One of the best things about spending several days in one place –like my time at the Vermont Quilt Festival – is getting to know people and spend more time with them! The people really ARE the best part of it all, you know?
So many talented and dedicated quilters doing what they love in support of causes that they also love!
One such gal is Sharon Shea Perry who has taken her love of drawing and stitching and put her efforts not only toward documenting things in and around Vermont that she loves, but she is doing it with a heart with all proceeds to benefit the Franklin County Quilters Guild in Saint Albans, Vermont.
The Covered Bridges of Vermont in Redwork!
Sharon gifted me a set!
And when I said I would be happy to help promote the series on my blog to further help the Franklin County Quilters Guild, she sent me TWO sets!
She writes:
The sale of each pattern set benefits the educational programs of the Franklin County Quilters Guild, St. Albans, VT. A fellow guild member, Denise Chase, and I collaborated on making a raffle quilt featuring covered bridges for the guild.
I drew all the embroidery patterns for the 12 covered bridges which were all once prominent landmarks in the county; some are still standing today.
Covered Bridges of Vermont Quilt
Denise designed the quilt layout, and several more members helped make the embroidered blocks. It was easy to translate the work we already did into a pattern set which we could sell.
There are 13 patterns which are sold as a set, one each for the 12 bridges and a pattern for the quilt top.
Close up detail of the Comstock Bridge in Montgomery, VT
My husband (and webmaster for the guild’s website), Scott, has included information on how to order the pattern set Here.
Seven Patterns included in the giveaway!
The pattern bundles offered up in our Give-Away include 6 of the various bridges and the finishing pattern.
Other patterns are available from the guild’s website.
What an awesome tribute to Vermont’s beautiful covered bridges!
So let’s do this giveaway!
I will be drawing two winners from the comments section using the random number generator on Monday evening, July 13, 2015.
When you leave your comment –whether you think you have your email address connected to your profile or not you MUST leave your email address in your comment. LEAVE YOUR ADDRESS. If I can’t reach you by email, you can’t win and I have to draw someone else. Plain and simple!
If a comment doesn’t work for you, make sure you are actually ON my page ((sometimes from a real computer is better than a mobile device)) and not reading me through a blog reader service like Bloglovin which is a mirror image site, you aren’t really ON my page if you are in bloglovin, Come to the blog directly. The URL should start with http://quiltville.blogspot.com Not anything else.
Good luck everyone!
1,040 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 1001 – 1040 of 1040I would love to visit some of these pretty covered bridges - we don't have them here in the West. Thanks for the opportunity - I love doing redwork.
It would be lovely to work on red work during the long winter here on the snowy shore of Lake Erie! Lovely renditions! It would take me back to my first handwork experience, embroidery ... a really peaceful type of handwork?
What a great quilt. I would love to embroider it.
What a wonderful way for the guild to raise funds for education projects! And thank you for doing a give-away. Fingers crossed!!
Julie DOT mirdoch AT shaw DOT ca
I love red work and covered bridges!
Thanks! Maggie
Maggiehagman@gmail.com
I've always wanted to do a redwork. I've not been to Vermont, but, I've visited some of the covered bridges of Madison County (Iowa). jncparker4@comcast.net
Great way to share one's talents. Thx Bonnie for doing the giveaway! I just finished a Texas Quilt - embroidered blocks! So relaxing....fredericsneice@gmail.com
doitrightquilter.wordpress.com
What fun! Make a quilt and visit the bridges. The redwork is so pretty, and what a great thing for Denise to do as a fundraiser for her guild. Thanks for the opportunity, Bonnie!
Juls in FL mathrun1 at yahoo dot com
Love the Red Work of covered bridges. Great way to visit a little of Vermont without leaving home. Thanks for sharing. Donna djtidwell57@gmail.com
I love covered bridges & this quilt. baseballquilt@aol.com Thanks for the giveaway, Cathy
I grew up embroidering. I confess I have yet to stitch a redwork quilt, but what a wonderful way to start a redwork quilt if I win! csmatula@juno.com
I love red and white quilts. I would love to have the bridges pattens..even if i never make it to Vermont. Thanks for a chance to win. nhager@gmail.com
This red work would be so much fun to work on. Thanks Bonnie for the giveaways!
