Quilt Market--cool stuff and free stuff!
Most of our Market wanderings consist of visiting friends and checking out cool booths--you know, to see fabric and of course quilts!
So I'm strolling along one of the main aisles and I did a complete double take when passing the Kangaroo Kabinets booth. I already have a perfectly serviceable sewing cabinet. And to be honest, that sort of furniture really doesn't get my heart racing. But that was before I met "Olivia".
Insert heavy sigh here. Isn't this the cutest sewing machine cabinet in the history of sewing machine cabinets? Why yes, it is. Olivia comes in that adorable green or in white. I'm trying very hard to justify the purchase of an Olivia--I truly believe I could make cuter quilts with her help.
Here's a quilt I recognize! It's called "Vintage Delight" and is hanging in the Lecien booth...I designed it out of their always gorgeous Durham Quilt Collection fabrics and you can find the free pattern on their website.
Speaking of free...how about a give-away? Moda Home always has a nifty freebie and this time was no exception. How cute is this teatowel calendar?? I just so happen to have a couple of spares courtesy of my good friends the URBAN CHIKS. Maybe you've heard that Pam and I know the Urban Chiks??
Well we do, and their new line "Sweet" is so wonderful I can hardly stand it.
What's that pink and white package? That's a product called "Lickety Grip". It's stuff you put on your fingers to help you grip fabric. It's great for sewing, quilting and even for helping you keep your bra straps up. I was given a demonstration of the product and I was impressed. Non toxic, non greasy, and best of all, no smell.
So maybe you'd like to try it?
Hmmm...how about we round out the giveaway with a couple of new Late Bloomer Quilts patterns?
OK, you all know the drill...leave a comment and I'll pull a name (or 2) this weekend!
posted by Elizabeth at 1:24 PM
90 Comments:
Love your pics from quilt market. Pick me, Pick me!!! nurse payne
Wow! I can't believe I'm the second to leave a comment. Love your charming and sweet quilt patterns and your blog, too.
(Especially the g-pig pictures - they almost make me want to adopt one - and make a mini bee costume.) Thanks for letting me enter. Judy B.
Oh, I want Olivia too...in white..pretty please!!! Fabulous quilt design!
Oh yes.....I need to justify buying Olivia too! Too darling!
Love your quilt!
Olivia is beautiful. And the pink sewing machine - wow.
I'd love some patterns and lickity split! Fun times at Quilt market. Thanks for sharing.
I know. Can't we put it up there in your room somewhere so we can sew together?
I saw that Olivia cabinet too, and it is just adorable!! I had the same thoughts as you. Still trying to justify it, somehow can't just yet.
I flipped over that sewing cabinet too!! I already have a great sewing cabinet, but don't you think my "Hello Kitty" machine I bought for my granddaughter would look adorable in that?!
*groan* I think I need that sewing cabinet! Right now I'm sewing on a retro table from the fifties. Which, of course, would match that tea towel!
Your quilt design is awesome! I hope I live to a thousand, there are so many quilts I want to make.
Allie
Oh my I would love a pattern of yours...Sweet Bouquets.....or maybe Butterflies...anything with my name on it would be great. Love your site.
skalmeyer@neo.rr.com
Love the green Olivia sewing table, but I would love the Pink sewing machine to go with it! Love pink/green combo. Also enjoy reading your blog!!!
libertythreads@charter.net
I wonder if Santa would bring me one of the new sewing cabinets. It is gorgeous.
Glad you had a good time at Market. That sewing machine table is over the top cute!
Okay. . . I don't have a sewing 'cabinet'. . . (just an old farm table that I sew on . . .)
Hmmm. . . . I think I feel a list of justifying why I suddenly '"need" a sewing 'cabinet'. . . (clarify that. . . a CUTE sewing 'cabinet') ! ! !
xo, Bren
I love that cabinet, it is much morn stylish than my old horn sewing cabinet. Thank you for sharing!
Oooooh, Olivia sure is pretty. I am sure she would help make beautiful quilts. I wonder if it is time for a sewing room makeover?
Olivia looks a lot like the desks we had in college ages ago and not as business like as the newer ones.
Love the quilt Vintage Delight. Beautiful! I want Olivia too.
Donna
I am just loving these posts...and Olivia...wow, she's gorgeous! And I would so love to win your giveaway...the tea towel, the lickety grip, and patterns too! Thanks again for sharing everything about market!
That cabinet is adorable. I'm almost positive that owning WOULD produce cuter quilts! Thanks for the heads up on the Likity Grip. I've been looking for that!
Olivia IS very cute. Thanks once again for great Market pics.
