Hooray for (Other People's) Scraps!

I suppose you've all heard about Jodi's Scrap-Along? If not, go check it out. She is helping us use our lovely scraps in fun and beautiful ways. Also, she has lots of bloggy friends who are willing to help us have more scraps. Who doesn't want more scraps, right? Especially those of other people! Well, so I won one of the giveaways -- from Sherri at A Quilting Life. I even bookmarked her, because her stuff is so beautiful! Look at all the gorgeous things she sent me!

A little Paula Prass Flight of Fancy. Some Denyse Schmidt. Some Verna, some Whimsy (sigh!), and some Spring Fever!

And a whole bunch of other gorgeous nibblets -- There's some Bliss, Dream On, Amy Butler, Lila Tueller, and I must confess I don't know what all else. But so gorgeous -- every single piece.

THANKS, SHERRI! I love them!

(Now, don't think that just because I won that I'm going to stop entering the scrap giveaways. Seriously -- no one thought that, did they? I'm hoping I win a bunch more. Yeah, I'm greedy like that, but only for fabric.)

Lucky me and a giveaway link

Last month a new website was launched -- Australian, but also available for us Americans. It's called SEWN. Anyway there were a ton of people doing giveaways in honor of the blog launch. I won Jeannette's giveaway. It took a while to get here, because she is in New Zealand. Thanks, Jeannette. I was so excited to get this. I love the fabrics you chose for me!

In May, Sew Mama, Sew had their May Day Giveaway, and I was fortunate enough to win an April Cornell Spring Magic Jelly roll from Quilt Qua. I had forgotten to take a picture or even seem grateful, but I was so excited to use it, that I made this coin quilt right away. I had enough left over to make some tiny whirlygig blocks -- well, to cut out some whirlygig blocks -- not made yet.

Please, ignore my wrinkles -- and the ones on my quilt too. ; ) Seriously, though, Quilt Qua is now having another giveaway. If you go on their blog, you can see the rules for entry. It's a tell-a-friend giveaway, so I just earned another entry by telling all of you. Lucky me again. Um, if you're counting, I think the coin quilt and the whirlygig quilt put me back up to 75. Why, oh, why did I start counting?! Just kidding. It's keeping me aware. While it's true that I'm not going down much (YET!), I am not going UP either, and that tells me that I am actually finishing stuff and not JUST starting things. The ceiling is 75, so if I go above that -- well, I don't have a consequence for it, but I'll feel really bad or something. As an aside, my a/c was not working for about three weeks, and it just got fixed last Monday. So now I can consider quilting something. I didn't want to sit underneath a big, heavy quilt when it was 90 degrees in my house. I pinned two more quilts yesterday -- one old, one new -- so hopefully the finishing will come into full swing here. Pray for me, ladies!