Where's the Point?

A few months ago I decided I wanted to make a quilt for my friend Liz's wedding. I needed the pattern to be fairly simple but gorgeous at the same time. I decided to give Barb's original 'Where's the Point' pattern a try.
Here's the final product! I am extremely happy with how this quilt turned out!
I sent the quilt to Barb to do some bare-bone's quilting and I also bought a quilt back from her. She chose this fabulous batik print for this quilt! I loved how the bare bones quilting looked on this quilt...it was already busy enough with all the color and pattern happening...it needed something simple and what she did was just perfect!

You can see the quilting a little better with the picture above...

I have the wedding next weekend...I can't wait to see what my friend thinks of her gift!

Quiltsy Etsy Street Team Presents: May Daze!

The Quiltsy Etsy Street Team Presents:
May Daze!

May 10 -16, 2009

Play our game during May Daze and you could win one of these fabulous prizes!

STOP TO PLAY, STAY TO BUY

Has the long, cold winter left you in a daze? Well, Quiltsy is celebrating the coming of spring in a big way, with an assortment of prizes worth $350!!

Our May Daze promotion is sure to waken your adventurous spirit with a lively game of hide & seek through participating shops. While the game is being hosted, you will also be treated to special promotions offered by each shop which can range from free shipping, to free gifts and/or discounts. Winners of our game will receive prizes from among our most popular-selling items.

Quiltsy Team members are quite a creative bunch, and you will find within the items for sale new twists on traditional quilts, as well as other delightful items in the fiber arts arena.

HOW TO PLAY

1. Your objective is to find the secret letters hidden within listings of participating shops. These letters will be placed in one of the 4 alternate pictures in a listing of the seller's choosing.



2. There are SIX words in total, and 35 shops. The letters that belong in the same word will be the same color to help you unscramble.



3. The letters will be hidden in a quilt-related item; the seller may opt to give a clue, so be sure to read the shop intro!



4. Once you have located all the pictures, unscramble the matching letters to form a quilt related word/phrase.



5. Send your answer in a convo to QuiltsyTeam. (You will need to sign in to Etsy). Please include the words "May Daze" in the subject line.



6. For each correct answer, you will get an entry to win one of six prize packages. The number of prizes in your package is determined by the length of the word. So for example, if you unscrambled the word "lotion", and your name is drawn from the correct entries, you would win six prizes!



7. We encourage you to buy from participating shops, but there is no purchase necessary to enter or win.



8. Winners will be drawn from among the correct answers received. Winners will receive notification of their winning entry by May 25, 2009. You will be asked to provide your shipping address at that time.



9. Your prizes will be shipped direct to you from the shop giving the prize. This is great because you will get little surprises in your mailbox over several days. How fun!

RESTRICTIONS

1. No Quiltsy Team members or their families may play.



2. Drawing only valid for correct answers received between 12:00 AM EST May 10 through 11:59 PM EST May 16, 2009



3. Only one entry per user per word. So you cannot submit "lotion" over and over; but you could submit "lotion" and "soap" to get two entries.

We sincerely hope you enjoy our May Daze promotion! Good luck!

LIST OF PARTICIPATING SHOPS

Please visit QuiltsyTeam.etsy.com for the complete list of shops and to play the game!!!

Remember: you are looking for letters like this in one of the images of a listed item in their shops!

Written by LoveBug Studios. Letter image provided by ForQuiltsSake. Prize photos submitted by participating shops.

If you win the item from QuiltsbyBarb you will be winning this stunning piece of hand-dyed fabric (1 yd)!

Whoever wins the item from KimsCraftyApple will be recieving this hand-dyed quilted zippered pouch!

ALL shops participating in this even will be having special promotion offers....a percentage off, free shipping, or maybe even a free gift! Make sure to stop by and see what you can get and have FUN playing the game!

It's Time to Vote Again! Team etsyBABY Cinco de Mayo Challenge

It's officially time to vote for the next etsyBaby challenge. This month the theme is: Cinco de Mayo, which I just heard on the radio that festivities in Mexico are cancelled. Oh well, we'll still celebrate on etsyBABY! Just click on this link: http://www.shopetsybaby.com/May.htm to cast your vote!

The challengers:

Tadpolecreations made this adorable Baby Mexican Mariachi Guitar Onesie

This cute Lounge Set for Girls was made by DillyBobDesigns.

EmaleesBoutique made this EtsyBABY Cinco de Mayo Team Challenge inspired clippy.

Gaiababy made this super fun Punk Diaper Bag for her entry in the challenge.

Once again, ImogensGarden did not disappoint with her: Marcela a Waldorf-inspired doll. GrannysKnits made the cute sweater that comes with this adorable doll.

Minimonster did not disappoint me in this challenge with their

MiniMonster Hot Hot Hot Pepper Finger Puppets (3).

PlainJaneBaby made this Boutique Tattered Fabric Flower that would look fabulous on any girl (I’m even thinking about it…how great!)

PokaTods made this cute boutique travel wipes case for their entry.

Osana the UPCYCLED OCTOPUS is SewnNatural’s Entry….Way TOO Cute!

This adorable i rock onesie is brought to you by Stoopher.

Where's the Point - Fireworks Quilt is my entry for this months challenge! I took some new pictures of it on my deer fence on Sunday…I’m pretty happy with how it looks!

So that was a quick picture summary of this month’s competitors. I hope you take a minute to go and VOTE!

News from Kim's Crafty Apple

The end of my week has been full of some fairly fabulous news (other than the newly caught cold and sore throat...but I'll get over that!). Just wanted to share some of it with you!

First, Scott, from the Poynette Press/DeForest Times came out on Thursday and did an interview with me and took pictures for a story on etsy.com for the paper. I'm very excited to see how that comes out! Publicity, publicity, publicity.


Then, I found out that my Patchwork Corduroy Quilt WON the etsyBABY story time challenge!



And to top it off - my Spring Flowers - Pastels Quilt was chosen by one of the editors of the FaveCraftsBlog to be featured in one of their blog articles!

I also just found out today that my Patchwork Corduroy Quilt was featured on this blog: http://veneziebags.blogspot.com/2009/04/saturday-spotlight_17.html

My other big news this week is that I have decided to split my KimsCraftyApple Store into two stores. I am in the processs of moving all of my Jewelry to a new store called theApple. I hope you keep an eye on it for the next few weeks as it continues to grow and improve. Also remember I am happy to do custom orders on jewelry, hand-dyes or quilts. If you like my style but aren't seeing exactly what you have in mind...convo me and I'll see what I can do!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Remember the Scrappy Pineapple?

I recently downloaded Picasa 3, a picture organizing software, onto my computer. Now, I am not a computer guru by any means but this is one software I may try to learn. Anyway, to get to my point.........

I ran across my Scrappy Pineapple from our very first Quilt Retreat Getaway Weekend in 2003 at Sugar Creek. I had forgotten how much I loved this quilt!

At the time of the 2003 retreat, I was also teaching a quite a few quilt classes. I made this quilt as an example of using scraps and also the value of colors. When you have a pattern that calls for lights, mediums and darks, the values are all relative to their neighboring fabrics and colors. None of the fabrics in the body of this quilt would be considered "dark" by most standards BUT in relationship to the other fabrics in the quilt they are dark.

It is fun to make a "neutral" quilt. My neutral bin of scrap fabrics is always so full I am lucky to be able to get the lid on it. We use so many neutrals in our quilts that we always have small pieces left over. Experiment; challenge yourself to make a quilt or small tabletopper with all neutrals.