Celebrate with a Fabric GiveAway

This week is a new milestone for me. A few months ago, I set up a Facebook "page" for my little Sweet Quilt-n-Bee Shoppe: (http://www.facebook.com/SweetQuiltNBeeShoppeLLC). Well, thanks to all my wonderful friends, I've reached 200 likes! I think it's time to celebrate with a Give-A-Way! I want to make this fun, so I'm making it a little interesting...

Here's how to enter:

Multiple entries available - each of the following is one entry:
1. Like and Share my new facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/SweetQuiltNBeeShoppeLLC). If you like my page already, you can share from facebook and comment here that you shared.
2. Post this giveaway on your blog and leave a link to the post in comments here
3. Tweet this giveaway and leave a comment here.
4. Share this giveaway on your facebook page and leave a link to your facebook page in the comments
5. Go to my Etsy shop (http://www.etsy.com/shop/SweetQuiltnBeeShoppe) and browse around.. come back and tell my what your favorite fabric is and what you would make with it. (My Christmas fabrics are on sale and I will be adding more non-seasonal fabrics soon. So check back often.)
6. Any fabric purchase is worth 1 entry for every fat quarter or pre-cut and 5 entries for every yard. If you purchase a quilt, I'll add in 50 entries!! How's that for a bonus? Leave a comment here, if you make a purchase, so I can match up your name.


Well, there's the list of entry opportunities.. Entry deadline is TBD: once my facebook page reaches 250 likes, I will put an official end date, approximately one week after the 250 mark. The contest will end.

Oh, wait! I didn't tell you what you'll win!! Well, since my goal is for more likes to my FB page, the prize will be 1" of fabric for every page like at the contest end. So, it will be a MINIMUM of 250" which is a little more than almost 7 yards of fabric!! The winner will be notified and can choose ANY fabric available on my Etsy shop! How's that? Sound exciting? So get out there and share my page with your friends. The more likes the more fabric to win! *Ü*

Be sure to come back here and make your entries. Also please leave a way to contact you, if you are a no-reply blogger. Thanks and good luck!!!

Oh, and by the way, if you are not a sewing or quilting enthusiast, I will gladly donate your winning fabrics to a local quilting guild who makes quilts for local children in DHS foster care and Quilts of Valor for our soldiers.



Julie Earsom
"The Happiest Feet are always pushing the Foot Pedal of a Sewing Machine."

Fall into Fall Giveaway

Have you heard the news? A new Giveaway is beginning Oct. 1 and you can have a chance to win numerous prizes. Some business and quilting bloggers have joined together to give various prizes away. Come back on Oct. 1st and join the fun and excitement. For a list of participating businesses and bloggers, please go to:
www.fall-into-fall.blogspot.com.

Come back here and enter my giveaway, too.

Have fun!
Julie

Quilt Block Bible Study - Meanings (Part 2)

"Prophecy of Hope" - God's word to the Prophets filled the people with Hope. Notice the light in the center. The Prophecy was a light to the people but it was shrouded in darkness. Then when Christ came, the prophecy broke through the darkness into the blackest nights.


"Morning Star" - this respresent's Christ's birth. One of Jesus's names in the Bible is the Bright & Morning Star. See the radiance of the star shining in the dark night?



"The Palms" - As a new quilter, this block was very difficult for me to get the angles correct, but it was worth it. This block actually has dual meaning. The first meaning represents the crowd as they waved palm branchs in the triumphant entry into Jerusalem. The second meaning of the palms is to represent our hands.. each side of the palm branch has 5 points reprenting our fingers. As Christians we are to reach out and serve others.

Quilt Block Bible Study: The meaning (Part 1)

Sorry if the pictures are not very clear. These are taken with the quilt top draped across my couch. I should have ironed it first. ;D Please also remember this was my very FIRST quilting attempt and not all the edges are straight or the points exact. But I loved the classes and the learning experience. I will try to update the link with the designer's name and the scripture references when I get a chance. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy.



"The Garden of Eden" - this block represents the beginning/creation of the world. The blue stripes in the center represent the 4 rivers that met in the Garden of Eden.


"The Ten Commandments" - this block shows 4 squares of strips representing 2 sets of stone tablets. Each tablet has 5 stripes (times 2 tablets), one for each of the 10 commandments given to Moses. There are two sets of tablets because Moses broke the first set in anger. God had him make another set.


"Storms of Life" - this block represents the storms that come in our lives. Due to the sin in the world we are driven deeper and deeper into despair. But God had a plan to save us.