May for Me Giveaway -- Last Day of the Month

Update: this May for Me Giveaway has ended.
May flew by for me!

I worked, (quilted) a lot. I did some quilting for fun and some sewing for fun.  I took time for family the last 2 weeks of May - Especially with my grandson!

To sum it up for the May for Me Celebration, I would say:  "Find time to play. Find time to be with family and friends! And find time for yourself --- stop and smell the roses!  Or if you are a quilter, your fabric!"

The last May for Me Giveaway is a PDF downloadable quilt pattern. Winner's choice!

Easy to Sew Quilt PDF Pattern

Textures Quilt PDF Pattern

Summer Tomatoes Quilt PDF Pattern

This pattern was Free for all May and June --- through Midnight on June 30th. After that it will only be a $1.00. Click on the link and download this one for free right now!

Click here for the link to the Free Pattern

I have several PDF Tutorials and Patterns in My Craftsy Store.  I will be adding more soon! Click here to check out all of them Craftsy or click on the link in sidebar.
Leave a comment to enter the Giveaway.

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I love when you share! 

Share it on your facebook page - tag me: Marcia Wachuta and tell me in your comment for your second chance to win.

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Or share my giveaway on twitter - Tag it #MayforMe  and include @craftysewing and let me know with your comment.

Or share it somewhere else and come back and tell me in your comment. 

I am not going to reply to the entries this week either.... I am going to sew and spend time with family and friends.... but I will be back to regular posting in June! 

This Giveaway Ends Thursday, June 5th (at Midnight) and I will announce and contact the winner on the weekend.

Don't forget to share your May for Me Posts on the Sharing Page or the Sharing posts. It is one Big May for Me Linky Party!

Thanks for sharing!

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

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The 4th May for Me Giveaway!

Update:
This Giveaway has ended.

The 4th May for Me Giveaway will be another Surprise!   

4 surprise prizes for one winner!

#1 The winner will receive a colorful surprise assortment of 100 Charm Squares! Yes I said 100 charm squares --- not 42.

You can make a quilt that measures approximately 45" X 45" square ---- that is 10 charm rows across by 10 charm rows down.

#2 And the winner will receive surprise binding fabric!

#3 And the winner will receive surprise backing fabric!

#4 And the winner will receive surprise border fabric!

This week again --- There is NOT a photo of the surprise charms and surprise binding fabric and surprise backing fabric and surprise border fabric, because it is a surprise!  

I will ask the winner their favorite color and I will surprise the winner with a surprise assortment of 100 charm Squares including their favorite color if possible.  It will be the Quilter's Blenders Colors for the 100 charms squares.

Leave a comment to enter:

What is your favorite quilt block?

Mine is the courthouse round quilt block.

Do you want a second chance to win?

First --- Thanks for all the sharing on last week's Giveaway! I love when you share my giveaways! 

Surprise me by sharing my giveaway on your facebook page - tag me: Marcia Wachuta and tell me in your comment for your second chance to win.

Or share it on your blog - share the link to your post in your comment.

Or share my giveaway on twitter - Tag it #MayforMe  and include @craftysewing and let me know with your comment.

Or share it somewhere else and come back and tell me in your comment. 

I think we have finally solved our internet problem!  But something surprising happened to me while I did not have internet, I was sewing more!  I am not going to reply to the entries this week either.... I am going to sew and spend time with family and friends.... but I will be back to regular posting in June! 

This Giveaway Ends May31st (at Midnight) and winner will be announced in June. I will announce and contact the winner during the first week in June.

There will be one more May for Me Giveaway on the last day of May! 

Don't forget to share your May for Me Posts on the Sharing Page or the Sharing posts. It is one Big May for Me Linky Party!

Thanks for sharing!

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

May for Me Surprise Charming Giveaway!

Update:
This Giveaway has ended.

The 3rd May for Me Giveaway will be a Triple Charming Surprise!  --- 3 prizes for one winner!

#1 The winner will receive a colorful surprise assortment of 72 Charm Squares! Yes I said 72 charm squares --- not 42.

You can make a quilt that measures 36" x 40 1/2" - that is 8 charm rows across by 9 charm rows down.

#2 And the winner will receive surprise binding fabric!

#3 And the winner will receive surprise backing fabric!

