Happy new week everyone and welcome to my crafty space today......(the scrappy hearts cushion shown here is my project in the february issue of
crafts beautiful magazine out now.).....
............molly and i have been very busy in the sewing room and the studio having a sort out.....so much crafty stuff in the cupboards and drawers....in boxes and baskets.....and the quilt cupboard was very over-stuffed.....
............in the end i took all the quilts out and they are being stored or used in new places around the house.........
...........below is a pile of quilts ready to put in a new cupboard..........
...........and when my new quilt, fabric and crafty materials storage arrangements are complete i will do a photo shoot :).....
.............in the meantime we thought it would be nice to share some of the crafty materials in two lucky dip packages for two lovely readers of my blog..........
.............there will be fabric scraps (some quite big ones)...........
...........and buttons....and beads.....
.............lace and ribbon.............
.................pretty specialist threads...........all ready to inspire lots of new crafty creativity.....
.................and each lucky dip giveaway package will have a little pin cushion handmade with love by me too..............so if you fancy winning this crafty bundle of treats all you have to do is leave me a little comment on this post.......there will be two winners....the giveaway is open until january 28 and anyone can join in anywhere around the world..............
.............the tidying up continues here this week and so does the crafting and creating.....
.............the hyacinths are scenting the air and it is nice to get the older quilts out and use some of them and display others......this one is my strawberry stars quilt made with some of my favourite pam kitty florals....some of you may remember it...the pattern is the same one as the star quilt in my book modern vintage gifts.............
.....thank you so much for your visits here dear readers and for your sweet comments and messages.....i wish you all a happy week ahead and good luck in the giveaway.......back soon xxxxxxx
162 comments:
Ooooooh please may I join in the lucky dip
Your quilts and your hyacinths are so pretty
Julie xxxxxxx
so ein tolles geschenk möchten sie machen, da bin ich gerne dabei und vielleicht habe ich glück
wunderschön sind alle ihre tollen quilts
viel spass beim weitersticheln
lg elfriede
I love your blog so much! Always makes me smile and feel like it is Spring! Please enter me in the lucky dip. Thank you for being so generous!
What a generous soul, you bring cheery colours and inspiration for lovely stitcheries into the lives of so many!
Thank you for the chance. Your quilts are beautiful x
Always so pretty, bright & cheerful. Thanks for the chance to win xx
A lovely giveaway, but please don't enter me as I would love for someone else to win. Just wanted to say that your work is beautiful as always and to let you know that I am sort of back blogging again.
A lovely post as always, Helen, I always find your blogs so inspiring xx
The fabrics sing of spring to me..Thank you for having this lovely give away
Your quilt cupboard look amazing, your home must be full of crafty prettiness everywhere. Thank you for a wonderful giveaway. x
I will be happy to win!
Hoping to someday have a studio as lovely as yours. Thanks for all your hard work and the lovely generous giveaway.
Your sewing room is such an inspiration. I love the brightness and happiness that your quilts express. I would be thrilled to win.
Helen,
Your work is absolutely beautiful. The fabric and your quilts are gorgeous. I love your sewing room and I hope to have one so beautiful as well some day. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
Hi Helen,
I would love to be entered into your Giveaway please.
I love your Blog on Mondays..your colours and flowers always cheer me up.
You also inspire me with your use of colour..and I love your Home Décor too.
Good Luck to everyone
Thank you
Shirley.xx
Oh what a great giveaway! I'd be very happy to give them a home! Thanks for the chance to win.
Hello Helen,
Entering this Giveaway as fast as I can!
So much Inspiration in this Blog of yours... LOVE IT!
Would love to see more of your Drawings!
Thanks for this great opportunity! Much Luck to ALL!
Heidi
xoxo
I love the pin cushion with the little heart! Great for Valentine's Day. Good luck with your organizing.
I've been sorting out too, it's a January thing!, although I have nowhere near as many of quilts as you to sort through. Yours may well be the prettiest blog I follow. All those gorgeous fabrics.I'd love the chance to win one of your wonderful giveaways. Thanks for sharing. Elizabeth x
It's the best kind of tidying up when the things you're tired of are so beautiful and enjoyed by so many. :) Thanks for the chance to win. :)
All your quilts are beautiful. You are so talented.
Thank you for a chance in your lucky dip. X
You do such an awesome job styling your photos. Thanks for the giveaway.
Beautiful photos, as always. I always enjoy reading your blog.
Ah the promise of spring in the scent of your hyacinths! So many pretty quilts, Helen. What a wonderful giveaway....there will be two very lucky readers who receive such an amazing gift. Good luck with all the tidying!
