Mary K. In VA!! Congratulations, Mary K — send me your mailing address.

Thanks for commenting, everyone — and new friends, I hope you’ll come back again, for a chance to win more cool prizes. I have a treaure chest of them that are itching to go to new homes!

I have several winners of prizes, but sadly, no mailing addresses to send them to…

I mean, you would like to get your fabulous prize, wouldn’t ya?

Here is the list of WINNERS whose addresses that I still need:

Barb Dietrich — Aurifil thread assortment

Roxanna Holiker — Gina’s Cabana Quilt pattern

Judy Volden – Gina’s Cabana Quilt pattern

Nancy Fitzpatrick — Jenny’s ReSew book

Julie — Miss M pattern

MaritzaLM — Christmas Truffles book

Amy B — Palm Beach Sling pattern

Kathy H — Amy’s Modern Basics book

Aurifil thread pack winners:

SKBrown, Cindy, Sandie, Sally and Colleen

Shari — Fenced Flowers pattern

If you sent me your address, I apologize — it’s not in my InBox…

I’m packing up prizes en masse to get them out to all of the winners. They’ll arrive soon!

Program 207 — Moda Bake Shop’s Kimberly Walus!
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Beautiful Kimberly

Books and more books — this is the prize! A drawing on my site and one on Kimberly’s — so two chances to win! (yes, we will be coordinating the drawing ; )

Kimberly’s groovy bag is the one in the upper right corner of this page. Now, I know you want to make one — it is SUPER!!

Hop on over to Kimberly’s blog, bitty bits and pieces to leave a comment there and then come back and visit me and leave a comment here.

We will pick the winners on Saturday, June  25rd — so don’t forget to come back and check to see if you are the lucky winner, and send your mailing address… I still have a couple of unclaimed prizes…

And then, don’t forget to check out Moda’s Bake Shop for some yummy quilty goodness!

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For Lori’s three patterns:

Fenced Flowers — Shari!

One Yard Aprons –Chriss D.!

And

Cake Walk — Janis!

Congratulations, quilters!! Send me your address so your fabulous
prizes can be sent to you.

And, keep listening, there’s lots more to come…

Program 206 — Bee in My Bonnet

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also known as Lori Holt –

I have been a long-time fan of Lori’s, all the way back to her tole painting days, but I absolutely LOVE Lori’s quilts. So much, that I have bought Lori’s patterns and kits to make ones of my own because I love hers so much! I think that says a lot, since I design my own too.

Here is a pic of my favorite pattern design of Lori’s (and the kit I bought):

To see close-up pictures of each of the blocks, visit Lori’s blog on this link for Comforts of Home and you’ll understand why I love this quilt so much.

Ok, so visit Lori’s blog to check out EVERYTHING that’s there — it will take you a while ; )

Make sure to come back and leave a comment here for a chance to win one of these great new patterns by Lori:

Tell me what inspires you most about Lori’s blog and her quilt designs, and which of the three patterns you would like to win.

I will choose three winners on Tuesday, June  14th and announce here on the blog – don’t forget that you have to come back here and check to see if you won, and send me your mailing address, because I don’t have it ; )

Oh, by the way, here are pictures of the two All Dolled Up in Salt Lake City quilts that were made by Utah Quilters who are in the industry. You can also get the free patterns by visiting the blog, All Dolled Up.

and a closeup of Lori’s block:

Fantastic, isn’t it?! No one can relate to sitting under that hair dryer bonnet that never did… I remember it well and those curlers! This block is so Lori!

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I’ve been errant again. I have a really good story for you though ; )

Last Tuesday, I met a friend for breakfast on her birthday. Boy, did we have a fun time! So much so, that we decided to go shopping at Walmart and Costco afterward.

After parking and rounding the end of my car… I found myself on the ground within two seconds. I was felled by  the broken end of a glass bottle (so like, the butt end of a wine bottle), which my shoe hit just the right way to roll my ankle — and down I went.

