Show and tell: Steve’s Birds

Marie Szlachtianshyn sent a photo of her Steve’s Birds blocks to date. They are wonderful! I’m glad that you are enjoying sewing the birds. It is true that the little feet and eyes can be a challenge—but you are handling that challenge very well!

Look close and you can see that Marie’s blocks are not sewn together yet. If you are following my layout, you can’t sew them all together yet because this is not a quilt that sets together in rows. That’s not a bad thing! Try out sashing ideas as the blocks accumulate but know that, as you make more blocks, your idea of what is the best sashing fabric may change.

Click here to find Steve’s Birds Block of the Month.

Wednesday Giveaway – Vendor Grab Bag!!

It’s time for the eagerly anticipated Vendor Grab Bag. Vendors send us samples and we pass them on as a truly miscellaneous collection! And Karen-in-Ohio is the winner!

I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!

Wednesday Giveaway – Self-care goes to rjmcduck1!

This week our lucky winner will receive one of my favorite products – LoLo Cuticle Intensive. It’s handcrafted using locally sourced beeswax and essentials oils (for a complete list of ingredients, click here to go to Piece O’ Cake website).

Apply daily to dry cuticles and you’ll be amazed how quickly they will look and feel great. You don’t have to rub it in, unless you want to. Just swipe and let it do its magic!

I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!

Wednesday Giveaway goes to Barb Kissell!

I’ve been doing more cleaning/culling/streamlining of decorative, as well as sewing items. This week’s giveaway is definitely decorative. I loved them but now don’t need them, which is increasingly becoming my mantra! I guess Barb needed them!

These will hold photos or recipe cards, etc, in an “eye-catching” way. The character on the right comes apart to stick something in the middle and then magnetically closes again to hold it. Seriously cute!

I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!

Show and tell… Steve’s Birds coming later this year

Linda has all of the block of the month patterns because she’s my (not all the way retired) partner and special. These 4 blocks are in your future!

Greater Roadrunner

Linda is choosing the colors that she thinks the birds should be, whether they are that color in real life or not. I love them!

Scissortail Flycatcher
Carolina Chickadee
Great Blue Heron

Wednesday Giveaway!

This week’s giveaway, a tool for transferring designs from paper to fabric – Chacopy Carbon Tracing Paper, goes to jdcoffer! Each package consists of five different colors of single-sided tracing paper, each 12in x 10in. Click here for instructions and a video from Clover to learn how to use them.

I’ll be back with another Giveaway next Wednesday. Until then you can shop for all sorts of sewing notions, books, and other fun stuff at pieceocake.com!