Finishing Up with a Bang!!! (of a giveaway, that is :)

Well all good things must come to an end I suppose.  Today is the last day of  Happy Quilting's 1 Year Blogiversary Celebration.  But don't be sad, You are sure to like the grand finale planned.  Again, I wanted to stop and take a minute to thank all of you out there that have supported Happy Quilting over the last year.  I am sorry I haven't written back to all of your giveaway comments ( I was a little to busy, but know that I did read them all :)  but they have made me laugh, cry, and in general just smile a lot!!  You all are the greatest!!!  I look forward to continuing to get to know you and to seeing what the next year has in store for Happy Quilting :)

So, on with the Grand Finale!!!  If you have followed my blog for anytime you will know that Burgundy Buttons is one of my awesome Sponsors!!   Burgundy Buttons is a terrific on-line shop and has excellent customer service.  And they always have amazing sales going on that you will find all about on their blog.  Right now, they have a different sale every day for a Christmas in July celebration.  So much fun!!! Leah is such an amazing woman and I have had a great working relationship with her for quite some time as she is my partner in making up cute Quilt Kits for my tutorials.

Just recently, we started a new venture of Pattern Making!!!  I designed and made the pattern and Leah got it all printed up and has it available in her shop.  My first pattern is called Summer Breeze and I am happy to announce that is now also available in a PDF form for email or instant download.  This is a great option for those of you oversees where the shipping tends to be more than the pattern :)  You can find it for purchase at Burgundy Buttons or in my little Etsy Shop :)

So why do I bring this all up??  Well because today's giveaway is for a Summer Breeze Quilt Kit!!!!!  You got that right, everything you need to make the quilt top, including the pattern!!!!  That means you get the Summer Breeze Pattern, a Strawberry Fields Layer Cake, 3 1/2 Yards of the solid background, 1 Yard for the Border, and 1 Yard for the Binding!!!  How is that for a rocking ending!!!!

Okay, so I know you want a chance to win this so here are the deets!!!  (pretty much the same as all week long, I bet you are an expert by now :)  You have three chance to win, and please, leave a separate comment for each (for a total of 3 comments max :) If you leave one saying I did it all, Mr. Random.Org will only count it for one.

1. Be a follower of Happy Quilting or become one and leave a comment.  Your comment doesn't have to say "I am a follower" anything will do  (as long as it is clean :)  (It's easy, just click follow up in the top left hand corner :)
2. Be a follower of Burgundy Button's Blog or become one and leave a comment.  Leave me any old comment about Burgundy Buttons.  They are such an amazing shop.  If you are just discovering them you will be super excited!!
3. Alert the Media - Post on facebook, twitter, or your blog about this giveaway.  Leave a comment saying where you wrote and a link :)  You can post on all 3 sites but it only gets you one entry. But remember, the giveaway juju is a good thing!!!

Giveaway will be open until July 21th and a winner will be announced on the 22th :) 

And if you have missed the other celebration giveaways this week you can find them here and here :)

Oh, and one last thing.  I saved it until the end because I didn't want it to be a downer.  If you happened to have already bought my Strawberry Fields Pattern thank you and I need to inform you that there was a typo.  You can find the correction to it under the Pattern's tab up at the top of the blog.  The typo has been fixed on the PDF version :) I am sorry, I checked it a million times but sometimes things slip through.  Please accept my apologies for any inconveniences this may have caused you.   

Thank you all and may you all have a Happy Quilting Day!!!

It's not a Celebration without a Parade!!!

I love tutorials!!!  I mean who doesn't love a step by step guide to create something fabulous.  It is almost as good as sitting through a class :)  Since I started this blog a year ago I have made 13 tutorials, and 1 Quilt-A-Long Tutorial.  That pretty much blew me away.  I had no idea I had done so many.  Just in case you are wondering . . .You can find them under the Quilt Tutorials and Other Tutorials tabs at the top of my blog :)

Making tutorials is so much fun!!  I love making the projects!!!  I love "arranging" fabrics a certain way to make sure I get a great layout for a picture.  I love sewing it together and thinking the whole time of how I will word things!!!   I would say I love the actual writing and editing pictures for tutorials, but that process is the not so fun part, at least for me.  I would say I  "like" writing the tutorials :)  I love having tutorials available for people to make.  And most of all, I love, love love when others use my tutorials to make their own beautiful creations!!!

