AccuQuilt Go Giveaway!!!! Week In Review

Did you have fun leaning about the GO! this week? Did you learn things that you didn't know about the GO!? Are you ready to win one of your own?

Head over to the AccuQuilt Go fan page on Facebook and let them know that Charlie has sent you and while you are there tell them thanks for giving me the opportunity to give a great system like the GO to one lucky reader.

It seems that our week is drawing to a close and we must say goodbye. Before we go we need to say thanks to the following sponsors for making this weeks giveaway possible.



This weeks post have been brought to you by:

John of Quilt Dad

Who donated two Jelly Rolls

Lane of That Man Quilts

Who donated a Jelly Roll

Ryan of I'm Just a Guy Who Quilts

Who donated a Bundle of Joy quilt kit

Scott of Blue nickel Studios

Who donated a Fat Quarter bundle and scrap bag of fabric.

Lorna of Connecting Quilts

Who donated Quilter's Dream batting

AccuQuilt of AccuQuilt

Who donated GO!

A BIG THANKS goes out to all the sponsors. I could have not done this week of giveaways without you. Thanks


Please visit all the wonderful sponsors and thank them for the prizes they have donated.

Everyone has till 11:59 PM tonight to enter. Yes, you can enter one more time if you promise to blog about it, tell a friend, Tweet or Facebook about my giveaway.

Remember, there's still time to enter HERE! I'll pick the winners tomorrow!!

AccuQuilt Go Giveaway!!!! Day Six!!!!

Wow, time sure does fly when your having fun.  This GO! system from AccuQuilt is amazing is it not?  Every time I go to the AccuQuilt Go! web site I learn something new.  I did not even know they made these. 

 

GO! appliqué dies and digital embroidery designs are a quilting Dream Team. The GO! Fabric Cutter enables you to cut appliqué shapes in seconds and digital embroidery helps you to create gorgeous designs in just a few minutes. The digital embroidery designs featured here were made specifically to work with GO! appliqué dies and are available in a wide range of file formats. 

A match made in heaven...Designer Embroidered Applique Meets AccuQuilt GO! Designer Sarah Vedeler has partnered with AccuQuilt GO! to create eye candy, embroidered quilts. This dream team removes the challenges of cutting applique and embroidering! The AccuQuilt GO! Fabric Cutter makes cutting the applique shapes a breeze. Simply apply fusible web to your applique fabric, place the fabric on the die and turn the handle. Voila! The applique shape is ready to BE Dazzled!

It just keeps getting better all the time.  What's next?

Let meet today's sponsor  Lorna Shepard of Connecting Quilts.   

Lorna Shepard is a quilter who does it all!  From pattern designer, custom quilt maker, teacher, lecturer, and long arm quilter, Lorna knows everything about a quilt from choosing fabric to hand sewn binding (invisible no less). Her favorite lecture is called the “Zen of Quilting” where every tip in the book is talked about from protecting yourself from your rotary cutting blade to making sure you take care of your body by stretching every once in a while – no straight 8 hour marathons for you!   With over 4000 quilt patterns, Lorna loves to quilt using her Gammill Long Arm with the Statler Stitch program.  

 

Wow would look at that quilt that Lorna has on the frame?   Lorna tells me that she just loves this quilt (I can see why)- and is very much into the craftsman era and the batiks are great. 

Go have a look around Lorna web site and let her know Charlie has sent you.  She has been having computer problems so I hope things get back to normal for her soon.   

Lorna Give Away Deal:  send a quilt (any size!) and get free batting!  We exclusively carry Quilter’s Dream batting.  Who could not use free batting after all them quilts were going to be making with our GO! 

Thanks Lorna what a great giveaway.    

REMEMBER DON'T LEAVE COMMENTS ON THIS POST. GO TO THE GIVEAWAY POST AND COMMENT IN ORDER TO ENTER. 

Until next time,

AccuQuilt Go Giveaway!!!! Day Five!!!!!

