Sweet Home Quilt Along Giveaway Week 2
Each Friday, throughout the Sweet Home Quilt Along, there’ll be a Giveaway. Your QAL hosts, Maureen Cracknell , Jennifer Jones, and myself have coordinated special giveaway prizes with our amazing participating sponsors for each and every week! If you've happened to miss the first Sweet Home QAL post, take a look back and read about it HERE then follow the posts in chronological order until you get caught up.
These Friday blog posts will highlight the Sponsor and awesome giveaway prize offered for this week’s QAL giveaway. The randomly drawn winners will be selected from the growing Instagram hashtag pool the following Monday around 4 pm Eastern with the winner(s) announced on Instagram.
Top #SweetHomeQAL posts in the Instagram hashtag pool
Is your Instagram post featured in this #SweetHomeQAL hashtag pool snapshot???
We’re using Instagram as a Sweet Home QAL community share spot where we can follow along and comment on each others quilt progress and share beautiful photos of our work.
Every time you share a post to your public instagram account and use the official #SweetHomeQAL hashtag in your post caption your post is automatically entered into the giveaway hashtag pool! That’s right—it’s as easy as that—just do what you’d do anyway! So, to up your chances, post a lot of of progress shots of your fabric pull, cut pieces, blocks, sashing, assembly, tops, and ultimately, finished quilts.
You may notice I keep saying you need a public Instagram account to be entered into the giveaway drawings. That’s because if you have your IG account set as a private account, Instagram does not add any hashtags to hashtag pools from private accounts—it’s just the way they roll. So, you may want to go into your IG settings and turn your account to public for the QAL or if not, and I totally get the need for privacy in this strange world we live in, just know that you won’t be eligible for the giveaways.
SWEET HOME QAL SPONSORS
TODAY'S FEATURED SWEET HOME QAL SPONSOR IS Chenille-It!
If you can dream it you can Chenille-it is the tag line for this innovative notions company run by owner/designer/artist Nannette Holmberg. Chenille-it Blooming bias let’s your create a faux chenille finish to all your sewing projects with easy-to-use bias tape. Stitch it, wash it, and you're done—it’s really that simple!
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We’re so pleased to have Chenille-It as a Sweet Home QAL sponsor and Nannette is giving away three (3) $25 e-gift cards to three lucky winners to use in the Chenille-it shop. You can use the e-gift card toward purchase of any of the wonderful items in their shop like: patterns, kits, fabric, notions, or of course, toward faux chenille Blooming Bias—all available on their site!
I personally love the Chenille-It Blooming Bias tape and have used it on several pillow projects and as the binding for my first two Sweet Home quilts made in earlier this spring.
I’m planning to use faux chenille binding again for the Sweet Home QAL quilt and have a roll of 5/8’’-wide Cinnamon binding all ready for that finishing touch. Don’t worry, I’ll be going over exactly how to attach this type of binding to your quilt on week 5. But for those of you that like to work ahead, I’ve already a Faux Chenille Binding video prepared for the easy steps needed to achieve this cool look.
Don’t forget to share your Sweet Home quilt makes with your fellow quilt along makers over on Instagram and you’ll automatically be entered into this week’s drawing if you have a public IG account. Three lucky winners will be drawn from the growing hashtag pool on Monday, September 21st around 4 pm Eastern and the winners will be tagged and notified on Instagram.
Be sure to follow along on all three host’s blogs as well as our Instagram accounts: Me @sharonhollanddesigns , Maureen @maureencracknell , and Jennifer @penelopehandmade
I also want to let you know that during the QAL Jennifer and I plan to have impromptu IGTV live videos to give you tips and tricks for sewing your Sweet Home Quilt.
Work on gathering your fabrics and cutting out all the pieces so next Wednesday we can start piecing the Bungalow blocks! Be watching my Instagram feed on Monday or Tuesday for LIVE video demonstrations on how to assemble Bungalow Blocks. Don’t worry if you miss the LIVE broadcasts as you can always access the recorded video anytime in my IGTV channel.
—Happy sewing