Giveaway winners

Thank you all for your kind comments on my previous post.  I randomly picked two winners from everyone who left a comment.  “aschaefer” and Kathy L, I emailed you the pattern you preferred (both of you chose the Geese!) and I’ll send the fat quarters along once you email me your mailing addresses.

I was curious to see which of the two patterns I offered was most popular so I tallied up the choices.  Five readers had no preference, 14 preferred Stretch and 15 chose Geese Across the Table.  That works out pretty close to even!

Milestones giveaways

Late last week sales of my Wandering Geese pattern topped 100!  Yay!    I started thinking about having a giveaway to mark the occasion.

On Friday, free downloads of my Scattered Leaves pattern shot up from 1 or 2 most days to 400 on a single day.  Downloads were lighter but steady on Saturday, then Sunday happened: 2077 downloads that day!

 

I was pleased (understatement).  Someone who will remain nameless asked if perhaps there was a computer glitch.  No, it was not a computer glitch! It turns out that the quilt was featured in not one but two Craftsy blog posts last week, which directed a lot of traffic to my pattern.  I’m quite flattered and giddy at the moment and decided the attention Scattered Leaves has just received warrants a giveaway too.

 

 

Here’s what I came up with. I have two sets of 7 fat quarters to send to new homes. I thought orange and black would be a nice Halloween touch coming up to the month of October.  As for the blues, well, you know I have a weakness for those.

Whoever wins them can add them to their stash, or use them to make my  Stretch  runner or Geese Across the Table placemats and runner.  Stretch uses 6 FQs and a bit of yardage, and Geese Across the Table uses 7 FQs and some yardage.

Leave me a comment for a chance to win, and tell me which of these two patterns you would like me to send you if you win.  Next Sunday evening, September 29th, I will randomly draw two winners from those who left comments. Remember that if you are a “no-reply” or anonymous commenter I won’t be able to reach you and will have to draw another name.

Now I’m off to do another happy dance!

The “quilt from nothing”?

My hundred-patch quilt top is finished!  The photos aren’t great because there isn’t anyone else home right now to draft as a quilt rack. I tried using the deck railing but the wind kept blowing the quilt to the ground.  Since I lack patience and want to share right now I settled for a patch of floor with so-so lighting but I managed to take pictures.

The top measures 59” x 73”, a generous throw size.  The 1200  1” finished scrap squares are fabrics from most if not all of the quilts I have made since I started quilting 13 years ago.  These were a by-product of my mad cutting down of scraps in the past year. I cut scraps into squares and rectangles and strips, but then took the scraps from that and cut smaller ones.  I think I’ll name the quilt “Quilter’s Scrapbook” since it’s a reminder of all those previous projects.

  

 

At one point I looked at those 1 1/2” squares and wondered what I was thinking, keeping such small bits.  I almost threw them out but then I saw a 144-patch quilt with wide sashing somewhere online and thought I could do that.  A little later I saw a sampler quilt set with a Garden Maze sashing (again, I don’t know where!) and thought that would dress up the scrap quilt a bit.  I played around with different widths and kept sewing together little squares and felt quite smug about making a quilt from ”nothing”.  By the time I had 12 blocks assembled I had decided to dress up the border too.

Now that it is together, I can no longer feel quite as smug about the “quilt from nothing”.  I may have started out to make a quilt with found bits, but I definitely needed some new yardage for all the sashing and borders!