Friday, November 12, 2010

What does it mean...

when you find a package on your porch last night, realize it's from your publisher, but decide you're going to wait until the next day to open it, so you can take pictures of the contents as they emerge from the box?
And what does it mean when you're taking pictures and then notice the cool way the light is playing on the surface of the box and quilt and floor,
so you take one picture
 and then another
and then some more pictures of what is essentially the reflection of the slats of your dining room chairs? I have even more pictures, but people, even I have some kind of filter.

And what does it mean when the point of this post was not to show off pictures of sunlight or chair slats or even quilts, but to giveaway a copy of this year's Quilt Scene magazine and I'm this far in and only now getting to it?
 Answers. I'm going to need them. And your comments. You're going to want to leave them because this is a magazine worth owning. You know who has patterns in this magazine? How about Elizabeth Hartman.
and Ashley Newcomb,
 and Denyse Schmidt.
 
In all honesty, when I held the magazine, I actually thought it was heavy. There are loads of wonderful projects, so leave a comment. I'll pick a winner on Sunday night and announce him/her on Monday.
Good luck and have a fabulous weekend!
                                       


 


136 comments:

  1. I'd love to win a copy of the magazine. Haven't seen it in person, just on the web.

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  2. Your post made me laugh. The orange really is beautiful in the morning light. Looks like another great magazine!

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  3. Orange, it certain is the featured color this season.!

    This magazine looks to be just one inspiration after another.

    Hugs,
    Gerry

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  4. Pick me! Pick me! And if you can send along those gorgeous strips of light so much the better.

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  5. This issue has so many awesome projects.

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  6. Boy, would I love to win....especially since you gave it such a long buildup! You got me laughing today. (thanks)

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  7. I'd love to win a copy! It looks awesome - so does your quilt. Thanks.

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  8. I hadn't actually heard of this magazine until last week. It could possibly be because I live in Canada and quilt magazines (good ones, anyways) are almost non-existent here. It looks amazing and I would be only too happy to win it!

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  9. it means it's a beautiful sunny day here in central texas after the morning rain! :)

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  10. It means... it means... that you have art in your soul!

    Or that you have ADD.

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  11. I would love to have a copy; it has some of my favorite designers--thanks for the giveaway!

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  12. It means you're a creative person who can see possibilities at every step. I like the light play -- it reminds me of your dyed fabrics. thanks for the chance at your givewaway.

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  13. I have the magazine and you're right there is lots in it. I could give it as a gift though.

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  14. Love the light photos! I can't wait to see the quilt/fabric you will undoubtedly create based on these photos!
    thanks for the giveaway!

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  15. I love the photos :) Orange really glows in that light! I'd love to win a copy of this one - I love the projects I've seen in it so far!

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  16. I am often guilty of taking way too many pictures just in order to get one to post...and then I can't decide which one I like best!!

    Thanks for offering up a few more copies of the magazine. I'd love to get a copy. :)

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  17. I, too, seem transfixed at odd times. Thanks for offering this giveaway!

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  18. It means you live somewhere that the sun is still shining! That looks like an awesome magazine and I would love to win it! Karin

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  19. I haven't seen it either! If it gets shipped to Hawaii, it must be somewhere I don't go! I'd love a copy!

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  20. I would love to win a copy of this magazine. I bought the first issue and loved it - now this one has all my favourite designers! Awesome! Thank you for the giveaway!

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  21. I have been drooling over this magazine. I would love to win a copy of it. I love the way you took thise pictures with the patterns made from the sun. It is an artists eye you have!

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  22. Your quilt photo shoot made me happy - thanks for posting them.

    Thanks for the chance to win the magazine, it looks great!

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  24. I would love to win a copy of this magazine.

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  25. Oooh, aren't you generous! I love that DS quilt. Thanks for the chance!

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  26. If I don't win, I'll certainly have to look for it :)

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  27. Oh- I love all those projects. I think I have a baby who needs a little sleep quilt encouragement!

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  28. wow, this one definitely looks like it's worth going out and getting just so you don't miss having it!

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  29. Your quilt looks beautiful! I would love to win a copy of the magazine, thanks!

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  30. It looks a magazine packed full of great things. I'd love to win a copy.

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  31. I'm going to get a copy regardless! Great Photos!

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  32. Okay, if I don't win, I'm buying a copy! I would buy it for your design alone - but when you sweeten the deal by tossing out the names of Elizabeth Hartman and Denyse Schmidt... too good to pass up!

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  33. I'm forever waiting for good lighting for photos. This lighting is pretty darn good.

    Thanks for the giveaway. The projects in that magazine look amazing.

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  34. What a great looking magazine! Thanks for the chance to win.

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  35. I too, take way more pictures of things too. But the light is so pretty through the chair slats!

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  36. Would love to win a copy of the magazine! Your quilt on the cover is a beauty! Thanks Sharonj.

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  37. I love that you want to capture and share inspiration with all of us!

