Weekend Giveaway - winner!

Congrats to Alisa - she was the random winner of the Surprise Weekend Giveaway for the first issue of Fat Quarterly magazine ... she gets her issue today before it's available to buy tomorrow!!

Alisa, send me an email so I can forward your information to Fat Quarterly so they get you out your issue!

If you didn't win -- be sure to visit Fat Quarterly tomorrow to buy your subscriptions.  I for one can't wait to see everything they've got packed into their debut!

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Surprise! Weekend Giveaway: Fat Quarterly

Have you guys all heard the buzz swirling around the new sewing eZine that's debuting next week? The Fat Quarterly is launching next week and is an e-magazine written by modern sewists for modern sewist.

Each quarterly issue is going to be packed with: patterns, tutorials, challenges, interviews, previews of upcoming sewing lines and more. Are you super excited yet? You should be!

Look at the talented list of people involved in creating the eZine:

Tacha @ Hanies
Katy @ I'm a Ginger Monkey
John @ Quilt Dad
Kate @ One Flew Over ...
Brioni @ Flossyblossy
Aneela @ Comfortstitching

Also, as a Virtual Quilting Bee tie-in ... do you see what all 6 of these people have in common? Yup - they're all in at least one (some lots more than one!) Virtual Quilting Bee! See what a great community this is?



A Giveaway! Fat Quarterly has generously donated a copy of their first issue to us so one of YOU will be the first to see it & all it's goodness. It doesn't come out until Tuesday the 27th, but just comment ONCE on this entry for a chance to win a copy that will be emailed to you on Monday the 26th. That's it. If you want to tell me what you're sewing or what the weather is like where you live right now (rainy and cold here ... grrrr!) you can do that, too! Contest will only be open until Monday the 26th at 10:00am (MST) - so you've got to be quick.

If you don't win, don't worry, you can purchase a copy of the eZine that will be emailed to you on Tuesday. From the sneak peeks that have been posted already in their Flickr group I guarantee you're not going to want to miss out on this!

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Grand Opening Giveaway - winners !

Thanks again to everyone that helped make our Grand Opening week a great success! Now, for the winners!

Winner of the Spring fabric pack is:


Jenny

Winner of the Hope Valley mini quilt kit is:


 Kritta22

Winner of the Boy-ish fabric pack is:


 Meghan

Winner of the pattern + 2 yards of fabric is:


 MamaSpark

Winner of the Nicey Jane fat quarter pack is:


 Jennifer

Winners of the 3 Canasta quilt patterns are:


 Allisa


 Ruth


 Barb


Congratulations! If you won, look for an email from me. Thanks to everyone that tweeted, blogged and helped us spread the word about our new website. It's been a fun first week!

Thanks again to everyone that donated prizes for our Grand Opening Giveaway: Starlit Nest, Stitches&Scissors, Fabric Shoppe, Sew Love Fabrics & Oh, Fransson.

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Giveaway week - wrapup

Have you entered yet? Make sure to visit our Grand Opening Giveaway post in case you haven't .. and make sure to become a follower of this website so you don't miss out on anything! :)

Here's a reminder of all the great prizes you can win -- picking winners tomorrow (Monday) morning at 10am MST so make sure you've got you're comments in by then!

Spring fabric pack from me:

Hope Valley mini quilt kit from Alison at Starlit Nest on Etsy:



Boy-ish fabric pack from Darci at Stitches&Scissors:



Pattern and 2 yards of surprise fabric from Jody at Fabric Shoppe on Etsy:



Nicey Jane fat quarter set from Ruth at Sew Love Fabrics on Etsy:



3 winners will each win a copy of the Canasta quilt pattern from Elizabeth at Oh, Fransson:




Thank you thank you thank you to all you that generously donated great prizes to help make our Grand Opening week a big success!

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Giveaway week - 3 canasta quilt patterns

Psssssstttt ... click here to go to the Grand Opening Giveaway post where you can enter to win this and other great prizes all this week!

Our final items to giveaway is one that I'm most excited about ... because I am in love with this quilt pattern! I'm not one much for using patterns when making my quilts ... I'm much more fly by the seat of my pants and make up measurements as I go along ... but this is the one pattern I might break my no-pattern rule for!

