Celebrating a Six Months Blog with a Give Away

I Spy with my little eye a blog that has been going for six months. So, let's party!  I'm giving away a set of I Spy charms from my Two Bits Patches online store.  The winner can chose any one of the 6.5 inch charm packs.  There are fourteen different sets to choose from including mixed I Spy charms, cats, butterflies, Australiana, and boys or girls. 



I Spy #20 Sugar and Spice

The giveaway is open to blog followers.  If you're not already a follower, that's easy, just click your Follow This Blog button.  To enter leave a comment about which I Spy pack you'd like to win.  You can browse all the available sets here.  If you post a link on your own blog to here you get a second entry.  I will post to anywhere in the universe, so make sure I can access your snail mail if you are the lucky winner.  The competition will run until the 20th of May.

The quilt pictured was my Queensland Flood Relief auction quilt.  The appeal raised over $99,000 for flood relief in 2011.  My quilt raised $50, it was great to be a part of the solution.

Baby I Spy with Setting Squares

I came across this tutorial for an I Spy baby quilt just the other day.

http://www.cloverandviolet.com/2011/12/i-spy-baby-quilt-tutorial.html

The instructions are clear, fabric quanities included, and there are lots of photos for each step of the quilt.   I only have one fabric in my stash that is the same as one of the charms pictured.  There must be a lot of different fabrics in the world....

Another Over and Under ... Wait, there's More!

Sandy's done it again.  Not one, but two finished I Spy quilts for lucky great-nephews.  Check them both out on her blog here.  One has blue sashing and the other quilt has green; the two different colours create two quite different looking quilts. There's lots of close-up photos too. I love them!

Let's Play I Spy

This new quilt is on show at Riel's blog The Q and the U.  For someone who's only been quilting for two years her quilts are very impressive.  The I Spy charms are 4 inch squares and sashing is 2.5 inches. The sashing in this top is quite clever.  Why?  You'll have to visit Riel's blog here to find out!

I Spy a Rainbow Quilt

Let me share with you another great blog and a striking I Spy quilt.  Hilary lives over at Quilary- Take a Peek Over the Fence.  Hilary likes rainbows and it shows in this quilt she made for her daughter.  I love the range and placement of the charms.  I reckon I'm a fan of rainbows too.

Colourwash I Spy

I found this gorgeous I Spy quilt while cruising though cyberspace the other day.  It's a raffle quilt for the 2012 Quilt Show of the Victoria's Quilters' Guild.  The quilt show is in May, and I thought, seeing as I live in Victoria, I should find out where it is and have a look.
The show is at the Pearkes Recreation Centre in Tillicum Rd., Victoria.  That is Victoria, BC.  British Columbia.  In Canada.  On the other side of the world from Victoria, Australia.
Nevermind.  It's still a lovely quilt.

I Spy a Charming Quilt

Some of the nicest I Spy quilts are the simple ones.  A charm square quilt is made from many, many squares and no two squares are the same.  Collecting the charms takes time and swapping with other quilters can speed the collection process.

http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-spy-quilt-for-jellybean.html

One of the blogs I follow is Obsessively Stitching.  I enjoy the quilts and other projects pictured, many of which are Quite Small.  Her latest quilt shown above is a great I Spy.  No sashing, no filler fabrics, just dozens and dozens of bright I Spy squares.   This blogger runs charm square swaps for I Spy fabrics too, very handy if you want to increase your collection for your charm square quilt.