Wednesday 24 August 2011

Guest Blogging Today at the Quilting Gallery Blog and a Giveaway!

I'm guest blogging over at the Quilting Gallery today so if you get a chance, pop over. But then come back because I'm doing a giveaway! If you are here for the first time, Welcome! I'm so glad you are here -- you've arrived just in time. :)

Since some of my posts are about my quilt blog travelling adventures, I thought a travel-themed fabric giveaway would be rather à propos. And while I was in Nova Scotia, I spied a few fabrics that I thought would be perfect.


So for my first giveaway (cue Vanna White), we have a fat quarter of this lovely travel word material, which is Paper Dolls Around the World by Sibling Arts Studios for Blue Hill Fabrics. For a splash of Canadian colour, I added some red inukshuk fabric from the Winter Sports line by Laurie Godin for Northcott Fabrics (it's the Vancouver Olympics line). And to round out our trifecta of travelling goodies, we have Tall Ships by David Carter Brown for South Sea Imports.

So how do you enter? You have several options (and may do all three if you like):

1. Leave a comment on this post about what you would do with this bundle if you won it.
2. Leave a comment on this post about where your best trip ever was.
3. Leave a comment that you are a reader or have become a reader of my blog.

It's open to anyone anywhere until Sunday, August 28th at 8:00 p.m. EST. Please make sure that your email is either linked to your profile or you leave your email address in the comment so that I can contact the winner. I'll post the winner on Monday, August 29th.

Good luck and happy Wednesday!

128 comments:

  1. I came from Quilting Gallery. I love your post there. I would use the fabrics to make a bag.

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  2. My favorite trip was meeting my husband in Paris, France while he was there on business.

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  3. I'm a new follower of your blog. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  4. Found you through quilting Gallery.
    I would make an international jacket.
    Visit me in THE Netherlands on www.art2wearblog.blogspot.com

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  5. Hello,

    I would use the material to make a quilt for our youngest daughter who is overseas on her gap year.
    Happy days.
    Bev.xoxo

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  6. Oh my favourite trip was a family holiday to Tasmania a few years ago.
    Happy days.
    Bev.xoxo

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  7. I love this fabric group.

    I would make a throw for my daughter who is moving to Germany with her military husband who just got back from the war. She is also going to make her home decor "travel" since this is the beginning for her of overseas travels with her family. We lived in Switzerland when she was a child..and she learned French there. I was also born in Germany to a military dad! It would be PERFECT.

    THank you
    Hope

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  9. I found you trough the quilting gallery. Your folded your fabric so that yoy can see Holland and that is where I live. I like to make cushions form this fabric for my caravan, so the fabric can travel with us.

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  10. My favorite trip...was a complete circle around the USA with our five children. We stopped so many places and collected postcards ..some very funny and unique from the States we visited. We saw old friends and family all along the way..and some hilarious stories.

    Like my youngest said as we entered Kentucky..It SMELLS like CHICKEN here (hinting for some KFC chicken) then my other son as we crossed a border line...the scenery NOT changing..said.."IT's much prettier here"! We continue to enjoy that trip to this day.

    THANKS FOR THE FUN
    HOPE

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  11. My latest trip was vey especially. We went to Romenia. It is a very poor country but very beautiful and the people are so friendly.

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  12. I came from Quilting Gallery. I would used it to make a lovely bag :)

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  13. My best trip is travel to Beijing, China to celebrate my birthday in year 2005.

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  14. Hi! I've come over from Quilting Gallery and what a FUN way to travel. We live in our RV full time, so you know I love travel!!! I've become a new follower, and I can't wait to see where we go next!

    Blogger hates me (sometimes I can comment, sometimes not) so I just leave my email: kcallander989(at)gmail(dot)com

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  15. Favorite trip? Gotta be the next one, wherever it may be. Although, the trip across Canada to Alaska had some pretty cool highlights...but, then there's the one to Hawaii (not yet taken), and Italy (also not yet taken), and probably a dozen more, some taken, some not, that get me salivating for adventure!

    Blogger hates me (sometimes I can comment, sometimes not) so I just leave my email: kcallander989(at)gmail(dot)com

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  16. And what would I do with such fabulous fabric? Well, we have some friends who met in the Peace Corp, and they have this world map with pins showing where all they have gone...and this fabric is soooooo much like that, I'd love to make them some kind of wall art to go with that picture!

    Thanks for giving away such fabulous treasures!

    Blogger hates me (sometimes I can comment, sometimes not) so I just leave my email: kcallander989(at)gmail(dot)com

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  17. I always take my own pillow when we travel, so I would make a wonderful pillow case with these fabrics.

