Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop - Week Three Giveaway!

We're heading into week three in the Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop!  The first two weeks were so much fun and if you are just joining us, it's definitely worth checking out the previous blog hop stops.  This week is going to be super exciting too.  You'll hear more about what people think of the book and also get a chance to see more terrific projects using the Crafted Appliqué method.  It's really thrilling to see how many of you are trying it out and then letting your own creativity fly with new ideas!

The blog hop calendar is shown at the end of this post.  All the blog titles are live links, which I will keep updating as participants post their reviews.  You'll have a chance to win a free copy of "Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities" at every stop!  Plus, today here on BuzzinBumble I'm holding another brand new giveaway.  (More on that in just a minute.)

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Folk Art Christmas

But first, it's time to show you another one of the book projects.  This one is called "Folk Art Christmas" and it is a small wall quilt with a tree fashioned with two lovebirds, pomegranates, leaves and berries.  Want to hear something funny?  I drew the two birds way back when I was in high school and happened to save the sketch all those years.

"Folk Art Christmas" by Lara & Alina Buccella
Quilted by Valerie Smith

This pattern reflects my love of many different traditional folk arts.  I designed it as a way to put the Crafted Appliqué technique fully to the test.  It passed with flying colors: All those little stems and berries... all those curvy shapes and fine cut outs... and No Fraying!  (If you click on the close up picture below, you'll be able to see for yourself.)  

In addition, our daughter Alina was home visiting and I asked her to test out how difficult this would be for a newbie to sew this pattern.  She had sewn straight seams, but had never sewn on an applique or tried to follow curved edges before.  Well she rose to the challenge and by sewing slowly and carefully, she completed the whole lower half of the quilt in one sitting. Way to go Beana! 

My friend Valerie Smith, aka Pumpkin Patch Quilter quilted "Folk Art Christmas" for me with the tiniest McTavishing style quilting.  It's next to miraculous!  I met Valerie through The Quilting Board, when she posted there about her gorgeous Heirloom Christmas Stockings.  This is the best photo I have to show off Valerie's quilting.  Her fabulous quilting made the appliques appear as if they were trapunto and it brought the whole quilt to life! 

Close Up - Lit to show off Valerie's quilting

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Kona Cotton Solids Color Card Giveaway

One of the best things about quilting is getting to play with fabrics and color.  Appliqué quilting, in particular, gives you the opportunity to get creative with fabric almost as if you are using a paint box full of color.  So week three's giveaway is a Kona Cotton Solids Color Card - with swatches of 303 beautiful colors from Robert Kaufman Fabrics.   

1.  To enter for a chance to win a color card, simply leave a comment on this post.  Just for fun, tell us when you made your first quilt.   Did someone finagle you into trying it, like I did to Alina?

 
2.  BuzzinBumble followers, both new and old, can have a second chance to win by leaving a second comment and letting me know how they follow me.  (If we already chat back and forth a lot and you follow me, just say "Hi Lara!" in your second comment... I don't want to make you jump through more hoops.) 

Everyone is welcome to enter the giveaway contest and I'm willing to ship internationally.

All the giveaways here on BuzzinBumble will run right up until the end of the Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop.  Winners will be randomly drawn on June 4th and I'll announcing the winners during the final post of the hop on June 5th.  If you'd like to see the first two giveaway contests, there is still time to enter!

Just check here:

Week One - Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop - Giveaways Galore!

and here:
Week Two - Sew Mama Sew Free Pattern, Sun Print Bundle & Crafted Appliqué Giveaway  

Please - If you are a no-reply blogger, remember to leave your e-mail address so that I will have a way to contact you if you win. 

And now... without further ado:  Here is the calendar with all the fabulous Blog Hop Participants!

