The winners of the Fat Quarter Shop Gift cards are:
Michelle Hudak
and
Hueisei
HOMESPUNBLUE marks my 500th follower!
She has also won a prize!!!
If I do not hear from the winners by next Friday, I will draw another name!
I want to say thank you again to everyone who follows my blog and keeps up with my quilting, sewing, love of pigs and my family. Your visits are always welcome and much appreciated!
I never intended to start a blog.
Really, I didn't...
Bonnie stayed after me until I stopped resisting! And now I am so glad that she stayed after me like she did! Because if I had not started blogging, just look at all of the friends I would not have made over the past few years!
And 500 followers! WOW! I would have never thought it! I remember 2 years ago I was wondering if I would ever have 200 followers! :)
I have lost my blog a couple of times and had to start over and I know I lost a few friends during those times and I hope that one day they will find me again.
I count each and every one of you my friend and I hope you do the same.
YOU MAKE ME HAPPY!!
I know there are some who have followed me in the past who do not keep up with me any more but they have not deleted themselves from my followers gadget so hopefully one day they will check in again. None of us have the time in our day to check out every single blog that we have ever followed every single day.... or every week for that matter. And there are some who check in on you but do not comment so you are unaware that they are there. I call them my "guardian followers".
My blog has undergone a small facelift over the past few weeks. I have created a new banner to reflect our love of pigs and quilts.... hence the name of my blog.
My good friend Carolyn Phillips of California drew the artwork on my banner of the little girls and their doll wrapped up in the quilts when I started my longarm business. Isn't it precious! I told Carolyn about how my granddaddy would come in early to wake us up when we stayed with him and granny in the summer and reach under the covers at the foot of the bed, grab our toes and say "wheeee little piggies...wake up"! Of course, we were already awake but we would pretend to be asleep because this was our favorite time of the morning! We would squeal and say "Stop granddaddy"! all the time hoping that he wouldn't. lol And the artwork was her interpretation of my story. I loved it! The only things I told her were that I wanted the churn dash pattern on the quilt (my granny Ida's favorite) and I wanted the little girls toes sticking out from under the quilts...
hence the name of my longarm business "Cover Your Little Piggies
Quilting Studio".
I have also moved my extra "Pages" of the blog over to the right sidebar and have them labeled on one of those cute piggies! I hope to add to each of those pages pretty quickly and hope you will find the time to visit them at periodic times to see what is new.
I have several tutorials that I want to write up and photograph to share on the "Tutorials" page and hopefully I can do one of those every 2 weeks or at least once a month to keep new content there for you to enjoy.
I have gone to part time in my longarming business but I do hope to add new content to the "Longarming" page once a month.
And I will continue to search for linky parties that I think you all would enjoy to add to the "Linky Party" page as well!
My "Creations" page is a place for me to file away the things I create and make for myself and others... mostly others. I will always blog them right here on the home page but I will also post them on the "creations" page so you can find them all in one place.
Over the past 3 years I have blogged sporadically with 2011 being the biggest blogging year of the 3. Life happens to us all and I won't go in to that here but I am glad the ride is basically over. I hope to blog more often now that life has settled down and I have more time to do things that I want to do. And by going to part time in my longarming business (partly for health reasons, partly because I want to) , that will open up more time for me to piece, applique and crazy quilt!! ... And then share it all with you through photos and blog posts! :)
I always enjoy seeing comments on my post. That lets me know that what I post is interesting to some people. Not everything I blog is as interesting as other things but I hope that when you think of my blog as a whole you will find things that will keep you coming back.
I have tried things in the past to get bloggers together that didn't quite work out and maybe I didn't give them enough time. I am going to be bringing some blog parties to my blog and hope that you all will take part. Blog parties are fun and you always make new friends! Some of the older parties will come back and a few new ones are in the works. So stay tuned!
I just want my blog to be a fun place for you to come and visit - over and over again!
So to celebrate the milestone I want to have a giveaway and give something to 2 lucky followers!
One U.S. follower -- One international follower!
The
Fat Quarter Shop has graciously offered up (2) 25.00 gift certificates (one per winner!) for me to use as my prizes! They are the
best at giving back to quilters all over blog land!
Since this is a 500th Followers Giveaway, you
do have to be a follower to be eligible to win one of the prizes...
new followers are welcome, if you aim to keep coming back to visit me from time to time. :)
And.,.. since The
Fat Quarter Shop is so great at making quilters happy... You should go pay them a visit. Come back and tell me what your favorite upcoming fabric line is.... It isn't for sale just yet... You can find these in any of the Specialty Cuts categories. :)
That's it...
2 simple things...
Be a follower of PigTalesandQuilts and tell me you are!
and
Visit
Fat Quarter Shop and tell me your favorite upcoming fabric line!
The giveaway will end at 7 pm Eastern time on August 18th, my older sisters birthday! :)
GOOD LUCK!
and HOMESPUNBLUE -- You win a prize for being the 500th follower!!! Please send me an email using my Contact Me button on the right sidebar. You are a no-reply blogger and do not have a blog so I cannot contact you.
AND THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FRIEND!!!