Helen!!! You are the queen of cute!!! I want to be just like you when I grow up!!
Hola! Me gustaría participar en el sorteo, gracias por la oportunidad, hace años que sigo su blog es muy inspirador, la fotografía es muy buena.
Such eye candy! I do love a good tidy, I discover such wonderful things I had forgotten about.
I love your happy colored quilts, and your cabinet is awesome! Thanks for the giveaway chance!
I love your cabinet and all your quilts - each so lovely. Your new cushion is just right for this time of year.
Mary
Everything is so cheerful and pretty!
This is definitely something I need to do. My whole crafty stash could use a good sorting!
Helen, you and Molly have been busy. I'd love to enter your lucky dip!
Your post makes me think spring even though we're in the dead of winter. ♥
Lovely sewing studio, gorgeous quilts and cushions, beautiful fabrics and a great, very generous giveaway!
Thank you
Hi Helen what a lovely giveaway.
I would love to enter in the draw.
Your blog is such a pleasure to read.
I love a good tidy. Natalie
Your hyacinths are well ahead of mine. How pretty they look.
I would love to enter your giveaway. Thank you.
Helen,
Another inspirational post today with all the beautiful colors and prints in your quilts and fabrics!!
It would be wonderful to win your awesome give away, especially a pincushion handmade by you,one of my favorite and most talented crafters.
I have been having a bit of a clear out of some drawers and closets myself, but have not begun on my sewing studio. That will wait until warmer weather I am thinking.
Thank you for the chance to win some of your "stash".
Mickie Indiana, USA
How absolutely gorgeous and generous too Helen, such a beautiful giveaway!! Thank you for the opportunity! :)
Your quilts are amazing, how lovely having so many to choose from!!
Just love your pretty Valentines cushion too.
Wishing you a cosy week,
V x
Beautiful stacks of quilts. I always enjoy reading your blog and IG posts. Your work always inspires me.
Tammy
I would love to join in as I always read your blog and would really love to jump in and have a go!
I love the new cabinet! The wire on the doors is comfort appealing.
Beautiful quilts and a generous giveaway! I'd like to participate. Thanks 💞
I can almost smell your hyacinths! I didn’t get round to planting any last autumn so I shall have to buy some, I love the smell!!
Everything looks so fresh and spring like. Nice tonic on this gray day.
Oh Helen it is all s pretty, I wait for your blog every Monday and really enjoy it. I wish I could get through the volume of work that you do. Please lease enter me in your give away. We don’t get lovelynfabrics like,this where I live it would be a treat to work with some. Ice things.
Thank you for my little bit of England each Monday
Regards
Peta Cowan
Ps. You've inspired me to have a sort out in my work corner!!!!!!
I so ❤️ your beautiful designs and I would enjoy being included in your fun giveaway.😁
Have a lovely week!
EXCITED about your Giveaway!Know it will be something Beautiful! Thank You so much for Your Great Blog+the Giveaway too!
msstitcher1214@gmail.com
Thank you for giving me a chance to win some of your lovely fabrics. I am currently working on a strawberry star quilt inspired by you. Joan
I would love to be entered for your giveaway, Helen. Thank you for the opportunity and inspiration - your work is exquisite x
Your sewing room is so inspiring. I love to see posts of your latest project...and another idea goes on my very l-o-n-g list of things to try
Thank you for all you do and share, Helen. I happen to love your taste in fabrics and colours... I own many fabrics, and don't mean to be greedy, but a giveaway from you is about the only one I'd be interested in... here you offer so much, even a few scraps would be a treasure
beautiful, thanks for the chance
Even your scraps are lovely! Thanks for the chance to win some of them. I'm currently making the EPP star quilt from one of your books which is perfect for portable sewing. Sally.
What a happy space! Thanks for offering some of your goodies!
I would be a delighted winner! I love your blog! Your posts are a happy start to my week.
Mandy x
Sorry to be anonymous but I don’t have an account.
Helen, when will you be writing another book? Or is there one already in the works but still a secret...
When I grow up (I'm 66), I want to be like you!
Love reading your blog, Helen and admiring your beautiful creations. You must be a very gifted photographer too because the pictures are always so professional looking.
I forgot to request an entry for the giveaway. Please add my name to the pot.
Thanks!
Oh boy! I love it when you do a giveaway, to have something you made yourself is a happy thought. I just love the colors you use. Have a wonderful week, my friend. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)
I would be honored and thrilled to be a winner. I love your blog and have made projects from your books. It would be fabulous to make something from your own fabric and accessories collection.
