It is time to announce the winner of my Blog Hop Party Giveaway.

Thank you to all that entered. I did enjoy reading all about your fabric genre preferences.

As a Quilters Public Service Announcement:  I want to say that I had a LARGE number of No Reply Bloggers post comments without including their email address. Unfortunately those folks weren't entered into the giveaway.

Are you sure that you aren't a No Reply Blogger?

It doesn't hurt to double check.

Click on your Profile, click on Edit Profile and make sure that you've checked the box that says "show my email address" and then make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click "Save Profile". I've found that many NRBs don't realize that they are and it is a shame that they don't get the chance to win too.

Ok so that is my good deed for the day.

Onto announcing the winner.

Mr. Random picked #40 who is

Congratulations Wendy! I've sent you an email.

Thanksgiving is tomorrow and I have some prep work to do. I might go out at some point this weekend and get some shopping done, but then again I might not.

No matter if you are a weekend-after-Thanksgiving shopper or not, I hope you enjoy your days and savor each moment of the coming holiday season.

That is how many charms I have handled in the past week.

56 swap spots x 112 charms each = 6,272 charms

I took a few pictures along the way to share with you.

Here are all the packages that arrived.

When it came time to sort them, I had some help. Sunshine had a blast emptying each envelope.

I stacked them all up to see how it they'd look. Isn't this a pretty site?



So what does 6,272 charms look like?

Well....here you go.

112 stacks of charms each containing 56 pieces.

It is a good thing that I have a big dining room table.



I love this view. Ahhh the possibilities this vision evokes!

After this last group picture, they were sorted into 56 piles of 112 charms each, packaged and then sealed in their return envelopes, ready to fly back to their new owners. Sunshine and Jammer helped with that too and they did a great job. The final batch was dropped off at the post office this morning.

It took me a couple more days than I thought it would to get them all ready to mail but while I was doing it, I was able to formulate a better plan for the whole process go quicker for Round 2 in the spring.

My charms already are planned for a project (two actually) but I need a solid to coordinate for both so I set them all together so that I could get a good overall view of the colors.



It is that time of year again! Time for another fun Blog Hop Party hosted by Quilting Gallery.
This party is all about sharing the quilty love and finding lots of new-to-you blogs to follow.

If you are new to my blog, welcome!

If you are a regular reader, terrific and I'm glad that you're visiting again.

The current swap just now finishing up is the Kate Spain charm Swap.
 All the charms are sorted and I'm working on getting them packaged and out in the mail to their new owners. Let me tell you, the participants will be receiving back one gorgeous stack of charms. I can't wait to see what everyone makes with them and I can't wait to start sewing with mine. Plans are already in the works for Round 2 after Kate's newest line Daydreams comes out sometime in February.

Update: The Primary Bee is full!

My newest hosting gig just getting under way is The Primary Bee.

This is a quilting bee for the elementary school set, boys and girl, to teach them the foundations of simple and basic quilt block and quilt making and hopefully have them make a few quilty kidlet friends along the way.

This week is the Last Call for the sign ups so if you have a child or grandchild that you think would love to join in, head over to the intro post to read all the details and then email me all the needed info before the end of this coming weekend.

So not quite 2 weeks ago, my blog Uncelebrated it's 2 Year Anniversary (uncelebrated because I didn't actually celebrate it with all of you).  Since I had hosted a bunch of giveaways recently and also knowing that this Blog Hop Party was coming up, I decided to wait and have a belated celebration instead in the form of a really awesome giveaway opportunity for you.

To one lucky winner I will be send this copy of material obsession two by Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke. 

It contains the authors' interpretations of a ton of great traditional blocks in modern settings. Here are just a couple of examples of what is contained within the cover.

The giveaway details are as follows:

Each person can have up to 2 chances to win.

1) Leave me a comment and tell me which genre of fabric is your favorite - Civil War, 1930's, Solids, Calico's, Primitive, Bold and Modern, Floral, Asian, Christmas, Halloween, Novelty...whichever floats your boat the most.

2) My readers have a 2nd chance to win, just tell me which way you follow. And Yes I do check.

Entries will close at Midnight, Tuesday November 26th.

As usual, if you are a No Reply Blogger include your email address in your comment or it will be removed from consideration. Better yet, solve the problem once and for all (I know you Wordpress folks aren't able to). Info on how to do that can be found here. It's easy peasy and you'll be glad that you did.

I hope you enjoy hopping around to everyone that is participating in the Blog Hop Party and a huge thank you so much goes to Michele for hosting such a great event again this year. Good luck to all! I hope to be lucky and win a couple of giveaways myself.

 I do love to read all of your comments and I'll attempt to respond to as many as I can but knowing the volume of comments that result from this Blog Hop Party it isn't likely that I'll be able to reply to them all. I do appreciate each one though and look forward to reading them.

Tomorrow another great Quilter's Blog Hop Party starts, the brilliant idea of Michelle from Quilting Gallery. Her site is chock full off quilty goodness including the quilting bloggers directory, a listing of quilt shops & services, a world-wide directory of quilt guilds and much more. If you haven't checked out her site yet, you should jump over there and do so.

You don't know what the Quilter's Blog Hop Party is all about? It is a chance for me to thank my regular blog readers, to host a fun giveaway and to fill you in on news and events happening here on my blog.

It is also a chance for you to find great new-to-you blogs to follow, to enter hundreds of giveaways and potentially to win some great quilting goodies.

Winning is never a bad thing, right? So far myself, I've had a pretty lucky season. Recently I won this great tote bag from Kathy at Kwilty Pleasures when she celebrated her blog-aversary. Love it!

Then just last week I got an email from Deonn who blogs over at Quiltscapes notifying me that I won this fabulous wristlet from her Pin It Blog Hop giveaway. This will be perfect to use when I'm down on the floor pinning on long borders or bindings.

And then to make this month even better, this week I heard from Heidi who blogs over at Red Letter Quilts congratulating me for winning the Art Gallery Spellbound Girl FQ bundle. Aren't they so pretty!

So you never know if you will be lucky and will win a giveaway or two too. But you have to enter to win.

Be sure to visit here sometime between tomorrow (Nov 21st) and Tuesday evening (Nov 26th) to see what I'm offering up and to enter for your chance to make it yours. Michelle will post the entire list of participating blogs in her website tomorrow afternoon. There will be hundreds of blogs to visit and hundreds of chances to win so you won't want to miss the party.