Scraps Glorious Scraps With The List of Winners in Golden Quilters Awards

Scraps, scraps and oh my goodness I found more scraps, I have too many scraps, not organized that is.  Look at this mess!
I found them everywhere.  Like dust bunnies, they multiply!  I haven't paid enough attention to them in a long while, now they require some serious attention.  Giving it some real thought it is going to be a lot of fun to revisit some of the projects these scraps were instrumental in being a part of in the first place just finding them.  Now I need more of those zip lock bags, a dark permanent marker, my rotary cutter, ruler, and some time.  

Scraps from the closet

Yesterday, April 1st the Winners of the Golden Quilters Awards were announced by the Host of these Awards Sewcalgal. 

CONGRATULATIONS to all Winners and to all of the Nominees, it was a prestigious line up this year.
Winners of the 2011 Golden Quilter Awards.

Best DesignerAnne Sutton of Bunny Hill Designs
Best Teacher/Instructor Bonnie Hunter, Quiltville 
Best AuthorEleanor Burns, of Quilt In A Day                                                        
Best Quilt Store (Physical) Mary Jo's in Gastonia NC
Best Quilt Store (online)Fat Quarter Shop
Best Long Arm QuilterJudi Madsen - Green Fairy Quilts
Most Innovative product (physical item)AccuQuilt Go! Fabric Cutter
Most Innovated product (software item)EQ7, by The Electric Quilt Company
Most influential person in the world of quilting to-date, aka "Lifetime Achievement"Eleanor Burns, Quilt in a Day
Best Quilt RetreatTwo Wacky Woman (Southern California)

DON'T forget there are still the Sponsor Give-Away Prizes to be won, and you have until April 9th to enter, so go visit Sewcalgal for a list of the Awards sponsors and their Giveaways, winners for these delicious prizes will be drawn and announced on April 10th, 2011.  How exciting!  I confess,I have entered to be sure, I would be happy to win any one of these beautiful prizes.

Have a glorious weekend and take some time to see and read up on all of those prizes The Award Sponsors are giving away, I promise you you will be impressed and want to be a winner of one one of them.  I am hoping you will leave me a comment introduce yourself as to where in this wonderful world you live, work and play, and what type of quilting you enjoy.  It would be an adventure for myself and readers to visit your home town on the web, and I promise to post a reply. 

Pam Holland Visits Kenora Quilt Guild in Canada

From the Quilt Show Blog , Australia's Pam Holland


has produced a Kenora Quilt Guild Show Video of her visit to Kenora Quilt guild, wait until you see the Christmas quilt near the end of this video, it will blow you away, so very beautiful!


Not much done today other than went scrounging for novelty prints for Master Bentley's quilt and discovered I have way too many scraps which haven't been sorted in any way shape or form, so, I spent the day cleaning up my fabric closet and look at what I managed to gather.  Now I will just have to sort these, into color, size and get back to making Nellie feel useful once again.  Seems I can't find half of what I want when I want it, time to organize these.  I wish I had a huge sewing studio so that I could really have everything spread out nicely and all neatly arranged, yeah right, like that is really going to become real for me...


What condition are your scraps in? 
I would love to hear about your scrap storage solutions.


Some quilters have fantastic sewing studios and some have corners in a room, or some the kitchen or dining room table, won't you tell us about your sewing area?


Send pictures and I will be so pleased to show them here.


Thank you for visiting, won't you leave a comment I will be very pleased to read about your thoughts on Pam Hollands' visit from the video, which you may access from the link above.  Come back soon.