Bushfiretop completed and other beauties

I've been very busy these last days, very very busy cause I wanted to complete this top as soon as possible. (I only used scraps for this)

Now I show you the final result, I really like it, so full of life, so happy, just what these people in Victoria, Australia need right now.
I had so much fun with this and I think I have to do more, as it is also a great stash burster.




Now to something else, completely different, a mini Gee's bend style quiltie.
In this I used some vintage fabrics, the blue with the roses is a fabric my mum used to make one of my favourite pyjamas. There is also some blanket fabric from my baby bed (that's a long time ago), some upholstery fabric from my grandma, my dad's jeans and the blue one with the stripes was used to cover very old pillows, I think their filling was a kind of straw.




And the last, a pattern I designed on EQ5, I called it millenium.
The set-in triangles seem a bit too small, don't understand why cause I respected the mesures given by the program, so I think I have to redo them.

Normally I don't like this kind of colors, but I had them in my stash, so why not use them. But when I look at the star now, it really seems to shine, so not too bad.



Ok, now I watch a movie on tv and then, sleeping time as I need to get up at 5:30 am to go to work.

Have a nice weekend.

Please be patient winners

As you can see at the new button on the left I joined a new project.

I am deeply touched by the fire victims in southern australia and wanted to do something that could bring them a small relief and that's why I joined Tia's quilt campaign.

I think this is a great idea and I beg you to join, I'm sure you have scraps, even plenty of them and how could you use them better.

Here you can see some of my blocks, but there will be more, I plan to make a whole quilt top, so go ahead girl.

This is also the reason that I did not yet mail the packages to the Stash winners, I hope you will forgive me, but I didn't forget you.

I promise, you will get your package.

Here they are, the WINNERS

But let me explain some details first.

There have 89 comments

- 20 without preference

- 36 for the african fabrics

- 12 for the earthy palette

- 21 for the scrap bag

I decided to split the 20 without preference and added radomnly an almost equal part to the 3 choices, I didn't want to choose one precise selection.

After having selected all my fabrics to give, and after having seen that amazing pile, I decided to choose 2 winners per item, so there are 6 winners in total, isn't that cool, ;o))))

I needed some hands to help me pick the winners, so I took all the comments to my niece and nephew. They helped me with enthousiasm as each one could pick a winner from every box.

And here we go, the names shall be revealed

African fabrics:

1st give-away goes to Lisa S (who wrote: Stash 1 for me, but I'm not picky.Lisa)

and the 2nd to Maria (who wrote: I'm loving that first package. What fun!)

Earthy palette:

1st give-away goes to Sherry (who wrote: Great patterns & great fabrics!! Thanks so much for the chance to win!)

and the 2nd to Connie (who wrote: From snowy Ohio USA...I like all your patterns. Also I like the music with your website.)

Scrap bag:

1st give-away goes to Mary Ann (who wrote:Hi Lil! Wow, look at all these comments!!! Your patterns are, of course, all very lovely!!! (I have personal experience with this!! LOL!)Very hard to choose, but I would probably enter your draw for prize number three! Just so I could win TWO patterns!! And I like anything country-ish, kaffe-ish or blue-ish!!!PS Thanks for your email...need to install "the" program again...will get back to you ASAP!!! All the bestMary Ann)

and the 2nd to Sam (who wrote: Hi I think your patterns are amazing; I hope I am able to make them successfully. I would be happy with any of the giveaways. I tend to go for autumn/earth tones, but I would really like to get out of my comfort zones - and so would my kids. So any would be fine. Thanks for doing this. Cheers Sam)

Congrats to the winners and I'm so sorry for all the other ones, but sooner or later I will do this again, you only have to look sometimes at my blog.

Oh yes, I also planned to send a package to Katy as a thank you for this amazing idea.

(and a little excuse because she wasn't lucky enough to win "africa")

Sam and Connie, please send me a message, your email is missing or your profile is enabled, so I can't contact you.

If these 2 don't contact me within 3 days, I will choose 2 other winners.

It's over

Ok, I close this stash-bursting give-away officially, a bit later than announced but that's ok

You have been incredible, thanks for your interest.

Now I have to sort out all these comments and choose the winners.

Good luck to everyone of you, I'll announce the winners probably later today.

13 more hours

Just a quick reminder, you have 13 more hours to go till I close this give-away.
The end will be on feb 5th at 2pm in Luxemburg, that makes 11:30 pm in Adelaide, 8 am in New York and 5 am in Vancouver and San Fransisco.

So you've got some more hours.

This is the day

Ok, girls and boys (as I don't want to discriminate someone) this is the day, the great stash-bursting give-away day.
As I had a bad night and being on vacation I stayed in bed till 10 am, lazy, lazy me.

So the first information is about the running time of this swap.
As there will be readers from all over the world I decided that you can reply from the publication of this post till feb 5th 2pm (local central european time)

And now to the prizes, I have 3 in total and you can choose one of those

1:

I have plenty of african fabrics cause I had to buy every time a piece of 9 yards (they are sold like that in Paris, the reason is that this is needed to make the traditional bubu's, the african women clothes)

This package will contain about 5 yards of fabric of my choice and also this pattern

Thought it might be stunning done with african prints.

2:

This is another pattern I created with EQ5 and it is a part of the second prize.

The batik with the leaves is about 1 yard and with that you get these scraps and I will add more of the earthy color way. At the end you could create this project with my stash.

Gosh, I have so many fabrics from early patchwork days and they remain in my cupboard being ignored, what a pity. Maybe you are attracted by them, just tell me.

3:

You get both patterns and a bunch of different scraps, still have to choose, but you can be sure, the bag will be filled.

(UPDATE 3PM : those who have chosen this prize contact me again please and give me your favourite colors or color combos, idem for the newcomers)

Ok, mystery revealed. All you have to do now is decide which one you want, reply to this post and tell me what you think of my patterns.

Oh yes, make sure that I can find you, I need your email, otherwise I won't be able to contact you if you win.

I will draw the winners tomorrow evening (random number). Probably I make a new post with the winner names on friday, as it might get difficult to make a list with your names for each one of the prizes.

And don't forget to check all the other blogs overhere

Have to leave you now, as I have to write comments on the blogs, otherwise I won't win anything.

Have a nice day.

Second hint

Just some more hours to go, exactly 8 of them till you can participate in this on my blog.

Let me give you a second hint: you have to think about 3 of your favourite colors (or color palettes)

I need to do some "stash diving" now, to be ready for tomorrow, ;o)))