Open letter to Anonymous

Dear Anonymous,

It is very sweet of you to want to join in on the giveaway, but how am I to contact you if you win? You haven't left either your name or email.


Other anonymous people have kindly left a name but no email.

Please peeps! Come back and let me know how to contact you!

Remember the drawing is tomorrow, Oct 1.

Regards,
Paula, the quilter

QAF 2010

The Colorado Quilting Council's annual Quilt-A-Fair was held on Friday and Saturday. On Friday, I stopped at the bank for my one and five dollar bills before leaving town. I buy quilt raffle tickets at QAF and like to have correct change. One thing I did forget to do, however, was to replenish my address label supply, but I had enough to only have to hand write 2 tickets.


Armed with my camera, I and thousands of my closest friends entered the show.

This year the quilt show was curated from quilts by the Denver Metro Longarm Quilters Association. QAF hangs the quilts from the rafters so if the photos look a bit skewed to you it is because I had to shoot UP.

Just look at the quilting on this first quilt. Lovely. Of course, by now, you should know that I am a total sap for the 30s style. Quilt is 30s Something: pieced and quilted by Ellen Palmer.

Here's another 30s one by the same quilter. Quilt is My Green Glob: pieced and quilted by Ellen Palmer.

How about a lovely Stack and Whack? Road To Riches: pieced and quilted by Debra Geissler.

Isn't this scrappy star quilt fabulous? I saw it from a distance and as I got closer it just kept getter better. Sherri's Scrappy Stars: pieced by Sherri Bain Driver and quilted by ZJ Humbach

I saved the best for last. This one is by our own Alycia (QuiltyGirl) Carolina Christmas: pieced and quilted by Alycia Carmin

I've been a bit under the weather lately with what I thought was a cold but has turned out to be a massive sinus infection. Going to this quilt show sapped my strength and I have spent the last two days recuperating. But it was so well worth it.

One Person's Trash

After stitching up rectangular string blocks over the week end using the String-X quilt pattern from Bonnie Hunter, I have been re-evaluating what I want to work on in the coming months. I am bored of working with strings. There! I said it. So to that end, I have bundled up all the lighter valued scraps of whites, yellows, light blues etc. These scraps range in size from about 1"x4" up to 8" long.

There they sit in the wing chair, quietly waiting for a new owner.

Could that be you? If you want to be in the running for these scraps, leave a comment on this post and you will be in the running. You have until Oct 1 to comment. I will draw a name after work so watch this space for the winner.

I can not afford to ship this box internationally so I will have to limit this giveaway to domestic only. Thanks for understanding.
Note: if you have someone in the states that I can ship this very heavy box to if you win then I can add you to the drawing. You will have to work out the shipping logistics with your friend/relative.

It Pays to Comment

Several weeks ago, I got an email from Jane at Sew Create It!. She told me I won her drawing. I did? How? She had an unannounced drawing and picked from her commenters during a certain time frame. I won. This lovely assortment arrived via Royal Post onto my doorstep.

It is funny to get those patterns because all four of them originated in a city only 10 miles from me. *smile* She sent me 100 5" blue squares that she cut using her GO! cutter and those preprinted labels will come in handy for all the donation quilts that I've been making. The journal will be used, yes indeedy. I am a journaler and I ignore lines and paint, paste and glue all over my journals sometimes including the cover. So Jane, be aware that this journal will not look like it does now because I have a habit of altering them.

And of course, chocolate. What would life be like without chocolate? Do you see the white one that has LAVAND.. on it? That word is lavender and it is a lavender flavored chocolate bar. I like it, but then I have made and eaten lavender flavored jelly. 

So just be aware, my peeps, that when you least expect it, you too may win something just by commenting on a blog post.

August - The Scalloped Rose Wreath

Are you ready for another block? This one is the August block. It looks deceptively simple doesn't it? But look at those roses! I am now prepping September's block. It sure would be nice to get it done before the October block is ready to download.

