Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Riley Blake Design Team Project & GIVEAWAY!!

Today I'm SO excited to be sharing a new project for the Riley Blake Design Team!!

Quilted Chevron Tote Bag tutorial

This step by step tutorial is for making a Quilted Chevron Tote bag, using very simple instructions, Riley Blake's new Chevron fabric collection, that's casual and useful. You can take this method of tote bag making and go crazy with your own ideas, just by adding a few steps.

Remember this Chevron Quilt Block from last week?

Chevron Quilt Block

Well, now it's a Quilted Chevron Tote Bag! A bag that's soft and easy, perfect for shopping, the beach or pool, and for washing after much use!

Quilt Block Chevron Tote Bag

I really hope you like this tutorial! You can get very creative using this method of tote bag making. You can swap out the batting for interfacing, to create a sturdier bag, add pockets, appliques, magnetic closures for a fancier version, etc.. The possibilities are really endless!! My project will be up on their blog later this morning, they are a few hours behind those of us on the East Coast, so be sure to stop by and check it out later this morning!

GREAT NEWS, besides having the honor of guest posting on the Riley Blake Blog as part of the Design Team, I also get to host a new RBD Fabric Giveaway right here today!!!

How does a chance at winning a Fat Quarter Bundle of an entire Riley Blake Collection sound??!!

RBD sponsor

Well...the sweet folks at Riley Blake are so generously offering a Fat Quarter bundle of the entire Riley Blake Chevron Collection to one lucky reader!!! WOW!

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Enter to Win!

Here's how,

1. Simply add a comment to this post. (one entry) If you want, you can let me know one thing you hope to stitch up soon?
2. Followers of Maureen Cracknell Handmade get a second entry! Whether you follow me here or on Facebook, just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (one entry)
3. Follow the Riley Blake Blog or facebook page for a third entry. Just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (one entry)

That’s 3 possible entries! Enter now through Friday morning and I will announce the winner in a new post here on the blog.

* Note * This giveaway is open to EVERYONE! If you're a "no reply" or an anonymous commenter, remember to include your email address in your comment so that I can contact you, should you win!

Thank you so much for stopping by! I'm so excited to be a part of this Riley Blake Design Team!!!
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942 comments:

  1. I follow you here and on facebook :)

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  2. I follow Riley Blake on facebook :)

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  3. I hope to finish an alphabet stitchery sampler in the next few days which is going to be hung on my sewing room wall! Thankyou for the chance to win these lovely fabrics!

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  4. I love the crisp colors in Chevron - I'd love to make a 'lakefront porch' quilt out of the navy and white. Thanks for the chance to win. VermontPines at aol dot com

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  5. I follow Riley Blake on facebook - heard about your blog there and so glad I did! VermontPines at aol dot com

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  8. These chevron fabrics would be great for making little gifts for friends.

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  9. I am a follower! Love to win!

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  10. I have two quilts in the making right now and some Chevrons would be a nice touch for my sons quilt!!! GREAT GIVEAWAY!!!

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  11. What a great tote bag! Would love to win the chevron fabrics! Thanks for the chance.

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  13. Oh, Maureen! The tote is so cute. This would be great to carry around this Summer.I hope to stitch some baby blankets and get them finished so that I can do a baby quilt for a lady. Thanks so much for the great giveaway.

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  14. I am a follower of your and love your blog!!! Thanks for a great giveaway!!

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  15. I follow you on your blog and on Facebook.

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  16. I also follow Riley Blake on Facebook. Thanks again for a great giveaway!

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  17. I love this Chevron fabric! I've been using it for my farmer's wife quilt along and I can always use more!

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  19. I follow Riley Blake on Facebook and Pinterest!

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  20. Wow! What a great prize! Thanks for the chance to win.

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  21. I follow you on facebook. Thanks for the extra chance to win.

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  22. <3 chevron motive <3
    I'd make a bag or maybe 2 for next project:)

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  23. I follow Riley Blank facebook page. Whohoo!

