Sunday Funday Giveaway

Greetings, and happy Labor Day weekend.  I am so grateful for an extra day off this week especially after a 12 hour day of moving into our new library!  If you're interested in seeing it you can check out pictures on our Library's Facebook page... I'll share pics of my office once I get it set up if you all are interested :p

Julie over at 627 Handworks is has been hosting a series of Sunday Funday giveaways and I decided to join in.  There are tons of other bloggers also hosting today, so hop on over and check them out!

Sunday, September 1st:
Quilt Art Designs
Quarter Incher
Factotum of Arts
Quilts of a Feather
                                                             Bead Queene
                                                             Sew Into My 20s

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you'll already know that I have a huge Denyse Schmidt problem.  So I thought it would be fitting to give some DS goodies away.  

The first lucky winner will receive a charm pack of Flea Market Fancy -- 1 charm in each print.

The second winner will receive a fat quarter bundle of 4 coordinating prints from Denyse's new line, Croquet (how adorable is this line?!).

To enter to win, just leave me a comment.  Maybe mention a project you are working on, or some of your favorite fabric/designers :)  Giveaway closes on Monday, Sept 2 at midnight.  If you are a no reply blogger, please leave an email address where I can contact you.  If I can't get ahold of you, I will have to choose an alternate winner.  Thanks for stopping by and good luck!

Also, look out later in the week for another giveaway of an awesome traveling stash box that I received last week.  I wanted to post it last weekend, but I had no internet at work all week and I was just too tired when I got home.  Hopefully I'll have it posted Monday :)

WIP Wednesday: DS charms

A few months ago, I received this beautiful pile of Denyse Schmidt Charms.  Finally this weekend, I started sewing them together :)

Sorry the pic is a little blurry, I cropped it out of another picture because I forgot to take on of the charms themselves...  I really need to remember to snap pictures BEFORE I start sewing :)  Anyway, you get the idea.

 I sewed all the charms up into 9-patch blocks, trying to alternate higher volume and lower volume prints.  This was also good practice getting the hang of my 1/4" seam!

See where I'm going here?

I sewed my whole stack of charms (minus the duplicates) and now I'm just waiting for Round 2 charms to get here.  Both rounds should give me a completed lap quilt at the very least.

 Since I had all of the blocks arranged on the floor between the couch and TV I kept looking at them during commercials.  Ryan asked me why I kept staring at my fabric, lol.  I told him I had to make sure there weren't too many "like" pieces of fabric together :)

In other news, the Penny Sampler class has officially begun!  Right now Rachel has only introduced the practice projects, but I am so excited to get started!  I think I may try my hand at the dogwood blossoms quilt practice project that way I can keep busy between making my Penny Sampler blocks :)

Linking up with WIP Wednesday @ Freshly Pieced :)