Winner!

And the lucky winner of the charm packs of Sherbet Pips is...



mooncalf who said...

Wow - your quilts are beautiful! I've made a couple of baby-sized quilts but the next thing I'd like to try is an adult-sized quilt for my newly-redecorated bedroom. gulp!

Mooncalf -- I have sent you an email. Once I have your address, I will ship the charm packs to your side of the pond.

To everyone else -- Thank you for participating in my little giveaway.

Several of you mentioned projects that I have now added to my infamous to-do list (i.e. New York Beauty Quilt and a Cathedral Windows quilt), but for now I need to concentrate on all the baby, wedding, and graduation gifts I need to finish by the end of June as well as my hand-sewing commitment to our Props Master at the Shakespeare Festival I work for during the summer.

And to all of you who are newbies to quilting, enjoy the journey! There is nothing more fun to me, then to look back at some of the first quilts I made. Oh what I have learned over the years :)

Giveaway Day!

Welcome to my Sew Mama Sew! Giveaway!

And my little corner of the internet where I mainly blog about quilting. From time to time, I blog about other things like hooking (the crochet kind), knitting, sewing objects that aren't quilts, homebrewing, Mi Galego Obstinado (aka my American husband of Galician (Spain) descent who also home brews and is learning to sew and I swear will never finish collecting graduate degrees), and my pets.

But in the end, it's all about the quilting. I don't really consider myself a traditional quilter though I'm the most recent quilter in my family, but I don't consider myself a modern quilter either. I really just do what works for me:

I often piece by hand...


I mainly quilt by hand...



And I make this block (tutorial here)...


Alot...


Which leads me to my little giveaway...

Today I'm giving away FOUR Charm Packs of Sherbert Pips.



I have found that charm packs are a great way to make the Origami Pinwheel Quilt above fairly quickly with about 2 yards of background fabric and minimal hand sewing.

My momma and I are still working out the best way to quilt the top above, so please check back later this summer when I will have two examples -- one from me doing my own thing with hand-quilting, and one from my momma who will quilt it on her long arm (once she gets it set back up after moving this weekend).

To enter this giveaway, leave a comment below (by Thursday, May 26 at 8am CDT and I will ship internationally) and tell me what project you have been wanting to tackle.

My momma really wants to see what I could do with a double-wedding ring given what she says is my distinct aesthetic in comparison to other quilts in our family. That and she says it's about time I make one --as a right of passage.

Whereas I'm wanting to tackle a whole cloth quilt (which she is also excited about). I have been sketching designs for close to a year. I am now at the point that I need to not only finish up the quilting on my large standing frame but I also need to finish the large stack of baby, wedding, and graduation gifts. I'm hoping that in July I can get the fabric onto the frame, the threads ordered and the design drafted onto the fabric with my trusty no. 2 pencil.

Oh and if you already are a follower or become one, let me know via comment for an extra entry.

Good luck to everyone who enters! And thank you for visiting me :)

Winner!

And our winner is...



# 9 Elle --
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Congratulations Elle! Please send me your address to southerngirlquilts at gmail dot com.

Origami Pinwheel Quilt Top & Giveaway

And for the picture you all have been waiting for....





Okay, so it's picture(s) :)

I don't have the exact measurements of the quilt but I think it is somewhere between a double and queen-size quilt top; with each 'square' measuring about 9in x 9in.



I have also made plans to make another one of these in the next month with a different line of fabric. The reason being is that I have been asked about machine quilting this pattern and I realised I don't have an answer or even what I would consider a valid suggestion due to the thickness of the fabric in the pinwheels.

So the plan for the month of July is that I will hand-quilt/do-my-own-thing on one version of this quilt, and my momma will machine quilt the other. That way I can let you know how the quilting process worked both ways.

Lastly (and possibly more importantly), it is giveaway time!

Several of you asked me what line of fabric I used and to be honest, I couldn't remember because I probably started on the blocks at least a year if not two years ago. I hated not being able to answer your questions so I did some research and I found the line!

The pinwheel fabric is from Basic Grey's Sultry line (the background fabric is muslin). Now Basic Grey doesn't know I'm doing this but...

I'm giving away four charm packs from this line so you can make an Origami Pinwheel Quilt too from this beautiful collections of pinks, greens, and browns.



All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below. I will close entries on Monday (May 16, 2011) by 9am and will post the winner that afternoon. And if you blog about this giveaway, post the link to your blog or your tweet in the comments for an extra entry.

This giveaway is open to every in the States and Internationally.

Hope all of you have a great weekend!