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  24. I'm your follow your blog and also on facebook.

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  25. And I also follow Riley Blake on Fb & g reader.

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  26. I have a pieced pillow top that is waiting for me to quilt. :) I hope to finish that project and get started on making some backings for some other quilts. Thanks for the chance!

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  27. I am a follower of your blog. :)

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  28. I now follow the Riley Blake blog. Thanks for sharing it!

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  29. These chevrons are gorgeous!. I have 4 UFO's at the moment so I cant afford the luxury of thinking of my NEXT project!

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  30. I already follow MCHandmade on FB and love the updates. Thankyou for the chance to win.

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  32. What a great collection for a giveaway. So many quilts on my to do list.

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  33. I'm a happy follower of yours.

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  34. I'm following Riley Blake's blog.

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  35. I've been eyeing those chevrons! Would love to use them in a quilt. Yum. :) Thanks for the chance to win. xo

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  37. I also follow Riley Blake on FB.

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  38. I would have to make some baby quilts for my niece - she is having twins!

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  39. I follow Riley Blake on Facebook

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  40. I have just started following your blog - what fun stuff!

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  41. I'd like to make matching skirts for my girls... Love chevrons!

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  42. I follow Riley Blake on FB!

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  43. I have so many quilty things in mind to make with these chevrons.

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  46. Hi there, fun giveaway! I'm trying to get started on pillows for my family room. I gotta get motivated!

    Francine

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  47. I'm a follower of your blog and on facebook, thanks!
    Francine

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  48. I am a follower of your blog! Love it!

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  49. I would love some of these chevrons and love that tote bag you have made!

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  50. I would just like to finish one of my WIPs...just one!

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  51. I'm a happy follower of your blog!

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  54. Love the grey chevrons! And the pink!

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  56. I like Riley Blake Designs on FB!

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  57. I love chevrons! I love graphic prints and I think these would be a great addition to any quilt.

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  58. Wow! Love chevron! I like you both on Facebook!

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  60. I hope to stitch up a quilt from a kit...first I need to cut the pieces! Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.

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  62. Princess Tanya Nigel.tanya@bigpond.comApril 25, 2012 at 8:56 PM

    I am about to get the glue gun out to make some sweet fabric flowers. Love the bag by the way!

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  63. No matter what the fabric is...I love Riley Blake!! I think a great tote could be a future project!

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  65. I would love to make a bag with some of the fabricsThanks

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  66. I follow Riley Blake's blog too!

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  67. Yes I am a follower. Thanks

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  69. I have some hand quilting to do this week!

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  70. Well, I should be up at my seweng machine finishing my husband's birthday quilt! Instead, I want to win this!

    Linda

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  71. I follow on google reader!

    Linda

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  72. I LOVE these chevrons, I really do. But I'd never heard the word chevron until just a couple of months ago! Where have I been? I'd love to win that bundle!

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  73. I follow your blog and enjoy all the things you make!

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  74. I also follow Riley Blake.

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  75. Would love to win this bundle!!!

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  77. I like Riley Blake Designs on FB!

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  78. I like Riley Blake Designs on FB!

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  79. Oh I would love to win this! I've had my eye on this fabric but it's not in the budget! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  81. I follow Riley Blake designs on facebook!

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  82. I love these chevrons & the bright colors. I look forward to all of your projects & the spin you put on them. Great job.

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  83. I need to make myself a purse with lots of pockets. Would love to have this give-a-way.

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  86. Would be great to win, interesting challenge to use the chevrons creatively..... For my next project I'm just hoping to finish my last paper and then sew anything!

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  87. i have been making summer clothes for my little ones :)

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  88. hollyvan @ hotmail.comApril 25, 2012 at 10:07 PM

    I'm going to try this again. My next project will be anything after I finish my last grad school paper!

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  91. I need to make a nursing cover, but I'm not sure I'm going to have time before the baby is born. 3 more weeks!

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  93. My next sewing project will be a table runner. I hope to start in a few weeks when school gets out!!! I can't wait!!!

