It's Giveaway Day! AKA the post where i giveaway a quilt.

That's right folks, you read that correctly. I'm giving away a quilt. 

It's giveaway day over at Sew,Mama,Sew! and you know what that means!

Hundreds of contests to enter! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Come on, who doesn't love a contest?!

So, not wanting to be left out of all the fun i decided to giveaway this little number...

It's been a work in progress for quite sometime now. So i put it on my 2013 FAL list and just recently finished it. This quilt top was one of the first ones i made and because of this it's just not quite good enough to place in my shop. Don't get me wrong, i'm very happy with it and it's not going to fall apart or anything, but a lot of my corners were well off and the quilting is not what i had envisioned. So i want to send it off to someone who will love it for the handmade beauty that it is.

The stats :     36ish" x 38ish" - great size for tummy time, nap time, stroller time, wall hanging... 

                         ...you get the idea!

                    Pieced  with Cloud 9's organic cotton, finished square size is 2"

                    Bamboo batting inside.

                    Backed with Cloud 9 organics again.

                    Bound in... yep, Cloud 9 organics. Machine stitched with a decorative stitch.

                    Also, the fifth row down from the top has some little details of hand embroidery.

                
           And lastly, the quilting. I quilted little +'s on every other intersection and envisioned little o's on the alternating intersections. It would seem that this may or may not have been done while wearing an eye-patch and being chewed on by some sort of wild beast.

 Not quite the pretty little +'s and o's i had planned on, but i do like the effect on the back of the quilt, and they all but disappear on the front, kind of? From a distance at least. 

The above photo shows a truer representation of the colours, (as well as my misaligned corners).

So while my piecing has definitely improved since then (my free motion quilting, not so much) it's still a lovely quilt (if i do say so myself) and would make some little baby very happy!

Now to the nitty gritty...

Contest Now Closed

Mr. Random picked lucky number 90!

So Congrats to Rie who said -
"LOVE that quilt, whoever wins it will be the luckiest person on earth!
What do I want to improve... my patience, that way I may just have the patience to finish projects & not jump to new ones before finishing the old ones!"

Thank you for the kind words, and i totally agree with the patience to finish projects!
I've emailed you and hope to hear from you soon, so i can send out your lovely new quilt!

 And thank you so much to everyone who entered, these comments are just what i need for the days i'm feeling down! Feel free to come back as often as you like ;)

To enter all you need to do is leave a comment here (just one though!).

Need a conversation starter? How about letting me know what skill you'd like to improve upon, mine is definitely my FMQ!

Contest open to everyone, you have until Friday at 5:00 pm PST, were i will use the lovely Random # Generator to pull one lucky winners name! 

Please make sure that if you are a no-reply blogger you leave your email address for me to contact you!

I'll post the winning entry Friday night right here, as well as emailing the winner!

And as much as i would love to give everyone a quilt, it's not going to happen... but i can offer free shipping on any quilt in my shop until May 12th!

That's it! Good luck! And for all interested come on back tomorrow evening to see the finished Constellations HST quilt.  Edited to add - It's up, pop over and check it out! After you enter the giveaway of course ;)

High Fives for luck!

xo snips

Edited to add - I love each and every comment and i read them all, but while the contest runs i won't be able to respond to each as i normally would! If you've included a link to your blog i will try my best to pop over and check it out!