Thanks for showing the cute cabinet! Love your market reports and cute giveaways. Jan
Oh boy, oh boy....no more sagging bra straps and patterns too. I NEED to win, just trust me on this one (G)!!!!! Thanks for the chance at the give away and I vote that you NEED that sewing cabinet!!!! XXX Annelies
I'm an Aussie - and I think everyone should have their own Kangaroo!!! You'll be able to 'hop to it' and stitch lots more quilts! (By the way - I'd get the white!)
Kind regards - Dawn
I love your designs!!!! I want to take part, thanks
"olivia" is super cute! I'm off to check out their site - thanks for the links :)
Oooh, I think everybody needs her own Olivia...at least I wish I could have such a cutie.
The 'Vintage Delight' quilt is gorgeous...as every of your design...!
Thanks for sharing pictures of Quilt Market with us - so I can pretend I was there ;o).
And, of course, thanks for sharing with a giveaway. I'd love to enter the draw for one of your designs (I'd be more than happy!!).
Cheers, Julia
Thanks for sharing! Your blog is great and so is that Olivia! Make mine green, Santa.
Olivia is the sweetest thing! Thanks for sharing her picture and your give-aways.
Oh that calender would look so good in my house! And I'd love to try out the grippy stuff! SO like everyone else says, Pick ME! Pick ME!!!
Olivia is beautiful! I love the gingerbread type decorations. I think that is a reasonable and necessary purchase!
I think I could find a place for "Oliva" and several of your quilts!
Definitely think you could make many more beautiful quilts with Olivia!
I love the linen calendar. Please count me in!
I sooooo wish I could have been there too. I'll take one cabinet in green and one in white!
I could surely make cuter quilts if I had that cabinet in my sewing room! Your blog is always a delight, thanks so much.
Great new patterns Elizabeth! I'd love to win a prize, thank you, thank you! Terry
I would love to be entered in your contest. Again. Sigh. I never win - but I never give up either. grin.
I love hearing about Quilt Market and all the cool stuff that is coming soon. And the pistachio cabinet is awesome. Something to wish for! Thanks for keeping us posted. Sarah G
OMG, Olivia is a wonder....wonder if I could make quilting more delightful if I had her??
Looking forward to all your new patterns E...they looked fab in your booth photos.
Olivia is to die for. Loved your photos.
I love that sewing table/cabinet. That is something that Nikki would love. I'll have to tell her about it. Oh, I envy all of you girls at the market. Kids in a candy store!
Put my name in for the drawing!
See ya.
Wow that Lickety grip stuff sounds neat...Sounds like you had a wonderful time!
What fun quilt market must have been. Would love to win but I do enjoy just looking at your blog. Thanks
Barbara
Thanks for showing the quilt market stuff. I'm so sad not to be able to go there. Maybe a nice prize would make it all better!
Wow, that sewing cabinet is the cutest. I just sew on my dining room table, isn't that awful?
I was just doing some quilting today and I actually thought, I wish I had something sticky on my hands to help! Aha! You named it!
Cute giveaways...I'd love to be entered in your drawing! Thanks! --Jen
Oh how I hope I am lucky - such wonderful prizes you are offering. Thanks.
Ditto on the Olivia -- I think I would be much more prolific quilter if I had one. In green.
That tea towel is too cute! Hope I win!
I'm in! I just love seeing everyone's pictures from Market. So much inspiration!
thanks for sharing your market experience! i'd love some of those great freebies! count me in, please!
OMG! It's the sewing cabinet I never knew I wanted, but now I must have it! Sooooooo cute! I would love to be entered in the drawing too.I love your patterns.
I love the cabinet. I think you should get it! :)
I would love to try lickety grip or win some of your patterns. I love the new ones, too, that you put up on the website.
Your trip to market was fun. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.
I love the green sewing table too! You have fabo patterns.
I say buy the "Olivia." Not that your quilts could get any cuter, but it sure is an adorable sewing cabinet. I really need that "lickety grip" stuff. It would come in so handy. Thanks for the opportunity to win some really neat stuff.
thanks for sharing all your quilt market photos my dear.
:D
You have some realaly sweet give aways. Pick me please!
Osagebluffquilter
Elizabeth, I received my adorable banner kit today and want to thank you again for picking me as the winner! I can't wait to get it started. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I think I could sew cuter quilts with the Olivia sewing table too! Debbie W. aka Material Girl
Love your market photos!! I really wish I hadn't see that great green "Olivia" sewing table....I would love to be in your drawing thanks!
Wow....what a give away. And I agree that the sewing cabinet is the cutest ever.
Great giveaway - I love the vintage look of the tea towel calendar. Wouldn't that look swell at my cottage -- it would match the vintage plaster fruit that hangs above my sink (they came with the place and just seem to "go"). Hope I'm the lucky winner! Thanks for being so generous. (Too bad that the company isn't having a giveaway for an Olivia!)
I think I would sew better looking all cute with the desk too! Thanks for a great giveaway!
