More Red Strings and a mini-give away....

Read to the end or you'll miss it!

I spent the day today cleaning up the sewing room. I moved furniture around and consolidated my scraps and string fabrics. I dusted and swept behind furniture. Oh man, I just thought the rest of the house was bad... but when you pull things out in a sewing room the dust is about three times as bad. But everything is clean now. I have used Bonnie's Scrap User's System for a about two years now, and today I separated the light strips from the dark strips. I need to start using up some of those strips, I really didn't realize how many I had. And I now have three scrap/strings containers.... light, dark and red.

The reason I made a red strings container is so that it would be easier to make the Red Strings blocks. After all that organizing, I made up more string blocks. Now I have 35 of them. I really like the way they are looking, although I don't like the pics. The real colors are really rich.







And, on Saturday, Dear Hubby sent me to the Quilt Shop to pick up some fabrics just for me. I told him that I had gathered my fabrics for the giveaways, but hadn't bought anything for me. Wasn't he sweet to tell me I needed some stuff just for me? I chose to go with some Reproduction fabrics. Love them!!!

With my older kids out of town, I knew there wouldn't be any running the roads for me, so now I'm all set to sew this week. I don't know how much I'll get done though, because my back up caregiver is gone!! We'll survive though. We've got coffee, chocolate and lots of fabric and thread.

Oh and since I was digging through the scraps, I pulled out some scraps to send along in the Whirl Into Winter Give Away box. I now have two sets of fat quarters to mail out and their companion scraps. I think a couple of quilters are really going to like what I'm sharing.

We've made it to 200 comments, so there will definitely be two winners. Let's see if we make it to 300.

And, as a little mini give away, whoever leaves a comment here will be added to another little scrap give away. I'll send someone a small brown envelope of scraps....just leave a comment on this post. (I just want to see who is still reading my blog!!!)

I'll draw for this mini give away Monday, the 5th, at 7:00 p.m. (CST).

Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments. I haven't been able to respond to them all, but I have read each and every one. I've even visited some blogs and added them to my Google Reader.

Have a great week, and I'll be back tomorrow for the mini-giveaway!!!

Happy Quilting!!!!!!!