Help out our sponsor! (Grin)

Our fabulous sponsor, the Green Fairy Quilt Shop, needs our help!

Quick!

They have too many charm packs!

We must do all we can to help them!

Hurry over and select your favorites, at a 40% discount! And while you're there, check out their other fabric offerings!

Have fun shopping! Happy weekend!

Love,

Green Fairy Giveaway Winner!

A big thank you to all of you who entered our sponsored giveaway!  The folks at Green Fairy Quilt store are an awesome bunch, and we love 'em! We love their selections of fabrics, too, and there is big news this week . . .

Green Fairy is now offering FREE SHIPPING along with their already super prices and stellar service!

It's time to choose our winner, but first, take one more look at this:

 Drool! Apple Jack by Tim and Beck! Yummy!

And cross your fingers:

And watch as DragonDrop puts his little paw into the hat:

And here's our winner!
(Whispering) Never fear, Mr. Random actually picked the winning comment, but we have to humor DragonDrop, don'tcha know? I mean, just think of what an angry dragon can do to all of my lovely fabrics with his flames . . .  (Grin)

It's number 170! See?

And that is Mom2RyandSis, a long-time follower here at Lilypadquilting! She said:

Mom2RyandSis doesn't have a blog, but perhaps she will send us a photo of what she creates with this gorgeous bundle, and let us post it here at the Lilypad!

Now, if you would like a bundle of AppleJack for your very own, and your name is not Mom2RyandSis, you can click here to hop over to Green Fairy store and score some great bargains on super fabrics -- and FREE SHIPPING!! (Grin)  

We'll have more mischief and mayhem here tomorrow, so come back and see us!

Love,

 

Hear ye! Hear ye! Sponsored giveaway!

UPDATE: This giveaway is closed now, but thank you so much for your interest!

We have awesome sponsors here at the Lilypad! I'm always happy to point our peeps toward their shops, and today is no exception! Just take a look at what the special folks at Green Fairy Quilts are offering to one lucky winner!

It's a Moda Fat Quarter Bundle --- Apple Jack by Tim and Beck!! Wowser! There are thirty-three fat quarters in this delicious bundle!

Take a look at some of the cute fabrics in this line:

Love this print on blue -- so fun!

Anyone for a fruity snack?

Gorgeous blue up there....and look at these musical notes!

Uh-oh!! I think you better take care of your keyboards! Drool alert! Brights ahead!

Apple Jack is such a cute line . . . and think of all the fun you can have with thirty-three fat quarters! (Grin)
It's just one of the fabulous pre-cuts that you can find at Green Fairy! They have oodles of inspiring and exciting fabrics for you to choose from. 

The Green Fairy store will also impress you with their super customer service -- to go along with that great selection of fabrics, you'll find flexible, knowledgeable help, fast shipping, and wow! Have you seen all of the drool-worthy inspiration over at the blog? Ahhhhh.....I could spend way too much time over there! 



I know, I know, you all want to know how you can win this bundle --- alright, here is the scoop: I'm going to give you several ways to earn entries in the giveaway. You don't have to do all of them, but if you are excited about that bundle and want to increase your chances of winning, then do as many as you like!

1.This is the only pre-requisite entry -- please hop over to Green Fairy's site and sign up for their newsletter...I promise they will not spam you. The occasional email newsletters that they send will have news of exciting sales that you won't want to miss!
If you are already a newsletter recipient, or if you just signed up --- leave me a comment to let me know!
2. If you are one of the special folks who follow here at Lilypadquilting, feel free to leave another comment to earn another entry!
3. Here's your third chance to up your chances of winning: check out the Pre-cuts that are coming soon.....tell me which of the lines that are coming in APRIL (Hey, it's my birth month, so I decided to make April the one you look at!) and let me know which one you would love to add to your stash in the spring.

There! Padsworth and DragonDrop tell me that we should leave this giveaway open for a week, and let lots of you have the chance to win, so we'll close this on next Tuesday, and announce our winner after that!
Good luck to everyone!

Love,

PS --- This is a gorgeous bundle of fabric, and I know that a lot of you will be commenting to try to win....please forgive me if I don't answer everyone's comments, OK? I do read and enjoy all of your comments, but I may not have time to answer everybody! Thanks for entering our giveaway!

Run, don't walk, to our sponsor!

One of our awesome sponsors is having a wonderful sale --- you won't want to miss this one!

Over at the Green Fairy Quilts store, Clint and Judi are offering savings on fat quarter and fat eighth bundles, and free shipping, too!

(I'll pause a moment here to allow you time to climb back into your chairs.....)

Yep, they've discounted the bundles by 20%!

And with free shipping, you are going to make out like bandits! So run! Or let your mouse scamper! Cruise across the interwebs and have a great time shopping!!

Love,

Winner, winner!

Today we are announcing the winner of our Green Fairy Quilts giveaway!

The winner will receive this gorgeous layer cake of Everlasting, by Sandy Gervais!

We asked Mr. Random Number Generator to put his thinking cap on, and he chose:

And number 152 was "Half Dozen" who said:

Congratulations, Half Dozen! I'll be contacting you and Green Fairy Quilts so that they can arrange the shipping of your prize!!
Half Dozen blogs at these two places: Half Dozen and Noguchi Designs . . . . you might want to go and check out what's happening at her place!
Enjoy your prize!
And many hoppy thanks for our fabulous sponsor, Green Fairy Quilts! We appreciate you!

