The giveaway is now closed to comments. Thanks for playing my game! Winner to be announced Thursday 10/13.
I got a chance to take The Wedding Quilt to DD Elaine's a couple of nights ago. It is already plenty big for their queen bed and the addition of the narrow 3" border called for by the pattern is all that is necessary to finish off the top (Natural Beauty, Quilts and More, Winter 2010). I spent a lovely hour in the fabric store picking out a solid border fabric (actually, I spied the color almost immediately but wandered about looking at everything else for another hour). This is a Kona color called "Earth". It plays well with the rust fabric that will be the binding as well as the other neutrals in the top. Luckily, despite my MATH error, I bought twice as much as I thought I needed and
just eked out the number of strips required. Note to self: TWO sides + a TOP and BOTTOM= 4 borders.
In other news, a very lovely number has come up on my sidebar--there are 100 Followers of my little blog. Briefly I had 101 Followers a couple of different days; not sure what caused them to go away, but do hope they come back. To celebrate the triple digit experience, a thank-you-for-following giveaway is in order, don't you think? Since I am a obviously a WORD girl, the prize will be a copy of Word Play Quilts, the free-pieced lettering guide I've been using for my Any Witch Way quilts, so some lucky person can play with words too.
By coincidence the author,
Tonya Ricucci, is appearing on The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson this week. She has a photo of Alex Anderson standing in front of the "Cake Quilt", for which I made the SOAR block. Pretty cool! Subscribers to The Quilt Show can view episode #907, otherwise you can sign up to view it for free through October 9th
HERE.
For the giveaway, I'd love to hear about more unusual but real names you may have among your family or friends and neighbors. Leave one comment to enter and make sure your email is either in your profile or the comment so I have a way to contact you. Following is not a requirement to enter. I'll be ordering the book through Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville website and she does ship internationally. Comments will close Wednesday night by 11 pm and a winner will be selected Thursday, lucky October 13th, in the morning.