A Winning Thursday
It’s a winning Thursday here at Pieceful Thoughts! Before I join in with the I Like Thursday crew over at Not Afraid of Color, I want to announce the winner of the Synergy Quilt PDF Pattern, which was recently released by Sew Preeti Quilts. You can take a peek at my version of the Synergy Quilt here.
And the winner is . . .
Eileen, I will be contacting you by email soon! Congratulations!
Like #1
I have been working on my challenge quilt for The Endeavourers, which is due May 1st. I’ve been experimenting (very timidly) with stitching on tea bags. Here’s a peek at one of the blocks as it was being stitched.
I added more stitching to the green fabric, but nothing too fancy. I’ll explain more about the process in my post of the finished quilt. It’s been a fun project, and something a little different!
Like #2
I mentioned in my last Thursday post that I was looking forward to our annual book fair here in town. My daughter and I decided to go on opening night, around 6:30. I knew it would be busy, but wowza. It was packed to the gills with books and people. It’s held in an ice rink, and the checkout line went from one end of the rink to the other. I sent a quick text to Molly and told her not to bother coming, so we rescheduled to the next night. It was much quieter last night, and although I didn’t find some of the specific books I was looking for, I came home with just 6 that I’m looking forward to reading.
We have not had this annual event for two years, so everyone was eager to do some book hunting. Over 70,000 books were donated – isn’t that amazing?! It’s really fun to browse and see what you can find.
The Weekly Wilbs
This is a Throwback Thursday photo of Wilbs from last year that makes me smile each time I see it. A nose to tail nap on a sunny afternoon!
I hope you are enjoying a winning Thursday, too! Thanks for stopping by and reading my post!
Wendy
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21 Comments
Cindy Pieters
Your challenge quilt is looking gooood! Tea bags hmm, do any tea bags work?
Helen
I’ve read Island of the Sea Women and Bonesetter’s Daughter. Good choices!
Vicki in MN
Wow 70,000 books donated, that is huge! Do you have any idea how many is usually donated! Nice that you were able to find some amongst all of them!
The Joyful Quilter
Congratulations to Eileen! I’m really looking forward to seeing and hearing more about your challenge piece, Wendy. Happy finishing!
texasquiltgal
I’m looking forward to seeing more of that fun project. Wilbs looks so pettable, that could be a full time job. How fun to attend a book fair, looks like you made a nice haul.
karenfae
looks like you got a haul of books from the fair! I really need to start checking out the library and see if they are starting their sales back up
Terry K
I enjoyed “The Island of Sea Women.” I hope you do too!
Barbara J Stanbro
Love your Wilbs pic. I have one of Smitty that looks just about the same. Yoga kitties.
Brenda @ Songbird Designs
Your challenge quilt is looking good. I’m very interested in how you stitch on tea bags! Looking forward to that post.Congrats to Eileen. That’s such a sweet pic of Wilbs!
Cindy Berry
Congrats to Eileen. Look forward to the tea bag finish interesting; and yes, nice change of pace on usual quilting projects. Our university had their book bazaar about a month ago after a 2 year break and had about that many books to sell too – had a wonderful time looking through. I got a Jacqueline Winspear too – look forward to reading it. Enjoy your new books!
rl2b2017
Hi Wendy! Congrats to Eileen! I hope she enjoy the pattern – how can she not?! – and shares her version with us on IG. Wilbs – how can that possibly be comfortable enough to fall asleep that way? I guess I shouldn’t knock it until I try it . . . although I don’t think I could get myself into or out of that position. Book Fair!! How fabulous. After all the reading I’ve done in the past two years, I would look forward to finding some new titles to try. Smart thinking going in with a list!! {{Hugs}} ~smile~ Roseanne
Laura
The challenge project looks very interesting…I look forward to your post about it!
Wow! What a book sale (I love book sales)! I am so encouraged to see that books aren’t falling out of favor at all! I much prefer the touch and smell of the pages to an electronic book any day! 🙂
Diann@LittlePenguinQuilts
I’m really curious about the tea bag project – sounds unique and looks pretty neat! Looks like you got a nice pile of books at the sale. I enjoyed seeing all the titles, and might have to put some on my list to read. Fun Wilbur pic, and I liked Barbara’s name for that – yoga kitty!
quiltinggail
Sewing on tea bags sounds very intriguing! Can’t wait to learn more about it!
marissthequilter
Lucky Eileen! Your challenge quilt looks fascinating. Enjoy that pile of books. And, of course, greeetings to Wilbur
Nancy Bekedam
The book sale sounds pretty interesting. Maybe next year…
Quilting is in my Blood
I’m very intrigued about stitching on tea bags. I read The Island of Sea Women a few years ago with my book group. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See is one of my all time favorite books.
Colette
I like your Synergy quilt and especially the colors and fabrics. The book sale sounds awesome. I just read the synopsis on a couple of the books that you purchased. Oh the tea bag piece looks interesting.
Sally
Never heard of stitching on tea bags. I’ll be curious how it turns out. Wilbur! Always a cutie.
The Morning Latte
Ha, Wilbs! 70,000! Wow! Where did the idea to stitch on tea bags come from?
Sandra Walker
Love that throwback of Wilbs. The book fair takes me back to the annual one at the school where I started teaching years ago. We’d come out of there with 20-30 books each, my mum, sometimes my sister, and my girls. It was the best. I am so grateful for books, for imaginations, and for authors that weave wondrous tales to take us away!