Crafted Appliqué: It's Super Quilter!, France's Cards, & Rainbow Rose Quilt Along

Today is the day that I'm announcing the two winners of Zippy Seahorse Sewing Notion Bags.  But first, I thought you might like to see another project from my book, Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities.

This project was designed and sewn by my daughter Kait.  It was her first attempt at appliqué and she did really great!  She used her design to make a sewing machine needle case, but the pattern could be adapted to any number of projects, from journal covers, to bags, to pillows...     

"It's Super Quilter" Sewing Machine Needle Case by Kait Buccella

Here's a view of the inside, fully loaded for Kait's Featherweight;

"It's Super Quilter" Sewing Machine Needle Case by Kait Buccella

The really cool back ground fabric on the cover is a Spoonflower fabric designed by Virginie Ozanon, aka demigoutte.  It's called Rainy and Criminal Night.

A really corny sense of humor runs through our family.  I figure that on BuzzinBumble there's plenty of room for being goofy, so here ya go: 

It's Super Quilter!

(Super Quilter is a slightly altered version of an image I found on Marlene Romero’s page of free superhero clip art and is used with her kind permission)

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INSPIRATION   IMAGINATION   CREATION

France Nadeau, who blogs at francenadeau.com is an artist and quilter I've always admired, not just for her skills with needlework of all kinds, but for how inventive she is and how she uses every kind of fabric and fiber in her work.  France makes use of every scrap and it's so inspiring to see what she creates!  She is also the host of the Fabric, Thread, and Yarn linky party, which is open every Thursday through Sunday.

 

Today France wrote to tell me to check out her blog.  I'm so glad she did, because she had a fun surprise there.  She figured out that she could use the Crafted Appliqué method to make cards!  She adapted "The Walking Tree", a pattern in my book, and made two beautiful birthday cards and I hope you will click on the link and go see them.  She also plans to make six mini-mini quilts using Crafted Appliqué, so be sure to check back again soon!  

It isn't always easy for me to know who is making projects, so if you make anything using the Crafted Appliqué method and would like me to share it here, please feel free to let me know.  And don't forget, you can also share your work on social media using the hashtag #craftedapplique 

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 Rainbow Rose Quilt Along

Ruth Bourke, of Charly & Ben's Crafty Corner, is holding a Rainbow Rose Quilt Along.  It's through Modern Quilters Ireland and her quilt was so tempting that I am joining in a wee bit late and playing catch-up.

I did my fabric pull today, ransacking a couple of fat eighth bundles and just about every bright and modern fabric I had.  You can see my rainbow of fabrics on the right, together with the prewashed low volume prints (silver on white) that I plan to use for the background.  I had a definite shortage of blues.  I'm excited to see if I can catch up with the rest of the group.  That's always a little iffy with me, but I'll be happy with a finish even if it's not in time.

Rainbow Rose fabric pull

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And now, the moment some of you have been waiting for.  It's time to announce the winners of the two Zippy Seahorse bags I made as giveaways for my Spotlight Blog Hop.

Zippy Seahorse - sewing notions bags

It took some thinking, but I figured out a way to use a random generator to chose the two prize winners.  Readers could comment on as many of the thirty new blog posts that they wanted to.  So many of you left an amazing number of comments, meaningful and wholehearted ones at that, and I wish I had a gift for everyone.  Twenty readers participated in the Spotlight Hop and the majority of them visited every blogger.  

To decide fair and square who would win the giveaways, I made a chart, assigning each participant a letter, A-T, based on when their comment was left here on BuzzinBumble.  Then, across the top of the chart I typed the numbers 1-30.  Then I shaded the chart, based on how many comments each participant left in the Spotlight Hop stops.  This enabled me to give every comment a name, such as "U-28".  Then I found a website tool called the "Random Name Picker" were I was able to list all the comment "names" and have the tool choose two random winners.  It might have just been easier to fold up little slips of paper and put them in a hat, LOL.   Here's the chart and two screen shots of the drawing:

  
The two winners are Kathy and Deborah.  Deborah was a "no-reply commenter", meaning that I had no way to contact her, but luckily she checked back on the post and was able to remedy that!  Congratulations and I will be contacting both of you soon!
  

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One last thing to talk about.. The list is long this week!  ;)

Today is the start of the New Quilt Bloggers Hop and I hope you all will join me in spending a little time this week welcoming and visiting this years members!

You can find the main posts here with their Mama Bees introducing the members of their hives today!

Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs 
Stephanie @ Late Night Quilter 
Yvonne @ Quilting Jetgirl


Thank you to all of you who took part in the Spotlight Hop!  
And thank you for stopping by today's post, because...

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