Blueberry Buckle

We Have a Winner!

It has been so exciting to see the entries for the Cherry House Quilt Along kit come in! Every time someone leaves a comment, I receive an email notification, and my inbox has been full!

So, without further ado, the winner is...

 
...Hilary! 

She said: I love the brights combo! We've had so much snow here lately, I need some color! I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Hilary has a blog, too, so check it out!

Hilary, please contact me privately with your info so I can send out your color. ;)

Thank you, everyone, for playing. We'll have to do this again soon. So add Blueberry Buckle to your reader or feed or make sure you're checking fb! I've got a shelf full of fun things to give away, hehe.

That's all for now; the FedEx guy (who hates me, I'm sure), just delivered 231 pounds of Kona Cotton to my third floor apartment. I've got fabric to check in and put up!

It's a Give Away!

If you have wanted to learn how to make a quilt, are looking for a small, simple project...or if you love solid color fabrics...here's a great opportunity for you!

Cherri House, author of City Quilts, is hosting a new quilt along over on her blog. You can also visit the group on flickr. Cherri will not only will take us through making a sweet and very modern quilt from start to finish, but she also provided these colorways. Aren't they great? So fresh and modern!

 

I thought it would be fun to give away fabric to make one of the quilts!

So here are the details:

The give away is for a kit of Kona Cotton Solids, including backing and binding, to make the CHQ as decribed in Cherri's blog. (You'll just need to provide a piece of batting, and your thread, of course.) The winner chooses the colorway!

The give away is open to everyone, and I'll ship to the winner anywhere in the world. =)

You may enter by commenting as follows:

1. Tell what colorway you like the best and why.

2. Like my Facebook page and come back here to tell me you did! http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Simply-Solid-Fabric/107468445991335 If you already follow me on fb, just say so in your second comment.

3. Invite a friend to like my facebook page and comment with your friend's name.

Comments will close on Monday morning at 6:00 am (Eastern Time, GMT -5:00), and the winner will be selected by random number generator. The winner will be announced on Monday and I'll ship the kit right away so you can use it for the quilt along.

Now I must figure out how to add quilt along buttons to the sidebar. If you can explain it to me (I use typepad), or linky to a good tutorial, I'll give you an extra entry to the give away. Just put it another comment. =)

I Love Me Some Kona Cotton...Do You?

At the end of every bolt of Kona Cotton fabric is a small piece that isn't enough to sell on its own, but definitely big enough to use, and certainly not something anyone would want to waste! Sometimes it's even a 16" or 17" cut of fabric, which is certainly very useful. Yikes, that's almost a half yard!

So these pieces were piling up in a bin in the studio until my friend Erin came over and sorted them all into these very sweet Grab Bag collections:

 

 

 

 

They're all available in the shop and priced ridiculously low. I love a bargain, don't you?!

There's also Exciting News!

Cara from Me? a Mom? is hosting a quilt-a-long and we've partnered to give away 7 yards of Kona Cotton! Yes, 7 yards! More than enough for the quilt-a-long! The winner will quilt-a-long with free fabric. How cool is that? Please pop on over to see what Cara is up to. I don't know how she does it...busy mom with three of the most adorable little girls I've ever seen...and she quilts and lives to blog about it. I love Cara.

*Ha! There was a time when my kids were small and I was super busy like that. I used to dream of the day when my kids would be older and I would have more time to quilt. I think I was more productive between changing diapers and filling sippy cups than I am now. I'm either getting old and tired, or perhaps lazy at this point in my life. Did the energy go away as I've gotten older? Did I use it all up when the kids were little? Have I become less efficient because the house there's no rush to get anything done? Has getting a full night of sleep every night somehow negatively affected my energy levels? Hmmm. End random thought.*

There's also a Flickr group for the quilt along. So much fun! I'm making this quilt!!!

Something to Give Away!

Nothing quilty going on at Blueberry Buckle today. Housecleaning, laundry and food shopping filled my morning, and in a few minutes, I'm off to Baltimore to pick up one of the boys. Hooray!

But I have something for you! Or at least, for one lucky reader/commenter/participant. This week I have a

Kona Cotton Color Card

to give away! How cool is that?

Here's the deal: My Robert Kaufman account rep sent me two color cards this week. As long as you all don't mind, they are a little doggy along the edges...I think the post office might have had responsibility for that...but they work just fine. If you do a lot of quilting or sewing and like to use Kona Cotton Solids, a color card is an absolutely indispensible tool for finding just the right colors (there are over 200) for your project.

The rules: (or How Many Ways You Can Play to Win)

1. Comment on this post (one entry).

2. Tell how you have used Kona Cotton Solids in your quilting/sewing projects (one more entry).

3. Linky to a photo or blog post featuring your personal Kona Cotton Solid project (five more entries).

4. Linky to a photo or blog post of someone else's project demonstrating a creative, clever, or otherwise inspirational use of Kona Cotton Solids in a quilt or sewn item. This will not count if you post a duplicate link. (Sorry!) (ten more entries because this will require some detective work on your part)

5. Linky this post from a post in your own blog (five more entries).

6. Have something from your comment featured in one of my blog posts (I'm looking for really good content here) Yes, I will be reading your comments every day and sharing the really good ones with everyone else (ten more entries).

This is going to be a tallying nightmare, I can tell, haha.

Oh! If more than 100 unique individuals comment to this post, I will give away two cards! Yes, there could be two winners!

