Drum Roll Please.....

This afternoon with the help of Mr G we picked the winner of my giveaways.

First up, the cross stitch giveaway. Our winner is NatalyK


Next up is the quilting fabric & the winner is Blue for a twitter retweet.


Congratulations ladies & thank you to everyone else who joined in the fun.

4th Blogoversary Giveaways :)

The 25th May saw my 4th Blogoversary & to mark the event I'm offering a giveaway... well 2 giveaways actually. One for Cross Stitch & one for Quilting.

Before I post you a picture of the giveaways I have just a few requests for your entry.

• Please leave a comment on this post only & you will be entered into the giveaway.
• Please state on your comment if your entry is for Cross Stitch or Quilting.
• Please leave a seperate comment if you wish to enter for both.
• For an extra entry into the giveaway please post a link to this page onto twitter using the hashtag #giveaway & include me in the tweet @LisaGCreates. Thank you & much appreciated :)

Now for the fun bit... the giveaway items.

First up is the cross stitch bundle. All items are from Polstitches Designs. It includes 3 pieces of dyed aida, all measuring 9 x 12 inches & 3 packs of limited edition hand dyed threads. The limited editions are called "Santa Says It With Thread", "Lets Talk Colour" & a pack which includes a Polstitches Designs cross stitch chart called Oriental Lady but appears to have no name. All packs have 7 hand dyed varigated threads in them.


Next up, the quilting giveaway. This is 8 fat quarters, cut fresh off the bolt. They're from the Notting Hill range by Fabric Freedom. I love this range & I'm looking forward to making a quilt from it myself but I'd love to see what the winner of this FQ bundle makes with theirs.


The giveaways will close at 12 noon BST on Sunday 12th June & I'll announce winners on Sunday evening. That gives you just under 2 weeks to get your entry's in & to spread the word to all your crafty friends.

Happy stitching & happy winning :)

Where has the month gone?

Can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post. I've been having a look around to see what I've actually been up to & it appears to be not alot. I do however have some photos to share with you of some of the things I have acheived... oh yeah & some of the fabric I've bought... yes... more fabric... it's an illness I tell you!!!!

This is the first block in a Block Of the Month (BOM) that has been started at my quilt group, Shirley Quilters. I decided to use the same fabrics that I used to make my pinwheel quilt as I have quite a bit of it still available & thought it would be nice to see a totally different project made with the same fabrics.




I attended a Jelly Roll workshop run by my quilt group early in February. I chose to work from the book Two From One Jelly Rolls by Pam & Nicky Lintott & the design I chose was the Speedwell Quilt. This picture shows the layout of the centre of the quilt. I still need to sew it together & pick my fabrics for the border. The Jelly Roll I used was Lumiere d'Noel by French General.



Here I get to share with you some additions to my fabric stash... yikes... must sew more!!

Fat Quarter Bundles of Eastern Miniatures from Fabric Freedom
in 3 different colourways

Fat Quarter bundle of 3 Lakehouse Penelope Fabrics
From The Little Fabric Store

FQ bundle of Cafe Mocha in pretty pinks, reds & chocolate browns.
FQ of Bite Me by Michael Miller in Lime.
FQ of Aunt Grace Classics Rosebuds in Yellow (RAK gift from shop owner).
Bag of scraps, some of which are soooo pretty.
All from The Fabric Loft

2 x FQ's from the Lovehearts range by Makower UK

Thats me done for this evening. I'll share more soon.

Happy stitching :-)