turn out prettier than others.  But that's the point of it all, isn't it?  You can't have pretty without a little ugly...good with the bad...etc.  Anyway, my hope is to have the quilt top done by the end of next week so my friend Donna can quilt it that weekend.  Then its binding and off to the shop for display. 

I am happy to report that the shop has signed up people for more than half of the available 24 BOM spots already for it!  While it's not my book, my pattern, it still feels good when people want to recreate you've put a lot of time and effort into.