Wednesday Giveaway

Robin Crittenden is this week’s winner! She will receive a cute dish towel that celebrates Apple Cider and a package of tasty and aromatic Lemon Berry Blush tea. If you are not Robin, you can find these and other gift-y items here.

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

This week the two lucky winners are Stephanie Nicolas and Debbie Russell! Each will receive 2 Eye Glass Holder kits from Handbehg Felts. I bought these several years ago, made one, and put these in the drawer for later. Now is later 🤣. I don’t think that these are still being made but you could absolutely use the idea to make your own from finding and beads.

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

Kitty Bowman is this week’s lucky winner! She will receive a 2-Step Pencil Sharpener and 3 special pencils with firm graphite from my personal stash—all made by Blackwing. I love working with sharp, firm pencils on paper and (lightly) on fabric and Blackwings are the only pencils I use. You can find Blackwing products here at pieceocake.com.

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… Bullseye and Sizzle

Debbie Poole has been busy! When I opened her email I actually said ‘Wow!’ out loud! This is her Bullseye quilt… It gets your attention, doesn’t it?!

The color combination is thoughtful and interesting. And I love the way the colors jump off of the light white/cream fabric spread throughout. Very cool. You can find the pattern here: https://pieceocake.com/collections/books-dvds/products/32796030

I do teach an online Bullseye class. If you are interested, click here.

Debbie also sent this photo of her finished Sizzle quilt. It is similar to but different from the colors I used in my version of the quilt. I really like the way the lime green pops in this quilt. You can find the book here: https://pieceocake.com/collections/books-dvds/products/sizzle

There are free how-to videos that go with the Sizzle book. You can find them soon with my classes on Creative Spark. Until then, you can find them on YouTube. Go to YouTube, search for C&T Publishing to find their channel. Once there, type in Sizzle in the search box.

Thank you, Debbie, for sharing your lovely quilts with us! Well done, you!

Show and tell from my Tile Tango Class

Gwyn Jalbert took my online Tile Tango class with the Palmetto Quilt Guild. Interestingly, Gwyn lives in Kitchener, Ontario but her guild is in South Carolina. The internet makes long distance classes so easy!

She finished 4 flowers to make the complete block below. She did a lovely job on the appliqué and I love the fall colors she chose! Thank you, Gwyn, for sharing your block with us!

Gwyn said… “I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the class I took with you on Oct. 16 with the Palmetto Quilt Guild. Here is the block I have completed  I am working on the next one and I will probably do the Tile Tango quilt. I am really enjoying the needle turn applique and I see my stitches and technique getting better with the practice.
Thanks again.”

Online classes are truly wonderful and I am personally very proud of the ones I have put together. Whether you are with a guild or not, you can find my online classes at Creative Spark. I will add new classes as time goes by. Here’s the link to my classes: https://creativespark.ctpub.com/pages/Becky_Goldsmith

All of the classes on Creative Spark are priced to provide a fair income to the teachers. About half of the money goes to the support the people doing the behind-the-scenes work at Creative Spark, the other half goes to the instructor.

You may not think about it often, but free or practically free content does not support the teacher. At some point, we all need to make a living. Most of my income comes from teaching. Income from the products I sell on my website goes to Lorna and Judy, who work for me.

We all choose where to spend our dollars… I’m sharing this information to give you information that you may not know. Happy stitching!

Wednesday Giveaway

Caroline Doyle is this week’s winner. She will receive a pack of applique pins from Little House. These 3/4″ fine pins have a small glass head. they are a little bit flexible but not bendy which helps them to lay flatter against your applique. I like 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!