A Pattern, A Freebie, and A Giveaway!

Ok kids, today's the day!!!!  I finally have my ENTIRE paper pieced alphabet ready!  You can find it in my shop here.  It will be on *sale* until the giveaway closes, then the price goes up!  Here's a little peek:

Neato, right?!?!?  Ali is the PDF goddess behind all my beautiful color images!  Please note, there are no instructions on HOW to paper piece in general with my pattern.  I'm assuming you guys know what to do and can follow the numbers on the pattern.

Now, on to the freebie!  While you can purchase the entire alphabet pattern in my etsy shop, I'm giving you guys these four letters for free!  Numbers followed by a "(b)" indicate where you should use background fabric.  If anyone has issues with the Scrib PDF, let me know, I'm newbie at including PDFs in my blog!  You should just be able to click on "Download" below to get the free letters.  If you're having problems downloading the letters, you can also get them on Sew Mama Sew's webistie HERE along with a paper piecing tutorial.

Love

So you can make your own one of these:

Each letter fits on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper, but you can shrink or enlarge it to whatever size you want!  Just to show you a comparison, below are letters printed at 100% and at 50%

Now, are you ready for the fun part?  I'm going to give away one copy of my new pattern AND this little mini I made last night, entirely from Flea Market Fancy!  

I shrunk the letters down 50% for this little guy who measures 6.5"x18".   Think of how cute something like this would be for a kiddo's room or a nursery with the letters of their name!  

To win you can do one or all of the following:

1.  Leave a comment--funny ones are always appreciated

2.  Buy my pattern and leave a comment saying you did: if you win the free copy, I'll refund your money

3.  Blog, Tweet, or Facebook, etc about my new pattern and leave a comment saying you did

So up to three comments per person.  All non-reply blogger comments will be deleted unless you leave your email address in the comment!  I will leave the giveaway open until 11pm (CST) Sunday, November 20th.  I will announce the two winners on Monday, November 21st with the help of Mr. RNG.

One Good Turn

My friend Ali has been helping me tremendously with getting the LOVE letters, along with the rest of the paper pieced alphabet I drew, ready for you guys.  In return, I made a sample of a paper-pieced pattern she created based on the math equation y = 1 / x  She a math teacher, so she's allowed to be nerdy like that. :)  

I was originally going to recreate the picture she had on her blog, but I didn't have enough of the right colors, so my color selection was based solely on which colors I had enough of!  I used Kona Ash for the background and the rest is a mix of Kona (the yellows), Bella (aquas), and Free Spirit (coral) solids.  I will say that Free Spirit is my favorite line for solids--much softer feel and more saturated colors.  

This quilt measure 36" square.  There are 36, 6" blocks entirely paper pieced.  I did this in a day so it wasn't so bad as far as paper piecing goes!  If anyone wants my cutting info:  

1.25 yards of background fabric (39" to be exact)

• subcut into (6) 6.5"xWOF strips
• from each strip, cut (6) 6.5" squares

.25 yards of 6 different solids

• sub-cut each of the 6 colors into (4) 2.25"xWOF strips. 

• from the strips cut (12) 7"x2.25" pieces and (18) 4"x2.25" pieces

This little charm is going to Ali as part of my "thank you" for helping me sooooooooo much!  You're the best girl!  Oh, just so you guys believe me when I say the pattern is coming, I'll give you a little sneak peak of the graphics Ali created for me!

Crossing my fingers that the next time I blog I'll have everything ready to share!!!!