World Alzheimer's Day

Did you know that today is World Alzheimer's Day? 

My little Alzheimer's Art Quilt: The Dark Ride is being hoarded for Houston. If you go, let me know if you see it. If you don't see it, then Yipee! that means it sold and the money goes to Ami's AAQI.

Wordless Wednesday - Autumn Harvest

July Kiss

July - Crossed Leaves

I am so totally on an applique roll!

Hugs & Kisses in June

June - The Baby Rose Wreath

Woo hoo! I'm making progress. This is the June block.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Don't mind me, I'm just configuring some stuff. 

Wordless Wednesday - Wildfire Smoke

Bye Bye Bloglines

It has come to my attention that Bloglines is closing shop on Oct. 1. If you use Bloglines as your blog reader you will have to find a new reader. Here is a step-by-step tutorial for bringing all your blogs from Bloglines into Google Reader. Are you ready?

You need to have a Google Account which you already have if your blog is in Google Blogger.

1) Sign out of your blog
2) Go to Google.com.
3) In the upper right hand corner of the Google screen you will see "Sign In". Click it.
4) Fill in the blanks. The email and password are the ones you use to sign into your blog
5) Now that you are signed in the screen looks just about normal except you will see your email addy up in the upper right hand corner.
6) Look in the upper left corner of the screen. If you do not see the word "Reader" then click on the word "More". If you still don't see it in the drop down menu click on "Even More" and you will be in the Google page of all the apps they offer. Look under "Communicate, Show & Share" and pick "Reader"
7) You will now have the "Reader" page.
8) At this point I want you to open another browser window/tab. If you do not know how to do this don't worry.
9) Go to your Bloglines account. From the "My Feeds" page, click "Edit Link" at the top of the left panel. There will be a link to export you subscriptions in OPML formal. Choose that, follow any steps it asks you to do. Remember where the OPML file is saved. (This is very important!)
10) Now go back into your Google Reader. (This is why I wanted you to open another tab because you can switch between the tabs easier and faster than typing in the URL.)
11) Look in the upper right hand corner. See the "Settings" option? Click it and then choose "Reader Settings"
12) Right now we are only concerned with the Import/Export . Click on it.
13) See where it wants you to browse for an OPML file? Click on "Browse" and find the OPML file that you exported from Bloglines.
14) Click on "upload"
15) Follow any suggestions.
16) When done you should have the same blogs in your Google Reader that you had in Bloglines.
17) You can make folders in Reader and move the blogs into folders. It is easy to add blogs by clicking on the Add Subscription at the top.


There you go. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

32 Green Leaves

May - Crossed Flowers

So I mentioned that I've been doing a bit of handwork. This is the May block in the Hugs and Kisses BOM from The Quilt Show.

Revised Socks

I was able to get a pair of socks from that yarn. Once I frogged the other sock I cast on for a smaller sock. I even used the correct sized needle for the yarn, imagine that!

I haven't cast on another pair of socks yet. In fact, I am doing a stitch sampler in the round and it resembles a legging for a very tall, thin person. This way I will have a visual record of stitches to use on socks.

Waiting Room Knitting

Knitting this sock kept my attention focused. But when the hospital stay was over, I frogged the sock because there was going to one large problem: not enough yarn. The needles I used were too small (2.75mm) and should have been 3.25mm, which in itself made for a very dense fabric. Will I do the cables again? Probably, but not with this yarn. I think a solid color would show them off better. In fact, a totally different pair of socks have been cast on using the larger sized needles and a smaller sized sock. Should work, I hope.

For you knitters out there, see the yellow row marker? Do you see what I did? I made it into a fob and can clip it right to the knitted fabric or use it as a marker. I got tired of chasing that silly thing across the room and this was an aha! moment.

I want to thank everyone for their well wishes to hubby. It is very appreciated. He is doing well and I will be able to return to work next week.

Wordless Wednesday