100 Followers Give Away

Hello all,

As promised, I am back today with a give away.  A very tiny give away mind you...but a give away none the less.

I just hit 100 followers.  I am delighted and amazed.  Who da thunk it, and not one of you related to me.  AND today I am featured on Moda Bake Shop with my 6th pattern in as many months. 

Date Night by Tops to Treasures for Moda Bake Shop

Date Night is a generously sized quilt that features Kate Spain's Cuzco fabric line.  The bright colors dance and pop on a sea of grey.  I think the quilt is simple and elegant in design and not terribly difficult to make, although there are a lot of pieces....mostly because I was trying to use Moda's new pre-cut size.  Candy Charms are 2 1/2" square - just the right size to give you an idea about how the fabric will look and great for making mini's or big quilts if you are trying to get scrappy without having a huge scrap bin.

I had 3 packs left over and they are on the table for this give away.  (Told you it was tiny.) 

The give away is open to everyone, although I would prefer that you are a follower of Tops to Treasures.  International visitors are more than welcome to play along.

Leave a comment telling me what you might make with my lovely left overs.  (Hmm fabric left overs are way better than food left overs, we call them scraps...like they are not worth much.  I think we have it backwards.  Wonder what my family would think if I started calling food left overs scraps instead.)

I will draw a random winner on Tuesday, October 16.  (Yes, that is kind of a random day...but it would have been my Daddy's birthday and what better way to remember him than to give a gift to someone?!)

Great math!

Did you notice the new button on the side of my blog?  It looks like the big pink flower at the top of this post. 

There have been a lot of offerings in blog-land of late.  There is lots of activity going on and all of it sounds fun.  A girl can only do so much...so I chose to play along with this one.  You can read all about it over here. 

For the record, the only reason I chose this project over all of the others was because the little boy benefiting from the sale of patterns is named Jack.   The name rang a sweet bell in my heart and I was hooked.

Baby Jack and his best bud Took

I guess I am a tad shallow....but I do like that my $15 will help  someone. In honor of the Jacks I've chosen fun fabrics.  Wanna see?  I know you do.

 

The project calls for a dark, medium, and a light.  My picks....

• Dark = orange.
•   Garden Party, Orange Zig Zag by Dear Stella
• Medium = blue.
•  A Fun Day in the Jungle, Light Blue Sketched Circles by Studio 37 for Marcus Brothers
• Light = white.
•    The Circus, Multi Banner Circle by Robert Kaufman

I also picked up the binding and backing at the same time.

 

 

• Binding = red.
•   Town and Country, Tiny Diamonds by Dear Stella
• Backing = lions! 
• The Circus, White Lions by Robert Kaufman

I love the little lions and that their manes are circles of banners.  How cute is that!

 

Now, I would be remiss if I didn't share the fact that the most awesome on-line fabric shop on the planet has joined in the fun.  If you join the party you get a coupon for 20% off a one time purchase good until December 14, 2012 from Fat Quarter Shop.  There is nothing to say that you couldn't purchase more fabric than you need for the mystery quilt, or that you have to use it for the mystery quilt at all.  Just saying.....for $15 you get $20 off a $100 purchase and $10 goes to help a kid with cancer.  I like the way that math works.

 

The party starts this Friday, October 5....go check it out.

 

 

 



Imagine that...

Google says that I've reached 100 followers.  Wow.

It also tells me that I have nearly as many followers in Russia as I do in the United States.  Imagine that.

Seems to me a give away might be in order.

Check back on Thursday, October 4, 2012 for more details.  I'm sure I will have it figured out by then...and it will coincide nicely with another bit of fun.

Have a great day!

September 2012 in review

Good morning October.  I've very glad to see you, especially your cooler weather.

I am always surprised when I get to the beginning of another month and look back at the old one.  I am convinced that I do nothing all day, every day....except laundry.  Maybe I need more face to face people in my life.  Maybe conversation would make me think I had passed the time productively.  I'll have to think on that.

In the mean time September in pictures....

My work...

 

...Tops to Treasures completed 10 quilts for my sweet customers.

 

My play....

 



 

.....Swapping quilts and goodies is so much fun. 

 

 Did I thank you Mary?  That top picture is of a surprise I received from Mary of The Tulip Patch.  I sent her some scraps.  She sent me some awesome!

 

I also made a push last month to put labels on my quilts.  I think I spent a whole week making them. (I know it is an exaggeration...my mind is funny like that.)  I really ought to hunt down the rest of my naked quilts and make labels for them too.  I know I have several.  

 

In this last mosaic there are a few ideas I had, fleshed out, and a Bee block.  These are all "Tiny finishes" but they are finishes and I think they count.

 

 

 

And last, but not least, I finished one quilt....

 

 

 

Linking up with Fresh Sew Days....go check out all of the great things getting done in the blog-o-sphere.

 

Just a quicky....

 

I've shown you this yummy stack of circles a couple of times now.  Each time I promised to tell you more in a little while.  It is no big secret...I've just been busy. 

This is what I've been working on.  I stole the picture from American Jane's web page.  So far I have 24 of the appliqued blocks done and some strip sets sewn for the nine patches. 

I thought it would be fun to have this quilt on my kitchen table with my Fiesta Ware.  My dear Gilbert thought so too and decided to figure out how to make it.  We could have purchased a kit on line, complete with pattern....but what fun would that be?!

I'll let you know how the rest of it goes.....

Have a great weekend!

PS  My oldest son got in last night!  First time I have seen him since mid August.  He had to meet the kittens....and drove 5 hours to do it.  I love having my boy home....even if he does bring home his stinky laundry and sleep the morning away while the rest of us are up and going.