Leap Day Winner Choices

The choices have been made I heard back from Elizabeth of Such a Sew And Sew and Connie from Quilting By the River.

Elizabeth picked

And Connie Picked

I am off today because of my sons surgery so the winnings should be in the mail today.  Wife is right now getting envelopes ready and the items are stacked on the table.  You are maybe scratching your head that both are getting the hot pads but we have enough to give both (originally made 13 of them).

It was funny last night I don't think my wife Tanya slept she kept getting up to look for Elizabeth's email she is even more excited then me to give away the goods.  This was fun and we will have to do something again.


WAIT.....

We are giving something away already for any one that has not already done so we have a giveaway to pick the Birth Date and the Birth Weight of the baby that now resides inside my wife.  She is pregnant and due in about 3-4 weeks.

Winner Announced Leap Day Blog Hop

 OK today has been a long day, we have moved from one office to another at work and during the middle of our move we had a server outage on our live servers.  Busy exhausting day, did not expect to be doing this so late, but better late then never.  With the help of my wife Tanya we identified 12 names that had chances to win the first place prize.  If you notice the list here are those names from the post.  You will see that Irina had 2 entries because she got a 2nd guess for hosting a giveaway but did not name a 2nd quilt so she got 2 guesses on first quilt.

 

I folded up all the papers and put them in a bowl.  I mixed them around and then had my son Jared mix it again and pick one.

Here is the live action shot of Jared grabbing the piece of paper when I was editing the images I noticed how dirty his face was and I want to point out I am a good dad and normally wash his face.  So I went and looked at this mornings picture to verify that yes it was clean.  Then what do I notice his shirt is on backwards.  I check tonight's picture and yes dad dressed Jared funny sorry Tanya is pregnant and dad is taking up the slack and not doing so good.

So finally we get to show the picture.  Drum Roll .... The winner is Elizabeth of Such a Sew And Sew I was so happy to see her as the winner.  She was the host of this great day of giving and it is great that she won.  I will post the choices that the 2 winners gave after I get back answers from both of them.  Oh ya I never said the name of the 2nd place winner that would be a good thing to do.    Connie from Quilting By the River was our 2nd place winner as the only one to like Hearts and Flowers 2.  Congrats Connie.  I will make another post with the exact winnings when I get emails back from both of them.

One last note of the day my son James is having surgery tomorrow at Primary Children's Medical Center to remove a bar that has been in his chest for 3 years to fix a sunken chest that he had causing him to have difficulties when he exercised.  If any of you like minded people could keep him and my family in your prayers I would appreciate it.

Winner's Almost Announced!

This morning I got up early and started totaling up the numbers.  Because I can never be simple I will start this post out and give Numbers as I eye balled them this morning at 6am on quilts.  Then I will write down all of the quilt names put them in a bowl and let my son pick them.  There was a hand full of people that did not correctly pick a quilt name.  I will assign each entry to my favorite quilt so those people will still have a chance.  I worked from 9 am to 10 pm last night moving work from one office to another in a snow storm so kinda tired and can't think all that well this morning.

So first thing I went though all of the 65 posts yesterday and I believe I emailed every single person back  If I missed any one please forgive me.  Now for a run down of which quilt is most popular bassed on user choice.  The exact numbers may be off it was 6 am after all when I wrote this but it should be close.

Flight of the Dragonfly 16
Dance of the Dragonfly 9
Fug Runner 7
Dad's Zag Zag 7

A Few Of my Favorite things 4
Hearts and Flowers 4
Dragonfly 3 (these lucky guys I will toss their name into both of the dragonfly quilts if they are drawn)
Train Wrek 3 (Come to think about it This is my favorite so if any one did not have a valid quilt name they are going to be auto entered into this one since I like it best)
Blue Hearts 3 (These are blocks not a quilt so will also toss them into Train Wrek)
Paisley Parade 2
Green Quilt of Awesomeness 2 (Jared will be disappointed this did not win I will not tell him before he draws so he does not fish for it haha)
Hearts and Flowers (2) 1
Sweet Dreams 1

And the first up to win is..... Dance of the Dragonfly!!

You will notice here in our live action shots that even our judges Mouse and Bowl are green.  You would not believe how disappointed he was that he did not draw out the Green Quilt of Awesomeness and the winner was...... Hearts and Flowers 2






If my counting was Correct Dance Got 9 votes plus the 3 that liked them both (almost like they were cheating hu?)  So 12 people are in the draw for First place.  Its already 7:30 so by the time I get the list written out and put into a bowl it will be too late to draw and not get Jared to School in time so tonight after work we will finish that part.  As for Hearts and Flowers 2 there was only one person that picked that one and I will I hope find some time at work to email her and she can pick 6 choices in order that she likes (If winner #1 picks a item its theres) the #2 gets the next 3 choices.

So If you are in the first Group get your choices warmed up and Ill be emailing and posting the lucky winner tonight after work.  I may be home late we are moving again today, so not sure how late I will have to work tonight.

To Recap First Place Winner gets to pick 3 items.  The 2nd Place Winner gets to pick 3 items from whats left over.  7 of the 8 items listed below.  8th choice is a Small Table Runner Hand Made by me.

WIP Wednesday #3

Today is going to be a Work In Progress Wednesday.   And will be linking up with Freshly Pieced. 

Completed Projects:

2 completes More Hot Pads and A few of my favorite things.

Ready To Quilt:

Fugly Lap quilt we just need to bast it and quilt it.

Ongoing Projects:

Granny squares and 5 X 5 square blocks.  I have 19 Granny's done and some where around 10 of the 5 X 5 blocks.  Plan is to make  2-3 granny quilts and 1 or 2 of the 5 x 5 quilts.  Yes I cant seem to make only one thing at a time.

