Don't look now!

And the winners are ...

Janet of Quiltsalott

and

Chocolate Cat

each have won one of my patterns for the Big Top Puppet Theatre! I hope that it will be of use to you both!

And Sue of McIntyre Knits has won the puppet theatre!

Congratulations Sue! I hope that it will bring you and your sweet daughter hours of pleasure! 

Thank you everyone who left a comment last week. You have all blown me away with your encouragement & support for my blog and my new business venture! As I said last week it means so much to me. While I'm in the 'thanking' mode I do have to thank Louise who (as I have said many times before) opened this world to me. It was her blog that inspired me to begin mine and it was with her little boost that sent so many of you over to visit me. Thank you so very much Louise! It has been an absolute pleasure getting to know you!

So today I am opening the 'doors' of my on line shop. I have created a link in my side bar if you want to take a look. I have worked my butt off this week and managed to put together patterns for two quilts as well as the puppet theatre ... it is amazing how much you can achieve when you don't sleep! :) For now all of the patterns are hard copies not down-loadable like my tutorials have been.

I managed to finish the quilt I showed you in my last post on Friday. It's my entry in the Living Creatively & Amitie Think Outside the Square challenge.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to show you the entire quilt ... so for now I'll stick to sneak peaks. I would have preferred to have made this quilt larger. Quilts this size (1mx 1m) aren't really all that useful unless you plan to hang them on a wall ... I prefer to snuggle my quilts or at least see the kids snuggling them :). So I have bound the quilt with the plan to enlarge it once the challenge is over.

Wednesday was a very exciting day in our home as the new edition of Quilter's Companion hit the news stands ....

And were all promptly bought by my family... because right there on page 76 is my Rainbow Lollipops! I can't tell you how exciting this has been for me and for Jessica for that matter .... she has slept with a copy of the magazine since Wednesday!!!!! :) I'm not quite sure if she gets the whole concept of how or why her quilt is in the magazine ... either way she certainly feels very special about the whole thing!

Not being a biased person .... I must say that this is an excellent edition of the magazine and I am most certainly in very good company!!!

Right there on the front cover is our Tracey!!!! How cool is she really???? Make sure you pop over and take a look at what she's been up to!

OK ... so that's it for me for the past week. Now I'm going to go sleep for 5 minutes then clean up the house ... it is literally frighteningly messy at the moment! Then on Monday it's time for a new project!!!

Have a fantastic week and thank you all again!!!

Kellie

PS. I was in at Amitie today and apparently a little while ago someone rang asking about a fairy fabric that I had on my blog a little while ago but they never left any contact details ... so if that was you ... it's now back in stock! :) Go on give them a ring ... we always need more fabric!!!

  

Don't Look Now .... I'm one!!!

I can't believe that I have been doing this now for one whole year! This time last year was one of the hardest weeks emotionally that my little family and I have ever faced. So what did I do ... take on another project! Thinking back I must have been delirious!

I never could have realised how much this little space would enrich my world.  I've made some good friends who have opened doors for me I never believed possible. I've gotten to know some amazing women from all around the world and it's been so nice to share little bits of our lives and our passions. You guys are pretty cool!

This little corner of the web has driven me creatively ... 

   
And I can thank you all for that! 

So what was I working on last week ....

 

It's a Puppet Theatre. I first made one of these for Megan for her 5th birthday and the kids have all had so much fun with it over the years. It hangs above a door jam on a couple of hooks. The kids hide away behind the theatre using the stage to present their latest hilariously, ridiculous production. Once you remove the dowels it packs away to nothing.

I have driven myself loopy over this for quite some time now ...  I have finally decided to take the dive into the retail world. Today I am officially launching Don't look Now! patterns ...

well actually it is only one pattern but providing I sell more than one ... there will be more :).

Of course with every new pattern and blogaversary there must be a giveaway!!! I didn't intend to have three giveaways in a row so I hope that you aren't 'giveawayed out' (OK ... I know that's not a word).

If you leave a comment here between now and mid night Australian EST on the 17th of January you will have the opportunity to win either one of two patterns or a Puppet Theatre. Anyone who has left a comment here on my last 10 posts will get an extra entry.

For the time being I intend to only sell my patterns from an online shop. They wont be available until the 18th ... no point buying one until you know for sure you haven't one one! :) This will be all up and running on the 18th of January after the winners are announced.

Thanks for your support over the last 12 months! I hope you keep coming back ... you guys literally have made my year!!!

And just so you know I haven't been sitting around doing nothing all week...

Have a great weekend!

Kellie

PS. The latest copy of Homespun found it's way onto the newspaper stands this week! Our Miss Megan took the prize of runner up in her age group of the Homespun Young Designer of the Year Award. She won a magnificent Brenina sewing machine plus over $3000 worth of other amazing prizes! This really is a spectacular competition for young Australians and incredibly well sponsored!!! Thanks Homespun from a very overwhelmed little, big girl :) ...

 

This is where her design began.

Congratulations my girl!