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Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop
May 1^st to June 5^th 2016

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1 Lara Buccella BuzzinBumble   Introduce Tour	2 Valerie Smith Pumpkin Patch Quilter	3 Dana Gaffney Stormy Days	4 Lorna McMahon Sew Fresh Quilts	5 Mary Schuberg Needled Mom	6 Heidi Kuntz Red Letter Quilts	7 Alycia Carmin Alycia Quilts
8 Amy DeCesare Amy Made That	9 Sherri McConnell A Quilting Life	10 Lara Buccella Sew Mama Sew Guest Post	11 Christina Cameli A Few Scraps	12 Melissa Corry Happy Quilting	13 Sarah Craig Confessions of a Fabric Addict	14 Soma Acharya Whims & Fancies
15 Valerie Reynolds Val’s Quilting Studio	16 Angela Pingel Cut to Pieces	17 Sandra Walker Musings of a Menopausal Melon	18 Cheryl Brickey Meadow Mist Designs	19 Judy Murphy Quilt Paradigm	20 Yvonne Fuchs Quilting Jetgirl	21 Cindy Pieters Stitchin’ at Home
22 Susie Zlogar Susie’s Sunroom	23 Connie Campbell Freemotion by the River	24 Ruth Bourke Charly & Ben’s Crafty Corner	25 Kaja Zieslar Sew Slowly	26 Ann Brooks Fret Not Yourself	27 Cynthia Brunz Quilting is More Fun Than Housework	28 Holiday
29 Holiday	30 Holiday	31 Jenn Trott-Zisserson Quarter Inch from the Edge	1 Paulette Horn The Way I Sew It	2 Sandra Jansen Studio Sew of Course	3 Christine Sherman Triangles & Squares	4 Quilt Shop Gal
5 Lara Buccella BuzzinBumble Giveaway Winners Announced!

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Sew Mama Sew Free Pattern, Sun Print Bundle & Crafted Appliqué Giveaway

If you are visiting from Sew Mama Sew, then "Hello there and Welcome!" I hope you enjoy your visit to BuzzinBumble and take a little extra time to look around and say 'Hi!".  If you are one of my regular blogging friends, well then you already know... "I'm always happy to see you!" 

Today I'm sharing a free pattern and tutorial that I created for my very first guest post at Sew Mama Sew!  I'm bursting with excitement!  I designed an appliqué pattern for a retro 1950's style telephone and then stitched up a half dozen of them in modern Alison Glass fabrics.  My telephones are fun on their own and have a bit of a pop art look when grouped together.
  
So, if you haven't already, hop over to Sew Mama Sew to check out my "Call Me Maybe" pattern and mug rug tutorial.  Beth also wrote a post to introduce me to SMS readers.  Then be sure to come back here and leave a comment (or two) to enter for a chance to win one of two fun giveaways!  

My telephones were sewn using my new "Crafted Appliqué" fray-free sewing method.  You can click on the photo to enlarge it and get a better look at the appliqués. Tricky shapes, like that thin phone cord and the dial are a breeze to cut and sew, because unlike when you work with other raw edge appliqué methods, they won't fray or fall apart.  

The "Call Me, Maybe" telephone appliqué pattern could be used on other projects too.  For instance, one of these telephones would be a lot of fun sewn onto a bag or a pillow.  If you make one it would be great if you shared it on social media with the hashtags #sewmamasew and #craftedapplique, because we would love to see it! 

Just in case you aren't familiar with Sew Mama Sew - It is a website run by Kristin Link and Beth Wilson.  They have curated and built the greatest collection of sewing tutorials, patterns, videos and business ideas out there!  Beth and Kristin are two of the nicest people too and if you think you might like to become a guest contributor, check out this page: Become a Sew Mama Sew Contributor.  They are also pretty famous for their annual linky party Giveaway Day, now held in November, which is a great opportunity to find new blogs and meet new friends!  

Thank you Kristin and Beth for having me on as a guest contributor today! 

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Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop

Right now we are in the midst of a month long Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop, celebrating the release of my book with the American Quilter's Society.  To meet some amazing bloggers, learn more about the book, see some wonderful projects, and enter more giveaways, I encourage you to visit the participants!  You can find the Blog Hop calendar at the end of this post.