Need some inspiration for your next quilt project? These FREE downloadable quilt patterns are here to help! From bed quilts and throws to table runners and wall hangings, you’re sure to find a pattern you’ll love.

As I was looking around the AccuQuilt web site I found a pattern called Mix and Match Quilt Dies. It shows you a list of dies and all the blocks you can make from it. There is so much that can be done with the GO! I would have never thought of this, but the great people at AccuQuilt has done it for me. This leaves me more time to quilt.

Hey there, everyone, my name is Scott Hansen, and Blue Nickel Studios is the name of my blog and design company. I have a wonderful wife, Linda, who is a doll artist as well as a great mom to our three teenagers. She has her own blog which you might enjoy too at www.missmabelstudio.com.

I am happy to be part of Charlie's giveaway and am donating a pack of assorted fat quarters from my vast stash. My blog is all about quilts, projects, musings, rhetorical questions, more quilts, and various diatribes and wonderings of color and design and family that inhabit my world. I love to share photos of nature and vintage finds that inspire me, and hopefully inspire you too. I have many free downloadable quilt patterns on my Download page, and I often have giveaways like Charlie is doing here on his site. Some weeks I get a lot of posts in, and other weeks I am so busy, I just don't get time in the blogosphere as I would like. I love to post links to places that remind me of growing up in the 70's and 80's too. I often get to work with the newest lines of fabrics, and I share that news with you too. There are a ton of upcoming projects that I am currently working like mad on, and those will be coming up soon!

I would love to have you stop by the Blue Nickel and just tell me what inspires you. Oh, and tell me Charlie sent you. Maybe I will have another couple fat quarters to giveaway for those who do. Enjoy Charlie's giveaway and Good Luck!!

Take a look at these great FQ that Scott is going to giveaway to one lucky runner up. Those Monkeys remind me of a Barrel of Monkeys I had as a child with there arms out like that. Scott is also going to throw in a scrap bag of fabric to the lucky runner up. Just think of all the neat projects this will lead too.

If you want to win one of these fantastic machines and 3 dies of your choice, head over to THIS POST and leave a comment there to enter. You can qualify yourself to enter up to 3 times.

REMEMBER DON'T LEAVE COMMENTS ON THIS POST. GO TO THE GIVEAWAY POST AND COMMENT IN ORDER TO ENTER.

Until next time,

AccuQuilt Go Giveaway!!!! Music Monday

Can you believe it were on post number four of our week long post about the AccuQuilt Go!

I could write another blog post on how great the GO really is or share with you more tips on the GO!, but I think that I'm going to let this blog post tell you all about it. Why should I do all the work when today's guest has done it for me. Thanks!!!

I would like to introduce you to my very best friend Ryan of I'm Just a Guy Who Quilts. He is another male quilter that does awesome work. Some of his work can be seen on his Flicker page or his my works page. Did you see the the awesome Halloween place mats on Ryan's Flicker photostream that he made using his new GO! I hope he sends them to me or at least the candy.


He is a 30 yr old crafty father of 2 growing boys, and is happily married to his wonderful wife, and it just so happens that he love to quilt. His family and him reside in the small upstate NY town he grew up in (Delhi, pronounced DEL-HIGH). His wife and him both work full time, enjoy the quiet life, and love to share their everyday happenings with family and friends. Any day spent quilting is a good day!

I just love this photo of Ryan's two sons and I wanted to share it with you. I have told Ryan if he ever wants to ship his oldest son to me I would take him off his hands.

Ryan is donating: A Bundles of Joy Quilt Kit in either boy or girl colors (winners choice). This will include enough fabric to complete the entire quilt including backing and binding. The winner supplies the batting.

I could use this kit as my mother wants me to make a boy baby quilt for her new grand baby due in January. This is her birth month and she hopes he will be born on her birthday.

Make sure you head over to Ryan's blog and let his know how much you have enjoyed his Bundle of Joy kit and the tutorial. Thanks again Ryan.