I think you NEED Olivia!!! It is just gorgeous, about time someone has designed something so pretty to sew on.
Please please please I would love to win this giveaway, count me in!!
I think Olivia would be a beautiful addition to your sewing room! So glad you had a wonderful time at market. And the Vintage Delight pattern is delightful! I always love your patterns.
LadyBaltimore
i LOVE Olivia! i'm thinking you should reward yourself for all of your hard work prior to market and get her. she needs you. there are a few of your patterns i think i have to have.. i'm trying to get it down to two or three! looks like market was fun. i'm going to go sometime when i grow up. thanks for sharing your wonderful market pics. makes us little people feel more included!
I agree...what a darling sewing table. I just took a gander at your patterns & how sweet they are - esp. the bags with the graphics (do the graphics come with the pattern?)...I'm only just learning how to quilt now - actually by hand not machine and my goodness I think I want to use the machine & speed it up!
Thank you for the chance to win...the Moda calendar is darling - I have some fabric that matches it. And, I just saw the Moda Sweet fabrics - appropriate name - I must get some.
That is the cutest cabinet ever..maybe you could sell your old one...good luck ... Toni
Thanks for the great market pics. I too think I could make cuter quilts with Olivia's help. :) Great giveaway, thanks for offering it.
I love Olivia,the color goes great with the redo iI am doing in my sewingroom.
Brenda:)
I don't think I have seen a tea towel calendar in my kitchen for at least 9 years!!! Non toxic, non greasy, non smelly, Lickety split!!! Count me in!!! The colors are perfect for the decor!!! Olivia sent me!!!
I believe it would be impossible to not make cuter quilts if you had a table like Olivia! I think I may have to save my pennies for this one!
It sounds like you had a grand time at market. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
Mary
I LOVE your Lecien quilt! Just so darn beautiful... as are all of your quilts!!!
Hello, and what a great post!!! I'm sooo glad to see that they are making painted sewing cabinets like that. How cute is that green!!! And my Mom always had the calendar tea towels. I remember drying dishes with them as a child. It was always fun to pull those out of the drawer and look at the dates on them.
Betsy
I'm so jealous of you at the quilt market- thanks for sharing it with us.
Tanya
Yes. I can see how "Olivia" took your heart away Elizabeth, it is lovely. Please put me in your draw for your giveaway. Thanks
Looks like you had a wonderful time at Quilt Market!
The sewing table is really cute. It's something my gramma would have loved.
Just so you know, if you get to the point where you get tired of reading all the comments, I'll understand if you can't include me! I feel almost (notice I said "almost") guilty putting a comment in when there are already sooo many! But if you can sneek me in that would be great! I have a friend that I would love to share your patterns with!
Waiting for the next installment of Quilt Market Pic's!
LOVE love, love the big O!!! Things are just bound to come out cuter!!! Kathie k.bugbee@att.net
I WANT THAT DESK!!!!!
I love the "Olivia" cabinet! Do you think we can get a group discount??? Your booth looks adorable. Market is like being in the land of "Oz". Looks like you had a great time!
Thanks for the news from Houston.
I'm looking forward to the "Sweet" line too.
Robin
wow I love the quilt you designed! that lickity might work for me!!! great tea towels too! Now Olivia in green will be my wish upon a star...
Wow, I love that sewing cabinet. I just had to check it out. I like your blog, thanks for sharing.
So, it must be fate...last night I was complaining about my current sewing table and my DH said, just get a new one and don't worry about it. And to that I said, well what would I do with the old one? And he said, who cares, we can just chop it up and put it in the trash. Whoa. That is not the DH I know that saves every THING! It's a sign I am destined to have the Olivia. And better yet, it's my oldest kitty's name. We now call her Old livia...hee. Please drop me in the bucket for the free pattern...my luck is running high! Pam in Chico
Count my name in for the draw! Love your site and popping in to see what you're up to. Great seeing the photos from market - couldn't make it again this year (darn!). Love the quilt design . . . I'll be checking into that for sure. - Marlene
Oh my! I hope I'm not too late. :-)
You're killing me, Elizabeth. I get into so much trouble when you put out new patterns. Yours are out of this world cute! I must have Butterfly Love and Rose Cross. And OH! the Artful Bag and Frankie's Apron. Just delish. And if you want to throw my name in the drawing that would be great. I never win, but enter me anyway.
Savin' me pennies to buy more patterns,
Cathy
I love the pattern for Licien and Olivia in green is darling. Pick me plez! I never win anything!
Oh wow I really think that I need to figure out where to put an olivia table in my sewing room IT us uber cute.
OH you certainly need that table. That is adorable!!! Your quilts would be beautiful made on that table.
Please enter me in your drawing!!!
I love reading of your antics - please include me in your lovely giveaway.
Tina D.
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