{Giveaway}: Little Folks Voile Scarf

Anna Maria Horner's Little Folks line is printed on voile (French for fantastic!) fabric that is buttery smooth and silky soft and, did I mention, fantastic! Voile is a wonderful, light-weight fabric that feels amazing.  I recently ordered more to use for a super soft quilt that I'm going to make this fall for next spring.  The colors from this line are wonderful for fall scarves as well, so... in celebration of the arrival of cooler temperatures, and the arrival of my Little Folks fabric order, I'm going to do my 1st Giveaway! 

The 4 fabrics the winners can choose from are pictured here.  The winners will also be able to choose if they want a regular scarf or an infinity scarf!

All you have to do to be registered to win is: 1) register as a follower of this blog and 2) leave a comment!  I will select 2 winners at random on Wednesday, October 13th (since 13 is such a lucky number) and will announce the winners on Friday, October 15th.  BONUS: if you REFER A FRIEND, have them mention your name in their comment and your name will be entered into the drawing twice!  Please be sure to leave your e-mail address in your comment if it isn't visible on your profile!

I'm so excited to do this Giveaway! 
P.S. To find more givewaways you can use Giveaway Scout, a giveaway search engine. 

Weekend Update: Elliott's Baby {Quilt} and Giving Up?

We'll start with "Giving Up?" first...  For those of you who don't know, I cannot stand fast food and have a strong (and recently validated) fear of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).  Fast food and HFCS are both BIG contributors to obesity and heart disease in America.  While I cannot disclose the results of the study, because it's ongoing, I CAN say that the results of the study thus far have motivated me to give up BOTH... FOREVER.  I will no longer knowingly eat anything with HFCS and I will do my best to not eat fast food! 

I make a new baby quilt every time a friend has a baby.  This is a NEW tradition and so far I have made 4 and have 2 more in the works for due dates in December and January, which are the "Big Stitches" projects I have ongoing.  However, I felt this incredible pang of guilt as I was sitting on the couch hand quilting one the other night for a friend since I realized that while I have intended to make a quilt for my son, Elliott (9 months old), it kept getting moved to the back burner along with my Folk Dance quilt for myself. 

Elliott - 9 months

ET's just too cute to leave hanging... so, this weekend I decided that I would pull out the adorable fabric bundle I purchased from Fabricworm the other week and get started.  I put all of my other projects on the backburner to make this one.  Hope you like it!  The fabric palette for the quilt top is Lagoon and Lime and is comprised of the following fabrics:

Michael Miller's Groovy Guitars in Lagoon, Ta Dot in Lagoon, Zoology in Lagoon,
Play Dot in Lagoon, and Dinky Dots in Lime; 
Monaluna Circa 50 Starburst in Pool, Woodland Chain in Pool, and Tree Stripes

I used Kona Solids in Coal for the sashing and worked on the quilt most of the weekend during what little free time I had and here is the finished quilt top!  I hope you like it.  I'll start the quilt back this week and will try to get this finished by the end of next weekend so I can include it in next Monday's Weekend Update!



Elliott's Finished Lagoon and Lime
Charm Square Quilt Top

Now I just have to decide HOW I want to quilt this one...

Fabric, Fabric Everywhere...Organizational Help from the Experts!

So, I just started quilting approximately 3 years ago and I've used so many beautiful fabrics.  I LOVE fabric!  ...so much so that I can't seem to stop buying them up when I see some I like and I also can't seem to part with scraps that I think I may use in the future.  The problem with this is that I have drawers full of unorganized fabric.  I'm SO type A that it's driving me CRAZY just knowing these drawers exist, but at the same time I don't know HOW to tackle this issue... so I keep the scrap/extra fabric drawers closed so that I don't have to look at them.  I felt motivated to remedy this problem yesterday, so I emptied out 1 drawer onto my workspace in the kitchen.  In the end, I was so overwhelmed that I ended up just putting it all back into the drawer!

I'm in need of some advice from the experts out there on HOW to organize my fabrics!  I'm overwhelmed by the amount that I'm begining to accumulate.  I don't want to just throw them away, but how do I organize them for future use WITHOUT becoming a fabric hoarder!?!?! 

I posted a topic about this in The Modern Quilt Guild group on flickr.com online and I sincerely hope to get some suggestions as to how to approach this. 

You can see this post at http://www.flickr.com/groups/themodernquiltguild/discuss/72157625010128160/

I hope that the suggestions come rolling in and that you all find them helpful as well!  I'll post in the future about how I handle this issue and what the end result looks like.  Thanks in advance for the help and advice!