Pinkadot Giveaway!

Happy St. Paddy's Day! 

I showed you this fun green I Spy quilt last St. Patrick's Day. I just couldn't help myself, so here it is again! You can read about it here. 
Today, I have the pleasure of introducing you to another lovely blog that I've been enjoying lately. Kelly blogs at Pinkadot Quilts and makes my day happier every time she posts about her lovely quilts, many of them hand appliqued. There's lots of eye candy, I assure you!

Kelly's quilts display her great sense of color and creativity.

Looking at this beauty makes me want to become friendly with handwork!

Freeform machine quilting adds so much texture to her projects.

Kelly is helping me celebrate the one year anniversary of Lollyquiltz with an awesome giveaway. Wouldn't you love to win this Swanky jelly roll by Chez Moi! 

To enter the giveaway, hop on over to Pinkadot Quilts and look around. You will enjoy the visit and can leave comments on Kelly's blog to win.
A special welcome to my new readers...thanks for stopping by!

Fitness Friday on Sunday

I've joined Jacquie and Kate in their efforts to encourage quilters to Improv(e) your Behind. (I don't let my grand daughter use the other word, so I better not either!) :) You can join the team in our journey across America.   Learn about it here. Fridays have been designated Fitness Fridays and a chance to post about our progress.....I forgot.  Not the best way to start!  But, I have put on my walking shoes. Yay! I reached my goal of 10 miles this week. Our team has logged almost 400 miles already! Part of the challenge involves a piece of fabric to represent each mile. I'll be  posting pictures of the project I have in mind for the fabric strips I'll be putting together.  Here's a picture of my inspiration.


Thank you to everyone for your kind comments on my celebration of 50 posts.  I got so hungry just reading about your favorite summer treats!  Here are the winners of the Hope Valley fabric. . . . .

First, the winner of four fat quarters, pictured above, is Joyce T. who shared that her favorite summer treat is "strawberry shortcake, no, wait, rhubarb pie, no, wait, blackberry cobbler, no, wait, sigh...."

Donna wins the charm pack of Hope Valley prints.  She loves to eat " raspberry sherbet in a waffle cone in the summer." Yum. Sounds so good! Donna and Joyce, please email me with your mailing addresses so I can get your prize to you. Congratulations!

Marble is growing fast!  He is still in training, of course. Haven and Maelie, my grand daughters, have been spending a lot to time trying to teach Marble how to catch moles.  But since we haven't actually SEEN any moles, just their dirt mounds all over my lawn, they have had to improvise on just what mole-catching might entail.

 Hopefully, Marble won't always want to be pushed around in a doll stroller when he finally is old enough to hunt for the real thing.  NO, Marble, that's not a mole, that's Maelie's apple! 

Maelie's attentive instruction is bound to pay off, I'm sure of it!  Hmmm...do you suppose he thinks that moles are long and skinny like that piece of yarn? Oh, dear....back to the classroom,  Marble!

Give-Away for #50!!

I just passed 50! Did you notice? Probably not....but I did!  Not 50 years, silly (that happened a while back....that's all I'm saying). I meant 50 blog posts....and in my book, that's a reason to celebrate!! So................I thought it might be time for another give-away. Here's what I got, that you might like..........

                                           Some Hope Valley by Denyse Schmidt.


Here's how it will work:  There will be two prizes.  To enter, just be either a follower or a reader and leave a comment telling me so as well as your favorite summer treat.
The give-away will close at midnight on Saturday and I'll draw two names on Sunday.
The first name drawn will get 4 FAT QUARTERS OF HOPE VALLEY.

The second name drawn will win a CHARM PACK OF ALL THE HOPE VALLEY FABRICS.

I've had a lot of fun with this blog since I began in March.  Several of you have become great invisible friends.  I'm looking forward to getting to know more of my quilting buds! Thanks for taking the time to stop by, Oh, and my favorite summer treat.......Breyer's Natural Vanilla ice cream with fresh raspberries on top! Mmmmmm.... What's yours?

A Pair of Boxers and a Give-Away

You decide.  Which one of these boxers is the cutest?  I'm going to give one of the pair away.  If you choose the dog, then you will have to wrestle her away from my granddaughter, Lula.  She will cry.  So, maybe you would rather have the men's boxers made from Liberty of London fabric.  I snagged them from Target recently. Remember this post?






My boxers were made from fabric with cute little cars.  I thought you might like to see how I cut up the underpants to make myself a couple of fat quarters of fabric (at least)  to add to my stash.

First thing to do is cut off the waist band. 
Maybe you can think of something to make out of it. I thought of a belt....add a D-ring perhaps. Let me know if you come up with something cute.

I used scissors to cut along the seams to dismantle the boxers.  That seemed quicker than using a rotary cutter.

Using  a seam ripper to remove the hem will only take about 6 minutes and will give you several more inches of fabric. Press the hem out once you "frog stitch"  (rippit, rippit....get it?)

A pair of boxers in shreds..........................

........can produce quite a bit of fabric!

Fold it up real pretty and tie the package with one of  the seams.  No one will ever know what "shop" you purchased your new fabric from!

Liberty of London..........ready for my next project!







                                           Wanna win a Pair of Boxers for yourself?
This is my tenth post so I want to celebrate by sending these cuties to one of you!  I've been on an aqua and green kick also recently, so if you are the winner,  I will also include a "custom charm  pack" of 20 different aquas and greens from my stash.  Who can resist free fabric?

To enter, leave me a commment telling me your current favorite color combination.

If you become a follower or are already a follower, I'll enter your name again.

Give-Away ends Friday, April 9 at 6 p.m. when Lula, the Random Selector, will draw a winner!

Thanks for reading my blog!

Carla