And so I thought today, it would be fun . . . As part of Happy Quilting's 1 Year Blogiversary Celebration, to have a little parade of some of those creations.  Here are some of the amazing project's made using tutorials put together by me.  (Hint - These are the ones posted in my Flickr Page . . . If you have made a project using one of my tutorials please feel free to email me a picture or add it to my Flickr Page, I would love to highlight your work as well :)


This version of Sugar Pop N Change was posted by Lisa and made as part of  a Do Good Stitches Bee.  What a great idea and how fun to see everyone's different fabrics come together :)

Another version of Sugar Pop N Change posted by Hannah.  I just love the yellow background!!!

Janet from CA emailed me this picture of her completed version of Sugar Pop N Change just a few days ago.  I love how it pops!!!

Linda emailed me this picture of her version of Nature's Gems made with old shirts.  What a treasured memory quilt :)

T. Anne posted her version of Hugs and Kisses from the Park.  It blows me away how even with the same fabric a quilt can look so different because of different quilting.  So fun!!

Color Me Quilty posted this beautiful version of Sugar Pop N Change.  I love how she substituted 2 coins for the dragonfly print.   What an amazing effect!!

colimachia's version of Snuggly Squares.  She made it larger to be a lap quilt instead of a baby size and I just love it.  The colors are so beautiful together!!

A version of Snuggly Squares II posted by skippitydodahquilts.  She made this a week before donating it to her church for their annual auction.  I bet they were tickled pink to have such a fabulous quilt :)

Another version of Sugar Pop N Change made and posted by msshilts  I love those 30's reprints.  They are just so adorable :)

This black and white king size version of Sugar Pop N Change was posted by kazwee75 and was her first quilt top.  I am blown away that she bit off a king to start with.  Amazing, it is absolutely stunning!!!

This version of Braided Irish Chain was posted by sewandtellquilts and is a memorial quilt made using their Grandpa's old plaid shirts and jammy pants.  This will surly be a treasure for years to come :)

And one more version of Snuggly Squares posted by theycallmewanda.  I love how bright and fun this quilt is.  It just makes me want to do a little happy dance :)

And that ends out parade for today!!!  Thank you to those that have posted their finished products on my Flickr Tutorial page so we can all enjoy your amazing eye candy!!!  I look forward to next year where we can see a whole new parade of amazing projects.  And of course, there will be many new patterns as I plan to keep on making tutorials for you all to enjoy :)

Oh, and just in case you might have missed Happy Quilting's earlier Celebration Giveaways you can find them here and here. And come back tomorrow for the final Celebration Giveaway.  I am so excited for it :)

Another Celebration Giveaway!!

GIVEAWAY CLOSED

The Happy Quilting 1 Year Blogiversary Celebration continues on!!!  And today I have something in store that you make you all want to celebrate!!!

Today's giveaway sponsor is the Fat Quarter Shop.  If you haven't heard of their shop you are missing out.  They have everything, and I do mean everything.  In fact, just yesterday they announced on the blog, The Jolly Jabber, that they are releasing their own pattern line called It's Sew Emma!!  How exciting is that!!

**Random change of topic**  So . . . Do you remember how I posted earlier about how much I love Christmas and how fun Christmas in July is??  Well, a fabulous place to find an enormous selection of Christmas fabrics is the Fat Quarter Shop!!  I mean seriously they have an entire Christmas Section in their shop that is 57 pages long!!!  Yippee Skippee :)

So today, Kimberly is sharing the Christmas in July love by sponsoring a Tremendous Giveaway.  What is it, you might ask??? . . . First off, sit down, I wouldn't want you to faint when you read this next part. . .   Up for your chance to win is  . . .

An Entire Fat Quarter Bundle of Kate Spain's Flurry!!!!!!

as in 28 Fat Quarters and a Panel!!!!

Okay, So I know you are excited so lets get to it!!  Here is how to enter. . .   You have three chance to win, and please, leave a separate comment for each (for a total of 3 comments max :) If you leave one saying I did it all, Mr. Random.Org will only count it for one.

1. Be a follower of Happy Quilting or become one and leave a comment.  Your comment doesn't have to say "I am a follower" anything will do  (as long as it is clean :)  (It's easy, just click follow up in the top left hand corner :)
2. Be a follower of The Jolly Jabber Blog or become one and leave a comment.  Leave me any old comment about the Fat Quarter Shop or the Jolly Jabber.  That shouldn't be hard, they are such a tremendous shop you could write about them all day!
3. Alert the Media - Post on facebook, twitter, or your blog about this giveaway.  Leave a comment saying where you wrote and a link :)  You can post on all 3 sites but it only gets you one entry. 

