...and the giveaway winner is....

Giveaway Winners!

Yes, there are.....

Four!

1.  Janet, comment number 5

2.  Brenda's Arizona

3.  Becky Reader, number 11

4. and....number 36....Ellen!

that's two patterns, each winner

almost as good

as a 

gold statue!

please email me your snail mail addys

to receive your patterns

and

please....tell a friend

won't you help us boost our readers numbers?

natalie.

beyond the reef

How time flies - GIVEAWAY!

Jaybird Quilts

Giveaway + Giveaway + Giveaway

Academy Awards

Los Angeles truly is an industry town.

Hollywood.

Motion Pictures.

Movies.

Actors.

Waiters.

So, in honor of

"Oscar"

we will give a pair of

Julie Herman's patterns

for

Actress in a Leading Roll

Actor in a Leading Roll

Best Picture

I hope you will join us.

Please let us know with a comment below

what your selection is for

'best picture'

Spread the word, repost us, tell your friends.

But, please, I must be able to email you

and let you know you have won.

So, won't you become a follower

so that I may contact you for your address

and send you your patterns?

btw - I still need addresses from our 

madison cottage design

giveaway

Thanks for stopping by!

natalie.

beyond the reef

MEET MADISON COTTAGE DESIGN!

MEET MADISON COTTAGE DESIGN

where did the month go?

oh, that's right.

Road to California

and yes, I missed that

super bowl sunday deadline

so for those of you that logged in

please, forgive me

but here we are, and I would like you to meet

Kenna Ogg

Madison Cottage Design

(remember, I get to ask the questions....)

1.  I know you do a lot of great photography as well as quilting...what's your favorite time of day for light?

I love the light of early morning, though I am rarely awake for it.  I like the light of spring and winter.  I am not a summer girl and I find the light a little to harsh for my taste.

2.  You have a great Raptor center in your town - Boise, ID - and I hear you have visiting hawks in your yard.  Is it true you name them, and how did that get started?

 I named the big one Linda.  I don't even know if she is a girl, but she can spin her head like Linda Blair from The Exorcist.  The smaller hawk, I call Jr.  And when the American Kestrel comes visiting, I call it sweetie, even though I am sure it could bite my finger off in one chomp.

3.  I have to ask - what machine do you sew on, have you sewed on, like the best, or ..........

 I sew on a Pfaff tiptronic 2040. I have had it for 13 years and really don't know any other machine well.

4.  I hear you like Superior's Master Piece thread - what do you think are the advantages?

I like to piece "small" and the Masterpiece thread lays very flat.  I haven't used the new 3-ply so I cannot attest to its properties.  I also like DMC thread and usually have a large cone of it on hand.

5.  Music?  I hear you play a lot of music while you are sewing/quilting?

Everything from Springsteen to Dean Martin, Tracy Chapman, David Cook, Barbara Cook.  I have a 50 disc player in the sewing room so there is a good chance Patti Lupone will play right after Patti Scialfa.  Though, I can promise you George Strait will never play after George Michael.

6.  Your patterns are really specific and you talk about squaring up and making a test block for seam allowance accuracy.  Does this come from your knitting background?  Your weaving background?

It come from me just being picky, particular, obsessed...you pick the adjective.

7.  How did you pick quilting out of all of the arts you do?   

 

Quilting picked me.  One day, while unemployed, I was out shopping in a quilt store (A Quilter's Dream) and foolishly said, "I can help"  and, well, need I say more.

8.  When can we hope to see more more more?

More??? Soon.  There is always something on the wall.

9.   Who do you think will win the best picture in this year's Academy Awards?

 I don't know what movie is even up for best picture.  I do know that Eli Manning was MVP in the Superbowl.

10.  Finally, what is your favorite thing to bake?  I hear you are a baker not a cook?  Can there be only that?

Cookies, cookies oh and more cookies.

And here, for their web debut, are Kenna's first two patterns.

And to kick things off for Kenna

I say we give you all a chance to take a little peek into her great directions, and fabulous designs.

Buy one of each pattern for a total cost of $15 for the two!

($10 each regular price)

Leave a comment below, and purchase your patterns on our site...

If you'd like just one, they will be $10/each.

I think I will make both, personally.

I have started Lemon Pepper using sherbet pips

and I think I will make the Field Greens out of the Ghastlies by AH

Finally, if you have a birthday in February, please leave a message below,

and I will send you one of the two patterns

...your choice!

Thanks  for  thinking of

b e y o n d   t h e   r e e f