A WINNER!

TaDa! We have a winner of the wool kit that I was giving away for my 100th post. I wrote all the names on little papers and put them in my pretty Fenton bowl. (Cobalt blue is my favorite glass color!) And the papers are well mixed.
Without looking my hand draws the winning name. I am the only one home this morning, so it had to be me doing the drawing

The winner is Danielle! Danielle has a blog called Want to Bee Quilting. She is a regular reader of my blog. I have already e-mailed her asking for her address so I can get the kit to her. I sure got a blurry picture of her name on the paper but you get the idea.
Today I am showing you a picture of my Pokeberry quilt which is the next to last quilt top to show you from my sewing room closet. If you have followed my blog, you know that I got this quilt top together last year some time. There are lots of berries to applique on this pattern. My friend Jeanne (no blog) can tell you just how many berries there are. She made one of these quilts. The pattern is by Jan Patek.
I am preparing another project for applique. I know, I know! You are thinking that I have way too many UFO's already. I am cutting out baskets to applique. The reason I am doing the prep work now is that I am mainly using one line of fabric, Portabella Market (I always want to call it Portabella Mushroom) by Moda. I am adding some fabrics from stash and will make a decision soon if they are going to stay. I prefer to add some pieces from other fabric lines when possible. Anyhow, the fabric line has been out for a while. I want to see if I need more fabric while it is still available. I purchased a layer cake first just because I liked the fabrics so well. I thought I could at least put some in scrap quilts. Then I found a good buy on a fat quarter bundle and purchased that. I added some extra of two of the backgrounds not knowing what I wanted to make. I really like the Blackbird Designs baskets that so many of you are working on but decided I wanted a one piece basket and somewhat larger. Some of the prints in the Portabella line are large and a bigger basket seemed more appropriate. I appliqued one basket to try this shape. It is from a pattern called "Susan's Baskets" that was in "Threads of Time" by Cabbage Rose. I no longer have the book, so I don't know what the quilt was to look like. I am doing my own thing with it. Found the template in a folder that I had a few basket quilt patterns in. I will lay some of the shapes on backgrounds and photograph for the next post. I should have used the flash this morning as the photo is a bit dim. We are having rain again and the house has gotten a btg dark. The project is long term as I have others that need my attention.
The block size is supposed to finish to 6 1/2 by 8 inches but there is room for play. I am thinking of having a light background with darker basket placed by a darker background with lighter basket.

I am almost halfway on the third border of the Trumpet Flower quilt. Thank you for all the nice compliments you left on this project. No one seemed to think it was too busy.

I have been visiting a blog that would interest any of you that like the prim style like I do. If you haven't already been over to Humble Quilts, please pay Lori a visit. She started her blog earlier this year and has posted some wonderful quilts and wool projects that she has made.

I don't think the astronauts are going to be able to land here today since it is pouring rain. I know it costs a lot to have it land in California and then piggyback it to Florida but it is something to see coming in.

Time for me to get busy. Come back soon!

Karen