Sharing the Love

I am so blessed to be surrounded by wonderful people.  I started blogging about a year ago (and have made over 100 posts!) and have learned so much and had so much fun!!!  I have participated in quilt-alongs, have won and donated to give aways and have given and received so much advice and insight!

To celebrate, I've coordinated what appears to me to be a complex, multi-site give-away/ introduction event. To you, I hope it's a seamless, easy way to win lots and lots of really cool stuff!

My friend Lucy is a brand spanking new quilter.  We bartered some patterns for applique.  But since it took a while to work out the details, she ended up buying more than one of Helene Knott's Veggie Cat patterns.   This one is available from StoryQuilts.com   Want to benefit from Lucy's mistake?  Make an encouraging  post on any of Lucy's  Aug or Sept Blog post or this Flickr post to cheer her on while she works on her 2nd ever quilt.  I'll make sure there's enough fabric that you can complete this applique as well as receive the pattern.   

Just so you know...as much as I love the veggie cats...Helene is an AMAZING landscape quilt artist!  I am working at stuffing my piggy bank so I can head to the Oregon Coast to take one of her classes.  I also have information from a reliable source, that she's in the process of designing some dog blocks to rival these kitties.    

Anna is teaching a Hawaiian Style Applique class in West Yellowstone, MT  Oct 8& 9.  Can't make it to the class?  Win  Green Batik Fat Quarters by posting a comment on this link.  

This heirloom 1896 quilt was a gift to Anna's Grandma.  She is teaching a reproduction of this in a West Yellowstone workshop.  I've been making a variety of quilts using half-square-triangles from 5" friendship squares.  I'm thinking that it would work great for a variation of this quilt.   To win a set of batik 5" friendship squares and some jelly roll strips that you might make this quilt with, become a follower of Victoria Rose Quilts 

As for me...I just always wanted to be the most popular kid in the school.  To win a packet of  lime/raspberry/purple  5" friendship squares and  fat quarters, become one of my blog followers.  If you're already a follower, leave a comment on this post letting me know you're a follower and you want to win. 

Oh yea...like that's not enough?  Everyone who enters by cheering on Lucy, being excited about Hawaiian Applique, wanting to make HST blocks and pretending to be Marjorie's friend also gets entered into a Grand Prize drawing that includes another Helene Knott pattern, some great fabrics, and whatever else we can find lying around.  


Like most give aways...we'll give you extra credit (another entry) for blogging about the give away or the West Yellowstone, MT Sisters Weekend Workshop where I get to do a trunk show and finish up some UFO/ UFQ's!   I sure hope you're as excited about this as I am.  I'll announce the winners October 1st.