And the Winner Is

Glen in Louisiana, #119, and as picked by Random.org.  Congratulations, Glen!  I've sent out an email to her and hope to get her quilt out to her soon.

I want to thank you all who commented and my 326 readers. I so enjoyed your entries into this giveaway. Given the number of entries, I can't respond to all of them, but I read every one!  I learned I'm not the only one who can't work in the heat. So glad you visited and liked Rhonda's , Karen H's, and Karen's work.  I so enjoy going to their blogs and learning so much.

Again, thanks for stopping by. Happy blogging!

                                                                                                       Angie in SoCal

Applique Tuesday

Last chance to win a quilt - six ways to win - ends tonight Midnight.  Here's the quilt on the right:
Go here to enter.

This Tuesday I finished machine appliqueing the leaves on my hexie wall hanging:

I raw edge appliqued these to the top because that was already sewn together when I got the top. Then I straight stitched around the leaf and added some details. Now back to quilting - I want to finish it by Thursday - well, I'll try.

What are you up to?  Leave me a comment and I'll come by to see your eye candy.  I'm linking to Connie's Linky Tuesday.  See you there.
Blessings!

This N That

Nothing in and nothing out, so numbers stay the same.  That's my stash report for this week.

Before I forget, my giveaway for celebrating 1000 posts is still on.  You could win a quilt! Closes Tuesday, midnight. Also on is the Hexie Weekend linky party - that closes Monday, midnight. We'd love to see your eye candy of any kind - new or old. Go here to enter either or both. Links in the post will get you where you want, and see the quilt.

On my design wall are two rows of the commission quilt.

Five rows to go.  I discovered as I made these that I really need a map for the disappearing nine-patch blocks before assembling because otherwise the symbols can look like something else.

Do you see an unhappy face?
So I made a map:

I oriented the symbols so they would be going one way and spread out the three large prints in a pattern.  Then I cut a duplicate map into strips of two rows at a time and cut the foursomes in those rows into four blocks and rearranged each set of four to be a nine patch giving me the orientation and which large print to use.  Here's a part of the page - the scanner was not cooperating and I couldn't get the whole page - just a part of the nine patch layouts.

Hope you see what a help this was to me or else I'd have been ripping out stitches for each nine-patch.

I'm linking over to Judy's Design Wall Monday and Lyn's BOMs Away.  She's still working on her thesis, but she had a little time to post last week.  Blessings to you all.