September Winners: One Monthly Goal

Winners were contacted yesterday for the September OMG Giveaways, but one of them has not responded! Maybe we should all visit Ellie's blog, Ellie at Color My World and leave a congratulatory comment! While you are there, check out her Handprint Quilt! It returned from the quilter's, and Ellie will be binding it, as her October goal.

Ellie won the $25 Gift Certificate to The Fat Quarter Shop!

Next up, the ISpy Charm Pack:

Congratulations to Barbara at Cat Patches!

Barbara has a giveaway of her own going on, open for entry now through the 7th, where one lucky winner will win the whole set of Bag Ladies! The patterns can be used for the upcoming QAL: 

$20 Credit at Bagmaker Supply: Congratulations Lena, at Quilt Art by Olena. Have fun shopping for zippers, closures, kits and such, Lena!

I made this quilty dot to replicate the Bagmaker Logo and included it with Quilty365!

Lena shared a tutorial for the cutest Pumpkin Cannister at her site yesterday, and I ripped a picture to show ya'll!

If you love giveaways, (and who doesn't!), Amy, who joined the OMG linkup her first time this month, is offering a lovely charm pack at her site: AmyScrapSpot 

 Also, Val has an Engelbreit-inspired give-away going on this week, in conjunction with her Tuesday Archives linkup!

Thank you all for another great month!

Now get to work! Let's make a dent on October goals!

A New Month and a New Goal

Welcome to One Monthly Goal!
I'm going to move this post right along, to get the party started without further delay!
Short and sweet, perhaps, but I do have an October goal:

I hope to finish the ISpy Quilt that has been sandwiched for a week or so now. Foregoing the OMG rules, I am not going to share a photo of the goal. Also assuming you have all seen enough of it until the finish. There'll be no I-Spy overkill coming from this-away...

So as not to disappoint, I do have one pretty photo to share!

This is the bundle I put together for the OMG, October prize-pool!

I am sharing two spools from the Aurifil 'Simply Color' set I recently won at From my Carolina Home. Holding the spools for inspiration, I selected a few stash fabrics to make a little (FQ)baby-bundle. Babies on the brain, who knows..
The winner will have fun with the nursery print humor, it is quite different than norm, and a bit of a hoot.

Please take a few moments to visit our monthly OMG sponsors!

 Fat Quarter Shop: $25 Gift Certificate (Flash Sale Link HERE!)

Bagmaker Supply: $20 Store Credit 

Please visit Bagmaker on Facebook! Let's help this awesome shop reach 500 followers! 

Did you know Bagmaker is now stocking hardware kits to coordinate with SWOON Patterns, and with Bag of the Month Club!

 

An InLinkz Link-up

Color-Matching Kona Cotton Seattle MOJO

My Pixie Summer Home Quilt has taken off in it's own direction.
Destination: Unknown.
These are the Hometown Houses appearing on my design wall.

Lots of Seahawk MOJO,
The blue backgrounds will be infront of the lake/canal, houseboats atop it, and the sky is white. The "bluest skies you've ever seen" may be in Seattle, but somehow this sky is white. It's called, umm,  lack of planning, and it will make the Needle more challenging.
Work with me here, I've been improvisationally piecing Century Link Stadium:

hopefully that needle is in the future, a mountain or two, definitely more trees...

Meanwhile, I've been struggling with Kona at the Fat Quarter Shop, and it occurred to me...
I must know one or two Kona-nerds friends who would enjoy this color-matching thing...
Could it be true?

Two quilts are formulating in my brain, each similar in pattern and size, each for a nephew. I want to keep an adult-looking palette, yet stick with the specific team colors for each.
My sketch is a modern, elongated herringbone.

Nephew #1: Ted graduated from Seattle University this year and is pitching for the Seattle Mariner's in Arizona. Here is their uniform, sourced from WikiCommons.

Colors in my cart:

Questions for Kona Cotton Nerds:
1. What is your favorite white, and favorite black? I will probably use silver with a medium gray too, but not sure which ones play best with the silver.
2. Which of the teal green colors do you think best matches the team uniform? To me, the Emerald looks the most like teal, while the teal looks the most green. I also have Everglade, Glacier, Jade. Are the colors on the FQS website accurate/jive with the kona card?
3. It looks like there are several blues being used, maybe I should bring a navy in, but which blue best matches I wonder, the colors seem to change with the photos.

Nephew #2: entered University of Washington this week. I fill with emotion when I talk of these guys, something I avoid since it feels like bragging. Both earned full scholarships, this one academically, and including his Master's program. Little Ty is a Husky now.

Colors in my cart:

Gold: Papaya, Butterscotch, Cheddar, Grellow (not in order).
Purple: Bright Periwinkle, Purple, Hibiscus and REGAL
Maybe I should use ALL of them.

I need a crash-course on shopping for solids! My brain is in a whirl - any opinions are welcome!

And the Winner is:
Ty helped me draw for the Orphan Adoption winner this morning, and the Sew Kitschy blocks are packed to-go! They are on their way to Jennifer, who blogs at Little Black Cat Quilting!