The end of a mini-vacation…

This past weekend we headed down to Boston for my best friend’s wedding. It was beautiful, and a lot of fun. We then had a chance to go out to the Cape for a couple days with my college roommate. I hadn’t seen her in ages (I can’t even remember the last time, so it must be ages…) and Morgan had never met her, so it was fun to have a chance to reconnect. These are a few of the requisite beach photos…

The beach… of course…

Me and Morgan… near the Nobska lighthouse on the way to Woods Hole

boats!

And this is my college roommate from Freshman year, Amy, at the end of a fun-filled day on the Cape.

I’ve really enjoyed reading all your comments on the blog giveaway. I’m excited to pick a winner tomorrow evening! Be sure to leave a comment here if you haven’t already.

I’ll be back tomorrow  – lots to share, including meeting someone whose blog you may read, finding fabric I’ve been looking for, and announcing the winner, of course!

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It’s time… for a giveaway!

I actually hadn’t planned on doing a giveaway until some significant point in time – a particular post number, or perhaps after a certain number of months of blogging or something – but then I decided that doesn’t really matter, so I’m just going to go ahead with it now…

I just finished these two market/tote bags, and one lucky person will have their pick of one of these bags.

The first is one of my favorite fabrics – Alexander Henry Birdseed in Pink, with a bright bold polka dot interior – Anna Maria Horner’s Polka Line in Raspberry.

The second bag is another lovely one (I think the brown is quite nice for fall!) – made using two Amy Butler prints, Trailing Cherry Blossom and Ivory Floating Buds.

Both bags measure the same, and both are reversible if you’d prefer the interior on the exterior!

And now for the rules:

Please leave a comment to be entered into the drawing. How about you tell me your favorite fabric designer, or even a particular fabric that’s a favorite (if you’ve been reading this blog, you’ll know that one of my favorites is one of the prints from Denyse Schmidt’s Flea Market Fancy line!)… or if you’d prefer to tell me your favorite blog, that’s fine too (or feel free to tell me all those things if you’d like!)

Everyone may enter once, though I’ll give you a chance for a double entry. If you’d like to be entered twice, please grab one of these photos and post about this giveaway on your blog. Please leave a second comment providing me with your blog address if you choose to do this.

Contest is open to all – I will ship to wherever you are, so please feel free to enter, even if you’re outside the US!

I will pick a winner Wednesday night around 7pm (ET).

Looking forward to hearing from you all!

(I better hit the publish button quickly, before I change my mind and decide to keep both these bags for myself!)

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Blocks and Stripes Quilt

Another quilt. Crazy, right? I have an excuse, and really, I do plan on finishing this one! I’m going to make it smaller, so I have a better chance of actually getting it quilted. The new machine will hopefully come in handy (the old one wouldn’t work for quilting – hence all the unfinished projects!)

Speaking of, you might ask why I don’t finish one of those quilts, now that I have a machine which can do so… and here’s where my excuse comes in…

I can’t figure out how to thread it!

I feel kind of silly admitting that, but it’s the truth. June from the quilting store threaded it for me before I left with it, but it’s since come unthreaded, so all sewing has come to a halt. The book doesn’t make it very clear, so I’m going to have to wait until I go in for my lesson on how to use it. Pathetic.

So, since I couldn’t sew last night, I decided to cut fabric for a new quilt. And here you have it –

Blocks and stripes, though I should come up with a better name. I plan on using a lot of white to complete the blocks and I think it will be cute. Maybe this one will be my first completed quilt.

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