Highlights of My Presentation

I just wanted to let you know that when I got pulled over the other night...
it wasn't for speeding or anything like that... my tags had expired... but
I had a receipt for the tags in my purse, they just hadn't come through the mail yet.
but it did end the night on a funny note!

Here are some of the quilts that I showed at the local quilt guild.

I don't know who that lady with the mic is!

I even showed some that weren't quilted yet... just keeping it real!

Hope you are having a good weekend!

My Little Story As Featured Quilter

The story begins:

Once upon a time

I thought I would report on how the evening went last night.

I was the guest speaker/featured quilter at the local quilt guild and there were 50

wonderful women there for the show!

I brought in the 40 quilts and nobody seemed to run for the doors!

In fact they look

very happy don't they?

They welcomed me and made me feel like a shinning star...

But here they are again....

even the camera person was falling asleep!
I guess it was all too much for them!
Ok, okay, I'm just kidding...
I asked them pose for me at the beginning!
Willingly, they agreed. They are so funny!
But the night wasn't over yet...
the bright lights were yet to come!
If I had only known....

You see there was this guy....

Oh yes he did!
 He pulled me over on my way home... and it wasn't for an autograph either!
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But do you know what happened?
Nothing!
 I didn't get a ticket!
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And I went on my merry way!
(I'll be back with pictures of the quilts from the little event)

5 Le Petite Winners and 1 "Because"

Well, you know how I have been doing a lot of what I shouldn't be doing and not enough of what I should be doing? That has come back to bite me in the rear a little here!

 I didn't quite finish my Ric Rac to show you today...

because while I was out and about during my lunch time yesterday in my little town,

I ran into a friend who asked me if I was ready for tomorrow night...

(this is where the little light starts to come on inside my head).

" Tomorrow". I say?

You know, you are the featured quilter at the quilt guild tomorrow night, she says!

Wholly moly! I quickly drove up to the quilt shop and pilfered some of my quilts off of the walls and loaded them in my car. When I got home last night, instead of finishing my Le Petite, I started taking quilts off of racks, walls, and going through closets- snatching quilts off of beds, until I thought I had enough for a decent representation... now all I need to do is think about what I am going to talk about!

That shouldn't be too hard, right?

So, while I am thinking of that I will show you my nearly complete Ric Rac:

Le Petite wouldn't be nearly as fun if it wasn't for Carrie Nelson and her Schnibble patterns!

 I hope you like the new project choices for Le Petite! And just an FYI have you been over to Miss Rosie's Quilt Company lately? Have you checked out Carrie's "Stuffus Gratis" section? Well, you know that girl, she is generous to a fault... and there are several patterns over there for free, for you, just to print out!  "thank you Miss Carrie"!

(just putting this picture in for Miss Rosie)

Now for our Moda Bake Shop Candy Bar winners:

Quilt Taffy has a sweet little gift certificate for a winner... which goes to:

LeAnn
(I might add that they have a wonderful sale going on right now too, seriously, a big sale!)

A $15 gift certificate from the fabulous girls at Quilter's Paradise goes to:

Simone

Bear Paw Quilts and More has a very cute little Potholder kit for one of our winners...

and the winner of the kit  is:

Amanda

Congratulations to our winners and a big thank you to our Featured Quilt Shops

who donated prizes for our winners! Please check out their stores...

they do carry the patterns for Le Petite!

Wish me luck tonight!

Do you think 40 is enough???LOL

A Parade of Le Petite and A Parade of Winners!

Before we start the parade... I need to start the month with our lucky winners of the sponsored giveaway!

The following people have won a Scrap Basket Sensations book written by Kim Brackett and generously given away by the Fat Quarter Shop.

Winner numero uno is random generated number 16... chrissy said...

My favorite thing about the Fat Quarter Shop is the 'view all' feature, so I can look at all the pretty fabrics in a category together! http://www.snappystitches.com/

our 2nd lucky winner is #71 ...Quilt Sue said...

Where do I start? I love their fabrics, their service, their speed, the way they will tell you when something is in stock that you have been interested in, their wide range of stock .... I could go on and on.

The 3rd lucky winner  is #55 Patty D from NC ...said...

I love how easy to use their web site is

Our Fourth lucky winner is number 120- ....Kristen said...

They are awesome! I like their wide array of patterns! I love their fabric!

Winner #5 is lucky number 160.... Cornfield Quilter said...

Love the quilt! I have the book already and still trying to figure out which quilt I want to do. Since I have seen yours on your blog, which looks like so much fun to make, i am going through my stash to pick out the perfect fabric for it. Thanks so much for the inspiration!

Our 6th winner is #35 the lucky ...Lisa Marie said...

The FQS has such a big selection of fabrics! Lots of inspiration just cruising their site.

 

Congratulations to all of you winners and a big than you to the Fat Quarter Shop for being so generous and giving away all of these wonderful books!
****Please send me your addresses so we can send you your prizes!****
If you aren't already aware of it, the Fat Quarter Shop is starting a Scrap Basket Sensations Club! Please go check it out on their site! I know it's going to be a great club- the kits will be for the latest and the greatest fabrics that will match up with one of Kim's wonderful patterns from the book! It will be a quick fun project every 3 months for a year!!! Easie peasie!!

One more thing before we have the Parade...
it's time to show you...

 our next Le Petite project
 we have:



In Carrie's own words:
"There are quilts that you have to think about. A lot. And then there are quilts that you can just start putting together. This is one of those kinds of quilts -- just cut it out and start sewing. If you want to lay it out, you can do that but you don't have to." ~Carrie Nelson



Fabric requirements:
76 charm squares
3/4 yard background
but wait...
Sherri and I decided (late last night)
that even though Ric Rac is as cute as can be...some of you might not be up for triangles...
so we thought we would offer a second choice this month...
so your 2nd option is...

Recess!
Fabric requirements:
77 charm squares
5/8 yard background
this pattern can actually be made from either a jelly roll or your charm packs!

Okay, NOW-  are we ready for the parade?!!

Here is a beautiful red white and blue Candy Bar made by Michelle at Island Life blog!

I love the border fabric!!!

Paulette created this fun version of the pattern! I love the colors she used...

and her border fabric looks great with it too!

Leah at Quilted Delights created her beautiful version of Candy Bar here

in wonderful rich colors... and even quilted it too!

Laura made this wonderfully colorful version of Candy Bar!

(sent from phone)

Here is a great little table topper  Candy Bar made by Edith at Red Door Qujilting blog.



Bright and patriotic! This version of Candy Bar was created by Sandie

at Crazy Bout Quilts blog!

This sweet little Candy Bar was made by Shannon at Nuns Quilt World blog!

Here is Candy Bar made with wonderful little scraps by the wonderful Sandy F.

Great stash Sandy!

 This is Simone's Candy Bar gorgeous creation! I love the background fabric!
You can see more at her Quilting and Stitchery blog.

LeAnn at Sewing Straight Stitches made great use of her DS fabrics and created a sweet  version
of the pattern here!

And my last quilt for the parade is from May at Krispy Quilts! This quilt is just so sweet!
Thank you all for sharing your quilts!

If you haven't been over there yet...
Sherri at A Quilting Life is waiting for you over at her blog to show you the rest of the parade!
Tomorrow we will post the winners of our Le Petite Parade!