Quick Giveaway

A sneak peek for my pillow swap partner. I should get it in the mail next week.




I thought I would show 2 gifts that I have ready to giveaway to you!
One is an extra stocking from my Season of Grace BOM.
The other is a 'mug rug' that I worked on yesterday. I just need to bind it now.

How can you win one of these gifts - and the goodies that come with?
Leave me a question you would ask a quilt designer if you were out together.
Think of interesting interview questions or something you would really like to know about designing. Or maybe you heard one in an interview that you would like to share here.
Still stumped?
Leave me a comment as to WHICH current quilt designer
you would like to chat with over lunch!


Leave your comment on THIS post until the end of Saturday.
GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED
Thanks for your help! Good luck!

I had a creative surge yesterday and started making some mug rugs for those 'hard to make for' people.
You have them on your list too;)



Mug rugs are great gifts to mail too. I'm going to add hot chocolate mix and/or some homemade cookies to the present. They make good teacher gifts too.




With Joy,
Sarah Vee

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GQ - Season of Grace Goodies!

Sometimes it pays to keep up! These are my 24 plus stockings for the Season of Grace block of the month. It was hosted by Pat Sloan and Emilie Richards. The GQs {Generous Quilters}

The goodies came packed up in a bag - which I think will be heading to my local quilt store shortly.

Emilie Richard's book, "Sister's Choice" and the Quilt Along companion book that has 7 quilt patterns in it based on quilts in the book. The International Machine Quilter's Association Inc.'s 2010 Wall calendar. Gorgeous quilts and quilting. I'm thinking of using it in my sewing space to keep track of special quilting events - and maybe even my quilting goals. (ugh, right ON a dated calendar!)

Some signed bookplates with Emilie's picture on them. Four spools of Aurifil thread! Yay! Now I can try it out. My daughter almost lifted the green spool already. I think I might use it now to quilt her Butterfly Sunshine.


Is there more? Could there be more? Yes! Fabric!

Bejeweled by Susie M. Robbins for P&B Textiles

For the first time ever I have an entire fat quarter collection of a fabric line! I have never indulged, but can already see why it becomes an addiction. Having all the 'players' right in front of you really let's you SEE what the designer had in mind for the collection. How they reflect and complement each other. These fabrics will make it into their own quilt.

My work here isn't finished, though. This month the setting was revealed for all the stockings.

Getting the top done will be added to the NEW list -NEXT month!!

Check out Emilie Richards and Pat Sloan. Thanks for the fabulous goodie bag, ladies!

With Joy,
Sarah Vee

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Three Takes Thursday - Sewing Up Joy

Geese are being trimmed and placed in position.

Little somethings are being sewn up for Monday.

Goodies are being admired. {A closer look tomorrow!}

With Joy,
Sarah Vee

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Three Takes Thursday

This week I received my copy of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks that I won on their blog during the giveaway. I also won a second copy which I have already given away to my mother-in-law. She was as excited as a kid at Christmas! I was excited that my second copy finally arrived for me:)


See that funky stripe fabric in the picture? It's binding. It's already for me to use with this:



The quilt top that I'd won too! I thought it was going to be the fabrics to make the quilt top. Imagine my surprise when I unfolded this beautifully stitched bright retro funky top! I was thinking of completing it to use in a spring raffle, but I kind of like looking at it in my studio. We'll see. At least as a curtain it's already finished:)



Yesterday was a surprisingly productive quilting day for me. I finished putting together the remaining mitten ornaments for my husband's class. His class each made one and sounds like they missed me, but had fun anyway.

Another friendship bag! This one is for my daughter's teacher as the last day before Christmas break is her birthday. Christmas gift fit inside exactly - like we'd planned it! My daughter picked out the fabrics - and wants one just like it:) {link to the Friendship bag tutorial is in my sidebar}

I also completed my December Season of Grace stockings! Yes, started and finished in one day. Two stockings. I'm still in shock a bit myself. These were fun to make and made up of Christmas selvages (remember all the donated scraps? I kept all the selvages and still have a bit leftover).


If you click on the picture you can see the items better. One picture because I had to keep it THREE takes!

There's still time to enter my 100 post giveaway too. It's the post beneath this one. Good luck!


With Joy,
Sarah Vee

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Decking the Walls

It's one of the final Mondays before the week of Christmas! Time to evaluate that growing list of projects I need to have done before then and what I can realistically finish before next year.


My design wall looks a bit different from last week. I am still cutting out scraps to make potholders and ornaments with my husband's grade five class. We moved it to next Monday as his kid's didn't take home their permission slips asking for sewing machines and such. So I have another week to get everything ready! Phew! I plan to basically 'kit up' the potholders and have all the mittens cut out. I have a few non sewing ornaments to make too.



I completed my fall wallhanging for my Secret Elf exchange. I really like it. My husband likes it too and thinks I should send her something else! Not this late in the game:) I need to attach a label and fix one little 'uh oh' I found while finishing the binding. (I won't tell you what, I'm just glad I have some tan thread left).


I'm also participating in the Sew, Mama, Sew! Giveaway day on Wednesday, December 2nd. Remember to come back then if you'd like a chance to win my little something! I had big plans to make something, but now I'm putting together a little kit so you can make it:)

If you read my post every Monday you know I had lots of baking to do last week. I managed to bake 4 different batches of cookies, before I ran out of eggs and had to start getting ready for company. The bake sale went great. Now waiting to here when my husband's school bake sale is to start making more!

Click on over to Judy's blog today and see what the other quilters are busy designing.

Enjoy the season of giving!
With Joy,

Sarah Vee

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Generous Quilters

I have now won four giveaways since starting my blog! I still can't get over how generous quilters are - with giving away free stuff, be it tutorials, patterns, fabric or books. Thank you to everyone for sharing your gifts! Here's what I've received so far:

Maria Peagler's Color Mastery. I finally found sketchbooks at the dollar store too. I have been slow to work on putting together a color journal as she suggests, but do go back to her book to look at harmonies. Her quilt projects give good insights. She also has tutorials on the book's website and free downloads that I recommend.

The next thing I won was a t-shirt from Urban Amish. Here I am modelling it into the sun on a cold morning (photo by my daughter)

I got to pick the color and really love it. It's all cotton which I love too. Check out her blog Urban Amish and see her neat design ideas.

Then I won the book by Kay Mackenzie that I have already blogged about.
I really like this book. I have now spent some more time reading about the different methods of applique that Kay wrote about. She describes 'back basting' and I think I will try this next time I'm doing stems - she says it works:)

And my most recent win came all the way from Australia! Rose at Threadbare sent me two of her patterns. I'm very excited about both of them. Can you see why?

A Christmas pillow and a backpack - perfect!
I hope you enjoyed a look at my goodies! The generosity never ends. Here's wishing you luck on the next giveaway you enter.

SeW JoY! Reap Quilts:) Sarah Vee

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