Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day 2016!

Welcome to the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

So who would like to win not one but two shot-cotton rainbow jelly rolls?  The jelly rolls are by Rowan with one being rainbow of lighter colors and one being a rainbow of darker colors.

This is my fifth time participating in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day.  I love Sew Mama Sew  and I enjoy spending a few many, many hours entering giveaways and finding new wonderful blogs each SMS Giveaway Day. 

  

For those who are new here, here is a little about myself (for those that are returning, thank you!).

My name is Cheryl and I am a chemical engineer/patent agent by day and a quilter at night. I have a wonderfully supportive husband who allowed me to turn the guest bedroom into my quilting room, a 9 year old son and 6 year old daughter. I love designing quilt patterns and doing quilty math which allows me to combine my quilting skills with my engineering and technical writing backgrounds.

Three fun events on my blog in 2016:

The Meadow Mystery Quilt, my third and most recent mystery quilt-along which started in July and will wrap up in April. Instructions are posted monthly so there is plenty of time to join in and catch up!

In the beginning of 2016, I presented a blog series called the Pattern Writing Blog Series. The 16-part series taught how to take a quilt design from a sketch book to a fully developed quilt pattern, demonstrating each step and concept using an actual quilt pattern example.

Best of 2016 Linky Party will be starting the day after Christmas (Monday. Dec 26th) and continue through Jan 2nd.  Simply write a new blog post highlighting your "best" 5 posts from 2016 and linkup.  There is no set way or rules to pick your best, you can pick and highlight your posts anyway you would like.

Favorite finishes of 2016:

Here are some of my favorite finishes of 2016, you can see all of my finishes here.

Now on to enter the giveaway!! 

This giveaway is for two (2) shot-cotton rainbow jelly rolls and is open to everyone, everywhere in the world (if the winner is outside of the US, I reserve the right to substitute a gift certificate of equal value to a local quilt shop due to shipping costs.)

This giveaway starts today, Wednesday Dec 7th, and will run until Sunday Dec 11th at 8 p.m. EST.

To enter:

1. Leave a comment, any comment. If you would like a topic, I would love to know the size of quilt you make most often.

2. Followers of my blog (old and new) get an additional entry. Please leave a second comment letting me know how you subscribe. (Here are some links for different following options: Bloglovin, Email)

Note: If you are a no-reply blogger then please include your e-mail address. If I can not reach you, you can not win.

Thank you so much and I hope that you will decide to follow my blog and join me on my quilting, sewing, and pattern writing adventures!

PS - On normal posts, I try to respond to each and every comment and visit the blogs of those who comment, but on giveaway posts I unable to due to the high number of comments.

** Giveaway now closed, thanks for entering! **

Favorite Pre-Cut and Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Winner

The optional question for my Sew Mama Sew Giveaway was "What is your favorite pre-cut?"  Thanks for all of your answers!  As an engineer, I could not resist crunching the numbers for you.

Fat quarters are the absolute favorite pre-cut with over almost 250 votes (59% of the vote).  Charm Packs were a distant second with 15% of the vote.  Here are the results in a bar chart and pie chart.

Without further ado, the winner of the 12-piece Kona fabric bundle was number 710 (the absolute last comment!), which was Deb.  Congrats!

Thanks everyone for entering!

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day - December 9th, 2015

Welcome to the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

This is my fifth time participating in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day.  I love Sew Mama Sew (I just curated the Handmade Holidays list of Gifts for Cooks) and I enjoy spending a few many, many hours entering giveaways and finding new wonderful blogs each SMS Giveaway Day.   

So who would like some delicious Kona solids?  Up for grabs is a 12-Piece Blueberry Thicket Fat Quarter Bundle of Kona cotton solids by Robert Kaufman.  I am such a fan of Kona cottons, they have such a great feel and so many colors.

For those who are new here, here is a little about myself (for those that are returning, thank you!).

