Grab yourself a cup of coffee (or two) and browse this week’s gorgeous Bargello 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 Patchwork Gracie who have donated a $50 gift certificate to be used in their online shop for fabrics and notions.

Bonus: Email Patchwork Gracie to today at fabric@pgfabrics.com or join their newsletter mailing list for specials and updates regularly and receive a $5.00 coupon off your next order (coupon code will be sent via email or hard copy depending upon your preference). Note: see the bottom of their home page to subscribe to their newsletter.

• 2011 weekly themes
• Sponsor next’s week’s contest!

Needed: Sponsor for next week’s contest. 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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Next Week’s Contest

Next week’s quilt contest is Unusually Shaped Quilts. This can be any quilt that is not square or rectangle. 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.

Give-Aways

There are two give-aways going on now, read the blog posts then follow the instructions to enter each one for your chance to win:

• Two copies of Flying Colors by Gail Garber
• Five copies of Evernote Premium for 1 year

Make sure you enter the give-aways on each individual blog post not on this one.

Mug Rug Swappers

Due to a family emergency, a rush project for my business and the huge number of participants for the Mug Rug Swap, partner information will be delayed until later this weekend. Please be patient.

Sewing Spaces Focus

Confession time! My sewing space is in dire need of reorganization and some creative solutions to help me manage the various projects I’m currently working on. It’s a tiny space where I can really only fit one 4 foot table comfortably. This makes working on my queen sized quilt a big challenge, plus trying to find room to work on smaller projects at the same time too.

Over the next seven weeks, Shruti over at 13 Woodhouse Road is hosting an awesome feature on sewing spaces. She’s lined up a great group of guest bloggers who are sharing their sewing spaces and organization techniques. I’ll be a guest late in February, so I better get myself organized too! There are prizes to be won each week on her blog too.

Evernote Premium Give-Away

Earlier this month, I gave-away ten one-month trials for the premium version of Evernote. On a first come, first serve basis, they went very quickly. So, I contacted the great folks at Evernote, to see if I could get some more one-month codes to give-away.

They came through, big time. They’ve generously donated five one-year coupons for me to give-away to my blog readers. These can be used by existing or new Evernote users to upgrade their accounts to the premium version for a full year.

While Evernote won’t help you organize your physical sewing space, it definitely can help you organize your digital quilting life. 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].

Give-Away

To win a one-year subscription to the Premium version of Evernote leave a comment below discussing the following: What’s your biggest organizational challenge in your life right now? It does not have to be quilting-related. How do you think Evernote could help you be more organized and less stressed in 2011? Five random winners will be chosen January 26th.

P.S. Facebook readers, please share your stories on the blog post to be entered in the give-away.

What an inspiring and remarkable lady.