Congratulations to #4 Wendy Culbreath for winning last week’s gorgeous 1930s fat quarters. Thanks again to Jane’s Fabrics for the donation.

This week’s Friday give-away is two $20 gift certificates from Sheree’s Alchemy in Texas. See below for your chance to win.

Sheree’s Alchemy is a one stop creativity shop, specializing in unique, hard to find vintage, European and Japanese import fabrics as well as new domestic designer quilter’s cotton fabrics. They also carry a selection of vintage and new patterns, buttons and trims. They specialize in unique/one-of-a-kind fat quarter bundles!

Check out their web site and they have a blog too.

Pictured below are 4 sample FQ bundles that you could purchase with the winning $20 gift certificate.

There are two opportunities for you to win one of the $20 gift certificates: leave a comment below and/or sign up for Sheree’s newsletter. Contest closes Thursday, July 30, 2009. Two winners will be randomly chosen; one from the blog comments and one from the newsletter subscribers. Double your chances by doing both.

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to Bev C who won the drawing from the comments below and to krousegirl2 who won the mailing list drawing.

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Congratulations to #47 Rachel for winning the gorgeous fabrics in last week’s give-away. Thanks to Lori of Hand Dyed Fabrics by Lori for the wonderful donation.

This week’s Friday give-away of 15 gorgeous 1930′s fat quarters has been donated by Jane’s Fabrics.

She started her on-line fabric store in 2004. She loves bright happy colors, but also specializes in 1930 reproduction prints. Her love of fabric comes from her mother who was a sewer and her great-grandmother who was a quilter. She took that love of fabric and now sell as janesfabrics.com where she specializes in 100% cotton fabrics for all your quilting and sewing needs. Jane has a blog too.

For your chance to win the 15 pack of 1930′s fat quarters, please leave a comment below. Contest closes Thursday, July 23rd, 2009. One lucky winner will be randomly chosen.

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to #4 Wendy Culbreath for winning the gorgeous fat quarters. Thanks again to Jane’s Fabrics for the donation. Check out the most recent Friday Give-Away.

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Three great give-aways last week. Here are the winners:

• #17 Linda for winning the draw on this site and to Anna N. for winning the newsletter signup draw for winning FQ bundles in the Happy Canada Day post donated by Pink Panda Fabrics
• #2 Betsy Lynn for winning Margaret Bucklew’s Riley appliquilt kit
• #5 Diana for winning a set of Kim Wulfert’s Antique Quilt Dating Guides…by Style. Kim is offering to include for free a 9″ swatch of late 19th century fabric, ca. 1880-1900, to those who purchase the Guides by Sat., July 18, 2009. There are two fabrics to chose from; see her blog for pictures and more info.

Congratulations to all and thank you to the various sponsors.

This Week’s Give-Away

This week’s Friday give-away is a set of 16 Fat Eighths (2 yards in total) in a rainbow of colours donated by Hand Dyed Fabrics by Lori located in Cattaraugus, New York.

Lori’s sells high quality, hand dyed fabric right from their studio. Their hand dyes are 100% hand dyed on a quality dying cloth. After the dying process their fabrics are washed 3-4 times in a dye release agent to remove any excess dyes. Then they are heat set and ironed to perfection so they are ready to use when you get them.

Visit their web site to take a look around. They have over 20 colors in 6-step gradation sets. They also offer charm packs, 2.5″ strip sets, quilt kits, one-of-a-kind pieces and much more.

Sign up for the newsletter (located on the front page) to be notified of their newest products, special deals and coupons for great savings. Do you want to save $10.00 right now?? Just sign up for the newsletter and you will be emailed a welcome coupon code to save $10.00 on your order.

Enter the Give-Away

Double Rainbow Fat Eighths by Hand Dyed Fabrics by Lori

For your chance to win the gorgeous fabrics pictured above, please leave a comment below. Contest closes Thursday, July 16th, 2009. One lucky winner will be randomly chosen.

UPDATE: Contest is now closed. Congratulations to #47 Rachel for winning these gorgeous fabrics. Thanks to Lori for the wonderful donation.

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I’m slowly catching up after Canada Day celebrations last week and a visit to my family north of Toronto over the weekend. I had a fabulous time playing with my nieces, they are the best.

Just a few quick reminders:

• There are 195 participants for the Good Ol’ Summertime Mini Quilt Swap. I’ll be closing down registration Saturday morning, once I start sending out partner information.
• Friday is the last day to enter the “What was I thinking?” – The Ugly Quilt Contest. There are three great prizes up for grabs. Voting will start on Saturday. Check out the contestants.
• There are three great give-aways on the site right now that you can enter until tomorrow afternoon. Read the instructions for each, please.
  1. Happy Canada Day
  2. Guest Blogger Margaret Bucklew
  3. Friday Give-Away – Antique Quilt Dating Guides…by Style

Spring Blooms Mini Quilt Swap

To all participants in the Spring Blooms Mini Quilt Swap:

I know everyone is eager to receive their quilt and to find out if the quilt they sent has arrived. However, I’ve been getting a dozen or so emails a day asking on the status of their mini quilt. Please, please allow 14 to 21 business days for your quilt to arrive.

Before emailing me to follow-up, please check the participants list yourself, to see if the person you sent to has a blog and follow-up with them directly.

Please also note that approximately 25% of the participants were late sending their quilts. This is unfortunate, and I’m not sure why so many people were late. Let’s hope the Summer swap goes more smoothly.

I won’t be following up with any requests until the end of the month… I just don’t have the time to continue to do this.

Congratulations to #50 Frances and #45 Sandie for winning a Perfect Half-Square & Quarter-Square Triangles Ruler in last week’s Friday Give-Away donated by June Tailor.

When you are done entering the Friday give-away here, visit the Happy Canada Day post for your chance to tell a Canadian story and win some funky fabrics from a new Canadian fabric retailer. There’s also a give-away from a very inspiring guest blogger, Margaret Bucklew.

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of my quilting friends south of the border a happy and safe July 4th weekend.

Antique Quilt Dating Guides…by Style

Now, I’m turning over this blog post to Kimberly Wulfert of Women On Quilts and Quilter’s Spirit to let her tell you about the fabulous Friday give-away this week.

Quilting has always been a great part of American history, and as we Americans celebrate Independence Day this weekend, I’m pleased to offer my Guides for dating antique quilts as a give-away at this special time.

With that in mind, antique quilts can’t help but enter your mind when thinking of the cold New England winters and need for warm covers that also beautified the log homes. Quilt collecting is a popular hobby today. Making new quilts that look like 19th and 20th century quilts is possible and easy with the wonderful reproduction fabrics available today.

Do you wonder what quilt would have been made using the reproduction fabrics you bought at the last show and loved but are now not sure what to do with them? The Antique Quilt Dating Guides…by Style will give you many options to chose from.

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Congratulations to #80 Holly – Fabric Mom for winning a pair of 8″ fabric shears in last week’s Friday Give-Away donated by the Simplicity Creative Group.

This week’s Friday Give-Away is two rulers to create perfect half-square and quarter-square triangles by June Tailor.

If you’ve ever used the Shape Cut rulers, the concept is similar. This is a new product released at Spring Market.

I had the pleasure of meeting Katy from June Tailor at Market. Their booth was across the aisle from mine. Here’s a photo of their gorgeous booth and some of their new products.

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