Those of us who now keep in touch regularly consider ourselves as friends.....we all share our quilting obsession, of course, so I guess we all speak the same language wherever we are in the world. I have witnessed great acts of kindness over the last few months, shared in the ups and downs of life & I never dreamt I would be the sort of person who would get into this, but I am and I love it.
I have joined in QALs, become obsessed with hexies, and even run my own Mystery QAL (see page above)
I have participated in swaps and this week I won my first giveaway which really made my weekend.
So, for the last few weeks I have been working on a few things that I would like to give away to my blogpals - of course, now I have said that I am beset with doubts, will enough people even read this, will I get into double figures for a draw, would anyone even want any of this stuff........duh, just get on with it Sheila!!
So, in no particular order......................
A case for your machine needles.
A mini quilt to hang - about 16" square.
A mug rug
3 separate items to give away - 3 winners, 1st out the draw can have first choice, 2nd next etc.......................
3 separate items to give away - 3 winners, 1st out the draw can have first choice, 2nd next etc.......................
I do find some giveaways a bit of a chore to enter, just can't be bothered bobbing about to gain extra chances so I am hoping to keep this simple. You have 2 chances........
1. Can't help it, shallow I know, but I rather like watching my following increase, so thank you if you already do, I know some do but not "officially" - so to enter , please join me properly as a follower (it's not all that tricky) and comment to tell me....and
2. Tell me where in the World you are and what your weather has been like today - it's raining here, no surprise there then!
I will keep this going until Friday 30th Sep, at 6pm (GMT) by which time I hope to have figured out how to work the random generator thingy.
Remember - you don't need to have a blog but I will need to be able to contact you so please include an email address if I don't already know you.
Good luck!
Hi Sheila
ReplyDeleteI've been following you for a while (can't remember how I found you!) and through you I have found some other great blogs!
Thanks
I'm from Gloucester in the UK
ReplyDeleteWe've had torrential rain here for most of the day
Congratulations on 2 years Sheila! I`m a follower. Lovely goodies by the way - of course everyone will enter...who wouldn`t??
ReplyDeleteI`m in Marrakech..temp is 30 C, a little overcast and then sunny spells. Typical for this time of year.
ReplyDeleteOf course I am a follower...wouldn't want to miss a thing. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI am in Cumberland Gap, TN, USA and the weather is an overcast 65. Not too bad for fall. The sun is starting to peak out so there is hope for the day yet.
ReplyDeleteI had to check to make sure I was following you properly and not just in google reader - and yes, I was.
ReplyDeleteI'm here in West Tennessee, USA trying to keep up with you British gals..I found your blog when I got hooked on hexies at Lily's quilts..I don't blog.. not enough time to quilt and read blogs to write one. It's raining here today, but only because it is beginning to be fall like. Our weather is one of those that pleases everyone, if you don't like it today you will love it tomorrow, because it will change. I've been known to use my heat and my A/C on the same day. rlarson6128@charter.net
ReplyDeletecongrats on 2 years! I'm a follower and a new blogger, I'd love it if you'd check out my blog if you have the time!
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ReplyDeleteI'm in South London - weather is swapping between sunny and warm and overcast and windy. It seems like every 15 mins or so...
ReplyDeleteoops forgot to say where I am - New Jersey in the US of A. We're finally enjoying some sun and I'm totally taking advantage and taking pictures outside of all my current projects!!
ReplyDeleteHi Sheila, what a fun give away. You've been in my Reader for awhile, but I "step-up up to the plate" and officially became a follower. (That's a baseball term. I'm going to a Dodger game, today.)
ReplyDeleteI'm in Murrieta, California, and we have coastal fog, this morning. We expect it to burn off by 10AM, and we'll have sunshine and 80 degrees. This is why we live here, in SoCal.
ReplyDeletei am a follower as of just now but i have been stalking for a while !!
ReplyDeletei live near lanark so i guess my weather will be nearly your weather,dull ish all day bit of cold wind followed by rain :(((
ReplyDeleteHappy 2nd Bloggiversary - yes Brit Quilt has done wonders for us all! Been following you for a while now.
ReplyDeleteSunny here in Oxfordshire and mild too. Bit breezy now though.
ReplyDeleteHi Sheila. I'm one of your loyal 87 followers. I'm even doing your mystery quiltalong. Thanks for the giveaway. Congrats on your two year anniversary.
