Borrowed from Kathleen’s Blog: http://www.myworld-kath.blogspot.com/ – I’m loving these top 10’s 10. The prizes are "quilty" 9. No snarky comments from the other contestants. 8. You get a whole week to finish, not just 2 days. 7. "Tim Gunn" always says nice things. 6. It’s a great stashbuster. […]
The Judges Have Spoken – Top Three for Stars Over America Project QUILTING Challenge
The last winners to announce this week are the Judges Choice (Diane, Barb, guest judge Nancy, and guest judge Sara) winners. I’ll start it off with third place which goes to… Penny Fabric Art with an average score of 8.38. Here’s what the judges thought: Judge 1: This quilt is my favorite for the amount […]
More Winners for Project QUILTING
In this post I will announce the winner of the comments who will take home this beautiful Rustic Wood Needle Case from midnightcoiler. I went to random.org and plugged in 30 for the number of comments we received and The winner is…. 24. Quiltilicious said… I voted! Congratulations Quiltilicious! I tweeted you and convo’d you […]
The Public Has Spoken
With 31 of the 115 votes that were cast, QUILTIES is the big winner of the public vote with her Fireworks Quilt! Quilties will receive a pattern with instructions for the complete ‘Maggie’ doll, hair and clothing from Carolee Creations – SewSweet Dolls AND a $10 gift certificate from the FatQuarterShop! Congratulations QUILTIES! You did […]
Galaxies Converge – How it Happened
Now that voting and judging has been completed I can share with you all the story of how my challenge piece came together. If you want to look over the rules/guidelines of this particular Project QUILTING challenge her you go: http://kimlapacek.com/2010/07/season-1-challenge-5-stars-over-america.html When I first saw the challenge I immediately knew I wanted to converge some […]
Themed Thursday – Swimming
I have started swimming lessons with the girls and while it’s great to see them gaining confidence and knowledge in the water, it’s a bit stressful trying to get everyone there, everyone to behave and listen and then everyone out of the pool and home without any meltdowns (2 lessons so far and this has […]
Up Nort’ 2010
A few weekends ago we headed up Nort’ to my parents cottage. Here are a few pictures I took while I was up there. The girls hanging out on the bench by the fire… The coolest mushroom ever (picture taken in the Pop Art setting on my camera) Cedi has new crush – Jack was […]
An Interview with Nicole from MyPoplin
A good friend of mine recently began a business of her own MyPoplin. I’m happy to share with you some of her background, dreams and ambitions: Tell me a little bit about your background in arts and crafts. When did you first start creating things? About 8 months ago when my second son was […]
How To Make a Barn Quilt
In a previous post I talked about creating a barn quilt to hang at my orchard. Well, the process has begun and I plan to keep you all ‘in the know’ on how it’s progressed and have some basic instructions if you ever feel the urge to make one yourself! Step One: My husband went […]
Stars Over America – Time to VOTE
You all made me hold my breath again! Only four entries uploaded to flickr by seven am this morning. Again many have come through in time for the deadline – we have TEN fantastic entries this week! For those of you just tuning in you can read more about Project Quilting Here: http://kimlapacek.com/2010/04/project-quilting.html and about […]