Love,

A finish! Is that an FFO?

(Are ya looking for our giveaway? Click here and enter to win a layer cake from Green Fairy Quilts! Yum!)

 

I finished a project today! Yay! Does that make my UFO (un-finished object) an FFO (finally finished object)??

Back in January,  I loved Kiera Vanella's "About Town" pattern so much, and I had some of my beloved Mary Engelbreit fabrics handy, so I got started on it. I had created the middle section from some five inch charms, and then fused the outer sections to some fleece and meandered all over it. 

It's OK, I'm housebroken. I really mean that I free motion quilted, or stippled over the black background fabric. (Grin)

Here is what it looked like in January, when I attached the cherries to it, as part of the 3D Embellishment party that we were having . . .

Well, it had languished in UFO-land all this while. I could hear the sobs sometimes in the night, and the occasional sniffle when I moved something else on my sewing table.

But it's happy now! Lookie here!

Please excuse the fuzz . . . I'm still working with a toy inexpensive camera!

This was a challenging pattern -- there is a zipper in the top of the tote, that is sewn into the lining. I had never done one of those before, but when I had a question, Kiera was sweet and emailed me back quickly so that I could keep going!

Here is a linkie to the pattern if you would like to make one: click here for the About Town bag!

Here is a picture of the zipper portion of the lining:

Here it is opened up a little --- you can just barely see the little pocketies inside:

I'm kinda proud of having mastered a new technique! 

Now it's time to get to work on some pillowcases and maybe an e-reader cover for the Remember Service Men and Women Project!

Join me, won't you? The tutorials and tips at SewBittersweet and Hopeful Threads will make it easy --- and I know you have some fabric in your stash that will be perfect for these gifties!

We'll announce our winner tomorrow, for the layer cake!

Love,

Layer cake, anyone? (Sponsored giveaway!)

UPDATE: Thank you for your interest....this giveaway is now closed.

Today we're kicking off a super giveaway from one of our wonderful sponsors --- Green Fairy Quilts!

Clint and Judi are super to work with; their prices in their online store are great, and then they have amazing sales! (Right now they are having a FQ bundle blowout!)  All of your Moda favorites are there, and they keep the yummy fabrics coming in all the time! Currently in the store you can find:

Yumm! I love me some Bella Solids!

And look at this sumptuous Winter Elegance bundle!

Be still my heart . . . more awesome-ness from Kate Spain! Her Cuzco line!

Ya know, I should have warned you . . . Ah-ooooga! Ah-oooga! Drool alert! (Grin)

And soon you will be able to get these (they are available for pre-order):

 Flirt, from Sandy Gervais . . .

Look how cute! Get a Clue with Nancy Drew! How many of us devoured those mystery books?!

Kissing Booth, from Basic Grey . . . 

The Morris Apprentice . . .

You can see all of these and more in the Green Fairy Quilts online store --- mini charm packs, charm packs, jelly rolls, layer cakes, and bundles, too! You can get fat quarter bundles and even fat eighth bundles!

Now, what's up for grabs today? Well, one lucky Lilypadquilter is going to receive this layer cake directly from Green Fairy Quilts --- Everlastings, by Sandy Gervais! Feast your peepers on this fabric loveliness!

Yep, one of you special Lilypadquilters will be patting, er, talking to, er creating with this layer cake very soon!

You only need to leave one entry to be able to win, but if you want to increase the I-wanna-win-me-some-cake vibes, you can do as many of these as you like:

1. Leave a comment telling me what you are looking forward to the most at the Green Fairy store's Pre-Order page.

2. Sign up for their newsletter, or tell me you already are.

3. Check out Judi's blog, and follow her. (Seriously, if you want to be inspired, it's a must-read!)

4.Be a follower here and let me know that!

We'll leave this giveaway open until midnight on Sunday, September 9th, and announce our winner on Monday!

Good luck to everyone! One of you will get to "have your cake and sew it, too!"

Love,

Random notes . . .

Hi Lilypadquilters!

Just a couple of random notes today --- I can't reach through the screen to tie a string on your finger, so I just wanted to remind you of a couple of things!

First, one of our special sponsors is having a storewide clearance sale! Looks like everything in the store is 30% off!!  Yippee!! They are doing their spring cleaning, and we are the lucky ones --- scoot over there and grab your favorite pre-cuts at great prices.  Oh! I didn't tell you who it was . . . why, it's the Green Fairy!

You'll have to excuse Padsworth and me; we're headed right over there!

Oh, before I go, a quick reminder about a blog hop starting next week -- the Quilts of Valor challenge hop. Please be sure to visit these bloggers and help out with blocks or a quilt top for this worthy cause!

Here's the schedule of talented bloggers that you'll be visiting:

April 2: Barb Gaddy
http://bejeweledquilts.blogspot.com/

April 3: Gene Black, an Alabama Artist and Quilter
http://blog.geneblack.com/

 

April 4: Marjorie’s Quilting Bee – will also be Blogger Spotlight for Accuquilt on April 4.
http://b-quilts.com/blog

 

April 5: Marilyn Lewis
http://northhillsquilter.blogspot.com/

April 6: Linda Alexander
http://living4quilting.blogspot.com/

 

Hope all of you are headed towards an awesome weekend!


Love,