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  94. I am following your blog and facebook.

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  95. I am already a follower of Riley Blake on facebook and their blog and I get their emails.

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  96. How fun to play with those chevrons in snappy colors ... I'm seeing a cute skirt for my princess and a summer bag for me ... if i get lucky :)

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  98. I would mix and match the bundle with some fabrics from my stash and make a couple of summer skirts for our neice. She lives far from away, so I'm thinking a nice surprise in the mail is needed! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  99. I would love to get my hands on some of this gorgeous fabric, in all honesty, I would probably make a quilt. Thanks!
    hpickett183 at hotmail dot com

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  100. I subscribe to your blog
    hpickett183 at hotmail dot com

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  101. I follow Riley Blake on Facebook
    hpickett183 at hotmail dot com

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  102. ONE thing I hope to stitch up?! Today, I'll be prettying a pieced wall-hanging with some hand stitching, and I'm putting together a baby quilt top :) Thanks for the great giveaway!

    pomegranatequilts@gmail.com

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  103. I commented! :D Currently, I am working on 3 dresses for Dress A Girl. I hope to make a summer dress for me soon!

    ~McKenna
    chiccrafting.blogspot.com
    mckmuff@gmail.com

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  104. I follow your blog! :)

    ~McKenna
    chiccrafting.blogspot.com
    mckmuff@gmail.com

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  105. I follow your blog! :)

    ~McKenna
    chiccrafting.blogspot.com
    mckmuff@gmail.com

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  106. Very attractive fabric and a classic for a bag. With a fat quarter bundle - I can see lots of quilt friends that would have a bag in their favorite color.

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  107. I love the Chevrons! Already made a car seat blanket out of them. Fabulous! I want more, though. Always more. :)

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  110. I am a Riley Blake follower. Love the fabric designs.

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  111. I am glad to add your blog to my list of favorites.
    Have a great day.

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  112. I'm currently working on a queen size quilt for ME. Everyone else in the house has a cute quilt. I have all of the leftovers. That's just not right!

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  113. I follow your blog through Google Reader - thanks for the giveaway (love those Chevrons!)

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  114. I am starting a wonky block quilt made with batiks. I just started ironing my fabrics today. Hope to finish it next week.

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  116. I follow Riley Blake on Facebook :)

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  117. I follow Riley Blake, newsletter, blog and fb.

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  120. I'm a Riley Blake follower too!

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  121. I would love to make bags for my girls out of that fabric. I have resisted buying it since I am on a "fabric diet".

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  123. I just started following your blog, love it. Liz Turney

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  124. I love RBD and follow them on Facebook as well as their blog.

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  125. I wanted to tell you that i am a quilter and would love to make this chevron bag! Plus I posted on your Facebook!

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  127. Have no idea what I would make. Need to stare at the fabric for awhile first. Oh, and run it through my fingers.

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  128. Thank you so much for the wonderful giveaway, I really like those fabrics a lot. I'm trying to finish my queen sized quilt and making a quilt for my MIL and doing the Patchwork Prism QAL so er...no new projects for a bit I hope!

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  129. I follow you in my reader and on Facebook. Thank you again!

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  130. I'm following Riley Blake Designs now on Facebook. though I AM resisting the urge to add one more blog to my DAILY reading list, even though their blog is awesome.

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  131. 727 comments already, wow! I would love to finish up on handquilting a kingsize quilt, but I'm not even halfway yet! I'm eager to start some other quilttops, but I'm afraid that I won't finish this quilt at all.

    Thanks for a chance to win these lovelies!

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  132. Oooh, I just love that orange chevron, imagine a whole quilt made from it using the chevron as squares & turning them on every sew line... noice!!

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  133. I follow your blog Maureen.

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  134. I just finished a dress for one of my girls and will be starting another one tomorrow, The emmeline (which looks amazing in the Riley Blake pink chevron.

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  135. I follow you by email and facebook.

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  136. I follow Riley Blake Blog on facebook.

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  138. I follow Riley Blake on fb and bloglovin!

