 Congratulations to Gill for winning the chickadee pattern! Still 4 more days counting today, scroll down to the Day 1 post for details!
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 Congratulations to Amy C for winning the snowman pattern! See Day 1 post for contest details if you are new here!
Ok, I'm keeping this short so I can get to my coffee...not a fan of daylight savings...:-)  Congratulations to Shannon Hall for winning yesterday's pattern, you will get that in an e-mail today! Today is the second day of the Blog Hop giveaway sponsored by the Quilting Gallery. I'm giving away patterns and quilted cards, see the Day 1 post for details! You can comment on any post during this week, I will go by when I receive them as to what day you are entering. Thanks to everyone who has posted so far, there have been lots of good ideas! Even a few from the posts that were just my kids being silly.......hmm...:-) I'm still working on a way to have people receive my blog posts through e-mail...for now the best way to follow is to 'like' my facebook page, button on the sidebar. Click the button below for links to the other 200+ bloggers participating in the blog hop giveaway!  Apparently the button to link to the other participating bloggers won't be active until later today...sorry if that has caused any confusion!
 I am participating in a one week Blog Hop sponsored by the Quilting Gallery. (March 8-14) The button below is a link to a list of all participating bloggers, who are each having their own giveaways for the week. For anyone new to my blog, let me introduce myself. My name is Beret Nelson. I am an art quilter living in beautiful Alaska, where there is plenty of inspiration all around! I love to make art quilts, but I started making quilted greeting cards (mini quilts mounted on card stock) a few years ago, and they have sort of taken over my quilting life, they've been quite popular:-) I recently started making patterns for some of the designs. I'm working on more in between making cards! I also teach classes at a local quilt shop, which I really enjoy. Feel free to look around my site....I have a page with my patterns, a gallery of some of my quilts, and a free motion quilting/thread sketching tutorial. I also include tutorials on some of my blog posts, you can look in the archives for those! I'm still working on a way to have people receive my blog posts through e-mail...for now the best way to follow is to 'like' my facebook page, button on the sidebar. My Giveaway: I will give away one downloadable pattern (of your choice if you win) during each of the seven days. At the end, I will draw two names from all the week's entries (not just the winners) and each of those people will receive one of these quilted chickadee cards. (of my choice, most of them are already gone:-)) How to Enter: To enter my giveaway, you need to comment on any day's post during this week and give me two pieces of information: 1. Give me a suggestion for a new card design. It can be serious or silly, anything counts! You can enter once every day, but you have to give me a new suggestion each time:-) My kids had a bit of fun with a few comments of their own...:-) 2. Tell me which pattern you would like if you win for that day! That can be the same every day if you want. Click here to see your options. I will do a random drawing each morning (Alaska time) for the previous day's pattern, and e-mail it to the winner. Then at the end of the week I will draw a name from all of the week's entries for the two cards, and mail them to the winners. If you enter every day, your name will be in seven times for the final drawing.:-) International entries welcome! If you would like a reminder each day, 'like' my facebook page by clicking the button on the sidebar. Update: I decided to put the daily winners in here, as well as in a new post...Congratulations! Day 1-Shannon Hall-chickadee pattern Day 2-Amy C-snowman Day 3-Gill-chickadee Day 4-Szamóca-chickadee Day 5-Mhairi-tundra swan Day 6-ritainalaska-sandhill crane Day 7- Linda G Winners of Chickadee cards: Gill Marilyn Coombs Starting Friday, March 8 through Thursday, March 14, I will be participating in a Blog Hop Party, hosted by the Quilting Gallery blog. I will be giving away a downloadable pattern (of your choice) each day. At the end of the week, all entries will be entered into a drawing where two people will each receive a finished quilted card. You can enter once each day. Check back tomorrow for more details! If you want a reminder each day to sign up, 'like' my facebook page. (button below) Feel free to share this post if you want to help me spread the word:-) Click on the Blog Hop Party box below starting Friday for a list of other blogs participating in the blog hop, all have giveaways! (Or click now if you want to register your blog, by noon EST Friday)  A few weeks ago, I had a great plan of making small batches of new designs, so I'd have things to put on my blog and facebook regularly. Then the new shop started selling them, and I have had to make some bigger batches of previous designs to keep up:-) Hopefully I'll find the balance of both here soon!
 I spent a bunch of time this morning looking through my pictures for a photo of a moose in about this pose for a new card design. I was joking that the way this winter was going, I could probably just whistle for one. As it turned out, I didn't even have to do that, she just came, and even did the right pose, but there are a lot of branches in the way...I think I found one anyway, but this was pretty cool!
 This is a set of mini quilts that some friends and I made to decorate our church bathrooms:-) They were very simple to make using precut strips of fabric. We even used them generally in the same order that they were in the packages, we figured they always look nice there, so it should work on a quilt, right? We cut them to different widths, and some freehand curves on one of them. Then we just laid them down overlapping a bit on our batting and backing and raw-edge appliqued them with decorative stitches. This works best with a walking foot so they don't stretch and distort, but it's very quick and easy. The animals are just fused on. I think they are about 18 inches tall. A quick and fun project! I'll put a bigger picture of one in too. 
I have been hoping to have enough cards stocked up eventually to sell some on my website. But then a new shop requested to sell them two weeks ago, and they are keeping me hopping! I did get a lot done this week, so that was good!
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Beret Nelson's On The Trail Creations Blog Page
Beret NelsonI am a homeschooling mom of three fun kids, who are now old enough that I have a little time to pursue my passion for sewing! After several years of making quilted cards and art quilts, I'm now designing kits and patterns. Some of them have even been in Keepsake Quilting! I teach classes at local quilt shops, and am starting to do more traveling and teaching. I also have many tutorials, including some on YouTube. I am blessed to live in Alaska where I am surrounded by the inspiration provided by the beauty of God's creation! Sign up for blog updates and get a free pattern!
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