Congratulations to last week’s winner #146 Erin. She won the Quilters Dream Cotton Batting donated by Seaside Quilting Supplies.

This week’s give-away is two gorgeous tote bag patterns, pictured below, donated by Barbara Weiland Talbert. One winner will be chosen to win both patterns. Stitch up a few for Christmas gifts.

Barbara is a nationally known author and award-winning free-lance writer/editor in the home sewing and quilting fields. Her sewing career began as a small child at the knee of her dear great grandmother and she’s been sewing and quilting and writing about it ever since!

Barbara’s most recent book, The Quilting Answer Book was published in April, 2009, by Storey Publishing. It was the featured selection of the month at Crafter’s Choice shortly after publication. Barbara’s next book, The Sewing Answer Book, is due for release in July, 2010.

Barbara has been designing and marketing quilt, tote bag, and garment patterns under the Jo-Lydia’s Attic label since 1999. And, when time allows, she posts sporadic entries to her blog.

To enter the give-away, please leave a comment below answering: Have you started your Christmas quilt-giving projects yet? The contest closes September 10, 2009. Winner will be randomly chosen.

Come join the fun … Christmas Swap – Inchie Ornaments

UPDATE: Congratulations to #99 DiahRothman. She won the two tote bag patterns.

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Congratulations to last week’s winner #87 Anita Westerveld. She won the Double Wedding Ring Tool donated by the Simplicity Creative Group.

This week’s Friday Give-Away is Quilters Dream Cotton Batting in queen size (108″ x 93″) donated by Seaside Quilting Supplies in Virginia.

In their own words…

We have been in business at for nearly 5 years! Our little shop (online only) consists of 4 “employees”: Barb (that’s me – founder and owner), Jon (husband of me & operations director – that means he fixes things and takes out the trash), my best friend Marci – who lovingly cuts and packages each and every order with all of our signature special touches, and Katie, my grown daughter, who has recently gifted me with the BEST present ever – a beautiful little girl named Lily, who we all adore!! She helps us too now – even at 7 weeks old she knows good fabric!

Our first goal is complete customer satisfaction. Our feedback on any of the sites where we do business attests to our dedication to that goal! We specialize in creating custom quilt kits (just pick a color family and maybe a pattern and we will stack up a gorgeous pile with scale, and tone, and contrast – send you the photos and keep at it until its perfect!).

We carry the Amazing Starr Design Quilt kits at THE best price on the web. We sell only Quilters Dream Battings (because we love them), and we have for the foreseeable future, BUY 4 yds, get 1 FREE or FREE US shipping on orders over $50.00. For our international customers, choose the extra FREE yard or we’ll take 10% off your shipping costs.

Visit their web site: Seaside Quilting Supplies; and they have a blog too.

Quilters Dream Cotton starts with the finest USA cotton and is carded, crosslapped and specially needlepunched. The batting is 100% natural and environmentally friendly. It can be stitched up to 8″ apart allowing wonderful freedom of design. Needles (by machine and hand) glide smoothly through the fine, consistent, even webbing. The finished quilt may be machine washed and dried. Shrinkage is minimal.

I bought some of this batting recently, and can’t wait to try it. I had been looking for something that I could hand quilt, and this is what was recommended. Have you tried it?

To enter the give-away, please leave a comment below. The contest closes September 3, 2009.

UPDATE: Congratulations to #146 Erin. She won the Quilters Dream Cotton Batting donated by Seaside Quilting Supplies. This contest is now closed.

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A huge thank-you to Amanda from The Quilted Fish for last week’s great give-away. Congratulations to the 10 lucky winners below:

Give Away

This week’s Friday Give-Away is a Simpli-EZ Double Wedding Ring ruler set donated by the Simplicity Creative Group. Check out their new web site, it’s great.

Some features:

• Designed by Darlene Zimmerman
• Cut 3 different units with one tool – centers, melons, and squares
• Inside curves are cut as easily as outside curves with this tool using a rotary cutter
• A and B Units can be cut from strips or squares
• Complete instructions

One day, I’d love to make a wedding ring quilt, or even a wall hanging to start. I was lucky enough to receive one of these ruler sets and get some tips from Darlene at Quilt Market.

To enter the give-away, please leave a comment below. The contest closes August 27, 2009.

UPDATE: Congratulations to winner #87 Anita Westerveld.

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Congratulations to #63 Denise Cheke of Saskatoon, SK who won the one year subscription to Canada’s very own quilting magazine Quilter’s Connection in last week’s give-away. Winners of the first issue are:

1. Barb Prozyk of Winnipeg, MB
2. Suzy Schettler of Belleville, ON
3. Karen Neary of Amhurst, NS

This week’s Friday Give-Away has been donated by The Quilted Fish. Ten lucky winners will be chosen to win one of the super cute patterns featured below. Just leave a comment and indicate which pattern you prefer. I’ll randomly choose 10 winners next Thursday.

Amanda Herring is the designer for The Quilted Fish. Amanda has a background in art, fashion design and interior design so quilting was the final piece to the puzzle. Amanda loves to have fun and laugh and those things come across in her patterns. Her patterns are fun and whimsical and always easy to make. Amanda hopes that, through her patterns, she can share the joy of creating with the quilting world.