Dayton's (My brother) Queen Sized Rag Quilt.  It is done and in the wash for the first time right now.  We have washed them once and then fixed and or re-cut any thing we missed and wash it a end time in middle of that now.

Man Quilts 3 more like Dad's Zag Zag and Paisley Parade I have enough X's sewed for 2 and half of these.

3 Secret Giveaway Quilt - Giveaway is not a secret but the quilt my wife is working on is.  You can enter now following the 2 links here make a separate guess for b-day and weight.  http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/p/guess-julia-dawns-b-day.html and http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/p/guess-julia-dawns-birth-weight.html

Tanya's Heart Quilt - This will be a queen size quilt and we have started making blocks but don't have a clear plan on a finish for it.

Jared's Levi Quilt - Jeans for Jared I am still shy material to finish have a couple people that said they would send me some to add too it and my mother just gave me a pile of my dads old levi's and then told me that I should make my dad a lap quilt out of them also.  So not sure on this one.

Kathy's Jelly Roll Quilt.  We have strips cut out and sewn together just need to while put borders around blocks and sew it all up.

Planned Quilts:

2 John Deer Rag Lap Quilts one for a brother in law and one for my father in law.

1 Case Machinery Lap Quilt for a brother in law.

2 Bug Jar Quilts for nephews.
Tanya's Lap quilts from her fat quarters.
Autism Quilt for My sons school Silent Auction.
Rose Fabric for Mother In Law's Quilt.

Totals:
Finished: 10 February, 7 January 17 total for year
On Going Projects: 8 ish
Planned: 7 (though I keep thinking I am missing a couple)

(Closed) Leap Day Giveaway and Blog Hop

Thank you for joining me and  Such a Sew and Sew for the Leap Day Giveaway.  Here are the rules as copied from The main blog hop page.

Here's how it works:
• Choose something to give away on Leap Day. Keep it simple. You can make something, give away a bit of your stash, offer a service, buy your favorite gadget to give away or offer something completely non-crafty. Your blog, you choose.
• To participate in the blog hop, your giveaway must start and end on Leap Day {February 29, 2012} in your time zone. You can open it at 10:00 am and close it at 10:00 pm, or go midnight to midnight, or anything in between. Your blog, your rules.
• Post your giveaway and then link up here. Please remember to link to your specific post {instructions here}. Please also include the Leap Day Giveaway button {code found below} somewhere in your giveaway post.
• The linky will open at noon MST on February 28th and close at 10:00 am MST on March 1st, to allow for people in different time zones to participate.
• If you want to include the linky tool on your giveaway post others can link up from your blog and it will automatically update in every location the linky is posted. The code is available below. If you choose to add the linky to your post, you MUST include the above rules so that it is fair play for all.
• Consider changing your comment settings to the pop-up window option for faster and easier commenting for all the visitors who'll be stopping by your blog. Instructions can be found here.

Now for my Blog Specific instructions. I am going to offer 8 item below.  I will be picking 2 winners and the first winner can pick 3 of the 8 items.  Then 2nd winner can pick 3 items leaving me left with 2 items. To make you work just a tad (this was a hop after all you have to hop over something) you must include in your comment for your blog entry the name of your favorite quilt I have finished.  Link to Richard's Finishes to make it easy to find the name.  Also you must be a follower of my blog.  You can follow though reader, Google friends connect or though rain dancing (is that really a follow method?)  List in your response how you follow me, just curious how people follow.  Oh and for all you people out there that want more then 1 chance you can also list your blog on the blog hop and get a extra chance so that's 2 responses (listing 2 separate quilts) if you participate.

How the winner will be found.  I will put the name of each quilt in a bowl (on a slip of paper) and have my son Jared pick one out.  Then we will get the list of all those that guessed that quilt and put their names in a bowl and let him pick one out.  This will be done twice once for each winner.  Winners will be emailed (oh ya make sure your email is in the response and your not a no-reply blogger).  The first winner will get 24 hours to pick their 3 items.  And then The 2nd winner will get their chance of the items left over.

Ok is it worth it to HOP over these silly requirements.  You decide here are the 8 items.

1) Little Gatherings a Moda Charm Pack.

2) A cutting blade that is not loved in my home (I bought this blade shortly after I started quilting and while when I cut I put just a tad to forcefully and the blade closes,  It works, its not a cheap blade just not loved by me) Maybe some one else wants it in their home.

3) A baby Dresden Plate Pattern (also bought specifically for this)

4) Yes 2 special Made hot pads.  I have 6 of them sitting in a box so you might not get these exact 2 but 2 just like these.  Complete with my Tags on them.

5) Hum I have my picture on its side, good thing Diamonds do not care.  Also this tool was bought for this prize.

6) 2 of my Granny Squares (You may get different colors wife gets to pick the ones she wants for the quilts I am making if you want this one you can request colors) oh and one of my cute tags to boot!

7) 2 of my 5 x 5 color squares.  Also maybe not exactly these 2 depends on which ones end up in my quilt.  You can request colors if you desire this one also.

8) Hey you say I forgot to put a picture in for 8.  That is because it's a mystery.  No not a pair of dirty socks.  I will make you a small table runner similar to Fug Runner (one of my completes) You can suggest colors if you want this one, depending I might have something that works for it not going to go shopping but willing to dig into the stash for items.

So again make a guess.  Name the quilt of mine you like best, Name how you follow me.  2nd Guess if you also host a giveaway today.  (My wife points out that I did not put a end date.  As the giveaway instructions says it closes when leap year/day is over)