My name is Cheryl and I am a chemical engineer/patent agent by day and a quilter at night.  I have a wonderfully supportive husband who allowed me to turn the guest bedroom into my quilting room, an 8 year old son and 5 year old daughter.  I love designing quilt patterns and doing quilty math which allows me to combine my quilting skills with my engineering and technical writing backgrounds.  

I would love to tell you about three fun things going on or starting soon on my blog:

1.  The Midnight Mystery Quilt:  This is a lap sized mystery quilt-a-long which started in June and will continue until March 2016.  All of the months' instructions, as well as details about the popular Facebook group can be found in the Mystery Quilt tab above.  The instructions will never be removed so you can start the quilt whenever you would like!

2.  The Best of 2015 Linky Party:  My first linky party!  Simply write a blog post with your favorite 5 posts from 2015, link up, and check out everyone else's bests.  The party will start the day after Christmas (Sat. Dec 26th) and continue through Saturday, Jan 2nd.  You can find more information about the link party here.

3.  Pattern Writing Blog Series: Starting in mid-January I will be presenting a blog series on how to write quilt patterns, teaching how to take a quilt design from a sketch book to a fully developed quilt pattern.  To make the series less abstract and more practical, I will be demonstrating each step and concept using an actual quilt pattern example.  A wonderful group of pattern designers will be joining me for round table discussions through the series. You can find out more information at the Pattern Writing Series tab above.

I hope that you will be able to take some time to look through any of the blog happens described above, my recent finishes, and my newly updated tutorials page.

Now on to enter the giveaway!! 

This giveaway is open to everyone, everywhere in the world and is for one (1) Blueberry Thicket Fat Quarter Bundle which includes 12 fat quarters of Kona cotton solids. 

This giveaway starts today (Wednesday Dec 9th) and will run until Sunday Dec 12th at 8 p.m. EST.  (To lower shipping costs, the fabric bundle might be disassembled for shipment.)

To enter:
1. Leave a comment, any comment. If you would like a topic, I would love to know what your favorite precut size is (charm packs, jelly rolls, fat quarter bundles, etc.)

2. My followers, old and new, get an additional entry. Please leave a second comment letting me know how you subscribe.  (Here are some links for different following options: Bloglovin, Email, Instagram )

Note: If you are a no-reply blogger then please include your e-mail address. If I can not reach you, you can not win.

Thank you so much and I hope that you will decide to follow my blog and join me on my quilting, sewing, and pattern writing adventures!

PS - On normal posts, I try to respond to each and every comment and visit the blogs of those who comment, but on giveaway posts I unable to due to the high number of comments.

** Giveaway now closed, thank you for everyone for entering! **

Handmade Holidays 2015: Gifts for Cooks

Every November, Sew Mama Sew runs a popular series called Handmade Holidays. On each day of the month, a guest curator puts together a coordinated list of DIY gifts (with a focus on quilting and sewing) for (such as gifts for techies, kids, etc)  

Today, I have the pleasure of being the guest curator for a list of Gifts for Cooks.  I had such fun going through the internet to find wonderful tutorials, it was like shopping without spending any money!  In my post you will find some great tutorials for pot holders, aprons, tea cozies, tea towels and more.

I hope you have a chance to hop over to Sew Mama Sew today and check out my list (and there also are a bunch of giveaways going on with the series too!)

If you are hoping over here from Sew Mama Sew for the first time, welcome!  I hope that you will stay a few minutes and check out my recent finishes, newly revamped tutorials page, and mystery quilts.  I am also going to start a new series on my blog on how to write quilt patterns starting in January.  You can follow my blog using the links below so you won't miss any of it :)

Follow Meadow Mist Designs

E-mail          Bloglovin          Instagram

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day - May 6th, 2015

Welcome to the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

This is my fourth time participating in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day.  I love Sew Mama Sew (I became a Sew Mama Sew Contributor last year) and I enjoy spending a few many, many hours entering giveaways and finding new wonderful blogs each SMS Giveaway Day.   