There is NOT a photo of the surprise charms and surprise binding fabric and surprise backing fabric, because it is a surprise!  

I will ask the winner their favorite color and I will surprise the winner with a surprise assortment of 72 charm Squares including their favorite color if possible.  It will be the Quilter's Blenders Colors for the 72 charms squares.

Leave a comment to enter:
If you won, who you would make a small lap quilt or baby quilt for? or would your add printed fabric to the quilter's blenders and make it larger?

Do you want a second chance to win?

I love when you share my giveaways! 

Surprise me by sharing my giveaway on your facebook page - tag me: Marcia Wachuta and tell me in your comment for your second chance to win.

Or share it on your blog - share the link to your post in your comment.

Or share my giveaway on twitter - Tag it #MayforMe  and include @craftysewing and let me know with your comment.

Or share it somewhere else and come back and tell me in your comment. 

Since I am having internet problems, I am going to run the rest of the May for Me Giveaways all the way to the end of May and I will announce and contact the winners during the first week in June.

This Giveaway Ends May31st (at Midnight) and winner will be announced in June. 

There will be two more May for Me Giveaways with the next one starting about May 23rd and another one on the last day of May!  I love May for Me Giveaways!

Don't forget to share your May for Me Posts on the Sharing Page or the Sharing posts. It is one Big May for Me Linky Party!

Thanks for sharing!

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

Congrats to the May --- SEW Mama SEW Giveaway Winner!

Thanks for Sew Mama Sew for hosting another fantastic linky Giveaway Day!

Congratulations to:

Lia*s Handmades has left a new comment on your post "Sew Mama Sew Giveaway!":

Aqua, grey and low volume. Totally obsessed with those at the moment.
Thanks for the chance to win, Marcia! :)

Lia won the Summer Tomatoes Quilt Pattern!

This Quilt Pattern is now available in downloadable PDF form from my Craftsy Shop and of course still available in a printed pattern that you can order from my website and have it shipped to you.

Either way you will get a quilt pattern with full color step by step photos. 

Makes it easy to follow and understand.

Lia was contacted by email about her prize and I will mail it out to her the first week in June.

Thanks everyone for entering the Giveaway and following along on my blog.

There are going to be more Giveaways for the 2014 May for Me Celebration with another one starting today --- if my internet stays connected. It keeps going in and out!

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

I used Random.org for my drawing.

Congratulations to the 2 Winners of the 2nd Giveaway for the May for Me Celebration!

It was a charming Giveaway! .... Meaning the winners will choose their charm square colors for their set of 42 charm squares. They will choose from the Quilter's Blenders Fabrics on my website and I will cut the charms specially for each winner. On my website the Quilter's Blenders Fabrics start at Teal Blue...

The Quilter's Blenders were designed to blend with other fabrics.  I used a colorful print for this quilt in the next photo.  I selected Quilter's Blenders to coordinate with the print.

Entries from this blog and entries from my Crafty Sewing Facebook page.

The charm squares will be mailed out the first week in June and the winners have been contacted by email.

Congrats to the Winners!

Quilter Kathy has left a new comment on your post "A Charming May for Me Giveaway":

I like the lite pink and the lavender the best!

A fun giveaway!

I am working on my next May for Me post tonight!

AND

Joy has left a new comment on your post "A Charming May for Me Giveaway":

The teal blue reminds me of summer. Can't get enough of that! Thanks for the giveaway. 

The Next May for Me Giveaway was scheduled to start yesterday, but I was without internet most of the day and it has been in and out today. I am getting it checked next week.

I will be posting it very soon...

I am enjoying May, especially today, as it is finally nice in Wisconsin -- chilly but sunny!

Marcia

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I have been so busy that I am not even upset that my internet is going in and out.  We have had lots of spring storms that are also cutting into my time on the computer. I set down to write a post and my internet is out!  This seems to be Ok with me .... I just go back to sewing or quilting or writing up PDF patterns for Craftsy.  Check out the link in my sidebar to my Craftsy Store.  Makes it simple to purchase my quilt patterns as PDF. You pay for it and download it onto your computer..... no waiting for it to be mailed to you and no shipping!

So that is what I am doing....

What are you doing?

Link up and share your May for Me posts:

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway!

Sew Mama Sew is hosting another Giveaway!

Thanks for hosting!

We LOVE the Giveaways!