Giveaway will be open until July 19th and a winner will be announced on the 20th :)  And as a side note . . . I will be posting my Christmas in July Moda Bake Shop Tutorial on the 19th that uses this same line.  Yippee Skippee for Christmas in July!!

Oh, and just in case you missed it . . You can check back to here for Monday's Celebration Giveaway and you can also check back on Friday for Happy Quilting's final Celebration Giveaway :)

The Celebration Continues

**** Note - If you are looking for the Intrepid Thread Fat Quarter Bundle Giveaway you will find it here :)

What better way to celebrate one's Blogiversary than signing up for an awesome conference!!!  I have wanted to  attend the Sewing Summit since I heard about it but have put it off because the timing was a bit off for me (more on that below).  But yesterday I decided (after a little discussion with my sweet husband and my mother) that I am Going!!!!!  I am so excited!!!!

So what was holding me back . . . Well, I am due to have our 5th child some time around the 25th of September.   But I decided that gives me a good 2 weeks to recover before the conference.  And my wonderful mother, who happens to live just outside of SLC has agreed to watch the wee little one during the day for me.  Ya, I really want to attend this conference!!!

I wish I could stay up late at the hotel with all of you ladies and run around in pj's gabbing with everyone but I will be content with attending the conference in the day and taking care of my newest little bundle of joy in the evening. (and probably most of the night :)   So if you see me there and I happen to be falling asleep just give me a quick nudge :)  Can't wait to meet some of you in person!!!!  Yippee Skippee!!!!

P.S. Check back tomorrow for another fabulous Sponsor Giveaway :)

Happy Blogiversary to Happy Quilting!!!! (Celebrate in Giveaway style :)

GIVEAWAY CLOSED

Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness!!!  Happy Quilting is a year old today!!!  And I have to say, what an amazing year it has been.  I originally created this blog so that I would stop taking over the "family blog" with all of my quilting pictures.  That was my only purpose.  And in 1 year, one tiny year, later it has grown in leaps and bounds!!!  I am just blown away by the amount of growth!!  And I am just thrilled with that growth and the opportunities this blog has given me in my little quilting corner of the virtual world.

And it would not be possible without all of you!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you out there!!!  For those that read Happy Quilting, that leave sweet comments, that make my tutorials, and that generally just make me feel so happy in this quilting endeavor!!  You all are what makes Happy Quilting so fun!!

So . . .  to say thanks, with the help of some of my amazing sponsors, we will be having a few giveaways this week in celebration!!  Yippee Skippee!!!!  (Who doesn't just love a good giveaway)

Up first is a sweet sweet giveaway from The Intrepid Thread.  I just have to say that Julie's shop is amazing and if you haven't checked it out, you are missing out.  She always has great deals going on and she has a super fun Friday giveaway each week on her blog :)

So what does Julie have for you to possibly win??  How about a stunning Fat Quarter Pack of Wrenly!!!!  Aren't these just amazingly, absolutely, adorable!!!  There are 13 Fat Quarters in the Mandarin and Gypsy line :)

The Nitty Gritty . . .   You have three chance to win, and please, leave a separate comment for each (for a total of 3 comments max :) If you leave one saying I did it all, Mr. Random.Org will only count it for one.

1 - Be a follower of Happy Quilting or become one and leave a comment.  Your comment doesn't have to say "I am a follower" anything will do  (as long as it is clean :)  (It's easy, just click follow up in the top left hand corner :)

2 - Be a follower of The Intrepid Thread Blog or become one and leave a comment.  Leave me any old comment about The Intrepid Thread, like I said, it is an amazing shop.

3 - Alert the Media - Post on facebook, twitter, or your blog about this giveaway.  Leave a comment saying where you wrote and a link :)  You can post on all 3 sites but it only gets you one entry, but giveaway karma is a wonderful thing :)


Giveaway will be open until July 17th and a winner will be announced on the 18th :)  So get commenting :) And that's all!!!  Now go grab yourself a piece of cake and celebrate Happy Quilting's 1 year Blogiversary with me!!  Yipeee Skippee!!!!