If you want to win one of these fantastic machines and 3 dies of your choice, head over to THIS POST and leave a comment there to enter. You can qualify yourself to enter up to 3 times.

REMEMBER DON'T LEAVE COMMENTS ON THIS POST. GO TO THE GIVEAWAY POST AND COMMENT IN ORDER TO ENTER. I will draw all prizes even for the runner up from the giveaway post.

Today I'm going to leave you with this. Music Monday. Listen from Glee. When I heard this it gave me goose bumps.

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Day Three of AccuQuilt GO!

Welcome to day three of the AccuQuilt Go! giveaway. Are we having fun yet? I am. This is so much fun. Let jump right in

GO! Cutting Equivalents Chart

I know I have talked about these before, but they bear mentioning again.

Do you have a quilt pattern without GO! instructions and want to be able to use your GO! dies to cut the pattern shapes?
The GO! Cutting Equivalents Chart is here to help you out.

Download GO! Cutting Equivalents Chart

Do you want to know the minimum amount of fabric you’ll need to cut shapes with each of your GO! dies?
Check out our GO! Fabric Reference Chart.

Download GO! Fabric Reference Chart

These are worth printing off and placing next to your go.

Today I would like to introduce you to Lane of That Man Quilts! He would like to share with one lucky blog post reader the following jelly roll of 24 2 1/2" strips. Would you look at all those yummy colors. I've got a few projects I could make out of this roll.

"That man quilts is a blog, not just about quilting, but about life. I share my quilting adventures on my blog, from funny shopping stories to teaching myself to machine quilt. I also share the adventures of two dads parenting a teen girl, my love of gardening, stories from my childhood, and some really good food."

Lane has been quilting since 1999 and machine quilting since 2007. There are a lot of things he has found out along the way that he can't do or doesn't want to do...but there's not much he won't try to do, at least once.

 

If you want to win one of these fantastic machines and 3 dies of your choice, head over to THIS POST and leave a comment there to enter. You can qualify yourself to enter up to 3 times. 

 

REMEMBER DON'T LEAVE COMMENTS ON THIS POST. GO TO THE GIVEAWAY POST AND COMMENT IN ORDER TO ENTER. 

 

Stop in at Lane's site and let him know that Charlie sent ya. 

 

See you all tomorrow at 5 am for some more giveaway fun.

 

Until next time,

AccuQuilt Go Giveaway!!!! Day Two

Welcome to day two of the AccuQuilt Go! giveaway.

AccuQuilt is happy to announce that they're expecting a bundle of joy! Watch for the birth announcement on Friday, October 1st.

I wounder what it will be? I'm excited to see what they have in the works. I'm sure it will be something great.

If you want to win one of these fantastic machines and 3 dies of your choice, head over to THIS POST and leave a comment there to enter. You can qualify yourself to enter up to 3 times.

REMEMBER DON'T LEAVE COMMENTS ON THIS POST. GO TO THE GIVEAWAY POST AND COMMENT IN ORDER TO ENTER.

Lets all give a big Qubee Quilts hello to John of Quilt Dad! He has donated not one but two Jelly Rolls from Moda. One is a Moda Bella Solids warm Jelly Roll and the other is Moda Marbles Jelly Roll I'll take the Bella jelly roll please. Just Kidding. John really does rock!!!

John is a 35 year-old happily married father of three and, odd as it may be, he loves to quilt. He is originally from Brooklyn NYC, now living in Cary, NC. His beautiful wife and he have 5 year-old twin girls and a 4 year-old son ... you'll often see their smiling faces in his posts! Please leave a comment and on his site and let me know that you've visited and how much you enjoy his donation.

Did try to get some scraps of his top secret project that he is working on, but he would not bite. Maybe another time. Sorry, Tula Troops.

Thanks again John, for the great Jelly Rolls.

Don't forget we'll have more for you tomorrow. See you at 5 am. 

This Just in.....

 

Fall issue of Quiltposium

You might see someone you know on pages 46 & 47.  

