Giveaway!

Madrona Road by Violet Craft is a new line for Michael Miller that is capturing everyone's attention. Seeing these pics you can see why.

It is split into 2 colour-ways - Citrus on the left and Ocean on the right, although as you can see from Elizabeth of Oh Fransson's stunning quilt below, they work beautifully all together.

 It is a wonderfully diverse collection with some small scale great blender prints as well as some feature pieces with fantastic larger scale designs. There are even a couple of text pieces too, which seem to be all the rage at the mo (says she, sounding like a grandma). I know I've recently been picking up a few and planning on doing some things with them. 

And now for the brilliant news...

My newest sponsor and first overseas, Pink Castle Fabrics are offering an entire fat quarter bundle of all 26, yup, you heard correctly 26!! fat quarters of these delicious fabrics! to one lucky reader! The even better news is that the giveaway is offered worldwide!

I 'met' Brenda a couple of years ago now on Etsy when I was doing one of my usual mad USA purchasing fests to be brought over by my aunt and purchased quite a bit of fabric from her. Brenda was a pleasure to deal with, very helpful and quick to respond and mail (as usual I'd left it almost to the day before when I knew for weeks that my aunt was coming over).

Pink Castle Fabrics is a lovely online store to navigate and is full of all the current lines you would expect. you can find exactly want you want as it is clearly sectioned, I think my favourite of which is the Stash Builder section...all those blenders in one place...perfect!

So, the giveaway...

4 ways to win...

1. Leave a comment here to say you'd love to enter!

2. Go 'Like' Pink Castle Fabrics on Facebook and come back here and tell me you've done it.

3. Go sign up for Pink Castle Fabrics' Newsletter (you really will want to be kept up to date with what's in store) again, come back here to tell me you have.

4. Go tweet about it and yup, you guessed it, come back here to tell me you have.

Good luck! you have until this time next week, Weds 8/8...my baby's bday ;-)

And once again thank you all for your wonderful support of my sponsors. They really are incredibly generous and I hope you are all having fun exploring what each has.

Ok, it's time I started declaring all the fabric that has been mounting up over the holidays. Part of the reason I have been ordering with such gay abandon was that my Aunt came over from US during the hols and I always make use of getting fabric Stateside, without the worry of heavy postage and import costs. However now that the airlines have started charging their baggage allowance according to weight, I'm not sure she'll be quite so agreeable to letting me take up precious kilos. In the meantime I made the most of it.

First up in the show and tell pile is this collection from Fabric Closet. I'd seen the Kisses in Red by Wendy Slotboom and thought it was fab and then found the other 2 by Wendy too. They are perfect basic stash fabrics. While I was there, as you do, I dropped Michael Miller's Brady Bunch (far left) into my basket. too.

Whilst it is pretty clear that there is little chance of me giving up my fabric buying addiction anytime in the near future, so it really was pointless to make any resolutions to do so, one thing I have however made a resolution to do, is to keep any new fabric on my work desk in full view and approach it first when making something. This way, hopefully it will become integrated into my making psyche and not hide away and be forgotten.

So today when I needed to make some gifts, I headed straight for the new pile. The girls in Noah's year are all celebrating their Bat Mitzvah's this school year (girls come of age the year before boys) and he seems to have a party almost every weekend. I'm trying to keep stock up in the present pile to avoid that "aggghhh, what do you mean you are going out in half an hour and you need a gift??" panic.

Judging by Ruby's response to these Make Up and Purse Pouch Sets, I'm hoping the girls will be pretty pleased with them.