A Fabric Giveaway : :

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It's Fabric Giveaway Friday!

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My sponsor Cotton Blossom Farm Fabrics is a real working family farm where the fabric business is a family business that grew out of a love for beautiful, fun designer fabrics! They began their little venture on Etsy, where they still maintain one shop, and have now grown to their own website & a brick and mortar shop on Historic Main Street in Madison, MS.  Their fabric family -- Cathy, Robin, and Heath, enjoy picking out beautiful, new collections each season, including basics, solids and fun fabrics like chenille, flannel and fleece. 

The goal of Cotton Blossom Farm is to provide the highest quality fabric, with a pleasant shopping experience, and some of the best customer service on the web!

Website * Etsy Shop * Facebook * Twitter

 

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 We hope you enjoy visiting their sites!! 

For this week's giveaway Cotton Blossom Farm Fabrics has an amazing offer, an entire Fat Quarter Bundle of the Belle fabric collection by the amazing Amy Butler!! This bundle includes the THIRTY different fat quarter that make up this beautiful Belle collection, a value of $100!! WOW!

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Enter to Win!

Here's how,
 
1. Simply leave a comment here in this post! (one entry)
2. Follow Cotton Blossom Farm Fabrics on Facebook or sign up to receive their Newsletter, found at the bottom left corner of their website here. Just let me know if you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)

3. Followers of Maureen Cracknell Handmade get an additional entry, too! Whether you follow me here, on Instagram, on Facebook, etc... just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry) 

4. Help spread the word!! I know that many of you already do, so I've added that as another way to enter! Whether by Instagram, Google, Tweet, Facebook, Pin, blog post, etc... (optional extra entry)

Please enter now through Monday, May 5th. Random.org will pick the winner and I will announce their name at the bottom of this 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! Please check to make sure you can be contacted!

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Thank you to all who entered the Giveaway!!

From 2,337 entries, Mr. Random says the lucky winner is... 

Comment #1448 --   *  Michelle@factotum-of-arts.com  *
   

Congratulations! I will be in touch shortly! 

A Fabric GIVEAWAY : :

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It's Fabric Giveaway Friday!

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My sponsor The Intrepid Thread is a family owned and run business. In their shop you'll find Fat Quarters, Half Yards, Yards, and Yardage, as well as patterns and embellishments. Their designer fabrics include many of our favorites -- Art Gallery Fabrics, Moda, and Riley Blake Designs just to name a few! The owners work extremely hard everyday to bring their customers the best fabrics,
at the best prices, with high quality customer service!
  
SHOP  *  BLOG  *  FACEBOOK
 

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We hope you enjoy visiting The Intrepid Thread's sites!! 

For this weekend's giveaway The Intrepid Thread is offering this gorgeous bundle of Cameo in the Enchanted colorway, the newest collection by the very popular designer Amy Butler! That includes twelve Fat Quarters of this brand new collection to one lucky reader !! 
Look at all those beautiful blues and greens!!

One of you is going to be very lucky!!

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Enter to win!

Here's how,
 
1. Simply leave a comment here in this post. I'd love to know what you'd like to make with these? (one entry)
2. Follow The Intrepid Thread on facebook, their blog, or sign up to receive their Newsletter. Just let me know that you did by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)
3. My followers get a third entry! Whether you follow me here, in your reader, or on Facebook, just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)
 
That’s 3 possible entries! Enter now through Monday morning, July 16th. Mr. Random will pick the winner and I will announce their name at the bottom of this post, here on the blog, I always try to have that up by 9 am EST!
 
* Note * This giveaway is open to EVERYONE! If you're a "no reply" or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment so that I can contact you should you win!
                                        

Good Luck everyone!!! Have a great weekend!

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Thank you to all who entered this Cameo Giveaway with The Intrepid Thread!! 

 

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  From 1,379 entries, Mr. Random says the lucky winner of the gorgeous Cameo Enchanted Bundle is...

Comment #24 -- Cheryl Gomez who said...

I think these would make a great purse and/or wallet. Or clutch. I am on a search for fabrics and patterns for purses and these are great!

Congratulations Cheryl!!! I will be in touch shortly!

Modern Fabric Studio Giveaway Winner!

Thank you to all who entered and to Modern Fabric Studio 

for hosting such a wonderful Giveaway!!! 

From 824 entries Mr. Random says the lucky winner of Three yards of any of the Organic Fabrics available in the Modern Fabric Studio shop, a value of $30 is # 579....

Mommy Made It! who said...

Working on several quilt projects. My daughterhopscotch bedquilt. Mini quilt for my sister.

Congratulations!!! I will be in touch shortly!

I'll be back late this morning with my regular post to share and I have yet another new fabric giveaway beginning this Friday morning, sponsored by Canton Village Quilt Works!!   

So be sure to stop back!!

A Sponsor {Quilt Market Weekend Giveaway} : :

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It's time for a Giveaway! A brand new, super exciting, special one!!!



My sponsor The Intrepid Thread is a family owned and run business. They carry Fat Quarters, Half Yards, Yards, and Yardage, as well as patterns and embellishments. Their designer fabrics include many of our favorites -- Amy Butler, Joel Dewberry, Anna Maria Horner, Riley Blake, and Aneela Hoey just to name a few! The owners work extremely hard everyday to bring their customers the best fabrics, at the best prices, with high quality customer service!