I am sharing 2 Summer Tomatoes Quilt Patterns for 2 winners!

You can make this table topper with 3 fat quarters plus a fabric for backing and binding. It measures 21" X 21" square.

Yes I will ship internationally!

Leave a comment to enter --- Imagine this quilt top in other colors. You can not say red, orange, and yellow.  

What 3 colors would you use?

Giveaway ends at May 16 at 5 p.m. PST.

I will email the 2 winners by May 18, and post the winners in the giveaway post.

And I will ship the 2 Summer Tomatoes Quilt Patterns to the 2 winners by May 20th.

I have a Giveaway every week in May ---- Click here for the current May for Me Giveaway. In the sidebar, you can sign up to get an email when I post a new post.

What is May for Me?

Click here!

Thanks for hopping over and entering my giveaway!

Enjoy!

Marcia 
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Happy Mother's Day!

This is my favorite four generation photo.  Over the years, we took many of these photos, but this one was the first one and it will always be my favorite one.  My daughter was about a month old.  I was a new Mom. I was so happy and so tired and enjoying every moment of being a Mom.

I love being a mother, but I really love being a "Grandmama" the best!

I am sure we will take hundreds of photos of my grandson, but I think this will be my most favorite one! We flew 5000 miles to smell the sweet fragrance of a new born baby!  The memory will be cherished forever. . .

Happy Mother's Day!

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

A Charming May for Me Giveaway

Update:  This Giveaway Ended at Midnight on Thursday May 15th. The next May for Me Giveaway starts on Friday night May 16th.

 This week's May for Me Giveaway is a Charm Pack of Quilter's Blenders Fabrics - You choose the colors.

This is the "2nd May for Me Giveaway" and I will be drawing two "Charming Winners"!

If you win, you get to choose the colors! 

Charm Packs are 42 five inch squares.

This is a Primary and Secondary Set of Colors --- It contains 42 five inch charm squares - 7 Yellow, 7 Red, 7 Blue,7 Orange, 7 Purple, and 7 Green. 

Giveaway is open to everyone!  I will ship internationally.

Two "Charming Winners" will choose their own color creation of the charm squares!  You can choose from the Quilter's Blenders colors to make a 42 square charm pack. I may be out of stock of some of the colors, but I may have them in charm squares, so you can still choose that color. 

Winners were announced on Friday, May 16th. 

You can make your own color combination of charm squares of any of the Quilter's Blenders Fabric. 

What colors would you choose?

Add your prints to the Quilter's Blenders! 

I love this combination too! 

To enter the Charming Fabric Giveaway:

Comment and share your favorite color of the Quilter's Blenders.

My favorite color is Medium Blue. 

Leave a comment here. 
Or

Leave a comment on my facebook page (see link in sidebar).
Or

Send me a direct email - [email protected].

Giveaways are for my followers here, on facebook, and by email subscriptions. If you are not following, I would like to invite you to follow. Thanks! One entry per person.

All entries from here, facebook, and direct email will be in the drawing.

I did not get a chance to reply to any of the first giveaway entries. I have had a variety of things that have kept me busy and away from my computer.  Nothing bad, so don't worry. These things are still keeping me busy, so I may not reply again.  I have been crazee busy and I can't do everything! ....And I am looking for the 5 minutes of free time every once in awhile.... still trying to make that happen even though I am busy!

Giveaway ends Thursday, May 15th at Midnight CST and the two "Charming Winners" will be announced on Friday, May 16th.

Next week's May for Me Giveaway will start on Friday, May 16th and run for one week!

I love when you share my Giveaways -- so share it on facebook, twitter, and on your blogs.  Thanks so much!

Enjoy your day!
Marcia

P.S. Why do I want to know your favorite Quilter's Blender color?  Because I am throwing in a bonus prize of extra charm squares in your favorite color, if you win!

The First May for Me Winner!

The first winner is: 

Catskill Quilter said...

I enjoy sitting on my patio and patting my cat! Invariably, a neighbor or two will stop by to visit...

The Prize was the Summer Tomatoes Quilt Pattern.

Congrats to the May for Me Winner!

I use Randon.org to choose the winners.  Sharon from Vrooman's Quilts asked to be not included in this drawing. I contact my winners by email.

I hope that all of you are having a wonderful May! 