So, everyone, have at it and let the posting commence!

Sue

Something for Everyone

Wow! There were SO MANY entries in the Objects of Desire giveaway. All total, there were 81 comments (a couple of people commented twice). I took each comment, recorded it onto a spreadsheet, and assigned chronological entry numbers to each person, according to the number of entries they qualified for, making 718 total "entries" into the drawing. Phew!

I went to a handy-dandy online number generator and let it select the winner. The results:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

104

Timestamp: 2009-10-25 18:31:03 UTC

So, without further ado, the winner is Jocelyn!

Jocelyn commented:

Okay it looks like it would be a toss up from the votes. But I would go with the Kona. I do like using solids in my quilts, and I think it helps to blend things out.

I heart, heart, heart Moda AND Reproductions.

Thanks for such a great giveaway :-)

Jocelyn, you're correct...it was almost a toss up from the votes. The Michael Miller fabrics won only by a few votes. I was pleasantly surprised that most of you commented that you like/use Moda fabrics. That's what I'll be primarily carrying in the shop, along with the Kona Cotton Solids and a few other designer lines added for variety. Please bookmark my shop. I'll be introducing 2 complete Moda lines each month, and selling them below retail. I also guarantee the fabric is in stock and I ship the next business day, so when you purchase from Blueberry Buckle, you'll have your fabric pretty quickly!

And so that everyone is a winner (because I wish everyone could win!), tomorrow I will post a tutorial for making these simple sew-in labels for your quilts, bags and garments.

Until then, have a great day!

Sue
 

Which Fabric Do You Desire? (Another Giveaway)

My Moda salesman was here on Friday, tempting me with samples of all the fabric lines that were introduced a few days before at Quilt Market in Houston. I'm attempting to maintain a style of fresh, modern, designer fabrics to use in my quilts and sell in my etsy shop, so it was easy to say no to the traditional prints, reproductions, and soft, florals. Then came the hard part. There are SO many really great modern fabrics by really good designers.

Then, Michael Miller Fabrics called me yesterday afternoon to show me (via the web) all of their new fabrics from Market. Then I thought about all the Kona Cotton colors I need to reorder as my stock is getting low, and the colors I would like to add to my stock.

Not to mention Kaffe Fasset and Amy Butler...

Overwhelming? It wouldn't be if I could just buy it all, because it's all so pretty!

Being on a budget, like most people, I need to be selective and limit what I buy. (Until I win the lottery, lol.) It's still risky, though. What if I buy fabric and no one else likes it? Oh! The pressure! Haha.

Yes, I ordered some Moda lines. Won't see those for months, though. Needing something fresh for the shop now, and I've narrowed my options to two:

1. Restock the Kona Cottons that have been selling well and add 10 more colors. (Very tempting.)

or

2. Go out on a limb and order these Michael Miller fabrics, which I adore:

 

Which fabric would you most desire?

So...here's a little giveaway for you. This week's prize is...

an Objects of Desire Jelly Roll, by Sandy Gervais for Moda. What a great prize!

Here are the rules. Pay attention, please, so you can earn as many entries as possible.

Comment on this post and earn:

1 entry for voting on option 1 (Kona Cotton Solids) or option 2 (Michael Miller prints).

5 additional entries for telling me what type of fabric you use the most. Moda? Amy Butler? Reproductions? Solids? Cotton/linen blends? You name it.

10 additional entries for linking directly to this post from your blog.

No extra entries for linking to your own blog, but please do, because I'd like to visit!

Comments will close on Sunday, October 25 at 7:00 am Eastern Time. The winner will be announced soon after and posted here.

Let the commenting begin!

Sue
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Give Me Some Figgy Pudding and...Another Giveaway!

I told my husband this afternoon that it's a good thing I have Blueberry Buckle to keep me busy or I might be an unhappy football widow this fall. Eric and the boys watched all afternoon, and Eric's on his third game right now...I like football ok, but I lost interest after the first game...

So I finished squaring up all the Figgy Pudding (by Moda) framed squares and assembled them into a very pretty quilt top.

 
I'm going to have a hard time giving this one up, it turned out so nice. It's for the shop, though, and I am looking forward to playing with more fabric this week.

Like Shade Garden by Michelle Engel Bencsko for Henry Glass Fabrics. I took it out this afternoon, and I have to tell you that it is nice. It is lovely, surprisingly soft and I'm so impressed that it is a full 44" wide. Quality stuff.

 
Would you like to win some? How about 8 fat quarters, one of each print in your choice of the Coralbell or Bluebell colorway?

Ok, that's the prize for this week's giveaway. 

So what are the rules, you ask? This is a really good prize, in my opinion, so you'll have to do a little work.

1. Visit my etsy shop and click on Henry Glass Fabrics.

2. Leave a comment on this post, linking to a pattern, a flickr photo, a blog post, or what have you, that shows a quilt, garment, or other sewn item that would be nice for the Shade Garden Line.

3. Tell ALL of your friends to do the same, because (again) I will only award the prize if I receive 20 or more comments to this post that meet criteria of #2.

4. The comments will be closed on Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 8:00 am. If there are 20 (or more!) comments, I will randomly select one lucky person to receive the fabric.

5. The winner will be announced post-haste and the prize mailed as soon as we exchange all pertinent mailing information.

Have fun and I'm really looking forward to seeing what you can come up with!

Sue