Right now the ladies behind The Intrepid Thread are in Houston for Quilt Market, leaving me the honor of offering some brand new beautiful fabrics to giveaway this weekend!!!



The Prize!

In celebration of International Quilt Market, The Intrepid Thread is generously offering the brand new Lark Collection in one colorway combo! The giveaway winner gets their chose of either the Glamour or the Dreamer bundle! That's twelve Fat Quarters of the gorgeous designs that make up the latest fabric collection from the super talented and popular Amy Butler!!!

Aren't they beautiful!



I am especially loving this Charisma print!

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Enter to Win!

Here's how,

1. Simply add a comment to this post. (one entry) You can include which colorway you'd choose if you won. I'm curious to know what your favorite is!
2. Follow The Intrepid Thread Blog. Just let me know that you follow their blog by making a separate comment to record that entry.(one entry)
3. Followers of my blog or Facebook page get an additional chance, as well! Just let me know that you follow me by making a separate comment to record that entry.(one entry)

That’s 3 possible entries! Enter now through 10 o'clock pm (EST) Sunday, October 30th. I will announce the winner this Monday morning in a new post here on the blog.

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

Thank you and a huge thanks to The Intrepid Thread!!!

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Good Luck and have a great weekend!!!

Sketch Stitch Tree Pillow : :

Yes, today I have yet another pillow to show you! My second Sketch Stitch Tree Pillow -- you can see the first one here, if you'd like. This one is a little funkier, a bit bigger, and much more colorful. Are you calling me the pillow lady yet? B'cuz I've been wondering.

The thing about me making so many pillows is simply this -- it's how I learn. I have only been sewing for 1 year now, and just like I found making my dollhouses and dolls my niche with knitting, I'm trying to find that with my sewing as well. I've learned that quilting isn't it. Well, not yet anyways. I'm thinking these "sketch stitch" pillows I am making now, might just be "it."

It's fun for me. I get the same feeling I used to get when I would draw something, a good feeling. And, the possibilities are endless. Anything I can draw, simplified, can become the applique. I will admit I have the habit of overworking the things I've made in every medium, be it drawings, paintings, knitting, felting, and sewing. Taking my ideas too far has been a criticism I've had of my own work for as long as I can remember. With this, I am allowing the length of the bobbin thread to tell me when to stop. I like to try to keep as much of a single continuous stitch as possible, always staying aware of that dwindling line of thread.   

Is there anything better than red and white polka-dot fabric? Really, I just love it!

This little check fabric is also becoming a favorite of mine. It's actually a holiday print by Michael Miller, but it's so very versatile. I'm patting myself on the back for buying up three yards after Christmas when it was marked down to a great sale price. I just found a little here, but that's it!
This is also the first time I framed an applique on felt with quilting cotton fabric. I wasn't sure if the thickness of the felt would keep it from laying properly. It stitched up, ironed up, and lays like a dream! I will definitely be doing this often!

I still have two more pillows to share from last weeks sewing adventures. But for now I am off to the sewing room to make more birthday crowns with the balcony door and window open!

Hope you have a lovely day!   ~   Maureen

Stashy : :

I love fabric mail, I really do! I spent a good part of yesterday straightening up my mess, which led to rearranging half the room, which led to cleaning the entire house. So, I feel like I actually deserved these a little bit, even more than that last beautiful stack. ((smile)) I'll have some new photos to share of yesterdays organizing efforts and a new pin cushion soon, but first...ahhh...

After seeing Rita's (red pepper quilts) photo of her polka-dots all neatly stacked, I immediately noted to myself -- must buy more dots... From bottom to top -- Anna Maria Horner's polka line in tan, Tanya Whelan's delilah dots in green, red, and white, and Amy Butler's lotus in camel, lime, slate, and tangerine.

I just love this gypsy bandana line by Micheal Miller, which happens to be on sale right now here if you happen to like it too! Aren't these fun?

I added a citrus and a sweet panel of amh's little folks voile to my collection, as well as a little of her coral voile without the dobby dots.

and finally, a few more random half yard cuts because they were a daily special and just too pretty to pass up.

Now, I just have to figure out where to put them.

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Better than flowers : :

Since March when I began to sew, my husband has learned when it comes to gift giving that unless it is something from here, I would much, much rather be receiving fabrics than flowers. So...

Happy Valentine's Day to me!!!

All of these beauties are from Quilt Home, one of my very favorite places to shop fabrics! Since my fabric stash is very lacking in purples, when I spotted Kate Spain's Central Park I put it on my must have list right away -- there is not a print I do not like in the entire collection, so I thought this was a good start. The top fabric is an Amy Butler print that I thought matched up well and would bring in some more of that wonderful shade of blue.

I always try to pick up a little of Anna Maria Horner's Little Folks Voile here and there when I can. I still do not have the complete collection, but will hopefully soon.

The voile is going to be paired with these Folksy Flannels to make one or two baby blankets. It is such a beautiful quality flannel.

And finally, a couple Good Folk prints, too -- right there in the center. This collection I am always re-stocking. I don't want to think of the day when I don't have any!

One of the very best things about shopping at Quilt home is their specials section -- the deals there change daily and always include a fantastic price on a print on my list. It's wonderful, but dangerous too! Thank God for holidays!