I've joined forces with fellow manquilter, Ryan Walsh to create a brand new quilt design company known as Patchwork Squared (or P2 for short).

Our debut pattern called "Read Between the Lines" is now available for download in the Fall 2010 issue of Quiltposium Magazine.

Featuring Botany by Lauren and Jessi Jung for Moda Fabrics.

Stay tuned for more great quilts being released under the new Patchwork Squared name. We've been working hard to design simple, modern quilts from a brand new perspective.

Until next time,

AccuQuilt Go Giveaway!!!! All Week Long!!!

Last week I did a review of the AccuQuilt Go! and the folks at AccuQuilt liked my review so much they said that I could give one to a lucky blog reader. Wow, thank you so much AuccuQuilt I'm blown away by your support!

I'm going to have a week long celebration. One lucky GRAND PRIZE winner will walk away with a new AccuQuilt GO! and 3 dies of their choice. But wait, I will also be drawing names to win several other prizes donated by my blog sponsors and readers like you! Over the next week I will introduce you to the other prizes and the people who donated them. Check back daily for for chances to win.

You can enter up to three times. Here is what you have to do. It's simple really.

1. Follow my blog. Sign up is on the right hand side. Leave a comment letting me know that you follow. Note: Google Reader does not count as following the blog.  Must sign up on the right hand side.
2. Follow Qubee Quilts Fan Page on Facebook. Sign up is on the right hand side. Leave a comment that you follow.
3. Leave a comment saying why you want an AccuQuilt Go!

Just 3 easy steps to enter. Contest is open now and until 11:59pm CST Thursday, Sept 30th.

Please remember to leave a separate comment for each entry. Single comments with more than one way you qualified will only count as 1 entry. To maximize you chances of winning, leave three separate comments for each way you qualify.

Until next time,

Music Monday - Lily Allen

Welcome to this weeks music Monday post. This week's artist is Lily Allen, an artist out of Great Britain. The first time I heard her music, I was a little surprised by the lyrical content in comparison to the music that accompanied it! However, she has become one of my favorite artists since then.

Check out her single, The Fear.



Are you a follower of the blog? Sign up is on the right hand side.  There will be a giveaway coming soon  for followers only.  Can't win if you're not a follower.  

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Machine Fridays: Clean Machine

I know I have covered this before but it bears repeating. Cleaning More Than Just Your House if you want to check out the original post from February of this year.


A few weeks ago on Qubee Quilts Fan page I asked when was the last time your machine was cleaned and I was shocked in the answers I got. A couple of people told me May. One told me, you mean I need to clean my machine?

I'm here to tell you that you do need to clean your machine and it' something that you need to be doing every 4 to 6 hours of sewing. I can't stress this enough. I clean my bobbin area after every bobbin change because my machine is so easy to clean. Even cleaning my machine that often I still see lint and fuzz. It comes from your project and thread. I wish everything we worked on was lint free, but they are not, therefore we have to clean our machines. When you buy a car you gets its oil changed every 3,000 to 5,000 miles. Why don't we clean our sewing machines? That lint is not good for your machine. What do you think would happen to yourself if you found all that lint inside your body? Think about it. That is what is happening to your machine!

On my machine there is no oil that is needed. Please check your owners manual to see if this is true on your machine.

To clean the bobbin area on my machine I just remove the presser foot and slide off the bobbin cover. Then remover the stitch plate, bobbin case holder (thread cutter) and bobbin case. Now I just clean with the lint brush then replace the bobbin case and bobbin case holder. This takes me about 3 minutes tops.


Depending on how much sewing you do on your machine you need to take your machine into your dealer and let them professionally clean your machine at least once a year. Every six months if you sew a lot.

DON’T use compressed air, it simply blows the dirt deeper into the machine. This can cause future problems or premature wear of hard-to-reach parts.

DO use vacuum attachments for small-scale cleaning

I found these two pictures from the internet and wanted to show you what lint looks like in your machine. If I had that much lint in me I would never stitch right. Lets hope that none of you have machines that are this bad.

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