Elizabeth at Oh, Fransson is generously giving away 3 copies of her Canasta quilt pattern! Isn't this pattern just gorgeous? It doesn't hurt that Elizabeth created them in some gorgeous color ways that really show off the pattern beautifully.

Elizabeth is also super nice and was really helpful in giving me some of her insight on Virtual Quilting Bees for this website. You need to visit her blog if you haven't before, she's got awesome tutorials and other patterns you can purchase (trust me, you'll want to break your no-pattern rule for her patterns, too!)

So make sure to visit our Grand Opening Giveaway post and enter to win one of three copies of the Canasta quilt, along with all the other great prizes we've been highlighting all this week. You have until Monday at noon (MST) to enter. Remember, you can blog, facebook, tweet, become a follower, etc for extra entries - no limit!

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Giveaway week - Nicey Jane fat quarter set

Psssssstttt ... click here to go to the Grand Opening Giveaway post where you can enter to win this and other great prizes all this week!

Are you all ready for this? Our next Grand Opening Giveaway prize is from Ruth at Sew Love Fabrics on Etsy. I had mentioned to Ruth how much I loved the new Nicey Jane fabrics from Heather Bailey and so she said she'd be happy to donate a fat quarter pack of 10 Nicey Jane fabrics for one of you to win! SO not fair that I can't win this -- I am dying for some more of this fabric!

Even if you don't win this awesome prize, if you're in need of some new fabrics go visit Ruth at her shop - right now she's having a spring cleaning sale and EVERYTHING is 20% off! Fabric, patterns, kits, even sale and clearance items. She's got an awesome selection of some of the best designer fabrics -- tell her you found her from Quilting Bee Blocks. :)

She also has a great blog, Let Me Sew Love, where she's also currently having a giveaway to help clear the shelves for all the new spring fabrics she's getting in soon.

So - visit our Grand Opening Giveaway post to enter to win this Nicey Jane fat quarter pack, shop Sew Love Fabrics where everything is 20% off until April 13th, and visit Ruth's blog, Let Me Sew Love to enter to win another awesome prize from her! It's a win-win-win situation! (Who can name that quote?!!)

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Giveaway week - pattern & 2 yards of fabric

Psssssstttt ... click here to go to the Grand Opening Giveaway post where you can enter to win this and other great prizes all this week!

When I was emailing some of my favorite fabric shops & Etsy sellers to see if they wanted to participate in our Grand Opening Giveaway, Jody at Fabric Shoppe was one of the first people to email me back and say she'd love to be a part of it!

Have you ever seen her shop on Etsy? It's chock-full of some of the newest and most popular fabric lines ... and she also sells patterns and awesome velvet ric rack. She's almost got 15,000 sales in just over 2 years so you KNOW she knows what she's doing and is a shop you can trust!



She graciously donated a surprise pack including a pattern from her shop and 2 yards of fabric! Guys, I kind of have an idea of what it's going to be and whoever wins this is going to LOVE it. (The above picture is just a general picture of some of the fabrics Jody sells in her stash builder listings -- we don't want to give away exactly what the prize is, it's a SURPRISE pack after all!)

Not only does Jody run a great Etsy shop, she's got a cool blog, Everyday Beautiful, and is super fun on Twitter. Just yesterday she ran a special Twitter-only sale on some fat quarter packs she was selling for a SUPER discount. I was mad I missed out on those! :)

Thanks so much, Jody, and you all make sure to go visit her blog and say hello from her Quilting Bee Blocks friends, and make sure to visit our Grand Opening Giveaway post to enter to win this fabulous surprise pack!

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Giveaway week - Boy fat quarter set

Psssssstttt ... click here to go to the Grand Opening Giveaway post where you can enter to win this and other great prizes all this week!

Today's prize is an awesome pack put together from Darci at StitchesAndScissors.com .... who's an awesome seamstress and Virtual Quilting Bee member (in three bees). I'm also lucky enough to call her my best friend! We may not live down the street from each other anymore but there's text and video chat and lots of long phone calls every day. ;)

Even though she's got two little girls, she knows that the boy-friendly fabrics are WAY under represented in the fabric world so she picked out these awesome boyish fabrics to give to a lucky winner:

The blue stars fabric is the Tiny Tots line by The Vintage Workshop (1/2 yard) & the cute little robots are a Japanese cotton/linen blend that is just gorgeous (fat 1/4)!

