holy cow! i won!

first - have you read this book yet? if you haven't, run (not walk!!) to you nearest bookstore or library and snag a copy. then grab a cup of tea and sit for hours. you'll say "ooh" and "aah" over the gorgeous quilts featured in it, and then cry over the stories.



well.... i bring up the book because i got a flickr mail message tonight from the publisher's flickr group saying i had won a copy of the book and a fabric pack from moda/united notions. how cool is that!? i can't wait...and i know what i'll do with the fabrics (or what i'll probably do depending on what they send me) - make another QOV! i won it because of the work i've been doing on them, so why not give back with my fabulous earnings?

i already bought fabric today to use on an upcoming QOV that will be made with the assistance of boo's tiger cub scout den. i get to discuss it in further detail tomorrow afternoon with his den mother. so far, my plan is to prepare a bunch of white cotton squares with freezer paper and have the boys color heart-warming and happy pictures with crayon, then heat set the crayon and make a quilt from there. robert kaufman has a line of boy scout fabrics right now and i got some today to use in it. this is the 100th anniversary of the boy scouts, so it's a pretty big deal in scouting. there will be hints of the cub scouts in the QOV, but not overly obvious. then, my hope is to find someone local: at one of the boy's churches or a family member or neighbor who is deserving of a QOV, then have the den present it in person. it is supposed to be one of their community service-type activities and what an experience for them. so these 7 year olds may not remember it or exactly just how emotional the process is, but you never know. my 7 year old knows what it means.

that's all for me tonight. i've got to unload all the stuff my mom unloaded on me today. it's so hard to say no sometimes...it's all good things, i just don't have a place to put them. and i need sturdier pots for the pretty amarillus bulbs.