Thanks to all who left comments! I think my favorite “sea creature” was Johnny Depp. Mmm… 
Anyways, of 47 entries, Random.org choose lucky number 15: Anne!
I have always loved brightly colored fish, since I was a kid and we had a fish named Rainbow.
Can’t argue with that.
Anne, I’ve emailed you, just get back to me with your address and the fabric will be on its way.
Right! So, after that last quilt, I had a nice amount of two prints leftover that I thought I’d share with you guys.
The turtle damask in navy and green (on the left) is just shy of a half yard – I believe it’s 14″ x WOF. The navy/green/teal scales (on the right) is a half yard cut. There’s even a nice little bit of selvedge for anyone who’s into that sort of thing.
To win? Just leave a comment on this post. Any comment will do, but if you’re desperate for something fun to say, tell me what your favorite sea creature is (real or legendary). For an extra entry, tweet about it or mention it on your blog, and leave an extra comment with the link to your tweet or post (please include me – @lizinprogress – on your tweets!).
Comments will close on Friday evening, and I promise I will get my pregnant self to the post office and have it off to you ASAP.
Good luck!
And, no, I haven’t decided exactly how to count this in my stash accounting for the year. Might have to have a separate heading for fabric given away, to keep myself honest…
First and foremost, a congrats to Laurel, the winner of our Sew Fresh Fabrics solid charm pack giveaway. Random.org decided that she was lucky number 36!
I’ve been hard at work on my stack of flimsies this past week. Two are quilted, one is completely bound, and the other is part of the way there.
But I needed a break from the hand-sewing and wasn’t mentally or physically ready to crawl on the floor and baste the third, so I jumped right in and started piecing together my half-square triangle blocks.
Due to the joy of chain-piecing (seriously, I have a problem, I almost refuse to make something if I can’t chain-piece it), five blocks came together in no time. It goes even faster when you realize that the block is totally symmetrical, so you can make two outer rows and two inner rows kind of at the same time. Anyways, what I’m saying is, it goes fast.
With my 4.5″ (unfinished) squares, these blocks end up at a generous 16.5″ square. It’s nice to have it work up so big, and so fast, since the HSTs themselves took so darn long. Of course, five blocks (I plan on 20, plus some borders) only used up 80 of my 400+ squares, so I still have a ways to go.
This level of scrappiness requires something a big leap of faith for me. I didn’t weed out any fabrics, I didn’t go into it with a particular color scheme. It’s just… everything. So, as I start to put the blocks together, there are some downright weird fabric pairings going up next to each other. I don’t look at a completed block and fall in love. But the magic of a scrappy quilt is when you see the finished product as a whole. Somehow the complete randomness (with some nice white space to break it up) ends up working a crazy kind of fabric alchemy and looking good when it’s all put together.
Or, so I’m telling myself.
In the meantime, I’m trying to put these blocks together with as little thought as possible. Just grabbing one after the other out of the box of random-y random goodness, reserving the veto only for when two near-identical colors try to get next to each other. I will likely do the same when I put the rows and the top together, and not just because I don’t have the space to lay them all out ahead of time. I’m trying to really let random be random.
Let’s hope it all works out, in the end.
Alright, that was a very, VERY poor attempt at a pun.
Anyways, I know there are a handful of you out there still chugging away at your triangles, and some just joining in. Even thinking about this project, I bet you’re already looking for shortcuts, aren’t you?
Did you know that you can get solids in charm packs?
DOH.
Talk about saving time, that’s like half your cutting right there!
Well, fear not. My friends Becca and Peg, of the fabulous Sew Fresh Fabrics, have just gotten some in stock and are letting me give away some of these time-savers!
Want to win a charm pack of Moda Bella Solid in White or Snow? Just leave a comment on this post, and the winner gets a charm pack in their choice of those two shades. Tell me how many triangles you think you’ve got in you, or if you’re not playing along with the madness, tell me what you would do with this lovely pack o’ squares!
Comments will be open until this Friday, January 21, and I will choose one winner at random.
Man alive, people sure do come out of the woodwork when there’s fabric to be won! 117 comments, wow!
Great to have all of you stop by and comment, and fun to get some solid fabric love. Without further ado, my virtual computer friend at Random.org says that the winner is:
#105: Helen! Who said:
I really like Sage, and think they should add pomegranate. Neat giveaway.
I couldn’t agree more, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sage (and will be ordering several yards from Peg & Becca in the very near future…).
Helen, I have sent you email, so please get back to me with your mailing address! As for everyone else, come back soon and I hope to have a little destash giveaway of my own.
Happy Sewing!
Welcome to my very first giveaway!
I am thrilled to be working with my friends Peg and Becca at Sew Fresh Fabrics. Peg and Becca are a pair of fabric-loving quilters who recently opened an Etsy shop, specializing in modern designer cottons and Kona solids (a shop after my own heart!). I have crossed quilt-y paths with them in various places – Flickr quilting bees, the blogosphere, and even our local quilt guild. That’s right, I might be shopping online, but I’m also shopping local! It’s more than just fabric, though. Not only are you supporting a pair of wicked awesome gals by shopping with them, but you know you’re working with people who love it just as much as you do. You can tell when the package shows up at your front step (or, in my case, when Peg knocks on my back door – lucky me!), pressed and folded and packaged with great care.
Anyways, today I’m lucky enough to give away one fat quarter bundle of the new Lizzy House collection, Castle Peeps! This will be six fat quarters in the green colorway. How much do you love this new line?!
To enter, visit the shop and leave a comment telling me your favorite color Kona Cotton that they have currently in stock, and what color you think they should order next! (Seriously, people. Solid obsession over here. Stage an intervention.)
Comments will remain open until this Friday at 5pm.
And if you want to keep up with all of the great stuff they have in stock, you can also check out their blog, as well as “like” them on Facebook. They’ll have another shipment of Tufted Tweets next month (squee!), and a continually expanding selection of solids.
Thanks to Becca and Peg for doing this giveaway with me, and for being such a great (local to me!) resource for beautiful fabric!
Edited: comments are now closed, but if you want to order some fabric or suggest new colors of Kona to Becca and Peg, you can always reach them through the Sew Fresh blog!
I am in the middle of re-organizing and cleaning my sewing space (aka guest bedroom), and have come to terms with the fact that I am simply not going to be doing any knitting or crocheting anytime soon. And the yarn is taking up valuable real estate for fabric, so it must go.
Do you want it?
It’s a mixed bag, for sure. Some soft wool, some squeaky acrylic. Some bulky, some fingering-weight. 3/4 skein of one, five skeins of another. Heck, I’ll even throw in the half-completed sweaters for you to frog and get more yarn out of. There’s a darn good amount of yarn, there.
So, here’s the deal: I want it out of my house. I would love to trade it for some hard-to-find fabric, so if you’ve got some to offer, let me know. Flea Market Fancy, out of print Heather Ross, a charm pack of Wee Play, whatever. I’m not asking for a lot, but I’d feel a little better if I got something in return for all of this wool and cotton.
(Oh, and you know how I feel about people who flake on this sort of thing… don’t make me publicly call you out. That’s all I’m going to say about that.)
If you don’t have anything to offer but still want the yarn, let me know anyways and maybe I’ll pull a random commenter to share the wealth. You never know, people may only offer me creepy clown novelty prints, in which case I’d rather just ship the yarn and not get anything in return.
Since this is going to require a rather large box to ship, I have to keep it to U.S. people, only.
Anyways, leave a comment by this Friday, April 2, if you want in!
