Stitchin’ Caddy Sewing Bee

Last Thursday a group of ladies from my quilting group – Star Sea Quilters – joined me for a sewing bee to make stitchin’ caddies for the New Beginnings Kits that we Nutters at Among the Gumtrees are putting together for the poor quilters who have lost so much in the recent floods right across Queensland and now Victoria too.
Here’s a pic of the gawjus SSQ ladies who came along … one or two are missing, the lovely Bec from Homestead Quilting is one – bless her gawjus heart, she travelled all the way from the Sunshine Coast (almost 2 hours each way) to help us out – Thank you Bec :o)!!!! Bec and I have chatted through our blogs and more recently on facebook for nearly 2 years so it was terrific to finally meet each other in person – she’s a real sweety :o).
Here’s how many we’ve got so far …

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(about thirty-something) and there are about a dozen or so more still to come from ladies who are still stitching!!
Thanks so much to everyone who has made or is making a New Beginnings Kit – every single one is greatly appreciated!!

If anyone would like the pattern for this cute little 'Stitchin' Caddy' you can buy the PDF for just a $5 donation to the Premier's Flood Appeal - just click on the piccy on my sidebar :o).

We have a winner ... in fact, we have 3!!!!!

I closed the giveaway with over 130 comments!!! Wow, that's fabulous, thank you all so much for taking part in my giveaway!!!

As promised all the comments were printed and cut up the old fashioned way and placed into a bucket .... ok, not a bucket ... this rather gorgeous box that some of you might remember I got on a particularly good sale :o) ......

My rather hairy 'barrel girl' he he ..... ok, not a barrel girl LOL, my DH did the honours for me and mixed up all the entries ......

Then he dipped in and ...... drumroll please ......................................

out came winner number 1 ..... Miss Nance!!!!!

Next we have winner number 2 ...... Bec!!!!!!

And lucky last ... winner number 3 is ..... Tozz!!!!!!!So there are our 3 winners I'm going to email them now so that I can get their 'snail mail' addies and pop their patterns (and maybe a couple of treats) in the mail for them :o).

Thanks again to everyone that entered, I've had a fabulous time reading all of your comments and visiting your blogs!!! For anyone that would like to buy a "Dragonflight" pattern you can find it and all of my other patterns on my website :o).