Thank you to everyone who participated in the Simply Triangles blog tour contest! Using a random number generator, we have selected our three winners. The grand prize winner will take home their very own copy of Barbara's beautiful book, Simply Triangles, courtesy of C&T Publishing.

The runner up winners will each receive a stack sampler of our beautiful fall/winter batiks.

The grand prize winner is...
Comment #55 - Diane C
I love love love this book!!! -- would really love to win

The runner up winners are...
Comment #84 - Cathy Victor
Thanks for the chance to win, I would love win either of these prizes.

Comment #103 - Norine
I just love all the new batiks! What a fun way to use them by trying the techniques in her book. I will be sew happy to win! Thanks!

Congratulations to our winners! We will be sending out an email to you all shortly. If you didn't win but would like to purchase the book, you can click here: SIMPLY TRIANGLES

WHO, WHO, WHO doesn’t just love a whimsical owl? I know I do, and from the moment I started making it, there was an argument about who was going to get it when I was finished-me, my sister, my daughter, Miss Sue, or as a gift. The Jury is still out on that one.

I chose to make the owl pillow from Curiosities & Mischief by Nancy Halvorsen because it’s super cute and I thought that it would make a great baby gift should a baby shower arise on the calendar. As for the adorable fabrics, they are from one of our newest collections, Home Front, that will be available September 11th (tomorrow online!).  I wish I could take credit for them, but Miss Mari picked them out for me and she did a fabulous job!

The pattern was pretty easy and straight forward, however, I did have a little trouble with the instructions on the wings, but Miss Judy set me straight on those. I used my own instructions on those, but had I followed Nancy’s, all would have been hunky-dory.

Isn't he the cutest?

My name is Teri and I’m the new Director of Connecting Threads.

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This contest is now closed. We will be announcing our winners shortly.

I feel so privileged to have the opportunity to take part in a blog tour that supports Barbara Cline and her fantastic new book, Simply Triangles. Barbara has really done it again! I enjoyed her first book, Star Struck Quilts, which focused on the eight-pointed Lone Star with numerous attractive variations. She continues her exploration of geometric designs using triangles in another well-written and well-illustrated book, Simply Triangles from C&T Publishing. As the subtitle suggests, the author provides projects using triangles to make stars, daisies (with some clever machine appliqué), and tessellating pinwheels.

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Let me just state up front I don’t sew clothes; haven’t for a long time.  BUT I have a new granddaughter, our first, and that has changed my outlook on many things.  So when I saw SewBaby’s Reversible Sundress & Bloomer Pattern I just had to give it a shot.

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