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Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Voting Has Closed - The Something NEW Sampler: Winners

Voting for the Something NEW Sampler has closed and my first try at a QAYG quilt came in a very respectable second.

I'm thrilled with my prize donated by Cotton Blossom Farm - 10 x 1/2 yards chosen from the Simply Color Collection by Vanessa Christenson of V and Co for Moda. I've had a great morning looking over the fabrics and finally choosing 4 graphite grey, 4 lime green and 2 spicy hot pink designs and now I'm thinking through what to make with them. I want to say a very big thank you to Cathy at Cotton Blossom Farm and please do check out the web store, they've got some great fabrics to choose from.

Amy @thecutelife has done a smashing post detailing all the winners and you can read all about it by clicking the link below:

Something New Sampler Winners!!

I've had a really fun time doing this Blog Hop, learnt lots of techniques and made new blogging friends, special mentions go to:

Amy for organising the Blog Hop;

the girls who wrote each of the tutorials - Amy, Heidi, Chelsea, Jess, Lindsay, M-R, Heidi, Alyssa and Becky;

Cotton Blossom Farm for donating my scrummy prize;

everyone who has commented and joined in via my blog and flickr

and a very special thanks to those of you who nipped over to Amy's blog and voted for my quilt.

Thank You Everyone :)

hosted by Amy @the cute life

You can look back at The Something NEW Sampler on flickr

Saturday, 16 March 2013

Voting Is Now Open - The Something NEW Sampler

Voting has now opened for the Something NEW Sampler Link-Up. You can view all the final quilts here at the cute life and place one vote for your favourite quilt finish (be sure to click on the vote link above the photo as it's very easy to vote for the wrong quilt). Voting closes on Friday, 22 March and the winner will be announced on Saturday, 23 March.

I've entered my QAYG Something NEW Sampler Quilt into the final link-up selection and there's lots of other great quilt finishes there too.

Don't forget voting closes on Friday, 22 March so be sure to hop over and place your vote before then :)

Something New Sampler Quilt Voting

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Monday, 14 January 2013

A Modern Bargello - The Something NEW Sampler: Week 1

This morning I read about another sampler block blog hop starting today. It's just for a few weeks and covers quite a few techniques that I've never tried - well to be honest there's 9 techniques in total and the only one that I've actually done before is machine applique!

The Something NEW Sampler

being hosted by Amy @ the cute life

It's a weekly hop from 14 January to 1 March 2013 and here's the schedule that I've copied from Amy's blog:

14 January
Bargello Piecing - Amy @ the cute life

21 January
Folding - Heidi @ Buttons & Butterflies
A Scraptastic Technique - Chelsea @ Pins & Bobbins

28 January
Sashiko - Jess @ The Elven Garden
Reverse Applique - Lindsay @ Lindsay Sews

4 February
Trapunto - M-R @ Quilt Matters
Cathedral Windows - Heidi @ Fabric Mutt

11 February
Pinless Curves - Alyssa @ Pile O'Fabric
Machine Applique - Becky @ My Fabric Obsession

On Fridays Amy will be giving tips and tutorials on how to set these rectangular blocks!
18 & 25 January and 1 & 8 & 15 February

So nothing for it, I have to take part and with my Monday afternoon now organised I set about joining the Flickr group for the blog hop and delving into my stash to find some fabrics to play with. Look what I came up with - some fabrics that I bought and posted about back in June last year, time to give them a good airing!