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  18. Choosing the best place I have ever traveled in a difficult one. We (me and Mr. Romance) have had so many wonderful adventures. In the States it would have to be Niagara Falls, Canada! In Europe, visiting the Normandy Beaches in France.

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  19. I follow your blog. Thanks for a chance to win! Come over to my blog and enter my giveaway, too!

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  20. Today I'm working on a tea cozy and think this fabric would make another pretty one. Or I'd use it for a quilt.

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  21. I've joined you as a follower and added your blog to my reading list. I very much enjoyed your post at Quilting Gallery. Thanks.

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  22. My sister is the world traveller and I'm the stay at home sewer so a bag for her would be a perfect project. Thanks.

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  23. I love the fabric. I would use it for a pillow or a small apron.
    Thanks
    Julie

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  24. I've had to favorite trips my husband and I spent 2 weeks in Alaska, and 2 weeks in Texas both were great. On the Texas trip we met another couple and have been fiends since. She's a quilter too. Julie

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  25. I am a follower of your blog. I'm looking forward to reading all your posts and seeing your projects.
    Julie

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  26. HI- found your blog through Quilting Gallery and like you I am new to blogging but love the international links it allows you to make. My favourite trips were to Venice 4 years ago and also a trip to Norway 5 years ago - both were unforgetable- Pauline G

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  27. I've added your blog to my reader. Thanks.

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  28. Enjoyed your post at QG. Best trip was to the West coast of Canada. Visited relatives in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
    My first time to the Pacific Ocean.

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  29. That fabric is telling me it needs tp be made into a mini! It would be wonderful for an international swap.

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  30. Best trip ever....a weekend get away with my boys to Marrow Bay California. Most beautiful spot I've ever been. I keep it on my weather channel ap on my phone just to let me know that there are places in the world where it is not 100+ degrees in August.

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  31. Have become a follower of your blog....where you going next?

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  32. my great nephew is just finishing his first "gig" of his dream career. he has been on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean as lead trumpet player in the orchestra. i just know he hasn't looked for fabric on his land excursions. this would make a perfect quilt for him. i have been trying to imagne fabric sother than music for him. what a great combination this would be for him!!!!

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  33. i am following your blog. i love the colors in your quilts. esp the rainbow double wedding ring.!!!!!!!

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  34. i have never traveled outside the US. i think our best vacation was to colorado springs for the 50th corvette convention. what a beautiful area of the country. loved garden of the gods. what i can't imagine is why those formations are ONLY in that small area. amazing.

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  35. I just found you on Quilting Bloggers and have become a follower. I will also link to you from my blog under Blogs I Read.
    So glad to have found you. Love, love, love your quilts, especially that Rainbow Double Wedding Ring!!
    Deborah

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  36. Love your idea of "traveling" the blogs! If I won this travel FQB I just might have to travel a few myself for some cool ideas. Thanks for the chance to win!!

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  37. I think my best trip was for our Silver Wedding we went to Lake Maggiore in Italy our hotel was right on the side of the lake the views were fabulous, all the locals used it for their wedding reception because the pictures with the lake in the background were beautiful.

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  38. The top fabric would have to be a bag how good would that look! Thanks for the giveaway. Linda

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  39. I now follow you in Google Reader. Linda in France

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  40. I'm now a follower. Love that you found a niche to fill in blogland. I'll follow your travels with interest. The fabric could be a start to a trip around the world for me!

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  41. Those fabrics would be great for making postcards.........then they too could travel

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  42. I am a regular follower of your blog. Thanks for the chance to win your giveaway.

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  43. My best trip ever was when my husband and I just took off from Ohio -- everything unplanned. We hit our family cabin in Pennsylvania. Then we went to Niagra Falls. After that it was a trip around the lake on the Canadian side and we came down somewhere near Decatur, IL to visit a relative. It was nice just driving until we needed a hotel and not worrying about a schedule. Thanks for the chance to win your giveaway.

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  44. Sandie "Fabriholic"24 August 2011 at 18:18

    My best trip was to Austrailia about 6 years ago. It was just my husband and I and we went for 3 months. We not only visited our friends but went to a lot of tourist places to, like Ayers Rock and Cairns. We have been lucky enough to live there twice when our children were little so we've enjoyed the wildlife and wildflowers too.
    Sandie aka "Fabriholic"
    jjds.hrycyk@shaw.ca
    Sandie

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  45. I would use that fabric for the quilt that will go in my RV for when I retire and travel all over the country!!! I love how you travel from your chair, what a wonderful idea!!!!

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  46. I absolutely love this fabric - i will make Quilted stitching accessories & a purse to go with them- Thank you so much for the Giveaway opportunity - It is really awesome !!!

