Grab yourself a cup of coffee (or two) and browse the gorgeous Half-Square Triangle Quilts for this week’s themed quilt contest. Thanks to everyone that has entered and shared their beautiful creations with us.

This week’s contest is sponsored by Jojo’s Quilt Shoppe who has donated a Pom Pom de Paris jelly roll by French General for this week’s winner with the most votes.

Bonus Offer: Sign up for JoJo’s eNewsletter and receive an Extra 10% OFF your entire order Today! (coupon code will be sent via email) Note: the subscription box is located at the top center of their homepage.

Wanted: Sponsors for upcoming contests. Contact me if you’re interested in some awesome exposure for your quilting products or web site.

Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!

• Voting is open Friday – Sunday @ 11:59 p.m.
• One vote per IP address (NOT email address), so have your family and friends cast a ballot for their favourite quilt (from home if you send it to coworkers)
• Winner announced Monday!

How to Vote:

• Review the photos and stories below… there are several, so you’ll need to scroll down to see them all.
• Underneath the photos, scroll down, you’ll see the names of all the quilts with a circular button** beside each one. Select the button for the quilt you want to vote for.
• Then scroll down, all the way, until you get to the bottom of the names of quilts. Then press the vote button.

** Note: If you don’t see the circular buttons to vote, but instead see the voting results, that means someone on your IP Address already voted or that the voting period has ended. Shared IP Addresses are very common in home or work networks.

Please Note: If you are not seeing all of the photos, check your browser settings. Go to view, and text size. Make sure it’s set at medium. If you need web sites to be larger so you can read them more easily, then use the browser’s Zoom function, not the text resize. This is a known bug and hopefully I’ll have it fixed soon.

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Facebook, email subscribers and RSS readers: You need to visit the Quilting Gallery blog to vote and to enter the give-away: CLICK HERE

Next Week’s Contest

The theme for next week’s quilt contest is Valentine’s Day. Get your cameras out and Submit your Quilt Photo.

Have a quilt shop or quilting product you’d like advertised here? Sponsor a weekly quilt contest.

The winners of the one-year subscription to the Premium version of Evernote have been chosen. Asked to share their biggest organizational challenge, here are the winners and their responses:

#17 Rick

My biggest organizational challenge is time and feeling I don’t have enough of it… that comes down to prioritizing tasks and to dos, I am not doing that well. I’d love to have segmented time for my professional life as a photographer and time for my quilting/sewing life. I’ve never used Evernote – it sounds interesting.

#14 Bradie Sparrow

I LOVE making lists. on paper. in text files. in my daytimer. everywhere. Evernote helps me keep it all in one place. Once I put it into evernote, I never have to question the location of my notes or lists! I am confident I will never find evernote crumpled up in the fist of a small child. :)

#22 Robin

My biggest organizational challenge is simply me and everything I do. I need help with photos, magazines, patterns, the linen closet, and my craft room. I think the only semi-organized area of the house is the kitchen and even that could use some help lol.

#34 Kathie L.

My challenge is keeping track of quilting ideas I see in blogs and websites. I need a place to put them to easily find them. Evernote sounds like a good solution. Kathie L in allentown

#6 Kelly

My greatest challenge is working 2 businesses. Our mom and pop appliance business and my longarm quilting business. Organizing my time and keeping my paper work in order are my challenges. And between my photos (personal and business) and my husbands hobby of collecting local area postcards, we need organizational help. Thank you Evernote for your generous donation!

Winners were chosen randomly. You can read the rest of the organizational challenge stories here. Emails have been sent to the winners.

Now if you didn’t win, don’t be discouraged. The free version of Evernote is still very powerful and an excellent tool. I used the free version for many months, before I decided to upgrade so that I could have more space and store different file types. Plus, I felt it was important to support the company financially that created such a great product. At just $45/year, it’s money well spent for me.

In case you missed it, last year I wrote an article for The Quilt Life outlining some of the ways I use Evernote: No more sticky notes: How Evernote organized my quilting life [PDF].

A huge thank you goes out to Evernote for the prizes donated to my blog readers.

Are you buried under mountains of snow as ol’ Man Winter storms across North America this week?

Try snow dyeing!

Pro Chemical & Dye put together a timely blog post on Snow Dyeing.

Here’s their picture slideshow:

The Snow Dyeing instructions are also available as a PDF file for you to download too.

Also, my Facebook friend Gayle McKay, has a few snow dyeing tutorials and examples available on her blog too.

Ya know, if the white crap is going to fall, we might as well find something pretty to do with it.