I personally have lots of boyish fabrics, having two little guys myself, and I just might have some extra fat quarters to throw in this pack for the winner. All in the name of destashing and spring cleaning. :)

Remember, help spread the word about our new site and enter to win one of these great prizes by commenting on the Grand Opening Giveaway post here.

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Giveaway week - Hope Valley mini quilt kit

Psssssstttt ... click here to go to the Grand Opening Giveaway post where you can enter to win this and other great prizes all this week!

The second prize we've got to give away this week is this SUPER cute Hope Valley Mini Kit from Alison at StarlitNest on Etsy.  How great of an idea is this?!  Alison will send you everything you need to make a doll or mini quilt out of these beautiful Hope Valley fabrics.  You could even use some of the leftover scraps from the kit in some of your Quilting Bee Blocks this month??!  (hint, hint!)

Included in the adorable kit:

- 20 white cotton squares
- 20 different 3" squares from the Hope Valley fabric line by Denyse Schmidt
- 1 long strip of white cotton for the border
- cotton batting
- backing fabric
- ready-to-sew binding

What a great quick and easy project -- I can see it being the cutest little doll quilt, or wall quilt, table runner ... or even just to get an up-close look at the beautiful Hope Valley if you haven't had a chance to see it in person yet! (It's gorgeous!)

Alison's also got great scrap bags for sale in her shop - hello Flea Market Fancy anyone??!!  Thanks so much, Alison, for sponsoring this giveaway for our Grand Opening!

Remember, help spread the word about our new site and enter to win one of these great prizes by commenting on the Grand Opening Giveaway post here.

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Grand Opening Giveaway!

The Grand Opening Giveaway is now closed!

I'm so excited it's our first week of posting here for Quilting Bee Blocks (.com!).  I have so many things planned for this website and hope that it will be a resource and source of inspiration for many of you out there - whether you are in a Virtual Quilting Bee - want to be in a VQB - don't know what the heck a VQB is -- regardless, please visit often, comment, and be inspired by all the amazing quilting bee blocks out there!

Now what's a Grand Opening without prizes?  We've got lots of great prizes to give away this week, and here's how it's going to work:

Our main goal here is to SPREAD THE WORD about our new site.  So basically anything you do to help us spread the word will count for an entry.

Your first entry is a freebie- just comment on this post once for your first chance.  It's not necessary if you're in a quilting bee or just interested in our site - just comment and say hi or something!  If you want to earn extra entries, here are some things you can do:

1.  Become a follower of the site (either through the follow this site widget on the sidebar or in your RSS reader)
2.  Follow us on Twitter (@beeblocks)
3.  Write a post about us on your personal blog
4.  Post our button on your sidebar
5.  Start a thread about us in any Flickr groups you may own (preferably all those awesome Bee groups out there!)
6.  Hire a sky-writer and have him type "QuiltingBeeBlocks.com" up in the air in his trail (Um hello!  You might just have to win the whole she-bang if you do this one!) :)

So - comment once for your first entry.  Comment one additional time for each extra you earn, leaving me your twitter name, blog link or Flickr group if applicable.

The contest will run for one week: next Monday, April 12th the contest will close at 10:00 am MST and I'll choose the winners using Random.org.

So what's up for grabs?  I'm going to be posting the prizes all throughout the week (and you can see a sneak peek of some more of the prizes here) -- up first is a little fat quarter set that I put together from my stash.  It's kind of spring-y and happy to me, and you can't go wrong with a little Heather Ross and some polka dots:

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Giveaway Sneak Peek

To celebrate the Grand Opening of this new blog & to get people excited about helping us spread the word we're going to have an awesome giveaway starting Monday!  We've got a load of great prizes donated from some generous people so you're going to have multiple chances to win something.  Here's a sneak peek of some of the goods -- make sure to come back Monday to find out how you can enter & help Quilting Bee Blocks .com grow!

p.s.  I'm currently looking for people to feature in articles about Virtual Quilting Bees.  If you've got a great block, quilt done with bee blocks, or had a great experience with your bee and want to be featured - email me to tell me about it!

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