Susan in PA, USA
I love how much red and white you use in your beautiful creations . Your giveaway is so very generous - thank you.
Such a lovely giveaway, thanks so much for all your inspiration and colourful pics, they always make me smile ; )
Lovely!
I will look for the magazine with your quilt in it. Gailnkhs@yahoo.com
What a wonderful giveaway. I'm sure you'll have at least 199 entries (probably more), but I'd like to take a chance on being one of the lucky ones.
Blessings
OOO, I am hoping with all my heart to win your most generous and beautiful giveaway.
Thanks so much for this chance to share in your colorful world of fabrics and the little pin cushion made by you makes my heart flutter.
Your quilts are just beautiful! Thank you so much for the chance to win in your truly lucky dip! The little pincushion is so pretty!
I love scraps and would love to win your lucky dip.😁
Everything you make is so beautiful and inspires me towards creating something lovely for my family and home. Thank you for sharing! You bring joy to many people!
I love reading your blog, your needlework and photos are so inspirational. Thanks for the opportunity to win some patchwork supplies. Julie :)
Dear Helen, I read your colorful blog and admire your handiwork every Monday. I live in Upstate New York but come from Warwickshire, England. I am coming home for 4 weeks to visit my family in Devon and Yorkshire, bringing along sewing and crochet. Will follow your blog no matter where I am. Thank you so much.
You have a wonderful sense of colors and how they fit together, what a fun little giveaway too! Thank you for all the beautiful things you share on your blog!
I look at your studio, what do I see? Something I wished belonged to me
I look at your colour schemes,what do I think? Those colours are my colours, that's what I think
I look at your quilt press, I want one of those, instead of squashing my quilts in with my clothes
I've got a Molly, who is not quite so white, my Tilly is hairy and small and for me - just right
I love your ideas, and the links to garden and seasons, your blog is the best, for all the above reasons
Thank you so much for the inspiration!
Your colorful quilts are a welcome site this dreary winter day. Thank you.
Not only do I love seeing what you're working on and the beautiful fabrics you choose, but I truly enjoy your words. Your are a sunshine on a rainy day!
Karen
Thank tou, Helen, for your lovely blog - a sparkle of cheeriness on a drab day! I love your use of colour and would really like to be entered in your give away. x
I would love to win this.
Such pretty things.
I love your style.
Yes please
I enjoy your quilts and the colors you use
Colleen
I love your work and the way that you use colours, but have never left a comment. Would love to enter your competition. Robyn
Helen, When I see your lovely things I feel that we are kindred spirits in colors and patterns and everything! Such a joy to follow you.
I just love your style and fabric choices! Would love to win!
Pat
azzuri9@aol.com
Hello Helen,
Receiving your posts in my inbox always brightens my day!
Sharing your creations with us readers is so inspiring.
Giving 2 lucky dip bags is very generous!!
Thank you, thank you!!
Andrea in the Midwest.
So appreciate that you include participants from around the world. Love your colour choices.
Love your work it's full of happiness, please include me in your drawing. Thank you!!
Thank you for your lovely inspirational blog! I've used one of your cross stitch books for years! I am now finding lots of creative ideas for quilting on your site. Please include me in your happy dips drawing!
I'd love to join in the lucky dip! Your colour palette and projects are always a delight to see.
I love your blog so much! Always makes me smile and feel like it is Spring! Please enter me in the lucky dip. Thank you for being so generous!
Thank you so much, what a treat! Love to follow along and see your lovely pics and creations!
What a wonderful opportunity! Your quilts, crafts and photos brighten my inbox. It would be lovely to win the lucky dip.
So many beautiful quilts, I don't know how you make them so quickly.
Hi Helen! What a sweet post again. Your quilts are so beuatiful and make awesome photos with flowers and your other cuties! Thank you for a chanche to win bundle of your lovliest fabrics and supplies! They surely cheerup the days of the lucky winners. X Teje
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Oh. It would so make my Birthday month if I could have my name pulled. I am facing the big 50. Age is just a number and it doesn’t stop me but in my brain I remember at age 18 how old it sounds.
What a gorgeous lucky dip! I know I'd have a lot of fun with your scraps, buttons and trims - they are all so pretty 💕💕
I have the same pink hyacinths in my kitchen what a lovely smell they give out, spring is just around the corner as I have some snowdrops out in my garden.
What a super lucky dip. Have a good week. sue x
Thank you for the chance to win this beautiful give away. I find your blog so inspiring and uplifting.
thank you for allowing me to read your blog. I love your coloour palette and your photos brighten my day. I'd love to win some of your scraps.
