June 4, 2014

American Made Brand Blog Tour - Day 13

By    5:46 AM // 1 comment
We are now at the halfway point in the American Made Brand Blog Tour. I hope you all have enjoyed seeing the great state license plate blocks created so far and meeting all the fantastic bloggers along the way.
Today we get to visit 2 more states. Come with me to:

Michigan - Crafty Blossom

Up for grabs on those blogs are another 2 FQ bundles of American Made Brand fabrics. Make sure you enter for your chance to win.
I'm heading over to check out their creations. Won't you join me?

June 3, 2014

June 2, 2014

Winners!

By    7:27 AM // 4 comments
Today I get to announce the winners of my giveaway in the American Made Brand Blog Tour. 
This time around, it paid to be an early commenter as Mr Random picked for the FQ bundle of American Made Brand fabrics
I like all apples, but Michigan Red and Granny Smith are my faves.

and the winner of the 6" charms of these fantastic solids is

Great block Michele and nice how you incorporated everything......
I like golden delicious, but really I LOVE granny smith (from the old days) don't like the skin, but love the tartness, that it's so tart/sour that you feel it in your ears! we have 4 apple trees btw newly planted last fall, think we'll maybe get 5 apples total this year, we'll see.

Congratulations to both of you! I know you will love these new fabrics as much as I now do. Emails have been sent to both ladies and soon their goodies will be in the mail and on their way.

Thank you to everyone that left comments. I really did enjoy reading them all even if I was unable to keep up with replying to all of them. But alas that is typically what ends up happening with giveaways. I am sad to say that of the 338 comments written, a whopping 84 of them were from No Reply Bloggers. That is almost 25% of the total. Please do yourself a big favor and check your status. If you never receive replies to your comments you are obviously a No Reply Blogger and you don't ever have a chance at winning a giveaway.  I'll even help here with this post. If you aren't sure if you are a NRB, leave me a comment below and if I don't reply back, you'll know that you need to correct this problem. I can only hope that at some point, we will stop having this continuous problem with our readers.

American Made Brand Blog Tour - Day 11

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Life is a highway, I want to drive it all night long. How about you?

When the 1st CARS movie came out, my then 2 yr old Jammer fell head over heals in love with it and learned the theme song fast. He then sang it to us, or at least his version of it, practically every day for months and months.

It's Monday again and that means we are back on the road for the American Made Brand Blog Tour.
Today we will visit the states of:

Connecticut - Jump Cut Arts

There will also be more entries available to win one of 50 FQ bundles of American Made Brand fabrics.
Let's go check out what today's 2 bloggers have created for us. I'll see you there.

June 1, 2014

Penelope is gunna get all fancied up!

By    7:29 AM // 7 comments
Penelope is getting a house call spa treatment in a few days and I can't wait!

Deciding to get her upgraded has been something I've been thinking about for quite a number of months. I've read tons about the upgrade on the Hinterberg Owners Yahoo Group (all great) and I've been emailing back and forth with many Voyager owners that have gotten the upgrade and they all say "do it". I've been hesitant to spend the money but in the end, it will be so worth it. 

This is what my Penelope looks like now.
This is Steve Dekkr of Dekkt Out Quilting Supply. He is the developer of the Dekk't Out Quilting System. He's the one that will visiting all the way from Florida in a few days.
This picture is from the International Quilt Market in Houston in 2013 where he was showing someone the new upgrade available. You can see that it will have an entire new look and a complete new electrical system.
Penelope will get these fantastic new Ram handles with push button controls, such a huge difference from her current set up. Steve changes out practically everything on the machine except for the motor. 
She will have a new needle up/down (her currently one won't work right) a fantastic stitch regulator with 5 different stitch modes (Equate Regulation, Basting, Cruise, Ruler and Robotic), a front facing laser so that I can do pantos from the front of the machine (bye bye old flexible lamp) and will also enable me to push the frame back against the wall and gain back some studio floor space plus all of this will come with a new 5 year warranty.

This is going to be life changing for her and will turn her into one of those fancy machines but at a fraction of the cost. I know that my problems with Penelope will be gone, my frustration will disappear and I'll be able to concentrate on practicing my quilting and finally getting my quilts actually finished. Then once I feel that my skills are where they should be, I'll be able to start quilting for others.

And just so you know, this upgrade is available for many other models of machines besides the Voyager 17. Take a look at their website and see for yourself. I promise to take pictures of the after to show y'all and then I'll be on my way to some great quilting time. Steve's visit can't come soon enough.
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