Flickr – Christa Quilts

I have decided to separate my weekly giveaways from my quilt along tutorial posts. Because the tutorials are so long, the giveaway announcements were getting buried.

Plus, the quilt along instructions will be on my blog forever, so including the giveaway in each weekly quilt along post would not make sense once it’s finished.

Click here for Step 5.5 of Hugs ‘n Kisses, posted earlier this week.

Weekly Giveaway Prize for Hugs ‘n Kisses 5.5

Thanks to all those who helped spread the word about my quilt along with my new button. (If you haven’t done so yet, please grab it from the sidebar and put it on your blog!)

For this week’s prize, one lucky quilt along participant will win a roll of fusible batting tape and a pack of Superior topstitch needles. Batting tape helps you use up all those leftover batting scraps with no mess! The needles are my favorites for both piecing and quilting.

Batting Tape

Superior Needles

How to Enter This Week’s Giveaway

Entering is easy – just post a picture of your quilt along progress on Christa’s Quilt Along flickr group. It doesn’t matter how far along you are, or even which quilt along you are doing. I just want to see your quilting awesomeness and I’m sure others do, too!

Because I’m making the giveaway change – anyone who has posted their picture on flickr so far is eligible for this week’s giveaway. Just leave a comment on this post with your flickr name so I know who you are. 🙂

Entry Deadline and a Little Housekeeping

Comments on this post will be open through Wednesday, April 3rd at 6 PM Eastern Time, (3 PM Pacific). A winner will be selected at that time and their name will be posted the next day on Thursday, along with next week’s giveaway prize announcement. I will also email the winner directly.

Because I’ve separated the giveaways from the quilt along posts, I’ve moved all of the winners’ names from the previous quilt along posts and am listing them here. (They have all received their prizes and were very excited!)

Week 5.1 Giveaway Winner – Anne C. won a ChristaQuilts.com Gift Certificate.

Week 5.2 Giveaway Winner – Diana W. won a Charm Pack of her choice.

Week 5.3 Giveaway Winner – Rose B. won a pair of Snip Eze Comfort Scissors.

Week 5.4 Giveaway Winners – Lesley C. and Clair S. each won a ChristaQuilts.com gift certificate.

Ok, I know I’m hitting the flickr thing a little hard, but I’ve really become addicted. So for today’s version of my favorite quilt links, I will be listing a bunch of different groups I’ve found, and invite you to check them out as well.

Of course, I need to start with my very own flickr group that I created a couple of weeks ago: Christa’s Quilt-Along. I’ve been pleased with the response and it’s been fun to see pictures that everyone’s been posting.

Two other flickr groups that I’m personally involved with are Pile O’ Fabric’s Skillbuilder Block of the Month and Quiet Play’s And Sew On Paper Pieced Block of the Month.

If you are into modern quilting like I am, you can check out these two groups: The Modern Quilt Guild and Fresh Modern Quilts.

A group I just recently was invited to join is Quilt as Desired. Their focus is on machine quilting so I was all over that one!

And of course, everyone and their buddy is jumping on the Scrappy Trip Along bandwagon, so that’s another fun one to check out.

These few groups are like just a drop in the bucket compared the hundreds of different quilt and sewing related sites, and the thousands of groups available on flickr. So browse around, have fun, and don’t forget to come back and tell me any other fun groups I should join!