Hi Helen, Your blog is always so beautiful and inspirational! Thanks for the give away. Best wishes, Annabel, (CambridgeStitches)
Beautiful heart pillow, Helen! Love, love your quilt cupboard - such eye-candy. What a sweet giveaway too! I see you and Molly have been very busy indeed :)!
I love your blog as it is always filled with beautiful color! And I love anything scrappy. Your Farmer's Wife quilt is one of my favorite. I will someday have a pretty sewing room but for now I just drool. Love your white fireplace heater also. So darn cute! Please enter me in your giveaway! Thanks!
What a wonderful prize to have the chance to win. I love the colors of your quilts. I tend to lean toward more earthy tones but yours are so bright and cheery. They just make you happy.
I read your blog every week and it has inspired me to learn to crochet so I can have blankets as beautiful as yours. Thank you.
What lovely bundles of joy!!
Hello again Helen
So many beautiful quilts ... Please count me in for the lucky dip, thank you Helen and keep up the good work.
x
Oh so fun, I love a clean sewing room and moving things around always makes things feel fresh. Thanks for the chance to win something beautiful.
Hi Helen -- I'm in! Thanks for the opportunity to win all that gorgeousness in a lucky dip.
What a wonderful give away. Your work is so pretty. Love the colours.
Hugs from Lina
Il tuo blog ormai sono anni che lo seguo, mi da sempre una carica perchè è molto solare e pieno di colori. Ciao
Thank you for having a fun giveaway Helen. Your makes are a pretty, mini- holiday in the busyness of the every day x
Thanks for this "giveaway" opportunity, Helen. I am continuing to gather fabric(s) for your beautiful patchwork cushion, and very much looking forward to starting it. I just hope I can complete it by Valentine's Day! It's such a pleasure to see your lovely projects and photos. Thanks, again, for sharing with us!
I always look forward to Mondays and your colorful blog posts. So much inspiration. I need to get the world to stop for awhile or, perhaps, sleep a bit less! So many ideas, so little time! But thanks, thanks and ever thanks for sharing these wondrous things.
Hi Helen! I think your blog is the most cheery one around! Makes me so happy! Thank you for the chance to win all that yumminess!
Love, Janelle
How kind, love reading your blog and seeing your beautiful work. So inspiring!
Would love to join your giveaway. Enjoying your blog and also your IG account. You always have wonderful photos.
Hi Helen i love your blog its so bright and creative even at this time of year. I look forward to your posts and it helps fire my creativity for my next projects. Your pile of quilts look lovely,l would love to join your giveaway.x
I would love to win n a dip bag! Love looking at you blog and have borrowed several of your books from the library where I volunteer.
Would love to win the lucky dip.
I can't wait until I have enough quilts to fill a cupboard- just like your pretty white one!
Love all your beautiful quilts and pictures.
Becky Alabama, USA
Your posts always make me smile and think happy thoughts. I’m glad I found you on the huge web. Such joy. Thank you.
Liz xx
I'm already dreaming of something special to make with your lovely scrap bundle giveaway. Ooooh! pretty please choose me! carol at artlessfabrications dot com
It is so nice to see a pile of craft materials and then a pile of finished projects - like a promise fulfilled.
Amalia
xo
You have so many quilts - and all of them look beautiful! Vicky from Brum
Hi, Helen - your giveaway is so special because it's all your colors, and the winner will have a bit of you in their sewing arsenal. Fun, fun!
I love it when you do a giveaway. You used always lovely fabric like spring or summer. It wood be nice some happy colours for my new quilt.
Please enter me in the lucky dip. Thank you Helen.
Have a nice and creative week, Evelyne
Absolutely beautiful, I love your photographs and projects. They are such a tonic. Please enter me into your giveaway, my birthday is the 29th of January and to win would be a joy, thank you, Jane x
I love the colours you use they are always so fresh looking. Thank you for doing the give away.
Ooooh, those stacked quilt photos are beautiful! My sewing room is bursting too and I need to do a clean-up like you. I'm waiting until I'm done with my current project though -- then I can hopefully put everything away -- or give it away LOL! Love your pretty new pillow too!
