I get such joy in sharing my quilting addiction with other people. I've been so very (well, kind-of) good about not buying much fabric lately that I can use this month's fabric budget to pay for postage to mail prizes all over the world!!!
I arbitrarily picked January 25th as the date that I would select winners for my give away as it is the birthday of the venerable Harley Dude, a date I was unlikely to forget.
Besides being a great dad, my Dear Husband Harley Dude (...ok, that's funny...how often can does your title and nickname combine to be a palindrome?)...uh...where was I...oh yes! DH,HD is a renowned pun-master.
To qualify for prizes, you must submit as your entry, a very funny pun as a comment on this post. Did you sleep through English class? By definition, a pun is "a humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more of it's meanings, or the meaning of a word similar in sound."
The only clean jokes I know are actually puns. What did the fish say when it ran into the wall? Dam. Two peanuts walk into a bar. One was a salted A man walks into a bar with a piece of asphalt under his arm. He says "I'll have one for me, and one for the road". A rope walks into a bar. The bartender says "we don't serve your kind, now get out." He goes outside, twists himself into a knot and then fluffs up his loose ends. He returns to the bar. The bartender says "Hey! Aren't you a rope??" to which he replies "Nope...a frayed knot."
Each day from now until January 24th, I will read the entries to DH,HD. His favorites entries of the day will be entered into a good-old-fashioned-pieces-of-paper-drawing for the very cool prizes (which I'm about to tell you about). I will announce the winners bright and early (Mountain Time) on January 25th before I go to work. One entry per person.
One my favorite quilt bloggers is Frauke at Quilthexle's World. I find her style of piecing very inspirational. Recently she seems to have become addicted to dying fabric. This is phenomenally good news for all of us. There are gorgeous dyed fabrics available in her etsy shop. She has put together a set of beauty just for us!! The pieces are hand dyed from upcycled damask fabric. There are 4 pieces in the set, sized about 21"x 32". Be sure to check out her other fabrics and projects.
Renae Allen, in addition to being a wonderful person, is the reason that I am learning to Free Motion Quilt (FMQ) on my home machine. I've known Renae about 20 years as friend-of-a-friend. I could fill an entire page with "nice quilty things Renae has done for me". But in May...she let me FMQ on her machine. The good news is that I discovered that most of my FMQ issues were resolvable with a new foot for my machine....well, that and a good dose of confidence. Renae has created an entire FMQ practice concept with a combination of videos, pamphlets and pre-printed practice panels. Renae looks at traditional quilt patterns and considers multiple ways to quilt them. She has offered the Design Builder's Package from her website as a prize for the Pun give-away.This includes the book, DVD and the fabric panel shown in the video above. BUT WAIT! That's not all. She is doing a bonus give away. If you answer a question on her blog, you are eligible for an additional prize. Post your answer on her blog to one of the following questions: What is your worst free motion quilting (FMQ) disaster?OR What is your greatest FMQ challenge? She's giving extra chances to win the bonus if you follow her blog. Enter puns on this blog, FMQ stories on hers.
I have 3 prizes from my stash:
I met these authors at the May 2011 Quilt Market. Colleen uses paper piecing to make those intricate, seeming impossible medallions. Donna's flip method makes intricate piecing simple. Both of my autographed copies will be sent to one lucky winner who will hopefully USE them instead of just admire them as I did.
And for those of you who like smaller projects, an autographed copy of Gudrun's book on table runners plus Elissa & Heather's bag patterns that include full size applique patterns (I was all excited about skipping the copy-shop step).
I carefully laid these batik charm squares from my stash out for a picture, then after they were stacked up, discovered that I didn't have the memory card in. You'll just have to trust me that they are gorgeous in shades of blue, purple, green, pink & yellow. There are 103 squares of all different batik fabrics (no repeats).
So that's it. 5 prize packages. To enter, add your favorite pun as a comment on this post.
I've been in 2 of my LQS's in the past week and only inadvertently discovered that the Shop Hop in my area starts TODAY.
In shop #1...they were cutting FQ of batik in preparation for the hoards. Cool. So I went to shop #2 to find out more details, and only the owner in the back (who was consulted twice) could provide any info before it "officially starts on Thursday". Seriously? Have they never heard of SOCIAL NETWORKING? Shop Hop was not on the blogs of either of my LQS.
Even my most Internet-savvy shop had nothing.
The reason that I was even made aware of this was that someone "Googled" Treasure Valley Shop Hop and stumbled upon my random entry at #8 saying I was looking for someone to go with Oregon with me and she left me a post.
Sheesh. So...this is my Public Service Announcement.