So onto the giveaway....who wants some delicious Kona solids?  How about a 12-Piece Blueberry Thicket Fat Quarter Bundle of Kona cotton solids by Robert Kaufman?  I am such a fan of Kona cottons, they have such a great feel and so many colors.

For those who are new here, here is a little about myself (for those that are returning, thank you!).

My name is Cheryl and I am a chemical engineer/patent agent by day and a quilter at night.  I have a wonderfully supportive husband who allowed me to turn the guest bedroom into my quilting room, an almost 8 year old son and 5 year old daughter.  I love designing quilt patterns and doing quilty math which allow me to combine my quilting skills with my engineering and technical writing backgrounds.  

In addition to my blog, you can find me hanging out on Instagram as MeadowMistDesigns.  I sell my patterns and sewing accessories on etsy (as Meadow Mist Designs) and patterns on craftsy (craftsy also has a couple of free patterns).

I hosted a free Mystery Quilt-a-long in 2014/2015 and I am getting ready to start the next one in June!  I hope you will consider joining in!

Below are some of my recent finishes in the past few months...

Now on to enter the giveaway!! 
This giveaway is open to everyone, everywhere in the world and is for one (1) Blueberry Thicket Fat Quarter Bundle which includes 12 fat quarters of Kona cotton solids. This giveaway starts today (Wednesday May 6th) and will run until Sunday May 10th at 8 p.m. EST.  (To lower shipping costs, the fabric bundle might be shipped disassembled.)

To enter:
1. Leave a comment, any comment. If you would like a topic, I would love to know one quilt that is on your bucket list to make.

2. My followers, old and new, get an additional entry. Please leave a second comment letting me know how you subscribe.  (Here are some links for different following options: Bloglovin, Email, Instagram )

Note: If you are a no-reply blogger then please include your e-mail address. If I can not reach you, you can not win.

Thank you so much and I hope that you will decide to follow my blog and join me on my quilting, sewing, and pattern writing adventures!

PS - On normal posts, I try to respond to each and every comment and visit the blogs of those who comment, but on giveaway posts I unable to due to the high number of comments.

* Giveaway now closed, thanks for entering! *

Sew Mama Sew Winner and Responce Results

Thank you all so much for the super response to this year's Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day! There were a total of 874 entries for the Fat Quarter Berry Bundle of Cotton & Steel Blenders.

Without further ado, Random.org has selected comment #419.

Which was Natasha!  Congratulations!

The optional question for the giveaway day was what precut size you find to be the most challenging to figure out what to do with (charm pack, jelly roll, layer cake, fat 8ths, fat quarters, etc).  

It was so interesting to read what each person said.  As an engineer, I thought some graphs of the responses might be interesting.  

By far, jelly rolls were cited as being the most difficult precut size to work with. Most people said the shape of the strip was limiting or they could not find a jelly roll pattern they liked. A number of respondents admitted that they did love how cute they looked all rolled up on their shelves though :)

For the mini charm packs and charm packs, the largest amount of comments were around there not being enough fabric to make a substantial item from the packs (a lot of respondents said they picked up 1 charm pack here and there and then could never figure out what to do with it).

Fat eighths were cited as being a weird size which was difficult to figure out a plan for, always being too large or too small a piece of fabric. Layer cakes and fat quarters were called out for being difficult most often because there were so many possibilities.

I love designing with precuts and from your responses I have an idea on which precuts to focus on next year. I actually have a Moda Bake Shop tutorial that will publish next month which makes a great baby sized quilt using only 1 charm pack, so maybe that will help with some of the lone charm packs people have :)

Thank you so much to everyone who decided to follow my blog. I hope to bring you fun and useful content and most importantly get to know you all!!

Thanks!
Cheryl

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

Welcome to the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

This is my third time participating in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day.  I love Sew Mama Sew (I became a Sew Mama Sew Contributor this year) and I enjoy spending a few many, many hours entering giveaways and finding new wonderful blogs each SMS Giveaway Day.   

So onto the giveaway....who wants some Cotton & Steel?  Up for grabs is a 9-piece fat quarter Berry Bundle of Cotton & Steel blenders.  

