The Giveaway Quilt

stay tuned for the outcome, comments are closed, thanks  to everyone that entered.

When last I rambled about what quilt I would be offering in this giveaway, I think I left off at Plan D.

I’ve decided to go with Plan E.  A quilt that is already quilted and finished.

dscf00061 The Giveaway Quilt

This quilt was originally purchased by my Grandmother. It was one of those “hand-quilted” things that was pretty badly hand quilted. She let me have it, I took it apart, and then requilted it with a new backing.  I can’t remember the exact dimensions, but I think it fits a FULL size bed.

For a number of reasons, she does not need it any longer.  In fact, it’s been quilted since April 2006, sitting in a pile waiting to for the binding to be finished every since. So it’s not like I’m taking quilts off of people who are going to be cold.  It doesn’t really suit the style of my husband or children, though they don’t seem to scruple too much over which quilt they DO grab.

Nearly all of the hearts are quilted differently. I’ve uploaded a gob of pictures to my Flickr account:

Heart Quilt pictures

If you commented on the Housewarming Party post, you are already entered.  If you haven’t entered, you can comment there or here.  If you comment here ALSO, I will only enter you in the drawing once.

But:

I know you don’t like to hurt your chances of winning, but if you could post about this on your OWN blog,  I’ll enter your name another FIVE times, just leave me a link to your blog.

I’ll have the boys help me draw a name on FRIDAY, February 6th, around 4PM CST.

Due to the downtime issues my blog has experienced this week, I’m extending the deadline until MONDAY, February 9th, around 4PM CST.  But that’s it.  I really will do the drawing that day.

You won’t hurt my feelings if you don’t keep the quilt.  Maybe you have a granddaughter that needs a quilt, or maybe you’d like to pass it on to a worthy charity.  Maybe you are a beginning machine quilter that would be interested in having this for some ideas and reference.

I do have to warn you that I have to finish binding it before I can send it to you…I promise to get to it as soon as I can.  I have to finish binding the Daisy quilt first…

Good luck!

Suzanne

stay tuned for the outcome, comments are closed, thanks  to everyone that entered.

Monday Miscellany

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Mom, will you just give me the damn cookie already?

My niece saw Katie yesterday and said “Wow, Katie’s getting really big!”

Yeah.  That would be ALL HAIR.  We did do some trimming on her legs the other day, to make it easier to clean her up when she came back inside, but it made her look a little silly.  Top Heavy.

Next time we give her a haircut, we are considering tranquilizers.

For us.

This morning I realized that I hadn’t opened the shop mailbox for a few days, which was silly because it was packed full, plus it had my second new piece of artwork in it!

Look!  Penguins!

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Diane Duda is the artist.  If you visit her site, you can scroll down and see better pictures of the originals.

I need to get some frames, I’m thinking just plain black ones.  I’ll probably put these in my bedroom somewhere.

(Diane is the same artist that did the My Favorite Things paintings I got last Christmas.)

Last thing for now.  The boys were out playing in the snow yesterday, and I threw on my boots and other warm accoutrements and took the camera outside.  This is not my “picture of the day” but the mouth on Joe in this one just kills me.  He does this a lot. 

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The Cascade Yarn sales guy was here this morning, spending my money, so I’d better get to work on trying to MAKE some money.  I’ll yak more later.

Oh, but first, it’s lunchtime…

Suzanne

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