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Friday Finishes & Tula Giveaway

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Ahh, Friday! We love Fridays in this house, since not only is it the last day before the weekend, but it also means family movie night. I make homemade pizzas, we set out picnic quilts in the living room, and we have a pizza picnic while watching a movie. After pizza, there’s a short intermission for popcorn making and we enjoy the rest of the movie with huge bowls of popcorn and buttery fingers. My husband has a bit of a thing for popcorn, so he makes enough to feed a small army, which I suppose we are becoming as the kids get older! While this week had its share of frustration, I also finally finished and shared two projects. A week with one finish is great; a week with two finishes is worth celebrating!!

I love linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts’ Finish it Up Friday to share in the celebration of finished projects in the quilting community, so I figured I’d write a summary post this week so that I could link up with just one post instead of two. I also have a great giveaway sponsored by Fat Quarter Shop to share to help kick off the weekend!

So here we go–my finishes for the week!

fqs simple zipper pouch teacher giftI finished three cute Amy Butler-inspired rainbow zipper bags as end of the year teacher gifts for my son’s preschool teachers and communication facilitator. There is a great video tutorial posted by the Fat Quarter Shop so that you can make your own. You can see and read more about my zipper bags HERE.

oakshott lipari vesuvius quilt sizzixI also finished a volcano-inspired quilt with Oakshott’s new Lipari fabric line. This was a much longer term project, taking about 18 hours of work to make, start from finish. I share a tutorial so that you can make your very own Vesuvius quilt if you want! Check it out HERE.

Giveaway!

Tula Throwback bundle FQS giveawayAnd now, for the giveaway! Thanks to the Fat Quarter Shop, one of my lucky readers can enter to win a Tula Pink Throwback fat quarter bundle of 20 fat quarters! The bundle includes some of the most popular prints from Tula’s collections over the past four (4) years, and would be a great stash builder for any modern fabric lover, whether you’re a Tula troops die hard who would pay a premium for these prints on ebay or not. There are also many fabulous opportunities for meticulous cutting with these beauties!

To enter the giveaway today, tell me–are you a fabric designer fanatic, willing to pay top dollar for rare out of print fabrics? or are you happy using whatever gorgeous fabric is available now, regardless of designer? I’m curious, since while I consider myself to be in the latter category, I could definitely see myself paying more than market value for *some* rare and beloved out of print fabrics. Leave a comment and make sure I’m able to get ahold of you if you win.  If you’re a follower of Night Quilter, leave a second comment telling me how you follow for a second entry. Tell me how you follow Fat Quarter Shop (facebook,twitter, Instagram, their blog Jolly Jabber, etc.) for a third entry.

This giveaway is open to US and international participants.  The giveaway will be open until Thursday June 9th at 8pm EST when I’ll select the winner randomly with random.org. Good luck! This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations, Tessa! 

Thanks again to the Fat Quarter Shop! Blog sponsors help me to keep this blog going by helping cover the costs of hosting, photography equipment, supplies, and of course time. Sweet, precious time. Many many thanks to all who support me!

341 thoughts on “Friday Finishes & Tula Giveaway”

  3. I like to buy my fabric ON SALE. The only way I could imagine paying a premium price for something out of print / not readily available, would be if I had run out of something I was using in an almost finished project.
    Thanks for this giveaway contest~

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  4. I’m loving your Lipari quilt. I have a top started with that fabric set, but want to add to it. As far as fabric, I may be a bit of both. I adore Tula’s fabrics, but don’t feel I have to have every piece (although I have most of her fabric lines). I won’t pay some of the crazy prices that are out there. I did recently pay a bit more for her frog prince fabric, but it wasn’t crazy. I just love beautiful fabric, but find I tend to follow certain designers because of their style and color choices.

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  5. I follow – and thoroughly enjoy – Night Quilter via email. Thanks for the lovely giveaway opportunity. I’d love the chance to work with some Tula Pink fabrics.

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  8. There’s always new and beautiful fabric coming out. I’ve never paid top dollar for an out-of-print designer fabric, but I might if it was something I really, REALLY wanted.

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  10. I subscribe to the email Jolly Jabber blog + the FQS YouTube channel + Facebook and the FQS newsletter. They’re good people who offer outstanding customer service, great products and inspiration for the quilting world! Thanks!

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  17. I am partial to certain designers but don’t pay a premium for a certain fabric. Maybe if I needed more to finish a special project?

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  19. HI, I’m the latter too. I usually buy for charity quilts, so I’m looking for sale quality materials. Thank You for a neat giveaway!

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  20. I am new to Night Quilter, but I love what I see. I purchased lots of Tula’s Neptune line many years ago to make my daughter a quilt. In the end she really didn’t like the quilt, so I donated it to someone who was effected my Super Storm Sandy (thru Timeless Treasures). Little did I know that fabric would sky rocket in price. I can’t justify buying any more at those prices.

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  21. I don’t pay that much attention to designers. I just buy what I like. I might track down a particular fabric if I really loved it.

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  25. I am generally a kind of person that works with whatever I have on hand, however, I am currently obsessed with finding the perfect fabric for a new pattern and am totally tempted to pay whatever they want once I find the perfect one.

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  28. I am happy to buy whatever catches my fancy but there is a limit for what I am willing to pay too! I guess I am more practical in my spending but I will not buy cheap quality fabric ever!!

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  31. While there are occasionally collections I wish I had snagged, I’m generally happy buying what is available now. Bright and shiny new fabrics are always appearing. I won’t pay exorbitant amounts for fabric.

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  34. I often shop sales, but have been known to (cough) hunt down a must-have piece of fabric and pay for the privilege.

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  40. I’m somewhere I the middle I think. If there was a print I really wanted I may pay a little more but not hundreds of dollars. Mostly I just get what’s new and I love but seriously I have that much fabric!!!!!

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  47. I do tend to love certain designers, but I love a good sale. I think the only way I’d pay a premium price would be for an out of print that I just HAD to have…but even then…I’m not sure I’d bite.

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  50. I love both your finishes, and congratulations on having 2 of them! I’m not a big designer fabric buyer either way, I definitely wouldn’t pay lots for out of print fabric, I do sometimes buy vintage fabric, or older, but not for ‘top dollar’, the budget wouldn’t cope with it!

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