Its a Giveaway!

Okay, here it is - part of my string projects giveaway! To have a chance at winning this lovely prize package, make a comment on this post and tell me what your favorite color is. I'll draw the winner (or have someone totally impartial do it!) on the morning of Tuesday, February 23rd. Please check back to see if you're the winner!

What did I mean when I said "part" of the giveaway? Yet to be included is whatever string project I make this week. At this point, I haven't started on it yet which means I really don't know what it will be! But it will be something, it always is.

Already included in this prize package are two of the strawberry pincushions I made back in week 2 of the string challenge, a tissue pack holder made in week 4 (added bonus - free tissue pack) and also two potholders which should have turned out looking something like Stephanie's but didn't! Seriously as I was making them, I was wondering how difficult making a potholder could possibly be! Finally, there are three fat quarters of 1980's era fabric - two are Ginny Beyer and the other is unknown.

And then there's the chocolate - Premium M&Ms - "truly tempting layers of milk chocolate, white chocolate and dark chocolate". You probably can't see it but they're a very pretty irridescent color of blue, purple and pink. Mmmm. Let me know how they are because they're not exactly what I can eat these days! BTW, there are 4 servings in that box. Plus, two Cadbury Easter eggs. Oh yeah, that should send you over the sugar edge!

I know my blog is only about a month old and not a lot of readers flocking here so I'm going to leave the giveaway open for a week. You can either decide that fewer entries mean a better chance of winning for you or you could share the news about the giveaway with everyone you know!

String Challenge - Week 2

We've been having more internet connection problems lately (new modem on the way) so I'm going to go ahead and post what I've finished so far this week before the modem goes haywire again. My goal is to finish something every week between now and June 30th!

Here's my update:

The blocks for my Chocolate Box quilt are done and and sewn together. Friday I'm planning to add the borders and I hope to get it sandwiched this weekend. Next I'm going to have to figure out how to machine quilt it on my sewing machine. I've heard the experience described as wrestling an anaconda snake and based on my previous machine quilting experiences, I'd agree!

Instead of cutting and sewing on the borders today, I finally succumbed and made these cute strawberry pincushions! I saw the project over on the Moda bakeshop site and decided to make them the string quilt way. Instead of a fabric cap of leaves, I used some felted wool I had available. Making these was kind of addicting and before I knew it, I'd made 7! I'll probably keep one of them and give the other six away but which one shall I keep?

By the way, has anyone else ever used lizard litter to stuff pincushions? OK, its really finely crushed walnut shells and is used in lizard and apparently also bird cages. The smallest bag I found is 10 dry quarts or 11 liters. I highly doubt I will ever use half the bag! Oh, Darlene, how many cups of this stuff did you say you want?

My next project will be a string quilt apron. I had to buy a pattern for this one but will make it the string quilt way. It looks easy but we all know how that goes!