Connecting Threads giveaway!

Hello all! Just to let you know, we have updated our Lucky Stars QAL info here...

Also, a big thanks for your support about our Uncle. If you missed the post, click here. Your kind comments brought me to tears! PS you can vote once a day til the 15th of June.

Connecting Threads 

CONNECTING THREADS GIVEAWAY!

We have a great giveaway today from  Connecting Threads! I am sure you all get those catalogs of eye candy in your mail like I do. LOVE. They have a darling blog with great creative ideas from Connecting Threads Staffers...

Connecting Threads is giving away a fat quarter sampler of their new Quilter's Candy prints, solids and mirage fabrics. In addition, a $10 gift card to Connecting Threads!

Connecting Threads is a family owned and operated company who offers their own exclusive fabrics, with liited-edition designs that you won't see anywhere else. Their fabrics range from quilting cottons, to batiks, to flannel, to lawn to laminates. Each fabric type is created according to their exacting standards and finished with their own top-secret formula to create a flawless and amazingly soft finish.

Connecting Threads says: We are proud to offer low prices on our fabric without sacrificing quality one iota. How do we manage this? We go directly to the mill, taking the middleman out of the equation. By sourcing and selling our fabrics directly, we are able to offer our customers wholesale prices for the same quality product they would buy for up to four times the price elsewhere. We believe that convenience shouldn’t cost extra, so we never charge for cutting.

2 ways to enter:

Visit Connecting Threads and tell  us your favorite collection in a comment.

Visit their Facebook page and "like" them, and leave another comment that you did.

More ways to connect with Connecting Threads, Blog, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus

Giveaway now closed.  Winner announced Saturday 6/22.

LUCKY STARS QUILT A LONG- Fabric Requirements

Hello friends! We have had good feed back and know that many of you will be quilting along with us, we are really excited about doing this. This is our first Quilt A Long!  You know this is exactly what your summer needs..so join along! :)

FABRIC REQUIREMENTS

Quilt size 56" x 76"

1 Jelly Roll (or at least 30- 2.5" x WOF strips)

1 Layer Cake (or at least 25- 10" squares)

2 1/2 yards main background fabric

5/8 yard binding

Wanted to mention, this quilt would lend well to scraps you already have. Feel free to mix and match what you have, you will just need it is the amounts listed above. Email us with any questions!

Christa Quilts $20 gift card

Christa Quilts still has some Lucky Stars Starter Kits for those of you wishing to quilt along. Each kit contains 1 Jelly Roll plus 1 Layer Cake of Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie and Camille. She's offering them at a special price of just $74.95 which includes free US shipping (discounted int'l shipping)! On top of that, use code STORY at checkout to save an extra 10% on your entire order so that you can purchase background fabric or other supplies.

Boom.  That's a deal.

And I dare you to imagine this quilt in your scraps!  You certainly do not have to use the new Happy Go Lucky line!  This pattern totally lends itself to a scrap quilt!  Use up all those extra HST's from the last quilt you made :)  It'll be fun!

Here is a button for ya'll to grab if you wish:

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And if you are not tempted yet, how about this:

Anyone who finishes their quilt top is entered to win a prize from the following shops.
For reals.

There are 8 different shops with $50 prizes. Gasp!

Connecting Threads $50 Gift Certificate

Fat Quarter Shop $50 Gift Certificate

A Joyful Soul Fabrics $50 Gift Certificate

Mad About Patchwork $50 Gift Certificate

Southern Fabric Fabric Bundle

The Stitch Sanctuary $50 Gift Certificate

Poppy Seed Fabrics $50 Gift Certificate

Five Monkey Fabrics $50 Gift Certificate

Next week: Cutting Requirements!
Lucky Stars QAL every Wednesday

Fabric Tuesday, and our Uncle Dean...

This just makes us sad. This is our Uncle Dean. Our Mom's brother. He was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of brain cancer just last year.  

He has run dozens of marathons in his life, and a handful of Ironmans, but wants to run one more. And   Kona Ironman is apparently the best, and has always been his dream! Up til June 15th we can vote for him to run this race. He is in the finals, but we need your help. Go watch this video, shed a tear, and vote for our Uncle. (on all your devices.) 

THANK YOU!

EDITED TO ADD: YOUR COMMENTS THIS AM HAVE MADE ME CRY. THANK YOU! ALSO, REPOST, RETWEET, FACEBOOK ETC.

VOTE FOR DEAN

Isn't this just beautiful??? From Saltwater Quilts...

Awesome Owl quilt. Just cool :0)  From Charm About You

From Fabric Fulfilling Its Destiny, awesomeness! 

Always amazed at these lone star quilts. From Bed Time Quilting. 

Alright folks, what have you done this week???

HGTV fabrics, fabric covered boxes...

Have you seen the review of all the HGTV fabrics for Joann's fabrics lighting up the web? I have. I was lucky to get sent some of this gorgeous yardage. Cute huh? 

I decided to make some fabric covered boxes. I just merged a few tutorials from Pinterest and created these  awesome boxes. These just started as some cardboard boxes we were going to recycle.

I made two of them. Cuteness.

Makes for some cute storage boxes. I want to make more and more of them!

Thank you HGTV!