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  47. I have never traveled outside of the USA - But I would love to go to Italy

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  48. I am a new follower - But I will be reading your blog from now on - I subscribed with google :)

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  49. Thanks so much for the giveaway!!! The fabric is beautiful, and if I won, I would use it in a photo memory quilt with a "travel" theme. Wouldn't that be the perfect fabric to coordinate with photos of us from our different travels, trips, holidays, Vacations?

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  50. I am NOW a follower of your blog! ;c)

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  51. My favorite trip. . . is the one I take each year the 3rd weekend of October. each year during this same weekend is Bridge Day Festival in Fayetteville, WV. It's the world's longest arch bridge and during this one day they let people walk on it and under it. People parachute and zipline off of it and there are hundreds of vendors and 10s of thousands of people. We go camping and just enjoy the amazing fall foliage that is the Appalachian mountains in this area.

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  52. I've had many a great trip, but my best recent one was a tour of England with my fiance!

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  53. I quilt for World of Charity Stitching and I would make a lap quilt for someone in the nursing home because I think maybe it would bring back memories of a trip they may have taken.

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  54. I would probably use those beautiful fabrics in a table topper. Thanks for the opportunity to enter your great giveaway!

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  55. My best trip ever was to North Carolina and traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway - gorgeous country!

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  56. I just stumbled upon your blog and am very happy I did. Count me as one of your newest followers. And a Canadian, too! So I appreciate the little touch of Canada in your giveaway.

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  57. My favourite travel destination ... is always the place I most recently visited. I live close to the Rockies and it never ceases to fill me with awe. I LOVE trips to Vancouver Island. Newfoundland is pretty special. New York and the surrounding states this past spring were pretty awesome, too. Heck, pretty much anywhere fascinates me to no end!

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  58. I would most certainly use these fabrics to make a quilt. Probably a quilt for one of the world travelers in my family. I have a few through whom I live vicariously.

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  59. I have been saving bits of fabric that one of my daughters has brought me from her travels all over the world to make a quilt. These fabrics would work in nicely. Thanks for a chance to win.

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  60. My best trip ever..... hmmm I've had a few good ones....I think I'll say my bike trip with my DD and my s-i-l from the Oregon/California border to San Jose. It was a stupendous trip.

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  61. I am a new follower and fellow Canadian.

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  62. I'm your new follower! Dicovered you via Quilting Gallery. Your work is really amazing!

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  63. With such a bundle I would make a tote and a cosmetic bag. Something which you can always use for travelling :)

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  64. And my best trip was to Paris with my father on my 18th birthday. This was something special.

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  65. I would ofcourse make a travel-bag

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  66. My best journey was this year in May when my eldest daughter and I went to Rhodes

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  67. I love these materials. My 'international' quilts are sewn out of it.

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  68. I was in Amsterdam last year. I really enjoyed it!

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  69. I am a new follower. Facebook site to be covered.

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  70. Hi I'm a new follower too and fairly new to blogging myself. Please feel free to stop by my blog in SCOTLAND. You are so right, quilting is an obsession/ lifestyle - not just a hobby. Great giveaway - I would make a gorgeous quilt of course!!

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  71. Great post at Quilting Gallery. I think I would make a cute little tote bag with the fabric. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  72. Ginette (ginette.vallieres@rogers.com)25 August 2011 at 19:44

    I am a follower!!

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  73. ginette (ginette.vallieres@rogers.com)25 August 2011 at 19:48

    My best trip ever was last summer when we went to St-John's NL. Our first family trip. We got to go with my parents. My Dad's family lives there so we got to visit Aunts and Uncles and cousins. It was great to be able to share a part of my history with my husband and daughters!

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  74. Ginette (ginette.vallieres@rogers.com)25 August 2011 at 19:49

    I just found a nice pattern for a messenger bag last week... those fabrics would be just perfect! Thanks for this opportunity!

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  75. I think a travel bag would be perfect with those fabrics but I have seen a lot of journal covers lately and that might be nice to make with those fabrics.

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  76. The best trip we ever took was to 1000 Islands in New York State. We stayed right by the water and we had so much fun on the river.

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  77. I would make a bag if I was lucky enough to win!

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  78. My favourite trip is our last trip to Ireland! I love the country and the people! Sadly we didn't make it this year!

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  79. I would make a travel bag would be nice, or make some quilt blocks for military quilts. Thank you for the giveaway!

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  80. My favorite vacation would be a tie between my honeymoon to Naples, FL with my husband or my trip to Jamaica with my mom!

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  81. Would make great background and borders for a Mariner's Compass wall hanging.

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  82. Best travel - back in high school - Senior trip to NYC and seeing the Statue of Liberty up close for the first time - still takes my breathe away.

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  83. I would use it for a quilt, possibly a quilt to keep in the car for traveling.

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  84. My favorite trip was to Prince Edward Island last year for our 30th anniv.

