Beat the Winter Blues Blog Hop Party

Updated

We are participating today in the Beat the Winter Blues Blog Hop Party with Give-Always put on by Quilting Gallery.  We have participated in these in the past and have had a great time.

As our giveaway item we will be giving away a 5 Chevron Fat Quarter Bundle.  Tanya took a special trip to the LQS this last weekend to make sure we had something special to give away.

To enter you will have 3 chances to win.  3 comments will get you 3 chances to win.  None of these are required.

1) Leave a comment here telling us what your favorite fabric color to quilt with is.  If your feeling generous you can tell me why its your favorite.

2) Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RichardAndTanyaQuilts there is also a link on the sidebar for the Facebook page where you can like it with out leaving this page. Leave a comment telling so.

3) Visit our Etsy Store and like your favorite quilt. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RichardQuilts and leave a comment telling so.

For the fine print we will ship any where in the world.  The contest will be open until March 14th at Midnight.  

 The winner of our chevron fabric giveaway is #87 which is Giddy99.  They have been emailed.

Once your done here remember to visit Quilting  Gallery for a long list of other blogs with great giveaways.

For all of those still reading we would love for you to follow our blog by Email, Reader, GFC, Facebook (Blog posts are syndicated via Networked Blogs),  We are always looking for great new followers and would love to get to know you better.  If you have finished a Quilt or any other sewing related item and would like to show it off please do so on our Link A Finish Friday we always have one open to share your successes.

Link a Finish Friday #57

It is now time for Link A Finish Friday.  Today I would like to start with a big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes.  This month's winner (March) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend at Fat Quarter Shop. 

Please remember to thank our sponsor by visiting their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Friday Finish - Kathy's Quilting Blog

Blue Irish Chain - Greens and Jeans

Old Man Winter - Pug Mom Quilts

February Finish at Sew Many Yarns

Trip Around the World - Crafty But Not Creative

Houses by Joanie's Quilts

These are some of the wonderful quilts linked up last week.  Please share with us what you have done this week.  New this week we have a button that you can now use. You can grab the code out of the box below or from our sidebar.

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1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.

2) Add a link to your finish blog or where ever you show off your finishes (Not limited to quilts but I like them the most).
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to $15 gift card from Fat Quarter Shop.

Not required but fun to do

1) Follow my blog.
2) Follow the blog of all those that link.
3) Link back to my blog.
4) No finish, go quilt and stop reading the web.

I have a new binding helper

The other night I was in the sewing room working on a binding for a quilt that I will soon post (its completed just needs pictures) and while ironing the binding I felt this tug.

Yep my little helper Julia had run out of snacks and toys and she decided she was going to help dad with the bindings.

She was having a lot of fun until we got to the end of the binding.

At that point she held on with all the strength she had.  At last dad won and finished ironing the binding.

Last but not least we will be participating in the Quilting Gallery giveaway day march 8th to 14th.

Weekend Review

Posted by Tanya.  This weekend the only sewing I did was a few baby Taggies, one heart shaped and one that is supposed to look like a strawberry. The heart is MIA, Julia took off with it.

 I also worked on some weighted lap pads for Jared's school.  I have made about eight lap pads and one weighted blanket in the last few weeks.  I never realized how messy it was to work with poly pellets.  I have made a huge mess of the floor with escaped pellets.  The worst was that one got down into my machine and into the bobbin case. I have broke more needles with this project than any thing else I have ever done. I ordered 75 lbs of the pellets.  I have used close to 50 pounds.  I learned to put polyfil in the end of rows and only leave small holes in the pads and use a funnel to pour them in.   Here is a picture of three of them.  I forgot to take a picture before I took them to the school.

Have you ever had a project that you have broke or bent multiple needles on?

On Facebook we had a drawing for the Dr. Seuss pillowcase.  The winner is Sandy Barse.

 

The winner of February's Link A Finish Friday is Toye Mason.  She has been emailed.

Monkey See

This rag quilt is the second pieced rag quilt I have made.  It has 8 in Monkey fabric and 4 1/2 blue and brown fabric.  I did a blue flannel for the back.  I think it turned out quite cute.  It will be added to our etsy store.