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  38. Oooo pick me pick me!! These mags are so difficult to source where I am (nearly outback Australia) so this may be the easiest way I can have one come home to me!
    Bye
    A

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  39. Don't pick me - I loved it so much I couldn't wait! I bought it already!!! Winner - you're gonna' love it!

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  40. Wow! Love the quilts....would love to have this magazine! By the way....love your work - thanks for sharing your talents!

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  41. Just stumbled on your blog from 'Nifty Quilts' and love it! I'll be back many times to peruse your old posts and see some new ones. And imagine my delight that you're giving away a copy of 'Quilt Festival'.

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  42. Suh-WEET!!! I think a copy of that magazine is destined for my shelf no matter what!

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  43. I think it means you are just swept away by patterning! Lovely giveaway :)

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  44. It means you are very lucky to have an eye that recognizes the beautiful designs that happen unexpectedly in life. Think how many people miss those wonderful moments. I enjoy seeing your wonderful designs. The magazine looks great too.

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  45. I loved the last Quilt Festival magazine - and this looks every bit as fabulous!

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  46. I would flip over that magazine.....just sayin'

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  47. ...it means you see beauty and pattern and design everywhere, and that you haven't lost your sense of playfulness or creativity - hurrah! Thanks for the opportunity to win such a lovely magazine...

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  48. I just love photo 3the best. Those oranges and ambers. Fantastic.
    Would love the opportunity to win this magazine with even more inspiration.
    Cheers
    Lynne

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  49. The magazine looks great! The quilts are amazing. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  50. your quilt is magical. :)

    I'll definitely be getting this magazine if I don't win! (and I've got your book on my Christmas wish list!). ;)

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  51. I love the sunlight thru the chair slats!

    Thx for the chance to win this great book.

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  52. I always say, the more pics the better! Thanks!

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  53. Goodness that magazine looks great. Love the quilt and the sunlight.

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  54. there is so much to look at in the magazine, i would love to look :-)

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  55. Wow, looks like a wonderful magazine and I'd love to have a copy.

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  56. It means your creative process never slows down, and you see the beauty all around you, even in the simple things. Thanks for your generosity in offering this giveaway.

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  57. Looks like a fantastic magazine, thanks for the giveaway!

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  58. It MEANS I need this is my house...like YESTERDAY!! (I suppose it was at yours :) Great giveaway!

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  59. OOH! Yes please. Love the light, and the quilt!

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  60. Looks like wonderful stuff in there! Thanks for the give-away.

    Kat

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  61. Looking forward to delving into that magazine. I've seen it in a few places.

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  62. It probably means that like most bloggers eventually do, you have developed a little bit more than a side interest in photography.

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  63. What a great post... I love the photos with the light! Thanks for the opportunity to have this magazine.

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  64. Looks great - and that's some lovely sunlight you've got there!

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  65. Great magazine -- love the light in the photos too!

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  66. Hmm... Does it mean that you're enjoying your side job as a professional blogger, anticipating ways to share the joy of discovery and still taking a moment to enjoy beauty? I think yes.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  67. Ohhhh it looks great!!! Thanks for the chance!

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  68. I'd love to win a copy. The projects look great. (From a fellow Austinite.)

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  69. I think waiting to photograph your package just shows what a great eye you have - you knew you could get a great photo and you sure did!!! That magazine looks amazing!

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  70. Thanks for the opportunity to win! Love your pics - I once took dozens of pics of some jars of tomatoes I had canned just because the light around them was so lovely!

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  71. I completely understand the photos of lights through slats. I was lying on the sofa one day and the three sets of mini blinds in the living room were turned in alternating directions. From a low angle the light coming through them made an interesting pattern, and I duplicated it in EQ7 for a future project! Thanks for the opportunity to win this magazine - it looks amazing!

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  72. What a beautiful pic with the light shining through. Magazine looks stuffed full of inspiration

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  73. I'd love to win a copy of this magazine - publications like this never seem to find their way to the UK!!
    Gill

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  74. Ohhhhh....Pick me, pick me!! I'd love to have this magazine!!

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  75. It means that you're a great blogger, and, thus, are always thinking of creative photos for your blog! And it also means that as part of your innate artistic process, you see patterns in everything.

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  76. I love the photos and the gradual opening of the box like a Christmas present was so delightful. I'd love to win.

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  77. It might mean you have a new quilt you are thinking off with bleached zebra stripes all over it?? Great pictures and thanks for the chance to win!

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  78. I love the photos! I also get distracted by stuff like that. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  79. There is something about sunbeams in the fall that just does not compare to any other season!

    I would love to win a copy of the magazine!

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  80. Looks like a fabulous magazine. I'd love to win it. nkadenver@yahoo.com

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  81. Your quilt is gorgeous and I would love a copy of the magazine!

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  82. Yes - your quilt! amazing. I would LOVE a copy!!

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  83. I can't believe you waited all night! You got wonderful shots though. I'd love that mag subscription.

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  84. I love their patterns - would be a great addition to my bookshelf.

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  85. Looks great! I may have to buy it if (when) I don't win!

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  86. the light was photoworthy! And that magazine looks great!

