Prize

Today I received these two beautiful fabrics in the mail from Lisa at Upstatelisa. I won a draw on her blog awhile ago. I'm pretty sure that if I went through her stash I would have picked these two fabrics since I have a collection of black and white fabrics, not to mention my collection of fabrics with circles, that I enjoy augmenting whenever I can. Right on two counts!
Thanks a million, Lisa.

Prize Received

A little while ago I won a draw on Kelley's blog. Today we dressed in really warm clothes and slogged through the snow to the mailbox to find these gorgeous fat quarters along with a piece of Christmas fabric. The second picture shows the four fabrics. Blue is my favorite quilting color and I almost usually have some blue in every quilt, at least for sure in the scrap ones.


Thanks so much Kelley. Keep watching and I'm sure you will see these in a quilt very soon.

Fabrics

Here are my gift fabrics unfolded. Each piece is 18 inches by the width of the fabric so there is lots there to do something with. I will definitely be thinking a bit before I cut into them. I could see a beautiful romantic bag from the pattern I have been using lately. Some of them may appear on a spring or summer wall hanging which will follow the autumn and winter ones.

We had two Thanksgiving feasts this year thanks to Brenda and Du from North Dakota who did a bit of cross-border friend shopping last summer. The Canadian one is in October and the Americans celebrate in November. Great timing, I'd say!

Almost There

Today I put facing on the chicken house and all that remains is to topstitch it and hand sew the facing and hanging sleeve down. I put it up on the design wall to see if I should topstitch it or not. I think it will be more crisp if I do. The borders are a bit wavy but I hope it will straighten out with hanging. If not, well, "That's my style!". The quilting leaves somewhat to be desired in spots but I guess it's one more practice piece.




This morning in the mail I had a wonderful package from Sew Mama Sew Sewing Blog .I entered a contest they had and I won. The timing couldn't be better because I am now ready for a new project. I have no idea what it will be yet but I think some of these wonderful fabrics may make their way into it. Thank you so much, ladies.