Wednesday Giveaway – Bee Lovely

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We carry several items from Cozy Blue, including several embroidery kits (click here to see our stock). But one of our favorite items from this vendor is the Bee Lovely Needle Minder. Our lucky winner, Allison Church Bird, will receive one of these this week.

The perfect way to keep track of your needle, it’s made of smooth enamel with a strong magnet. Put the enamel side on top of the fabric in your hoop, with the magnet on the back. And it’s pretty, too!

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!

Aunt Millie’s Garden Show and Tell

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Julie Edwards sent me this photo of her newly finished, very pretty quilt that features a block from Aunt MIllie’s Garden as the center medallion.

Julie wrote:

This quilt was a round robin and completed by multiple people in 2015-2016. I belong to an online FB group, and we do swaps and other quilt alongs often. I completed the center block and then sent it to another quilter, she completed a border on that quilt, and off it went to someone else, etc. until it was completed and returned back to me. I finally quilted and finished it in January of this year. 

Round robin quilts are always interesting and this one is no exception. The borders don’t overshadow the block at the center, the focal point of the quilt. Very nice!

Thank you, Julie, for sharing your quilt with us!.

If you are interested, you can find the Aunt Millie’s Garden ebook here :-).

Wednesday Giveaway goes to christineroutzahn!

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Jen Kingwell’s Postcard Projects are simple and wonderful. Use the template to cut a variety of fabrics to make a scrappy, happy quilt!

I#15, the 60 Degree Equilateral Triangle project goes to
christineroutzahn, this week’s 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!

Simply Delicious Show and Tell…

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Margaret Heller just finished her Simply Delicious quilt—it’s amazing!

From Margaret:

I followed the techniques taught in your books, except for the grapes and raspberries. For them I modified Karen Kay Buckley’s techniques for Perfect Ovals by laminating the front and back of the template (put the number of the template on the back side). Then I gathered the seam allowance of the grape or berry around the template, starched it/pressed it, and removed the template when it was time to sew it to the block .

I substituted blocks from the Beautiful Berries pattern for blocks from Simply Delicious so all the blocks illustrated my favorite fruits.

It was custom machine quilted by Christy Gray. (And she told me it’s the last custom quilting she will do.) I’m grateful that she quilted it for me; I doubt otherwise it would ever have been finished.

Thank you, Margaret, for sharing your lovely quilt with us all and I know you will enjoy seeing it hang in shows.

This quilt was one of our blocks of the month and the patterns are still available in a downloadable format. If you are interested, click here to find the Simply Delicious epatterns.

Wednesday Giveaway – Tracy’s Thread

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Those of you who are part of the “Wool of the Month” Club know how lovely Tracy Trevethan’s hand dyed wool thread is. We carry 25 colors! This week’s Giveaway goes to mman7025 for her choice of any of the varieties. Each card contains 20 yards of extremely soft 100% Australian virgin wool thread, making this a pretty great giveaway.

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!

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Who knew cleaning out my stash and reorganizing would benefit so many Giveaway winners?! This week carlynord75 will receive my extra magic mirror—a design tool that lets you preview quilt blocks before cutting or sewing. You can get more information by visiting our store (see link below), choosing “shop” and then “Hand Sewing Tools.” The Magic Mirror is one of the Hand Piecing Tools. I have a video link that will let you see how it works.

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!