Thank You, Susan

My friend Susan has surprised me with the Kreativ Blogger Award. Now it's my turn to pass it on to others. Here are the rules --

1. The winner may put the logo on her/his blog.

2. Put a link to the person you got the award from in your blog.

3. Nominate 5 blogs.

4. Put links to the blogs.

5. Leave a message for your nominees.

My five nominees are the 4 very generous and creative bloggers who have chosen me as the winners of their giveaways in the last couple of weeks and another blogger whose blogs I visit often. They are (in no particular order) --

Melissa at Little Things in Life

Julie at JuJu Goods

Gayle at Sparkle Jars

Jodie at Froth and Bubble

Zoey at Perpetually Paper Piecing

Take some time to check them out.

Winner!

The winner of my giveaway of Dec 3rd is Trish, who has an Etsy shop where she sells some of her neat creations! Congratulations, Trish! I've emailed you for mailing info, so as soon as I get that, I'll get the goodies out to you.

Sew, Mama, Sew's Giveaway Day was lots of fun -- although it was held on Wednesday, some of the giveaways are still going on. Check them out if you haven't yet.

I had a great time visiting all of the blogs and checking out the giveaways. Lots of creative people out there (and very generous, too). And I couldn't believe the numbers of visitors I had to my blog on that day and the number of comments made it over 100! Thanks to all who took time to check out my giveaway.

There were too many comments for me to print out and fold little slips of paper with numbers, so I just used the random number generator here. It makes things a lot easier.

Now back to quilting...hopefully...
P.S. Just a reminder for those of you who enter giveaways on blogs...remember to include some way for the giveaway host to contact you. A lot of people who left comments on my blog didn't include an email address or blog address.

Perfect for Winter

I thought I had already finished all of the easy paper-pieced blocks, but I recently found this one. It's "F-3 Snowball", labeled as an intermediate-level block in the software, but I think a beginner paper-piecer wouldn't have too much trouble with it. It took me longer to pick out the fabric than it did to make it!

Giveaway Day!

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm participating in a blogland Giveaway Day today, coordinated by Sew, Mama, Sew.

My giveaway has a Christmas theme and consists of a fabric reusable grocery bag (made by me), a fat quarter of snowman fabric, a Prairie Pines pattern by Thimbleberries, a selvage ornament (made by me), and a "Santacicle" (carved by my husband).

Here' s how to win --

Post a comment on this post (U.S. readers only, please) by midnight Eastern time today. The winner will be chosen tomorrow. Be sure there is a way for me to get your email address so I can contact you if you win.

Good luck and thanks for entering and reading my blog!

Fun Day Tomorrow

Join me in Sew, Mama, Sew's giveaway day tomorrow, December 3rd. You can check out the info here. Then grab a cup of coffee or tea tomorrow and see what I'm giving away. I expect there will be lots of other giveways to enter in blogland...

My Cup Runneth Over

Wow! I'm feeling lucky now...I just got word that I won another blogger giveaway. That's two in one week.

This time I won on Gayle's blog. Her giveaway is especially meaningful since in addition to sending me some goodies, she will be making a donation to a local food bank where she lives. What a wonderful generous gesture, especially this time of year.

Thank you Gayle!

Nothing Is Wasted

These are some of the fun things I've made using selvages from Christmas fabric -- ornaments and coasters!

I cut off a strip about an inch from the edge of the fabric -- that gives me enough to work with.

Some of my quilting friends had been giving me strange looks when I asked them to give me their selvages, but now I can show them that they can be put to good use. I tried to include the name of a fabric line in each of the projects. If you click on the pictures, you should be able to see a larger version.

These were great fun! I'll have to try something larger next, but I'll need a lot more selvages...

P.S. Why the heck is my FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed showing me as being in Etters, PA instead of Wellsboro, PA? It used to show me as being in Mansfield, PA which is OK because my house is actually located halfway inbetween Wellsboro and Mansfield. But for the last couple of weeks, FEEDJIT claims I'm logging on in Etters. I'm nowhere near Etters -- according to Mapquest, Etters is near Harrisburg, 150 miles from Wellsboro!

Here is what I found out about Etters in Wikipedia --

Etters is the name of the post office serving Goldsboro, along with parts of Fairview Township and Newberry Township, York County, Pennsylvania. The name of "Etters," instead of "Goldsboro," was chosen because the name of "Gouldsboro" was already being used by a community in Wayne County, and U.S. Postal Service regulations prohibits the practice of giving two different post offices names which are the same or which sound similar enough that people would confuse the two. The Etters post office gained its name from a local American Revolutionary War veteran, Etter, who owned a tavern near Goldsboro which served as the mail drop-off point for the area. Mail sacks destined for the tavern were marked "Etter's."
The Etters post office is located on South Kister Street in Goldsboro.
While some local teens enjoy telling people that their town is so "backwoods" that it's not even on a map, others amuse themselves by telling people they don't live in a town, they live in a mailing address.
On October 27, 2002, an article appeared on the front page of the Harrisburg Patriot News entitled "Where the Heck is Etters?" that describes how people live in a place and have listed on their driver's licenses a place that is not on a map.