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  85. I would make a quilt for my 16yr old son, all he talks about is moving to Canada to live,because of hockey(live in Tennessee).
    And now he has found out not only do you have hockey there is a college for animation and filming that he can go to.

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  86. Our best trips as a family is going to Walt Disney World. We go at least twice a year, just to get the kids away from all their electronics so we can talk and be a family.

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  87. Thanks for the opportunity to win your giveaway. If I were to win this lovely fabric, I would make a tote bag to carry with me on my trips.

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  88. I am now a follower of your blog and thank you for the opportunity to win your giveaway.

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  89. Oh, those fabrics would make a fun bag! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  90. Great fabric - looks like a tote bag idea for traveling is a popular thought! That's what I'd do, too!

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  91. My favorite trip was camping in our RV in Yellowstone/Wyoming/Colorado/Montana when I was a kid. I have such fond memories of camping in my childhood. :)

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  92. I would make some totes or purses from this cute fabric

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  93. My favorite trip was to the Virgin Islands many, many years ago.

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  94. What beautiful fabric! I would use it for pillows or a tablerunner!

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  95. My favorite trips are those back home to Europe where I was born.

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  96. I would make some sort of a tote bag -perfect with these prints!

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  97. My favorite trip was to West Virginia (from NY) in 1991. It is a beautiful state!

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  98. HAPPILY FOLLOWING YOU!
    THANKS FOR THE GIVEAWAY!

    jldouglas@wispwest.net

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  99. ONE OF MY FAVORITE TRIPS WAS FLYING TO MACINAW ISLAND IN A PRIVATE PLANE WITH MY SWEETHEART! BEAUTIFUL SPOT!
    THANKS FOR SHARING!

    jldouglas@wispwest.net

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  100. I'D MAKE ME A NEW TOTE,SINCE THE OTHER SHOPPING TOTE IS IN SHREDS! THANKS FOR SHARING!

    jldouglas@wispwest.net

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  101. I follow you with Google Reader! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  102. I would use these great fabrics to make a travel bag! Thanks for the chance to win! (Great post at Quilting gallery, too!)

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  103. Best trip ever....hmmmm...hafta be one of our beach trips when the kids were little, and we had a ball there!

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  104. If I win, then some of the fabric will become charms in a special I-Spy quilt, and the remainder will find their way into a new quilt (maybe my grandmother's flower garden -- double flower hexies). Thanks for the chance to win some unusual fabrics.

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  105. My best trip ever was the week all expenses included I spent alone at the Miraval Spa in Tucson, Arizona. This is the only time I've ever pampered myself and was so de-stressed when returned home.

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  106. I am now a follower. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  107. Of course I read your great blog and now I'm a follower too.

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  108. Best trip ever would be to the Virgin Islands.

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  109. My favourite trip was with my family to Queensland, Australia.

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  110. If I win I will turn this fabric into hexie flowers and add them to my flower garden.

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  111. I think I would make a "dream" pillow out of it... one which I rest on while day-dreaming :)

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  112. My favourite trip was when my Mom and I went to Venice several years ago...

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  113. I am a very excited new follower because I'm from Ottawa too :)

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  114. I travel quite a bit for work, so I would make a travel case for my iPad with this material.

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  115. I enjoy almost all of the travel I do, but my favorite trip was probably the 7 days in Rio de Janeiro for my honeymoon (it was my honeymoon, after all!). Plus, it was before 9/11/01, so travel was less onerous and had more service and less fees!

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  116. Cute fabric - would make a really nice tote. Thanks for the chance to win it.

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  117. I have been to Zihuatanejo Mexico twice with a friend who loves to just sit on the beach & read like I do. Plus exploring the old Mexican market & town & walking the beach at all hours. Both trips were the BEST ever.

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  118. I read your post at Quilting Gallery and I'd love to have those fabrics to make a passport/travel wallet, for one of my daughters who is going to Fiji in a few months. I've just made one for one of my daughters who is travelling to the US but would love to use the fabrics you have chosen. Thanks for the chance.

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  119. The best trip ever was my first - and only - overseas trip (it's a long way from Australia to almost anywhere!)way back when I was in my mid 20's. It left such a lasting impression, that my big plans for our 25th wedding anniversary in 2013 is to head to Europe and Britain again.

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  120. I would use these fabrics for a travel bag and passport holder. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  121. My best trip ever was my first cruise. It was in the eastern Carribean on Norwegian Cruise Line.

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  122. I'm a new follower of your blog and a fellow Canadian living in Calgary.

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  123. Hi! Greetings from Finland! I LOVE your works. I am very happy to find your blog! What a colours in your quilts. I can see that you love quilting. So do I. :) Hava a nice day!

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