Thank you to Barb for giving me the Lemonade Award. I love blogging because I get to know more people and realize how great the quilting community is. I love it.

Check out this fabric. I cut out these 4 1/2 inch strips about five years ago intending to do a quilt, but it became part of the scrap pile and has been through three moves. I am wanting to use it now to do some kind of flower quilt for the HMQS quilt show in Salt Lake City coming up in May. I have a had a great time at that show, last year I got first place in the Edge to Edge machine quilting competition on my "Judi's Album" quilt and I would like to enter again. You can see the close up of the quilting here. The theme of the competition is "Pump up the Color" and I thought these colors would work. Now I just have to decide what to do with these scraps, any suggestions?

A quilter's confession...

Here's a little window into my quilting life. I confess, I am not neat. Fabric, thread, pins and scissors are pretty much everywhere. My dinning table is my sewing table and my kids are lucky if they don't get thread in their food.

If there is a flat space, my "stuff" is there. My ironing board needs help! Luckily the ironing board (a gift from my husband) is pretty big so I still have room to iron my quilt pieces.

I love my quilts and usually have them folded at least, but my kids like to play----jump on them so they end up like this. Notice my photos are not color? That's because it doesn't look as messy. Right?

I confess the laundry is done, but not folded. It probably won't be folded. Why fold? There is too much quilting to do. Take care!

I'm working on something.........

You know when you are quilting something and you just aren't sure what it is going to look like and you are not sure you will like it? Well, that was the case with this quilt, but when I pulled it off the machine I loved it.

I have to say that quilting is one of my favorite things to do. It is so great. I would show the whole quilt, but it is my newest design and you can't see the whole thing until my pattern is finished, so stayed tuned. I'll give you a hint on the theme of the quilt, it has to do with my company name. Any guesses?

Some things I love...

I love little hands.

I love little feet.

I love a whole drawer full of quilting thread!

I love green fabric!

I love graph paper. I use graph paper to start a new quilt design and in this case I used it to figure out how many numbers to use in my random drawing for my giveaway.
As you can see, or not if it is too small; the columns on the left represent the comment number and the numbers to the right represent the numbers assigned to the comment. I had 131 comments (looks like more, but there were more than one comments from a few of you) and twenty-eight of you qualified for 5 entries. That made a total of 243 entries. Comment 102, number 196 won the random drawing.

Congratulations to Cristie from Arlington, Washington.

I would like to thank you all for commenting and entering the drawing, my first giveaway I am happy to say was a success. Please check back often for my quilting tips, new designs and great giveaways. Take Care----------- Judi

Oh, in case you are wondering, I use Superior Thread, So Fine! for my quilting.
And I have fabric on my website here. Check it out!