Hugs from Helen

and the winner is….

Have just renewed my friendship with quilting after a very long break (knitting socks and learning to crochet.) PDF version seems ideal as I try to reduce the clutter and reorganize.

Posted by: Laurie in Maine | December 25, 2010 at 07:52 PM

congratulations Laurie,  I will forward your details to the magazine and they will organise your subscription.

 

Hope you are all enjoying the Festive Season, I am just popping in quickly to make this draw and will be back after the New Year and some lovely time off stitching and spending time with the family

hugs to you and yours

Helen

The Quilt Pattern Magazine Blog Tour

I am excited to be a part of a new blog tour for a new magazine – yes another great mag is now available online only for a VERY reasonable price. I have a gluestick tutorial going into an issue next year.

Blog Tour!

Beginning December 2nd and running through December 31st, the quilting blog community will each take a day to host news about The Quilt Pattern Magazine.

Win one of several free subscriptions by visiting every blog and leaving a comment on the post about the magazine!

The Quilt Pattern Magazine was developed by a quilter for quilters. They Say:

Our main goal is to provide quilters with a magazine that gives them more patterns and quilting articles for their money. Since The Quilt Pattern Magazine is online, there are no printing or shipping costs like those associated with other magazines. We pass those savings on to you, the quilter.

So my day is the 24th December so I will program my post to go up that day as we will be busy preparing for the BIG day.

When you see it you need to visit the Quilt Pattern Magazine site then return here and leave me a comment telling me what you think of the new mag… One lucky commenter will receive a free years subscription – hows that! 

 

check back on the 24th or take a look at the other wonderful designer sites who are giving away subscriptions right now!

hugs

Helen

And the next winners are:

You were quick! I hadn't even left the computer when they came through!  well done, email me your snail mail addys and as long as they are Australian addresses we will get the mags into the mail to you. Remember everyone else,  next week after market I can show you all of my new designs and we will have some giveaway fun!

hugs for today,

Helen

 

 

We are having so much fun doing the round robin,Helen, Thank you so much. Hugs Rosalie

Posted by: Rosalie | November 16, 2010 at 07:55 PM

I would love to win a copy of 100 Blocks, they all look fun to make!

Posted by: Heather | November 16, 2010 at 07:47 PM

Oooh, Helen. Thank you so much for the chance to win a copy of 100 blocks. I would adore to have a copy.

Posted by: Melody | November 16, 2010 at 07:37 PM

and the winners are:

Can't wait to make your block Helen! I love combining appliqué and stitchery, and my birthday is Valentine's Day!

Posted by: Kathy Oppelt | November 10, 2010 at 02:01 PM

 

Kathy please email me your snail mail address and Quiltmakers will post your copy to you…

Now because today these arrived on my doorstep I am going to have to give some more away..

I love how the block looks in here repeated..

and a bit chuffed they chose it to use in their layout ideas. Wish I had time to make it 16 times!

So, I am going to give 3 more away to the first three Aussie friends who leave a comment on this post.. I know its not as easy for us to find this here in Australia so here is your chance. Now if you signed up for that RSS feed or made me a Google Friend then you have a better chance of being the first to read this!

After market next week I will be able to show you all that I have been working on over the past month or two…. and we are going to have a bundle of giveaways – so sign up to that RSS feed so again you have the best chance…

hugs for today

Helen

100 Blocks blog tour

 

Thankyou and hello to all who are visiting me for the first time on the 100 blocks blog to, and hello again to my old time blog friends… today is my DAY to show you this block

It was so exciting to see I’d made the cover!

Can you just see it there 3 across, 3 down? in some very nice company I must say…

I began designing my block early in the year, or was it late last year- not sure, time flies when you are having fun – I actually easily met my deadline for a change as I had two others to design also for Quiltaid and QuiltaidUSA. (These are two charity projects I Administer where just by doing what you love –making quilts- you are helping the Women of Ethiopia and the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital)

So as you can see I was on a roll and a theme was forming here…yes I was in love with appliquéd corners to give an inner design. I combined my love of stitchery and appliqué on all of these blocks and actually think they’d make a lovely set for a wallhanging or cushions.

Now, the publishers have given me a couple of copies of the magazine to ‘do as I please with’ – I only want one for prosperity so sign up to my RSS feed and leave a comment and you may win your very own copy mailed to your door. If not you can now purchase it here

There are lots of giveaways at www.quiltmaker.com/quiltypleasures during the week. Some will be planned and some will be spontaneous. Fabulous prizes of fabric, patterns, books, notions and of course, copies of 100 Blocks – mmmm I’m going to visit also!

I do hope you like my design and can find a use for it one day.

Don’t forget to come back and visit again – there is a free 4 part Stitchery Project in progress right now – scroll back a bit to peek, you are welcome to join in..

hugs,

Helen

Australian Homespun

Catherine, the Editor of Australian Homespun asked me some time ago if I could design a project similar to the ever popular Santa Sack which would compliment the Twas the Night Quilt that so many of you have stitched or are stitching.

The resulting project has now been released

This sack is HUGE…. a child could actually get lost inside so it is a lot of fun, but sorry Santa is going to be busy to be able to fill it….

So if you have stitched the Twas the night Quilt you may like to look out for this one to stitch for this Christmas. Marilyn from The Patchwork Teahouse kindly supplied the fabrics for my project and may still have some left if you are quick. She is also selling the Twas the night quilt as a BOM as is this store.

If you haven’t yet made the quilt then you may also like to enter this:

there are 8 full sets to be won so there’s a pretty good chance for you.

good luck all…

hugs, Helen