Winners...

 I finished the quilt top for "Flutterby"...and I think it's a winner!

 This is to show you the whole quilt top.

 This is to show you my cute knees. lol

 After I finished the quilt top, I assembled a new Strawberry Rose Pincushion.

I had done the stitching a while ago, and now it's finished for a swap I'm in.

 I joined Erin and her other participants at Why Not Sew? Quilts blog for a 

Strawberry Pincushion Swap. This swap was right up my alley. A real winner!

 I'm sending it off to my swap partner today. I sure hope she likes it!

Oh! It just occurred to me that you're all here to find out 

who the winners of my 1600th Post Giveaway are! 

Silly me!

Well, let me announce the winners now!

The winner of the fabric assortment is:

#25 GILL

 The three FOUR (I added one more!) winners of 

"Home Comforts" are:

#14 JOYCELM

#61 GLORIA M

#60 CLARA

and

#41 MRAY

 and finally,

The three FOUR (I added one more!) winners of 

"Simple Things, Small Joys" are:

#50 CHARLOTTE

#1 LEANNE of Quiltmekiwi

(See? #1 does win!)

#4 MINIMISS*

#64 SHIRLEY*

If there isn't a blog link or (*) after your name, please contact me with your full name

and address so that I can send your prize to you. You can send a message to me via the

email link on my right sidebar.  I'll mail your prize as soon as I have your information.

(If I don't hear from you by next Friday, October 11, 2013, I'll draw a new name.)

Congratulations to everyone who won a prize

and

Thank you to all who entered and visit Brynwood.

I appreciate each and every one of you.

xo

 Whenever I have to go to Sarasota, I figure I lose a half-day in the studio. Such 

was the case yesterday. I had appointments to keep and didn't get back home until 

nearly 2 pm. I made a bee-line for my playroom and almost finished my quilt top.

I only have one more corner assembly to construct, and then I can sew all four

corners to the quilt. I'll be finished by noon, and then I'll sit back and admire

 it before I go grab my camera to take pictures. Hoping for good, natural light.

 Right about the time I was ready to take these, it started to rain. Good for

the yard. Bad for capturing images that reflect the most accurate colors.

I'll be sure to get much better ones of the finished piece to share with you.

Today is the last day to enter my 1600th Post Giveaway. 

You have until midnight to add your names to the pot, and I'll announce

the winners in tomorrow's post. Here's the link to go to the post.

Flutterby...

 I have been busy this week working on a new quilt. It wasn't all rearranging

furniture and moving the studio around, you know. I'm going to be teaching

new classes in October, so I thought it might be a good idea to sew up the

projects ahead of time. Yeah. Nothing like waiting 'til the last minute.

One class I'll be teaching is a sweet quilt called "Flutterby" by Whimsicals.

It involves hand applique', simple piecing, and finishes under 50" square.

 I'm nearly finished with the center motif and will work the butterfly corners

 next. After they're finished, I'll work my way through the instructions to

 complete the piecing assembly. I like to go step-by-step, so that I know

 where my students might get hung up. I can work out any bugs so they

won't have to. (So far, the instructions are great and easily understood.)

I'll be working on it all weekend, so I'll give you an update on Monday.

Don't forget to enter my 1600th Post Giveaway. Just click HERE.

Thanks to all who have already entered.

I'm enjoying all the comments you're leaving for me.

 You are all so sweet, and I appreciate every single one of you.

 I'm glad that winners will be chosen by the Random Number Generator.

It takes the pressure off me. (I so wish I could give everyone a gift!)

Good Luck to all of you!!

1600th Post Giveaway...

 I'm celebrating 1600 blog posts this week, so I wanted to have a

special giveaway for my wonderful, fabulous, loyal friends.

I'm going to give away a Moda™ jelly roll assortment, along with

a piece of pre-joined fabrics from the same line. It will come with 

the pattern to make this piece of fabric into a great little snap bag.

ONE person will win this assortment.

 I also purchased copies of "Home Comforts" by the creative Brenda Riddle,

designer for Acorn Quilt and Gift Company. I have owned my own copies

for some time, and have created some of the designs from her books. I know

that the winners will love her patterns as much as I do.

THREE people will win their own copy of  "Home Comforts".

 I'm also offering Brenda's "Simple Things, Small Joys".

THREE people will win their own copy of this book.

Here's how to enter...

• Leave a comment telling me that you're a "follower" of my blog

for one entry.

• Leave a separate comment telling me which gift you like most

for a second entry.

 That's it! I'll choose a winner (via Random Number Generator)

one week from today...Friday, October 4th at midnight. You can

find out the winner's names in my post on Saturday, October 5th. 

Make sure I have a way to reach you if you're a winner!

Thanks to everyone for being such great friends and visiting 

Brynwood Needleworks over the last 1600 posts. Here's to the next 1600!

Hurricane Dee...

 I really never realized just how much "stuff" was crammed into my sweet,

not-so-little armoire. Boy, was I surprised as I moved things around and 

tried to straighten up the studio again. Half of the room still looks like

Ground Zero for Hurricane Dee! I'm exhausted, but still have all of this to go.

 This is where one of the Lack Wall Shelves from Ikea was installed. (The other 

one is in our living room, and it looks fabulous in there, too!) I've placed all the 

special things that were scattered around the room onto these shelves to clear 

my sewing tables for those things that have to be close at hand when I'm working.

(I'll share close-up photographs of my shelves when I have good (no-rain) daylight.)

 So, this side of the room is cleaned up. I now have a table wide enough for 

Miss Ellie so that I don't have to move her when the embroidery unit is attached.

I also moved the television lower on the wall. I haven't been able to camouflage

the cables attached to it yet, so lowering it leaves less cable showing. I also put

acorns on the corners of it. They were created just for me when I had my shop.

 I still need drawers for some of my ribbons, tapes and fabric and these are perfect.

Many of the contents are set to be used in the near future, so they're visible and 

close at hand when I'm ready to pull them to sew. They're also pretty to look at

through the clear plastic drawers and inspire me to start sewing them right away!

So, even though I still have a way to go, I can see the end of the storm.

I think I might just have to sit and look around for a while when I finally finish.

Hurricane Dee will pass and it will be smooth sewing from now on!

 I just realized that this is post #1600. I think it might be time for a
giveaway for my faithful followers friends this week. Stay tuned!