GIVEAWAY...5 FAT Quarters AND a pattern!

Are...you...READY

 

No...I didn't mean for Christmas... I mean for today's

MYSTERY MONDAY

~ okee doke...lettuce geet started ~

So many times, it's a mystery to me how these wonderful

ladies come up with such cute quilty/crafty/FUN

patterns!

I was in one of my local quilt stores and found

this A-dorable leeeetle Elf pattern!

Isn't this soooo cute!  I went to the website on the back of

the pattern and saw LOTS of cute patterns! ...for many

different seasons.  They are all created by

Rosalie Ashby.

I thought it would be fun to do a giveaway of her

pattern and maybe see if I could find out a bit about her too!

 ~ Here are some fun things about Rosalie ~  

Question: When did you first learn to sew? quilt?
 ~~~My mother has always been a seamstress and made me clothes and dresses growing up. I had never had a store bought dress until I bought one myself after I graduated from college and had a job. She is not a quilter though. But her mother (my grandma) was quite a quilter. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting under quilts my grandma had up on frames hand quilting them while she watched "Family Feud" and "All My Children". So I have always been around "sewing" projects growing up. My mom taught me some and I took a sewing class in High School. My grandma died when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade so unfortunately I didn't have the privilege of learning any quilting from her. But she did leave a quilt or unfinished quilt top for each of her grandchildren. My first experience with quilting was trying to finish the quilt top I had inherited from her.

  Probably about ten years ago one of my mother's friends helped me and taught me the basics of quilting to finish it. I did get it all pieced together, yet, it sits in a storage bin waiting to be quilted. :) Other than that, pretty much all of my quilting knowledge has been self taught through trial and error. I have always had an infatuation with fabric. I go in quilt stores and rack my brain with ideas of what I could do with fabric.

Question:  What inspired you to create your first pattern to sell? 

 I actually started by selling embroidery patterns.  I guess you could say it was out of necessity.  When the economy went south so did my husband's job.  I felt like I needed to do something to help and through divine inspiration the thought came to me to use my talents.  I have always loved fabric and would see quilts and wonder how on earth people pieced those things together.  I bought a couple of simple little quilting patterns and made them and decided I wanted to figure out how I could get my own ideas made into fabric.  So with a lot of doodleing and lots of old scrap fabric and lots of mistakes and redos my quilting patterns were born.

Question:  How do you go about printing the pattern and getting it ready for retail? 

Well, I have an idea come to me.  I sketch it out to see what I come up with.  Then I get a really large piece of paper and draw the whole thing out (just like it will be with fabric) and that is how I figure out the dimensions and sizes of the fabric pieces..  Then following my drawing I make it out of fabric trying to write my instructions as I go along.  Then I usually end up making it again following my written instructions to make sure it is right.

Rosalie's sewing room 

Question:  What other things do you like to do? 

I like to scrapbook (which usually I only get around to doing once a year or so, I am quite behind).  I love to find good deals at stores and coupon shop (this I inherited from my mother).  I like to take my kids for walks in the summer and spend time with my family. I just like to be crafty and create things.

Another one of Rosalie's cute patterns!

Countdown To Christmas

You can check out Rosalie's other patterns

by going to her blog...and do a bit of scrolling down

to find them all.

Rosalie and her darling family...

I thank her for taking the time to answer questions

for this blog post!

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So for today's entry to

WIN

5 Fat Quarters

AND...

 One of Rosalie's Patterns

 Leave one comment here on my blog telling me

two things -

1) that you visited Rosalie's blog ...and,

2)  which of Rosalie's pattern you would like to win

*game closed Sat, Dec 17, midnight MT
**must be follower to win

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December 5th

MYSTERY MONDAY's SWEET

WINNER is....

Janet

in Yukon Territory, Canada