ReplyDeleteI'm in East Canton, Ohio (USA). It's a beautiful sunny, slightly breezy, fall day here. The leaves are starting to change colors and it's time to pick the last of the things in our gardens. I'm canning tomatoes, freezing peppers, and baking real pumpkins. Yummy day!
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary! I'm a follower...in fact, I think I inadvertently became a double-follower just now because I have 2 Google accounts and didn't realize that I was signed in under my alternative one. Oops. Anyway, I am BOTH Jennifer and Enchanted Bobbin, devoted but delinquent Mystery QALer, regular reader of your blog, and doing my part to swell your follower numbers :)
ReplyDeleteWeather in Toronto today is GORGEOUS: 22 c and sunny. It won't last long....
ReplyDeleteOh, and I wish Brit Quilts would extend its reach to the Commonwealth, for the sake of lonely Canadian quilters!
H Sheila - what lovely goodies to giveaway! It has been very lovely here in the South East corner (I live about 20mins from the driest place in the UK, he he) it has been slightly overcast at times, but definately none of the wet stuff
ReplyDeleteAnd I am most definately a follower of yours, and, I think you were my first non-family follower on my blog: you definately left my first ever comment, so I feel like I have known you for ages.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am having lots of fun with your mystery QAL. Congratulations on two years.
Hi, I follow you via blogshelf does that count? And also through your lovely mystery along. It's fab.
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And I'm in Norway, we've had rain, wind and sunshine all through the day.
ReplyDeleteHappy blogiversary :o) I already follow you
ReplyDeleteAs you know, I'm just up the road from you, and it's persisting down in Weege too ;o)
ReplyDeleteI thought I was already a follower, but I am official now :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm not far from you in Kirkie and the weather is rubbish! Rain rain go away!
ReplyDeleteI love how swaps and quilt a longs bring like minded people together, some of my Frey best friends have been found this way :) was with you in the goodie/mug rug swap and am now happily following you :)
ReplyDeleteI live in Surrey, England and today it's been a mixture of cloud and sunny spells and e temps have been a lovely warm 21/22 degrees, long may it last :)
ReplyDeleteI am a follower. I have enjoyed reading your posts over the past few months, even though I haven't been able to participate in your mystery quilt along. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of asking where your followers are from! :) I am living in Nashville, Tennessee, US, and today is the most glorious of fall days, in that the sun is shining, there is a light breeze blowing and the temperature is in the 70s (F). No leaves changing yet -- that probably won't happen for 3 or 4 more weeks, if they change at all. It was so dry here this summer that the leaves may just turn brown and fall off. But I'll take today for what it is and soak up the last of the summer goodness as it has finally cooled down to this beautiful weather!
ReplyDeleteI live in central Iowa, USA. It has cooled off a lot here, high (f) 30's/low 40's at night, mid 60's in the day. It is beautiful and sunny today and the feel and smells of fall are definetly in the air.
ReplyDeleteI found your blog through the mug rug goodie swap and have been following along ever since. I really have met some great people out here in blog land.
ReplyDeleteI too have fallen in love with blogging - it opens a whole new world of inspiration and creative folks. How nice of you to mark you happiness with a giveaway :)
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower...
...who lives in Galway Irealnd. It's a normal Irish day here - warm, cold, raining, sunny, blue skies and clouds. Depends on the time ;)
ReplyDeleteWonderful give away, I love those projects and would be honoured to have any of them. I have been a follower for some time, I love your blog.
ReplyDeleteHello Sheila, what a lovely handmade giveaway! I'm sure you'll get loads of entrants! I am a follower already
ReplyDeleteCeri x
And today in Hastings on the south coast, it was glorious sunshine, so we cycled for 7 miles, had a beer in a hotel in the seafront, and then cycled home :) Who says it's autumn?!
ReplyDeleteA lovely post Sheila :-) I am a follower, and like you have been blown away by just how much the bloggy world has become part of my life! Isnt it fab?! Congratulations on the massive 2 years!
ReplyDeleteI'm way up north of scotland, and the weather today has been unusually su....well, not raining!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 2 years of blogging! I've been following since you started your Mystery QAL but still haven't managed to get started on it :(
ReplyDeleteA lovely post - see you're already well into double figures, such a lovely giveaway...thank you! Of course I'm a follower - wouldn't miss your posts for anything! Congratulations on two years of blogging!