You can also read more about the Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop here:
Week One Giveaways Galore!
and here:
Week Two - More Giveaways!  

All of the BuzzinBumble blog hop giveaways run until June 4th, so it's not too late to enter any of them.
   

Two New Giveaways!

Starting on Week Two of the blog hop, I am giving away two great prizes to two lucky winners! 

The first prize is a signed copy of my book Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities.

Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities

Photo Courtesy of Llama Fabrics

And the second prize is a fat eighth bundle of all 27 Alison Glass Sun Prints 2016, which I found on Etsy at Llama Fabrics - a great fabric shop with great prices!  These are the fabrics I used for my "Call Me Maybe" pattern and mug rug tutorial, set on backgrounds from Alison Glass' Abacus collection, also from Andover Fabrics.  Aren't they gorgeous?

The winners for both giveaways will be selected on June 4th with a random prize drawing. 

1.  To enter for a chance to win one of these prizes, please leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite color combination is.   

2.  BuzzinBumble followers, both new and old, can have a second chance to win by leaving a second comment and letting me know how they follow me.  (If we already chat back and forth a lot and you follow me, just say "Hi Lara!" in your second comment... I don't want to make you jump through more hoops.) 

Everyone is welcome to enter the giveaway contest and I'm willing to ship internationally.  I've met some of my best blogging buddies that way. :)

Please - If you are a no-reply blogger, remember to leave your e-mail address so that I will have a way to contact you if you win.

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Can't Wait?

What if you can't wait that long and would like your own copy of "Crafted Appliqué" now?  There is no need to wait to see if you win one of the book giveaways.  If you do win, but have already purchased the book, I will gladly reimburse the cost of the book instead.  In the meantime, you can purchase a signed copy here on BuzzinBumble, or buy one from the AQS shop, or through Amazon. (Amazon has been repeatedly selling out as soon as they restock the books!)

Below is the Blog Hop Schedule.  All the blog titles are live links, which I will keep updating as participants post their reviews.

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Crafted Appliqué: New Possibilities Blog Hop
May 1^st to June 5^th 2016

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1 Lara Buccella BuzzinBumble   Introduce Tour	2 Valerie Smith Pumpkin Patch Quilter	3 Dana Gaffney Stormy Days	4 Lorna McMahon Sew Fresh Quilts	5 Mary Schuberg Needled Mom	6 Heidi Kuntz Red Letter Quilts	7 Alycia Carmin Alycia Quilts
8 Amy DeCesare Amy Made That	9 Sherri McConnell A Quilting Life	10 Lara Buccella Sew Mama Sew Guest Post	11 Christina Cameli A Few Scraps	12 Melissa Corry Happy Quilting	13 Sarah Craig Confessions of a Fabric Addict	14 Soma Acharya Whims & Fancies
15 Valerie Reynolds Val’s Quilting Studio	16 Angela Pingel Cut to Pieces	17 Sandra Walker Musings of a Menopausal Melon	18 Cheryl Brickey Meadow Mist Designs	19 Judy Murphy Quilt Paradigm	20 Yvonne Fuchs Quilting Jetgirl	21 Cindy Pieters Stitchin’ at Home
22 Susie Zlogar Susie’s Sunroom	23 Connie Campbell Freemotion by the River	24 Ruth Bourke Charly & Ben’s Crafty Corner	25 Kaja Zieslar Sew Slowly	26 Ann Brooks Fret Not Yourself	27 Cynthia Brunz Quilting is More Fun Than Housework	28 Holiday
29 Holiday	30 Holiday	31 Jenn Trott-Zisserson Quarter Inch from the Edge	1 Paulette Horn The Way I Sew It	2 Sandra Jansen Studio Sew of Course	3 Christine Sherman Triangles & Squares	4 Quilt Shop Gal
5 Lara Buccella BuzzinBumble Giveaway Winners Announced!

Thanks for visiting, because...

You can click on the pup to leave a comment.  
Usually she will follow you home, but during giveaways please understand if I am unable to keep up with replying to comments.