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  87. I want this magazine so badly! And you should see all the pictures I have of cool lighting. :) I did my final architecture project on lighting!

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  88. I'd love to win looks like some great projects to try.

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  89. Okay. Honestly, it means you've lost it! As we all have. I'd rather be an artist than any thing else. We're all a little "nuts". Every mundane event, or casual glance, or ritual daily drive becomes so much more. Sometimes too much more. Isn't it wonderful? Our brains never shut down!!! For better or worse?!

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  90. That must be a really wonderfull magazine, with all my quilting stars in it. I would love to win a copy. Lovely photographs!

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  91. OH my, I'd love to be able to make some of the items shown. Thanks!

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  92. It catches us by surprise when the simple things make us happy. But really, beautiful light, color and design-can't get much better then that in a picture or a magazine. I would feel so fortunate to be the owner and translator(make my own versions of the designs) of this magazine.

    Treasure all the fabric I order from you and have several projects in mind for the future. I have the best pillows on my couch with your fabric and design idea. Thanks for all your inspiration.

    Hillary

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  93. Oh-that magazine looks amazing. I would love to win a copy. Thank you for the opportunity.

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  95. Wow, the reflections on the quilt are really cool. I think it means you have an eye that finds inspiration everywhere you look! I'd love to win the magazine; I haven't seen this issue yet. Thanks for the eye candy!!

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  96. ...wouldn't it be amazing if you could quilt in the sun, or even dye it into the fabric.... maybe you will think of a way.

    I love the pattern of your quilt and the others too, it would be great to win.

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  97. Thank you. I giggle reading your blog Also. Thank you for chance to win

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  98. I want it, and I want it BAD!! The sneak peeks you gave of the magazine have truly tempted me. Oh how I HOPE I win this one!!

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  99. Loved your pictures of sun...even if it was just little slivers of it. We need some sun here in Portland, misty, cold, wet all day today...yuck. That magazine looks awesome.

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  100. this magazine looks more than awesome. oh my gosh.

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  101. Would love to have this magazine. My friend showed me hers and I was drooling!! Pick me!

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  102. What great pictures! and the magazine looks like a real treasure, love to have it

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  103. The light on your quilt looks like it's dyed white, cool.
    It would be so nice to win a copy of that magazine with such great inspiration.

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  104. Looks like a treasure trove of inspiration!

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  105. Thanks for offering this interesting magazine, Malka!

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  106. The magazine looks wonderful, and I love your quilt, but oh, what I'd give to have real sunlight in November.. :-D

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  107. Great photos! Love the pattern made by the slats.

    I would love to win this magazine! It looks so inspiring and I have not been able to find it in any stores around here yet. Thanks!

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  108. Love the shadow design against your beautiful quilt! I'd love to win a copy of the magazine so filled with inspiration! I've preordered your book can't wait for it to arrive on my doorstep -congratulations!

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  109. I would love to win. The magazine looks fantastic - I saw it at the store and thought I would buy it before I travel for reading material.

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  110. Hey, I like the stripes of sunlight on the quilt, too.

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  111. These projects are my cup of tea. I would love, love to have a copy of this magazine. Nancy (dot) Gasparotti (at) cox (dot) net

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  112. this magazine looks so great!! I would love to look inside it!

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  113. Is it too late to enter?
    I *hope* it's not too late to enter!
    'Cause i'd *love* to win! =-)
    And all that with the package, and the patterns, and the light, and the photos... ?

    Just means you're an Artist!
    =-)

    p.s. Thanks for this chance to win. =-)

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  114. Sure looks like a cool magazine, would love to win a copy.

    Marie in Oregon

    mariebeers@hotmail.com

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  115. Magazine looks fabulous! Would love to win a copy!

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  116. Yay! I just finished two projects using your fabrics and would like to make more. I need new ideas.

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  117. great photos - the slats and light and orange. wonderful piece of inspiration for some art!

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  118. Goodness! I've been trying to wean myself off buying sewing magazines, but I may have to look for that one.

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  119. This looks like a wonderful magazine! And congrats on the cover!

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  120. I often wait for morning to take pictures.. I love the quilt :) And that magazine sure looks awesome! I'd LOVE to win it!

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  121. Have you picked a winner yet?! I happened upon this magazine in Barnes & Noble today and spent half an hour pouring over it (your quilt in particular!) while my husband looked around. I unfortunately couldn't afford to buy it so would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to win a free copy. As for the quilt; orange and gray happen to be two of my favorite colors and the hexagonal quilt is the most divine thing I've seen in ages!

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  122. I can't get enough of the quilt you designed for this magazine! Loosk like a great issue.

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  123. And I was scrolling through the pics thinking that they were totally cool and then.. wam! a giveaway!! even better!!!! :)))

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  124. oh i'd love a copy!!! haven't seen it in the stores!

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  125. Would love to see more of Denyse Schmidt as I find myself now making cards using scraps. I saw her on She's Crafty from HGTV Canada. It was here in the USA Ion network.

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  126. Haha, I love how it looks like the quilt is crawling out of the box itself.

    I could definitely handle that magazine!

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