Peanut Butter Pinwheels Quilt and Pattern Finished - Plus Giveaway

I have a finish to show you today, my Peanut Butter Pinwheels quilt and accompanying pattern.  It is a very easy and fun pattern; when you put the blocks together you get cute pinwheels on a scrappy background. (And as an added bonus, one layer cake makes a really nice lap size).

For this quilt I used a layer cake of PB&J by Basic Grey for Moda and quilted the background white fabric with some dense back and forth quilting and quilted the print fabrics using a meandering stitch pattern.

As with my other new patterns, I have listed this pattern on Etsy and Craftsy for $6 for the first two weeks (until April 8th).

And now for the GIVEAWAY

I will be giving two winners each copies of my newest two digital quilt patterns (Peanut Butter Pinwheels and Shoo Fly Pie)

I would really like to spread the word about my two newest quilt patterns so for the giveaway, you can earn entries by...

On Craftsy:  

• pin the pattern on pinterest
• like the pattern on facebook and/or 
• wish list the pattern

Peanut Butter Pinwheels on Craftsy
Shoo Fly Pie on Craftsy

On Etsy: 

• favorite the pattern on etsy
• tweet the pattern
• pin the pattern on pinterest and/or 
• like the pattern on facebook 

Peanut Butter Pinwheels on Etsy
Shoo Fly Pie on Etsy

So that is 7 ways x 2 patterns for a total of 14 entries possible.  To enter, please leave one comment with how many entries you earned, you do not have to list what methods you used.  Make sure to include your e-mail address if you are a no-reply blogger.

This giveaway will be open for 2 weeks, until Wednesday night, April 10th.  Good luck and thank you so much for spreading the word!

This finish was my March A Lovely Year of Finishes goal.  I was link #121 in the setting linky party and you can find my goal setting post here.

I am liking up with Linking up to Sew Cute Tuesday @ Blossom Heart Quilts, Fabric Tuesday @ Quilt Story, Let's Bee Social @ Sew Fresh Quilts, Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation, I Quilt @ Pretty Bobbins, Link a Finish Friday @ Richard and Tanya Quilts, Whoop Whoop Friday @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Thank Goodness Its Finished Friday, Finish It Up Friday @ Crazy Mom Quilts , Sewjo @ My Go Go Life, Show Off Saturday @ Sew She Can, and Fabric Frenzy Friday @ Fort Worth Fabric Studio.

Sunday Stash Linkup - March 23rd

I have a few goodies to show today.

One of my favorite fabric shops, Del Ray Fabrics, just got in Fox Field by Tula Pink and had a sale going on so I got the cute polka dot with bunnies prints in the three colorways.  I was thinking about getting a bundle of the entire line, but I restrained myself (it has been harder not to order the bundle after I got these prints...the colors are wonderful).

Also in the shop were these organic prints from Moda that were super cheap.  With more restraint, I only got 1/2 yard cuts of these.

Just yesterday I got this super wonderful bundle in the mail.  It is the Oakshott Impressions fat eighth bundle of Oakshott cottons from Contemporary Cloth that was sent to me for a tutorial that will launch in mid to late April.

Happy Stashing!  I'm linking up with Sunday Stash with Molli Sparkles.

Shoo Fly Pie Pattern and Maritime Modern Patchwork Finished

I actually have two finishes to show today:

First, I have finished the Shoo Fly Pie quilt pattern and have it listed in my Meadow Mist Designs pattern shop and Etsy.  

The pattern is fat quarter and 1/4 yard cut friendly and contains instructions for five sizes (baby, lap, twin, queen, and king).

Secondly, since I used a fat quarter bundle of Maritime Modern for the Shoo Fly Pie quilt and I had a bunch left over so I cut up some of each fabric in to charm squares (5" square).  I made this simple patchwork quilt with some of the squares which will go to my brother and sister in-law if they have a baby boy (they did not find out what they are having so I have a girl quilt made up too).

Here are some additional pictures of my Shoo Fly Finish...

I also played around with some additional colorways for the pattern... Remember you get a copy of the pattern in my Meadow Mist Designs pattern shop and Etsy.  

Cute Swap

I have been following Soma's blog Whims and Fancies for a long time.  If you don't follow her blog, you should go check it out right now, she is an absolutely amazing paper piece designer having designed some awesome instruments like a piano and a bunch of Doctor Who designs.  Go on now, I'll wait here while you visit her blog :)

I was very excited to see Soma commenting on a post of mine one day.  We got to e-mailing and realized that we have some very similar fabric and color preferences and decided to have a little swap.

I sent Soma a matching cathedral window pincushion and thread catcher using Architextures by Carolyn Friedlander (for Robert Kaufman) and Essex linen in black.

And here are the wonderful goodies I received back.  Soma made me this wonderful zipper pouch and snap pouch.  They are both living in my purse right now and I have already gotten so many compliments on them. (I really needed a zipper pouch and had it on my list of things to make, but like most just-for-me things it had been pushed to the bottom of the to-do list.)

I had such fun with the swap, thank you so much again Soma!

A peek into the sewing room

I had not given you a peek into what is going on in my sewing room in a while...here is what has been happening...

1.  Adding labels and hanging sleeves to quilts for a local quilt show.

I am going to have six quilts hanging in my local quilt show the Foothills Piecemakers Quilt Guild which is Friday and Saturday, March 28-29 at the Pelham Road Baptist Church (for those that are local).  One quilt to label and/or sew on hang sleeves would not actually be too bad, but labels for 6 and sleeves for 3 got a little old.

For the labels I used my sewing machine (Bernina 710) to make some quilt labels.  It is not an embroidery machine, but its letters are far better looking than my hand writing :)

2.  Peanut Butter Pinwheels

I have finished quilting and am now making and sewing on the binding.  The pattern is out at the reviewers and testers so hopefully this will be completely finished in the next week.

3.  Tic Tac Hashtag

The quilt top, backing, and batting are all set, I am just waiting for the rain to end so that I can spray the 505 outside.  I will be quilting this quilt in a diagonal cross-hatch.  (Sorry for the night picture, the pinks are actually red in real life)

4.  Tutorials - Other than the quilts above I have been working on a few tutorials for some websites that should be published in April.

That's what I have been up to...thanks for stopping by!

I'm linking up to Anything Goes Mondays @ Stitch by Stitch,  Design Wall Monday @ Patchwork Times, Sew Cute Tuesday @ Blossom Heart Quilts, Quilt Story Fabric Tuesday, Let's Bee Social @Sew Fresh Quilts, Show and Tell Tuesday @ I Have to Say, WIPs Wednesday @ Esthers Blog, and WIP @ Freshly Pieced.