I am a fan of the Cotton & Steel fabrics, especially the blenders because they are so versatile and the rich colors and fun accents like metallic printing make them irresistible.  

For those who are new here, here is a little about myself (for those that are returning, thank you!).

My name is Cheryl and I am a chemical engineer/patent agent by day and a quilter at night.  I have a wonderfully supportive husband who allowed me to turn the guest bedroom into my quilting room, a 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter.  I love designing quilt patterns and doing quilty math which allow me to combine my quilting skills with my engineering and technical writing backgrounds.  In addition to my blog, you can find me hanging out on Instagram as MeadowMistDesigns.

I sell my patterns and sewing accessories on etsy (as Meadow Mist Designs) and patterns on craftsy (craftsy also has a couple of free patterns).

In 2014, I have had the privilege of contributing to several magazines, including Quilty, Make Modern, Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks, and Fat Quarterly.  I am currently hosting a Mystery Quilt-a-long I designed and have been busy adding new tutorials as well as working on some new quilt patterns.

2015 looks like it is going to be just as busy so I hope that you will decide to join me in my quilty adventures.  Here are a few of my recent finishes...

Now on to enter the giveaway!! 

This giveaway is open to everyone, everywhere in the world and is for one (1) Berry Bundle of Cotton & Steel which includes 9 fat quarters of the blenders collection.  This giveaway starts today (Monday December 8th) and will run until Friday December 12 at 8 p.m. EST. (To lower shipping costs, the fabric bundle might be disassembled.)

To enter:

1. Leave a comment, any comment. If you would like a topic, I would love to know what precut size you find to be the most challenging to figure out what to do with (charm pack, jelly roll, layer cake, fat 8ths, fat quarters, etc).

2. My followers, old and new, get an additional entry. Please leave a second comment letting me know how you subscribe (I have buttons on the upper left side of the blog for following by e-mail, bloglovin, and feedly).


Note: If you are a no-reply blogger then please include your e-mail address. If I can not reach you, you can not win.

Thank you so much and I hope that you will decide to follow my blog and join me on my quilting, sewing, and pattern writing adventures!PS - On normal posts, I try to respond to each and every comment and visit the blogs of those who comment, but on giveaway posts I unable to due to the high number of comments.

** Giveaway now closed, thanks for entering! **

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

Welcome to the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

This is my first time joining the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day and I am so excited to be participating in the Sewing + Craft Supplies section.

What I am giving away today is a charm pack and two fat quarters of Enchant by Riley Blake. The fabrics are just adorable and perfect for fussy cutting.   This giveaway is limited to the US due to shipping costs.  I purchased these adorable fabrics from Fabric Fly who I highly recommend.

All fabric images from www.fabricflyshop.etsy.com.  Used with permission.

For those who are new here, here is a little about myself (for those that are returning, thank you!).

My name is Cheryl and I am a chemical engineer/patent agent by day, a quilter at night, a mom to a 6 year old son and 3 year old daughter, and wife. I love designing quilt patterns, writing quilt instructions, and doing quilty math combining my quilting skills with my engineering and technical writing backgrounds.

Here are some pictures of my patterns. They are listed in etsy and craftsy (craftsy also has a free pattern too):



Now on to enter the giveaway!!

Once again, this giveaway is open to only US and is for a charm pack of Enchant and two Enchant fat quarters. This giveaway starts today (Monday Decmember 9th) and will run until Friday December 13th at 8 p.m. EST.

To enter:

1. Leave a comment, any comment. If you need a suggestion on what to write you can tell me which size quilt you make the most of.

2. My followers, old and new, get an additional entry. Please leave a second comment letting me know how you subscribe.

Note: If you are a no-reply blogger then please include your e-mail address. If I can not reach you, you can not win.

Thank you so much and I hope that you will decide to follow my blog and join me on my quilting, sewing, and pattern writing adventures.

Cheryl

Giveaway now closed, thank you all so much for entering!!