Oh, and ps, please don't enter me in your giveaway -- I'm blessed with too much now! ;-D
As always, love this post and seeing all of your gorgeous quilts all stacked up in the white cupboard! I just swoon at all of the quilts you've made. I'm late in replying as my computer has been on he blink. I hope you give-away goes well and thank you for offering it up to us. I really have enough fabric already, but it is always wonderful to win something new... especially the ones you use as they are so bright and cheery. Hugs.. Marilyn
Hello from very hot, Queensland Australia, Helen. I was so excited to find your book Pretty Patchwork Gifts in a newsagent last week. We don't get all of the craft magazines here as it is inland and the closest city is over 2 hours drive away.I am making the little quilt for my granddaughter who got a lovely new dolly for Christmas, and am sewing little hearts from the scraps {when I get home at night from work }because sewing and looking at your projects helps me to remember to "do something I love every day ". I love looking at your displays and flowers as I find it hard to keep my plants alive here in Summer. Please enter me in the draw for the fabrics and keep creating - your blog is so pretty and cheerful Thank you Glenda Hansen
Your post has always been great inspiration for me!
Greetings from Greece!
This looks amazing. I'm just planning my first quilt project and have also just moved house and once sorted will have my own room for crafts so to add this to my stash would be fab.
28th Jan is also my birthday so it would be a lovely extra birthday pressie ;)
Hi Helen,
Your projects are always cheerful and uplifting and I would love to win your very generous giveaway to bring a little bit of your magic to my makes!
Molly and you create in a beautiful stdio!!have happy and full colours sunday
I love your colors and projects. I would love to put those goodies in my sewing room.
What a lovely, lovely giveaway Helen, thank you! I always love seeing photographs of your beautiful sewing room.... it is always so beautiful and inspirational! Hope you have a lovely week too! Christine x
All it's so cute . I love your workshop and style.
Best wishes from West Sussex
How sweet of you, we all love your beautiful creations! Enjoy your day! Happy sewing, Diane
Love be your colourful blog, so inspiring. I am delighted to be given the chance to enter your give away and share in the prettiness.
Always so cheerful here. Thank you. Love your blog. A fun giveaway for sure.
OOOOh pretties ! Yes please :)
Such a great giveaway. Everything looks so bright and cheerful. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to win.
I love reading your blog.
Ohhh your quilts are beautiful. Your posts are always so bright and pretty... I love it all. Please enter me in your contest, I would adore anything of yours.
Have a wonderful day!
I am preparing to make some of your sugar bunnies. They are irresistibly cute. I have the pattern ready...now to choose the fabric...you always have such lovely fabrics and to think I could have some of my own!
Have just recently found your blog.Am now addicted!Lots of lovely inspirAtion,Thank you.Eileen
Such a lovely blog, always uplifting and pretty. A joy to read x
I am a new reader of your blog and feel blessed to have found it. What wonderful uplifting projects and lovely stories, thank you for sharing them xxx. I would love to be entered into the giveaway please. Xxxx
I love reading your blog. The pictures are so beautiful. I must say, I don't know how you do it all. I can only wish. Keep up the wonderful work.
What gorgeous colors greet us each time we "tune in" to your site. I would love to have some of your "dip" goodies.
I love visiting your blog and your work is so inspiring! Your cupboards full of handmade creations are wonderful and your entire house is beautiful. I would love to get one of the lovely sets, thank you for a chance to win:)
This would be just perfect for melting us, here in this cold country of Norway. Thanks a lot for this giveaway. Your pictures are georgeous.
All so lovely Helen, what a wonderful clear out to end with a generous giveaway of so many little treasures: the colours of your buttons and fabrics look good enough to eat. Lovely to see your beautiful cushions, quilts. The hyacinths with be scenting your wonderful floral quilt. XOXO
I love to visit your blog. Everything is so sweet and charming. Your home looks so cozy and inviting
I would love to enter the giveaway as I am looking for brightly coloured scraps for my Dreseden star quilt. 252 blocks and 72 done but I am out of scraps! I never thought that would ever happen! Thanks Jo xx
Every Monday I look forward to reading your blog and seeing your wonderful creative projects. You are such an inspiration. Thank you so much.
Just want to say I love checking in every week or so and see all the pretty inspiration you share. One day I hope to have fully embraced your aesthetic. Just lovely.
Hi Helen, as always your blog hits just the right inspirational spot, especially as the weather here is so grey, we've had so much rain & now freezing fog! Roll on spring! Like you I have bought some hyacinths to cheer me up! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful projects, I would love to be entered into your lucky dip! Love Claire from Charente in France xx
Thank you so much for this generous giveaway. Your work is so beautiful and inspirational and I love that you include flowers from your garden in your posts.
annamariehlustik@googlemail.com
Love the new addition Bob he looks right at home. What lovely goodies a real box of loveliness so kind of you to offer a 'give away' Thank you.
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