Don't forget to add your link to the May for Me page and add a link to a May for Me Post to the Sharing page.

The Next May for Me Giveaway will start at Noon CST today!

Enjoying May!

Marcia

Trying to Bake Bread in May!

I am sharing some photos of the bread, I made with frozen dough.  I usually buy Rhodes frozen bread dough, but I bought Food Club this time.  It rose more than the other ones did OR was it too warm in the house and I let it go too long?  

It had only the one hole and it was pretty tasty, but I like the taste of the Rhodes better.  I need to look at the ingredients, maybe the Rhodes has more sugar.  It was sweeter. 

The bottom was kind of flat, but it wasn't doughy.

Looking for baking and rising suggestions???

Yes I did have it covered with plastic wrap and I let it rise for about 8 hours at room temperature.

Anyone have a good recipe to make it from scratch that is FAST and I can just whip it up quick, if I need bread for dinner?

I don't want to spend too much time in my kitchen cooking when I can be sewing or blogging, but I really like having the fresh bread.

Thanks in advance for the suggestions.

Enjoying May --- Hope you are too!
Marcia

Did you link up your May for Me Posts on the May for Me Linky Party?  Click Here to do that.

May for Me Linky Party -- Share what you are doing in May!

I wanted to figure out the best way to do the Linky Party for Sharing your posts about May for Me.

Here's how the May for Me Linky Party works:

I will share the Linky Party on this post and on a post every week and on a May for Me Sharing Page.

The Linky Party will be OPEN for the entire Month of May.

Link up the direct link to your posts about May for Me.

You can link up as many May for Me Posts as you would like --- as long as they are about May for Me and you have the backlink to my blog in your post and the photo.

http://marciascraftysewing.blogspot.com

Because I am hosting the May for Me Linky Party as an OPEN Linky Party for the entire month, we will have all the posts in one place.  Easy to find and Link Up!

Also, Sharon at Vroomans Quilts will share the same OPEN Linky Party on her blog in her posts too.  You only have to share the link back to my blog in order to link up, but of course you can share the link back to Vrooman's Quilt Blog if you linked up there.

Questions --- leave a comment or send me an email.
[email protected]

Linky up your May for Me Posts:

May for Me Starts Today with a Giveaway!

Every year, I explain that May for Me is all about finding 5 minutes or 10 minutes --- just for you each day.  If you do this for the whole month of May, you will be a happier person 365 days a year. You will find time for you!

This is the 4th annual May for Me Celebration. 

It all started with a conversation between two friends about feeling like there is never any time for us.  That's when I realized, I could find 5 minutes for me everyday in my crazee/busy life!  I will choose to smell the roses, to create, to read, to sew, to quilt, or to just relax.  You can do it too!  Find 5 minutes for you each day!

Last year, I shut off my alarm clock and went back to sleep for a bit and naturally woke up to the birds singing. This year, in Wisconsin, it is too cold to open the windows, but if the furnace isn't running, I will be able to hear to birds singing, as they are back, but pretty cold too. After I did that last year, I now set an alarm, just so I do not sleep later than 8am, but I am usually up between 6 and 7!  I made a change that I really like.  I wake up naturally. Remember I am my own boss and I can be late for work and I can work later in the day, if I choose to start later.

Last year, I chose to add more water to my diet!  That was a great addition!  I drink more water and I feel better because of it.

I found all sorts of 5 minute things that made me happy!

You will be a happier person, if you take a few minutes for you!  Celebrate you! It's May for Me!

Here's the first Giveaway!

You can enter to win my Summer Tomatoes Quilt Pattern! It is a fun table topper quilt to make in any colors.

Here is an up close photo of my Summer Tomatoes Table Topper Quilt. I quilted it with Bubble Quilting.

Leave one comment to enter --- Answer this question:

What only takes five minutes that makes you happy?

Giveaway is open to everyone.

Giveaway ends at Midnight on Thursday, May 8th and winner will be announced on Friday and the next May for Me Giveaway will start on Friday. 

There will be a new Giveaway every week during May.

All prizes will be mailed out the first week in June.

If I don't reply to you -- you may be a no reply blogger -- check your settings, so I can reply and find you if you win.

Please feel free to share my Giveaway with others.  Blog about it. Share it on facebook. Tweet it to everyone!

Thanks so much!

Marcia

What is May for Me?