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  139. Stitching up... hmmm. I'd like to make something for myself. I've never made myself a quilt, so maybe I'll do that. Or a pillow. I like pillows too.

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  141. Thanks for another lovely giveaway. I'vebeen thinking about chevrons for a while like the challenge. Think might try making some cushion covers for starters.

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  143. I'm working on a red and white quilt.

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  144. I am really hoping to make some quilts out of the blocks I made from my scraps. Proud to say that my scrap bin has been reduced to almost nothing but I now have about 50 20" blocks lying around :)

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  145. I've been wanting to stitch up a little coint purse for myself. But I can't seem to get my hands on a frame and I'd rather buy it in person than on-line and have to pay shipping. Argh! Soon, hopefully...

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  146. I'm SOOO in 'Like' with you on FB!

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  147. I'm in 'Like' with Riley Blake Designs

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  148. I need to finish stitching my Feather Your Nest pillow! I'm loving it so far :)
    Thanks for the great giveaway - I just love chevrons!

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  149. Definitely a happy follower here :)
    Thanks for another chance to win.

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  150. I already Like Riley Blake Designs on Facebook and I think I've managed to get them in my Google reader too!

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  151. I would love to play around with that great fabric.

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  152. I follow you with Google reader.

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  153. I follow Riley Blake on Facebook.

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  154. What an amazing giveaway!!
    I'm hoping to get some time to work some more on my Siblings Together quilt and after that is finished I want to make a quilt for my 10yr old son!!

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  155. I am planning on making my daughter a pencil case today!

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  156. I follow you on Google Reader.

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  158. And I follow the Riley blog too!!

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  159. Multiple drawstring bags! I need them.

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  161. the Riley blake chevron fabric looks so crisp , clean and contemporary. I must start to hand quilt a quilt top i finished a year ago.

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  162. I hope to make a large picnic quilt as my next project!

    Thanks for another great giveaway!

    Liz
    quiltingbuckeye@gmail dot com

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  163. I follow you on Facebook.

    Liz

    quiltingbuckeye@gmail dot com

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  164. I follow Riley Blake on facebook, too.

    Liz

    quiltingbuckeye@gmail dot com

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  165. Love your fabric combo and the pieced block on the bag. Thanks for such a great giveaway.

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  167. I'm obsessed with chevron!! LOVE it!

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  169. I like Riley Blake Designs on Facebook

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  170. Your tote is amazing & is such a great showcase for these lovely fabrics. Thanks for the tutorial & the giveaway.

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  171. I follow your blog, thanks.

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  172. And I follow Riley Blake via their newsletter. Thanks again.

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  173. These cheverons are really cute! I have 3 boys, and I know they would all like something made with them.

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  175. I also follow the Riley Blake blog.

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  176. Want to finish a quilt for my aunt who has cancer.

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  177. I am a follower Maureen Cracknell Handmade

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  178. I follow Riley Blake on Facebook. Thank you for the opportunity!!

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  180. I'm making a sewing bag for my daughter

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  181. Having worked for Chevron for almost 20 yrs I'm kinda partial to this collection. Would probably use it to be big and bold as simple large patchwork.

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  182. Beautiful fabrics! I'm working on pinwheel blocks using polka dot charm squares from fabric swap. I love the way they look and can't wait to put the top together!

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  183. Oh I love this print - thanks for the chance! I'm currently cutting squares for a new bedroom quilt :)

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  185. I'm hoping to finish stitching up a dress for my daughter this week.

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  187. new follower of Riley Blake on fb

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  188. I would be especially excited to win and would make just about anything!

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  189. I am a happy follower of your so fun blog!

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  190. I am also a follower of Riley Blake Designs on facebook.

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  191. There is so many things I working on right now. I'm taking a classes with Penny Haren, also working on a block of the month and couple other quilts too.

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  194. Lovely!!! Hoping to stitch a special friend my little fella as requested soon! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  198. also, I'm a MCH follower! :) thanks again! love love love chevrons!

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