ReplyDeleteI'm on Teesside in the UK and we've had a real mixed bag today - low cloud (couldn't see the hills) followed by very heavy rain followed by heavy cloud followed by bright blue skies and sunshine!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely giveaway, how kind of you :)
ReplyDeleteI'm on the Wirral peninsula between Wales and Liverpool. Today has been gloomy but not too cold and no rain so small things to be thankful for!
Oh I am always after Angela (WandaFish!!).
ReplyDeleteI am obviously a follower!! xx
Great giveaway, thank you and congratulations xx
Today I have been in West Sussex, Surrey, Kent and even under and over the water to and from Essex, and I am happy to report it was a beautiful warm Autumn day everywhere!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogabirthday, And I'm the lucky one who gets to work with you!
ReplyDeleteI am a real follower! Congratulations on you two year bloggiversary :)
ReplyDeleteI am in Manchester and (surprisingly) it was nice and mild! We even got to play in the garden in the sunshine this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteCongrats friend! I'm no stranger! Jxo
ReplyDeleteAnd as you know I'm in the sunniest part of the UK (no laughing)! Jxo
ReplyDeleteHi Shiela - I'm in Southern Moravia in the Czech Republic and today has been a beautifully clear, sunny day, reaching 28 degrees with quite abreeze. Chilly at night though - 15 degrees!
ReplyDeleteI am a follower
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win, shiela, and also for keeping it simple. I thought I was the only one who found some of the giveaways "challenging"!
Hi Shelia, Well done on your 2 years. Can't believe I wasn't actually a follower, thought I was, I am now.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Lochcarron where it has rained most of the month, week and day. Going south soon for some sunshine. I hope.
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower....I've been stalking for awhile now.
ReplyDeleteI live in new Mexico, USA. It was beautiful today with 85 degrees and no clouds!
ReplyDeleteI am in Vancouver WA, USA. Today it was rainy, so I made 2 batches of salsa and sewed up 70 bowtie blocks. I am an official follower.
ReplyDeleteHi Sheila! Congratu-ma-lations on your 2 year bloggy birthday! Thats amazing! Great giveaway, I love that your prizes are home made :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower, from Leicester UK, the weather here today is lovely and sunny with a crisp autumnal feel to the air. Hope its nice where you are!
ReplyDeleteWill enough people read this? Ha. I think you're doubt's should be settled now.
ReplyDeleteThree gorgeous giveaways. Congratulations on your blogging anniversary
Ooops I was sure I was a follower, I can't believe I wasn't, I am now.
I live in sunny Queensland and today it was warm, mid 20's, sunny but a little windy, almost perfect spring weather.
ReplyDeleteI live out in the country near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin USA. It's windy and raining today. Some of the trees are starting to turn red and gold. I've been following you for quite a while; doing the Mystery Quilt Along. I LOVE that floating block wall hanging!
ReplyDeleteOoh Sheila I love Giveaways!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 2 years of blogging so eloquently :-)
Here in Ayrshire, Scotland we had a gorgeous autumn day today. Lovely blue sky and a comfortable 14C
Congrats on 2 years blogging! I am a follower :)
ReplyDeleteYour prizes are all so lovely.
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I live in Ontario, Canada. Today was sunny and warm with a light breeze. I hope it stays like this for awhile so I can get some great color leaf photos.
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can,t believe that it is two years since you were telling me about your blogging and how excited you were. keep it up. Weather here in Kilmarnock, Scotland is sunny ....a miracle.... keep up the good work and hope you have something exciting for us when the mystery quilt is finished
ReplyDeleteHi Sheila. I love your blog and often drop in. I have never been an official follower but I am now (number 95). I would like to put a photo next to my name on your follower list but have no idea how to do it. I will remain a ghastly outline!
ReplyDeleteHi Shelia (again). I live in rural Lincolnshire where it is usually dry and sunny. We officially have a drought which is fine by me, as I hate rain. I think it was living in Cumbria as a child, and having to walk home in the rain, that has given me a life long aversion to rain. Lincolnshire may be a boring place to live (my boys definitely think that) but at least it is normally dry. Sun is shining too today and should be 20C+. Woohoo. Weather forecast over......
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 2 years of blogging. I returned from St Lucia today where it was very warm and sunny. I seem to have brought sunshine back to Ayr with me, wonder how long it will last until the rain reappears?
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