The 10 winners can choose from the following patterns:

Piece and Quiet Children’s Activity Book Pattern

The quiet book pattern of your dreams! Any child would love to play with this wonderful book. Perfect to keep them busy at church, a doctor’s appointment or a long road trip. Easy to carry around and fun to play with. Pattern (book) includes instructions to make 10 quiet book pages and cover. Pattern uses lots of scraps and extras that you may already have in your stash.

Whoopsie Daisy

This quilt will make you feel happy every time you see it! It looks great in lots of different colour combinations. It features large rick rack around the flower centres. Easy piecing. Finished size is 47 x 65.

Check out all of Amanda’s great patterns in her online web store and she has an entertaining blog too.

This contest closes Thursday, August 20, 2009. To enter, leave a comment below with your pattern preference.

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to the 10 lucky winners below:

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Congratulations to #81 Regena Brennan who won the Quilting Designs: The Quiltmaker Collection Vol. 6 CD donated by The Electric Quilt Company in last week’s give-away.

While I don’t normally allow any restrictions on give-aways, I hope you’ll understand for this one. This week’s Friday Give-Away is a one-year subscription to Canada’s very own, soon-to-be-released, quilting magazine, Quilter’s Connection Magazine. See below for further details on how you can enter. The contest is open to Canadian residents only.

Aside from being super-excited that Canada’s getting it’s own quilting magazine (yes, I realize CQA has one for members only), I’ve written my first-ever article for it entitled, The Virtual Quilting Bee: How quilters connect online.

While I’ve written and edited content for many, many years, this will be my first time actually published. My younger sister is a journalist by trade, and I never really understood the excitement of seeing one’s name in print. Now I do. You can bet I’ll be downstairs waiting to get the mail early every morning once it hits the post. I suppose I should warn my postman so he doesn’t think I’ve taken to stalking him.

The Give-Away

Quilter’s Connection Magazine is Canada’s new quilting magazine. Published quarterly, Quilter’s Connection provides quilters with a connection to the rest of the quilting community across Canada. A magazine dedicated to those in the quilting community, written for quilters, by quilters, it is the source for all things related to quilting in Canada.

The magazine entertains Canadian quilters with news and reviews, projects, heartwarming and motivational stories about quilters and their achievements, quilting tips, and techniques – content to inspire the quilter in everyone.

The web site is still being developed; however, you can order subscriptions directly online. There’s still time to order and receive the inaugural edition. There’s also a blog for the magazine.

For the Quilting Gallery’s Friday Give-Away, Quilter’s Connection Magazine is giving away a one-year subscription to one lucky reader! You will receive four issues of the magazine, full of great projects and information for quilters, beginning with our inaugural issue that comes out in September, 2009.

To enter the contest to win a free subscription, leave a comment below telling us what sort of things you’d love to see in the new magazine. Please also include your city and province or territory. Now’s a great opportunity to have your say in the future direction of this magazine.

But wait, there’s more… three lucky winners who subscribe to the Quilter’s Connection email newsletter between August 7th to August 14th, will receive a free copy of the first issue. Be sure to click this newsletter link, which will automatically open a new email for you to send to subscribe. (Keep the Quilting Gallery in the subject line to be eligible.)

The contest is open to Canadian residents only; however, American and international subscriptions are available. Thank you to my international friends; regular Friday Give-Aways open to all site visitors will resume next week.

UPDATE: Please include your city and province/territory to be eligible. Thanks!

UPDATE #2: Laurraine of Patchwork Pottery is also offerring a one year subscription give-away. She’s the designer for the pattern featured on the cover and also the Creative Director for the magazine. Head over to Laurraine’s site to enter. (Well, after you enter here of course.)

Update #3: The winners have been chosen, congratulations to all.

Winners of 1 free copy:

1. Barb Prozyk of Winnipeg, MB
2. Suzy Schettler of Belleville, ON
3. Karen Neary of Amhurst, NS

The winner of 1 year free subscription: #63 Denise Cheke of Saskatoon, SK

Even though the winners have been announced, I’ve decided to leave comments open on this post. The feedback is fabulous and will help Heather in deciding what should appear in the new magazine.

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Congratulations to #102 Bev C and to krousegirl2 who each won a $20 gift certificate from Sheree’s Alchemy for last week’s give-away.

This week’s Friday give-away is Quilting Designs: The Quiltmaker Collection Vol. 6 CD donated by The Electric Quilt Company. See below for your chance to win.

This CD features the most continuous line drawings of any volume yet. Over 575 of the most popular quilting designs and variations from past issues of Quiltmaker, selected for you by the magazine’s staff.

For more creative fun, print various designs, then combine and repeat them on your quilts, resulting in your own innovative quilting patterns. Helpful design instructions on positioning motifs are included.

This is stand-alone Windows (XP & Vista) software that will print any of these patterns in any size. There are also 10 videos in the software showing how to go from the printed pattern to get the design quilted on your quilt. You do not have to have Electric Quilt to use this CD, but it is compatible with EQ6 if you have it.

You can download a PDF file of a few of the 570 patterns on this CD. There is also a Quilting Designs video, telling a bit about what the program is and what it does.

For your chance to win this software, please leave a comment below. Contest closes August 6, 2009. Thank you to the The Electric Quilt Company for this great donation.

Update: Electric Quilt has a blog too, and they’re having a contest as well.

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to #81 Regena Brennan. You won the Quilting Designs: The Quiltmaker Collection Vol. 6 CD donated by The Electric Quilt Company. Look for the latest Friday Give-Away.

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