Happy Christmas to me!

 
This has been a slightly mixed week for me but has had some true highs.

First up, my lovely Christmas table runner arrived in the post at the end of last week, all the way from Canada. I really love what Anne-Marie did with the circles - and I love how this is not overtly Christmassy and can be used all winter.
 

 

It will go perfectly on my living room coffee table, and blend completely with the colours in my room. She also send some lovely felt Matryoshka decorations which my little lady has already appropriated and I doubt I will see them again!

Thanks so much Anne-Marie, this is just lovely!!

Next, I found out that I had won 2nd place in the Fabric (Home Decor) category of November's Celebrate Color!! Woohooo!!!! I am so thrilled about this. A massive thank you to everone who voted for me, I really appreciate it - you can't imagine how chuffed I am! The prize is a full FQ bundle of the gorgeous Echo fabrics. Now, I think this is a little serendipitous as I purchased some cool-tone FQs in the Black Friday sales, but couldn't get anything close to all of the fabrics. Here is my beautiful little bundle so far:

And this is the full bundle:

(image from Stitched in Color)

Aren't they beautiful? Really love the colour tones and prints, I can't wait to have them in my hand. Now, what shall I do with it all?? You will have to wait and see!

I spent a little time this last few days making an angel costume for my little angel (not), for a special Christmas ceremony that her playschool were taking part in. Thank you Hadley for the pillow case inspiration....

 

I made this using an old pillowcase, and some sparkly fabric and ribbon. The wings came from the pound shop, but she insisted on pink trim on them (not being concerned about the gold/pink clash, clearly). I made a halo out of some ribbon, an old hairband and some gold chenille sticks which are a bit like pipe cleaner-y kinda things that I got in the craft store. Nice, right? Not one of my most tasteful makes I think you'll agree, but fulfilling the brief! When I added up the cost of the wings, the ribbon, the half metre of sparkly fabric and the other bits and pieces I really think I should have just gone to Tesco or somewhere and bought her an angel costume. But she was happy, so that's all that counts, in the end. Even if the sparkly fabric did not like the stitching I used and came away before the end of the church ceremony, ooops! Possibly I should have used a ballpoint needle? Oh well, I'll think about it next year.

Then, I woke up this morning to a surprising and fantastic email from AnneMarie over at Gen X Quilters....saying that I had won her giveaway.....for Electric Quilt 7!!!!!! OMG! I have been visiting the EQ website periodically for about 6 months now, trying (and failing) to justify how I could afford to buy this and I still can't believe I won it! I'm so thrilled - thanks AnneMarie, for a great giveaway. I am really, really looking forward to trying out this software and will definitely let you know how I find it :-)

Enough good news? Well, as you probably know, I have a great giveaway running at the moment for some Circa 1934....pop over now and enter if you haven't already. And, next Monday, there's the Sew, Mama, Sew! giveaway day. I'm still thinking about this one :-) But I suggest you pop back next Monday.  Happy Christmas to me? Happy Christmas to you!!

Accuquilt Go! Baby Winner

Drumroll please........


The winner of the fabulous Go! Baby fabric cutter picked by the Random number generator is


who is Fiona Roche. Congratulations Fiona, I have emailed you!

Thanks so much to everyone who took part, I couldn't possibly reply to all the comments you left, but I did read them. A huge welcome to my new followers, I hope you have a little look around my blog & join in the fun! Thanks also to AccuQuilt for sponsoring such a great giveaway :-)

I have lots of interesting projects in the pipeline which I think some of you will be really interested in. Not least the fact that my 1st "blogiversary" is coming up very, very soon...and you know what that means...... Plus a super, fun project that I think some of you will love!!!

Winner!!

Wow, I can't believe I had 920 entries for my giveaway. I'm completely amazed and want to thank everyone who entered. Unfortunately, because I work full time there was no earthly way I could reply to people's comments but I did (speed) read them all in the evenings and want to thank you all for your compliments and lovely words. I also want to thank those of who who signed up to follow - I'm a little overwhelmed that my blog has grown so much in such a short space of time, but I do really REALLY hope that you continue to follow me and that you leave comments or email me with your questions or thoughts..I just love hearing from people and the more the merrier!

Ok, so, on to the main event......Drumroll please.....the winning comment was

who was Vivian. Vivian said:

Congratulations Vivian, I have emailed you to get your address and will post out your package tomorrow if I can.

That's all for now folks...I hope *fingers and toes crossed* I might have a quilt finish over the weekend to show you.

Big Scrappy Winner!!

 

Before I announce the winner to my big scrappy giveaway I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who entered. I couldn't believe the number of entries - 783 to be exact - how cool is that!! And thank you to everyone who signed up to follow me, I'm so thrilled to have you here. Please keep reading and commenting because I just love making new "friends" from around the world through blogging.

If you're interested, I'm running a linky party for the next few weeks where you can link up posts from your blogs about your summer sewing plans. I'll be doing a little giveaway for people who participate. I think it would be nice to see what you're planning, and for us all to discover some new blogs and share some comment love. Have a look here for the post with all the details - I'll leave it run for a couple of weeks to give you time to blog it and will link it in my sidebar so its easy to find.

 So without further ado, here are our winners. The main prize, my big bundle of scraps is going to be climbing on a plane and heading all the way to Indiana, USA - the winner was

 who is Val Campbell!

Yay! Well done Val, I've emailed you :-)

There were 32 valid entries for the bag pattern prize - thank you all ladies for featuring my giveaway on your blogs. The winner was

who is Stephanie Granite all the way out in California. Yippee! Well done Stephanie, I've emailed you.



So that's it folks, giveaway over but watch this space, I'll do a few more over the next few months.