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Remember September Prizes!

8 Comments / Hopeful Threads, Remember September / By Melissa Dunworth

Happy Saturday! Today I have Kristy here from Hopeful Threads to tell you all about the prizes for those who are sewing along with us for the Remember September Hopeful Threads project.
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Our efforts this month have been met with some very generous support including a remarkable list of prizes to be given away at the end of the month. Melissa and I have both been overwhelmed and are beyond grateful to these amazing sponsors!

For those of you sewing along this month, be sure to add pictures of your donations to our September Project Flickr Album Winners will be randomly selected from this album on 9/30/12 for some *FABULOUS PRIZES* and announced here. (I will add an entry # as a comment under each picture when it is added and this # will serve as reference for our prize giveaways.)

Additionally, on the winning announcement day, I will comment under the winner’s photos in our album. PLEASE leave a way for us to contact you with your picture…email, blog address or something. Thanks!

So are you ready to see ALL of this amazing, crafty loot???

From The Intrepid Thread – A Fat Quarter Stash Builder Bundle

From Sew BitterSweet Designs – Zakka Style project book

From Fat Quarter Shop – $35 Gift Certificate

From Sew BitterSweet Designs – Deploy That Fabric project book

From Contemporary Cloth – Alexander Henry Fat Quarter Bundle

From Contemporary Cloth – Daisy Janie Shades of Grey Fat Quarter Bundle

From Contemporary Cloth – Simpatico Fat Quarter Bundle

From Contemporary Cloth – Daisy Janie Geo Grand Charm pack & 1/2 yard each of Hip Squares, Caravan

From Sis Boom – A FABULOUS & HEFTY Fabric Bundle

That’s 9 Prizes!!!! 1 each for 9 Winners!!!

WOW!!!!

Prize winning eligibility open to all entrants in our project flickr album. One prize limit per person. Once announced, winners have 48 hours to respond and claim their prize or alternate winners will be selected.

So….consider this your mid-month reminder!

There is still plenty of time to sew for this month’s project, add your photo to our album and be entered to win one of these fabulous prizes!!!!

Once again, I want to extend our gratitude for the amazing support we have received for this project! It has been touching and inspiring for both Melissa & I to have you all join us so enthusiastically. We LOVE this community so very much and are proud to be a part of it!

SEW ON!!!

Kristy

Sew Intertwined QAL Winners!

9 Comments / Sew Intertwined QAL / By Melissa Dunworth

Wow, we can't believe it's the end! We had 87 group members and a ton of beautiful finishes. It was such a fun Quilt Along, and we're so proud of everyone who participated, and the level of creativity in the group just blew us away. Some of those ladies had never made a quilt before, and they pulled it off beautifully. *sniff, sniff* We decided the fairest way to draw for prizes was to use a random number generator. Melissa took that job, and here are the results:

Prize 1 – Superior Threads - $30.00 Gift Cert - #12 – Shimmyblister

Prize 2 – Intrepid Thread - $50.00 Gift Cert - #2 – Quilting Lodge


Prize 3 – Stitches N’ Giggles – Riley Blake Chevron Bundle - #9 – Nanners1222


Prize 4 – Contemporary Cloth – Fat Quarter Bundle - #4 – Marjorie68



Prize 5 – Eclectic Maker – 5 Fat Quarter Bundle - #3 – Jennie’s Threads

Prize 6 – Quilting Lodge – Layer Cake – #13 – Piecestolove If you've won, please email jennaexcell(at)gmail.com and I'll sort out the prizes. Thank you SO much for participating in our Quilt Along!

Have a great weekend everyone and if you are sewing along with Remember September and Hopeful Threads, check back tomorrow for the mid-month check in and prize information!

Kindle Cover Tutorial – Purple Panda Quilts

5 Comments / Hopeful Threads, Remember September / By Melissa Dunworth

When I first thought of organizing this project I emailed 4 people for help with ideas and organizing everything. One of those people is my wonderful friend Lyanna from Purple Panda Quilts. She is an incredibly talented quilter and designer. I am lucky to have been in 3 bees with her so far, so I have some of her amazing work! She has a fantastic tutorial for you today over on her blog for a Kindle Cover.

Head on over to Lyanna’s blog for the tutorial and be sure to leave her some comment love – she did such an amazing job!

This post is part of the Remember Service Men and Women September 2012 Project with Hopeful Threads.

A Moment of Silence

14 Comments / Bee Awesome, Bee Blocks / By Melissa Dunworth

Did you notice that I wasn’t here yesterday? I decided that in honor of 9/11 I would take a moment of silence on my blog. There are so many emotions tied up in the day. I remember exactly how I found out about the Twin Towers. I lived in CA, so it was 5:52 am when the first plane hit. I worked with my mom at the time and she was already at our office. She called me in a panic and told me not to come to work, she didn’t want me to have to drive across the San Francisco Bay that day. I went over to my God Father’s house, he is a retired marine, and spent the day with him. I was too jittery to be alone, and I was petrified with my dad working in San Francisco and my mom having to get on a bridge to come home. Every year since meeting my husband 9/11 has taken a different meaning for me. The sacrifice hits that much closer to home. So that’s why I wasn’t here yesterday, I wanted to take the time to really think about what happened all those years ago.

The past 2 days I have been sewing like crazy and I wanted to show you some of my projects:

September blocks for Bee Awesome. Sheetal asked for Creams, Whites, and pops of warm happy colors. She mentioned that she loved mustard yellow, burnt orange and red. I noticed in the blocks she already had that a few had included some aqua and gray, so I threw those colors in thinking they would blend in nicely.

These are the September blocks for the Trust Circle of Do.Good Stitches. We were requested to make the Woven Block from Jenna’s Sew. Happy. Quilt. QAL back at the beginning of this year in warm bright colors. I hope I hit the mark!

I also joined a different type of bee and it starts October 1st. You may recognize some of the blocks below from pictures I posted on Facebook.

Each of us in the Bee are making a starter row and then we will ship our row off to the next person who will use our row as inspiration. We were able to set basic guidelines and request colors. My guidelines are that each block include at least 1 flying goose (can you tell that I LOVE flying geese?) and that the colors are rainbow colors – ROYGBIV. This quilt will be for the day bed in our play room so I want it to be bright and happy! I am so excited to ship it off and see what the next person comes up with and adds to it!

I hope everyone is having a great hump day!

Throw a Wench in the Works – E-Reader Tutorial

4 Comments / Hopeful Threads, Remember September / By Melissa Dunworth

Hi Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Mine was bittersweet, I love seeing my parents but I really hated having to say good-bye to them. Our visits are never long enough!

Today my blogging friend Ella from Throw a Wench in the Works has a fantastic tutorial on her blog for an iPad sleeve. I first met Ella as part of Sew Bee Blissful and she has quickly become a wonderful friend. She is INCREDIBLY talented. Just check out her finished iPad sleeve – isn’t it gorgeous!

Go check out her tutorial and leave her some comment love! Oh yeah, make one too!

This post is part of the Hopeful Threads Remember September project!

As of last night we were at 33 donations, 1/3 of our goal!