Gretchen
gretbob@verizon.net
Oh how I love redwork!
msboerger@gmail.com
I love quilting but I also like my redwork. Thanks for letting us all have a chance to win. You give so much of yourself to others. Lauren Mattison ballerina_babe73@yahoo
Carol
I love old bridges and the color red.
carrott@charter.net
This is an awesome pattern! Thank you for this opportunity!
Susan
susan-tn@comcast.net
what could possibly be better than traditional Redwork and Covered Bridges? A chance to win a set of Redwork Covered Bridges patterns!! Thanks to the designer and her husband and you, Bonnie Hunter, for providing this opportunity. Fingers crossed :^)
dmariedj@hotmail.com
Thank you for the chance to win. I love doing red work and the history of covered bridges. gullickinc@sbcglobal.net
Phyllis
Thank you very much for the chance to win these beautiful bridge blocks. I've never been to the East and have never seen a covered bridge. I would love to make these bridges. Louise -- liv2qlt@bresnan.net
I've been wanting to do some red work and these would be perfect as I live in Vermont and so love the old covered bridges 😍
psalsburg@comcast.net
This is so very cool. Vermont is one of my favorite places and partially because of the covered bridges. So neat. It really is beautiful there.
determineddebby at gmail dot com
Thanks for a chance to win these patterns.
Love the covered bridges!
Vickie
vcludiker@Gmail.com
Those are gorgeous! kthynn92@att.net
these are beautiful!!!
susan
suejean64@q.com
Hi Bonnie it's Susan from Moncton (we met in Maine) and we have the longest covered bridge in the world here in New Brunswick Canada so I'm sure you can appreciate my facination for covered bridges. Would love to win this set. Regards My email address is puddin52@gmail.com
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for the opportunity to win. I am so excited - I was able to get in to four classes when you are in Missouri. I'm so looking forward to being a part of your classes. Kendra
My email is kenkendraj@gmail.com
Have a great time at home!
What a gorgeous give away! Thanks so much for a chance to win. I love being able to sit down with a cup of coffee and catch up with your adventures. Keeps me inspired to quilt. Thank you.
Have a great week. dbondaroff@shaw.ca
Ohhh, I love this pattern! Would love to win it, too.
susantmangus @gmail.com
i love red work. Should be a fun project. Thanks. Judy
I adore covered bridges. We have a couple here in Central PA, but I went 'bridge stalking' up in VT and NH when my son was stationed in New England (Groton Submarine Base).
Thanks for the chance to win this enchanting set!
Another wonderful opportunity. Thank you and thanks to Sharon Shea Perry. I do love covered bridges
as I think anyone raised in the Northeast does. rjc2cam(at)gmail(dot)com. Bobbie
Hi Bonnie,
Thanks for the chance to win this pattern set. Love covered bridges.
My email address is cherylannkern@gmail.com
oh, beautiful redwork. covered bridges. nice. thanks for the chance to win
I so agree with you it is all about the people. Everything else is just icing on the cake. This is so pretty. Thanks for a chance.
quilting(dash)lady(at)Comcast(dot)net
Loved the covered bridges I saw in PA.
Carol P.
clpiferj@cox.net
would love to win this set!! I have beautiful memories of travelling thru VT looking for the covered bridges!
Claire
c7lonergan@rogers.com
Beautiful bridges would make a beautiful project! I love embroidery and would love to tackle this project. Thanks for the chance!
susiefloozie@hotmail.com
Thank you for the chance to win this awesome covered bridges set. I love embroidery & quilting & you Bonnie!!!! The bridges are so realistic.
Lisa Lilly
lillyunique@yahoo.com
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