I didn’t realize until two days later that this is what I look like:

not me, really, but you get the picture…. pun intended….

I have a cracked bottom rib with enough soft tissue damage to cause serious pain. My diagnosis… 12 weeks of recovery. Oh my heck! I don’t have time for this!

The good thing is that it won’t keep me away from the keyboard and microphone any longer. The other residual pain to my neck and spine are much better. I told the Doc today, “it just hurts when I move“.

So, here are (belatedly) the Winners of the last two drawings, with more to come!

For the Aurifil Thread packs:

Gayle Grier

Anne Jacobson

SKBrown

Cindy

Jo Vandermey

Ann McG

Nancy Mathewson

Cory

Gma Terri

Janis

Sarah Bidigare

Caroline

Quilter422

mommaontherun

Sandie

Diane L

Sally

Colleen

So congratulations all — send me your mailing address so I can get your thread packs in the mail to you!

And, the Winner of the Ellen Edith podcast drawing is:

Sue Cubberley

So, don’t forget to send me your address, too, Sue!

Up next? another great podcast!!

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Ellen Edith at her studio in Santa Cruz, CA several podcasts ago — podcast 78 to be precise.

Ellen was a fabulous, creative art quilter with a flair for making quilts that captured family snapshots in the most humorous way.

My friend, Kay MacKenzie just sent me an email about Ellen’s passing. We heard that she had been ill for awhile and was in hospice and hoped to visit her. The saddest words are “too late”.

Here is a link to the podcast with Ellen

and a link to her website

Her stories made up in her quilts are not be missed.

So, here’s the deal:

Listen to Ellen’s podcast so you can get a small example of this great lady’s talent.

Leave me a comment about the podcast by Friday June 11th and I will pick a lucky winner for this creative prize that will help you be on your way to your own story quilts:

Happy trails, Ellen! You left quite a legacy ; )

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It’s finally here, the month of June with all of its’ intrigues — like rain and chilly weather in normally sunny California. Now, lest you think that this is an anomaly, it rained the second week of June in 1972 and the graduation had to be moved indoors. It’s great stay-inside-and-quilt weather, which is just what I did on Saturday…

It turns out that I am the Auriful designer of the month for JUNE!

In a previous blogpost, It’s All About the Thread I talked about how much I love to use Aurifil thread.

In today’s blogpost, I want to share my AuriBuzz page with you.

You may learn some things about me that you didn’t know…

In fact, Aurifil has been super generous with a giveaway…

and… if you go and visit AuriBuzz and then comment back here…

YOU will have a chance to win an Aurifil Sample pack, and there will be several winners!

this is a sample of how many I have to give away…

So, make a creative comment and I will pick the winners on Tuesday, June 7th.

In the meantime, check out the websites and Aurifil Designer projects for the other Calendar Girls:

January: Susan Brubaker Knapp

February: Linda Lum DeBono

March: Sarah Vedeler

April: Susan Guzman

May: Kaye England

and the rest to come:

July: Barbara Persing and Mary Hoover

August: Jinny Beyer

September: Edyta Sitar

October: Marianne Byrne-Goarin

November: Larisa Bland

December: Sharon Pederson

AuriBuzz will be updated at the first of each month with the new Designers projects. Don’t forget that there is a giveaway for the Aurifil Project Winner — for everyone who enters a project based on that month’s design.

Oops — I almost forgot to tell you that there is an Aurifil Thread Retailer in the U.S. where you can buy those hard-to-find Aurifil Threads online! Visit Follow That Thread for all of the details.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you!!

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Congratulations, Kathy!

Send me your mailing address so I get your book out to you!

For the fabulous Fat Quarter pack of Fa La La La La collection….

Kristin in NJ !!

Congrats, Kristin!

Don’t forget to send me your address so I can get those yummy fabrics out to you.

Thanks for listening and playing, friends — beleive me, there is SO much more to come : )