Bonnie, HollyAnne & the Daylight Holiday Bundle!

Up on the roof top – click, click, click! Down through the chimney with Old Saint Nick!

Can you tell I’m feeling festive?!

YES I am!

And today is one of the reasons why.

I have teamed up with HollyAnne of String & Story and The Daylight Company to present to you a gift away of truly EPIC proportions! 

I met HollyAnne through instagram when she was posting about how she was quilting her En Provence quilt.  I absolutely loved how she talked about the whole process encouraging newer quilters to get their feet wet with free motion quilting, because YOU CAN DO IT.

She is also offering webinars on machine quilting so you can learn to do it from home, but more on that later….

And she has two cute sons, some very cute cats, AND..she loves vintage sewing machines.  I love this girl!

I have loved my Daylight lamps for the past couple of years.  I first came upon them while teaching at a Craftours Cocoon in Illinois, and I bought two desktop lamps there.

Later on while teaching on a cruise, I purchased two floor models for my hand stitching chairs because I loved the desk models so much.

And that is where The Daylight Company comes in.

I said Epic.  And I mean EPIC!

My daylight over my Bernina at home.

My daylight desk lamp at the cabin.

Hand quilting with my Daylight floor model at the cabin.

(See how much light?  All the other lights in the room were off except for my tiny tree!)

I posted this video as a teaser earlier: Click to play:

A post shared by Bonnie K Hunter (@quiltville_bonnie) on Dec 15, 2017 at 9:58am PST

And this is what I was making beneath my Daylight this weekend at the cabin. Click to play:

A post shared by Bonnie K Hunter (@quiltville_bonnie) on Dec 16, 2017 at 2:50pm PST

What does this all mean?  We have come together with a gift-away bundle for ONE lucky winner and all you need to do is enter.

Hollyanne’s quilting on Jared Takes a Wife from the free patterns tab!

The winner will receive:

From ME:

Addicted to scraps book by Bonnie Hunter

Quiltmaker 100 blocks volume 16

One yard heart Medallion fabric by Leah Day

Two spools aurifil thread in red and green

1 spool isacord machine quilting thread in light blue

Addicted to scraps eco -pouch set by Bonnie Hunter

2.5 by 6.5 Quiltville ruler by Creative Grids

One deck Bonnie Hunter playing cards

From Daylight:
Slimline Table Lamp
Wafer 1 Lightbox and cutting mat
Smart Travel Lamp

• From HollyAnne Knight at String & Story
  -Perfect Fit Digital Pattern Download
  -1 "ticket" to ONE of my January 2018 one-day online workshops, hosted on Facebook. Choices of workshop include:
       -Beginner FMQ (January 6): Move past the meander and begin adding custom quilting to your projects. Course will include an introduction to making a quilting plan, 10 motifs to doodle and stitch, a live Q&A session to troubleshoot any free motion hiccups, and lots of encouragement and feedback because it is my job to guide you to quilt with confidence.
       -Introduction to Color Theory (January 13): Fabric can be the most fun and the most frightening part of the creative process. However, understanding color and pattern can turn pulling fabric into a full force party-- even for the scrappiest of scrappy quilts. Color theory explains why some colors struggle to "play nice" and will give you a strong foundation to confidently choose fabrics even for the most complicated projects.
       - How to Make a Quilting Plan (January 20): You are head over heels in love with your quilt top, and you're feeling pretty good about your free motion quilting practice, but ACK what if you wreck the quilt?? That feeling of anxiety is exactly why you need a plan for your stitches. In order to succeed at custom quilting, you need to audition your designs before you put your needle to fabric. This course will have extra emphasis on interacting as a class to brainstorm together how to quilt different tops and create multiple unique quilting plans for each top to demonstrate how different quilting can change the visual effect of the quilt. 
  -1 "ticket" to Rockstar Status: From Newbie to Jammin' in Your Quilting Practice, hosted on Facebook
       - The best way to improve your quilting is to practice and the best way to practice is with friends. Join me and a class full of your new quilting besties as we develop new quilting skills and quilting confidence so that you never have to be afraid of quilting your own quilts (and having them turn out beautifully!) ever again.
       - 4 week quilting intensive designed to take students from being a beginner quilter to a confident intermediate quilter
       - Each WEEK includes: 10-15 posts with tips, videos, challenges, and more, plus printable worksheets and resources and a 1 hour LIVE video Q&A
       - Course begins March 5

Is that amazing or what?? All of the entering is happening on today’s give-away post on the String & Story blog! Click HERE to enter.  You’ll find the rafflecopter app for entering on her page.

**small print**  Due to the cost of international postage, this give-away is available to USA entries only.  Thank you for understanding.

While you are entering, don’t forget to read more on HollyAnne’s post about a free online workshop she is giving.  This FREE online course focuses on domestic machine quilting and includes how to set up your machine for fmq, how to adjust your sewing machine tension for fmq, and a few basic designs to practice. You will finish the day with a new confidence and excitement for quilting your own quilts with free motion quilting. The next free workshop is December 30th, and you’ll enter to win your seat in today’s post on her blog as well.

Our gift-away drawing will happen on the morning of Christmas Eve, December 24th and I’ll let you know who our winner is in that morning’s post!

And don’t forget that we STILL have our December Quilty Box up for grabs!  Enter to win ON THAT POST. Our Quilty Box winners will be drawn the evening of December 23rd.

Good luck, everyone!

Finished beneath my Daylight lamp!

I hope to be piecing a backing for this today.

How about a Quilt-Cam tomorrow night, Weds, Dec 20 at 8pm Eastern?  It’s been a while.  Let’s squeeze one in!  I’ll see you in Facebook live on my Quiltville page at that time.  If you miss it, it will be embedded in Thursday morning’s post.

*NOTE*  After a phone call with Jason in South Carolina this morning, letting me know he has Thursday & Friday of this week OFF and wants to come to the cabin tomorrow evening - we may be changing our Quilt-Cam time to NOON Eastern tomorrow!  

He can't come up for Christmas due to his work schedule.  I'm going into full-on mom mode and if he is coming up, then we will be moving Quilt-Cam to noon.  Either way - we'll do it!

I'll let you know for certain in tomorrow morning's blog post.

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

There are days (usually around the holidays) when I just want life to slow down. I'm tired of pacing in front of the microwave because it doesn't cook fast enough. I long for a slower more meaningful pace. Are you with me?

Today I slow down and live in the moment. 

Have a great Tuesday, everyone!