Giveaway over on JaneMonkStudio Blog and some quilting

 Over on my other blog ... janemonkstudio.blogspot.com I am giving you the chance to win this hand drawn by me - Illuminated Letter Zentangle style ... if you win I will put in any initial you want ... it is drawn on the 20th December 2010 (to celebrate the opening of my online store http://janemonkstudio.com) 

Go visit and check it out ..

 Isn't it wonderful how a simple all over quilt pattern can bring a quilt to life ... mind you this one is very pretty.

 A close up ... this pattern is Merrily Heart by Anne Bright ... very pretty.

 Make a feature of the back.

 And another ... this time with Angel Wings

This has to be an all time favourite pattern

Okay ... doing necessary maintenance on the quilt machine ... hopefully I can still meet the deadlines before Christmas ... it is very stressful not being able to quilt when I need to quilt!

Cheers for now ... Jane x

The Giveaway Winner is......

HELEN!   Wow, another Tasmanian  - how about that.

Helen was number 16 on my little list and the lovely Random.Org thingy picked 16.

I am up early this morning so thought I would do my draw so as to cut the suspense (I know you all have other things to do and not many of us quilters are obsessive - lol!)

So Congratulations Helen ... this little pin cushion is heading your way - send me an email with your addy please.

We'll have to do it again when I get to 250 postings - not far away now!


A big big thankyou to everyone who participated and left a comment, we had some interesting guesses ... it has been lovely and I have visited some blogs I haven't been to before.  

Happy Quilting for the weekend ... Jane

The Big Giveaway Reveal ... Ta Da !

It is a Pincushion with a compartment in the bottom to put your bits in.

Oh it is sooo cute ... I am going to have to make myself one now too!  You know how sometimes you have that lightbulb go off in your head ... and I love pincushions so wanted to come up with something of my own design.  I am very happy with this.

So if you have left me a comment ... this is what will come your way if you win the GIVEAWAY ... I loved some of the comments btw.

The Big Pin Cushion Draw is tomorrow ....

Then I had to make another one because this is what started me on my pin cushion making mission ... I am in a pincushion swap and my lovely partner likes purple ... so the purple one is for Ruth - hope she likes it.

Inside ... and you can see they are a good size.  I wanted to have the pincushion lid come off ... but it was too impractical once I had pins in it ... so the bottom had to be the removable bit.

I am happy how it worked out and will now set about writing up the pattern.

See ... lots of room.

And just for something a little different ... some quilting I have been doing for a customer a couple of weeks ago ... but a lovely quilt.

So come back tomorrow when I will draw out the winner of the Pincushion.   You still have one day to make a comment.

Happy Quilting for now ... Jane x

I will be teaching at Australian Machine Quilting Festival - Adelaide 1-4 October 2010 Check it out!

THE WINNERS ARE

The winners of my 200th Post Giveaway are Number 12 and Number 5 on my list of 41 people ... I used a Random Number Generator to get my numbers.  I typed a list of people (not including double up postings) and included those that sent me some emails to my email rather than on my blog .... so  these people are :

No 12 - GERALDINE - from North West Tasmania - hello Geraldine
No 5 - BEC CLARKE  - from New South Wales

I will send you girls an email ... so you can send me your snail mail addy.  

This has been fun ... I will have to do another giveaway soon.  Thank you to everyone who left a comment on my blog, and to those that are following ... I love to read your comments as it makes me think differently about my quilting - as a long arm quilter you don't really get too much company and discussion about your quilting styles - apart from the very happy customers of course.

So Happy Australia Day and Happy Quilting until next time. ... Jane x

200th POST GIVEAWAY

Okay, here we go....this is my 200th posting and I know everyone loves a giveaway.    The giveaway is open to everyone and is my way of saying Thankyou for reading my blog and leaving all those lovely comments. 


The giveaway is this lovely A6 pocket sized Journal Cover made by me and I quilted it on my domestic machine. 


I will randomly choose a winner on Tuesady 26 January 2010 which is Australia Day - yay!


So come along and play .   Oh, and please leave your email details in the post because I can't reply to no-reply bloggers if you are the winner.

This is the back view 

I just love this Cat fabric - it is called Pampered Pets - I got mine from The Quilt Patch in Launceston.

This is the centre 

 And last but not least,  these are what were visiting my backyard today ... they are Australian Native Bush Hens ... but we call them Turbo Chooks because they run so fast...lol!

  Isn't the little baby one cute

Happy Quilting until the Giveaway Draw on Australia Day 26 January 2010 ... Jane