Giveaway for Clothworks' AMB Farm to Fabric Challenge!

Clothworks Presents

Farm to Fabric Challenge

This post is a challenge and a giveaway! American Made Brand has a great challenge going on and some lucky designers will have their quilts in the Houston Quilt Show!  Now this is a challenge worth taking.  Plus, it's for everybody who creates quilts from their own designs!

AMB wants to get the word out about its challenge, so they've asked several bloggers to spread the word and are offering this great tote as a giveaway prize .

You can help spread the word and have a chance to win this useful tote (without the veggies, of course).  Because time is running short, I'm going to ask you to blitz the internet: use whatever social media you have--Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, your blog, Flickr, LinkedIn, Reddit, StumbleUpon, 3rdRevolution, etc. You have three days, so hurry!  Entries close on July 30 at 5 p.m. Wednesday evening  I'll choose a winner.

Get out there and blitz, buzz, and bark! Now I need to know what you do, so come back to this post and leave a note. Every, yes every, time you write about this challenge you can come back and enter!  So if you share on Twitter, FB, and Flickr, you have three opportunities!  It's that easy.

Info from the Clothworks website.

The Particulars [or the rules]

• Any techniques may be used – piecing, applique’, embroidery, photo transfer, whole cloth or manipulated fabric, etc.
• You may submit at most two quilts for our consideration.  Quilts must be a minimum of 25” x 25” and must have hanging sleeves attached.
• Quilts must be made specifically for the challenge and must not have been published in books, calendars, magazines, newsletters, websites, blogs or any other form of publication prior to November 2014.
• Completed submissions with visuals must be received no later than Friday, August 15, 2014. 
• You will be notified no later than Friday, September 5, 2014, regarding quilts chosen to be included in this exhibit along with shipping instructions. 
• If selected, quilts will need to arrive in Houston no later than Wednesday, October 1, 2014.
• Quilts will be returned by the end of December 2014 if quilt does not travel, or arrangements made to have a quilt picked up at the conclusion of the show.
• If you agree to allow your quilt to travel, your quilt will be returned by the end of August 2015.
• Open to US residents.

Timeline Overview

Announcement and preview – March 2014
Registration open – June 15 to August 15, 2014
Notification by – September 5, 2014
Accepted quilts arrive in Houston by – October 1, 2014
Quilts returned to owner – December 2014, or August 2015 if traveling.

How to Enter

Registration is now open. The last day to register is August 15, 2014 until midnight CDT.

To preview the registration forms, click here.

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To submit your entry on-line, click this button to start: 

When you have completed your registration, be sure to print a copy of the confirmation page for your records.

A Surprise from 1978

Imagine my surprise this afternoon when I opened FaceBook to see this

 

Richard's cousin ran across this photograph and, thinking it was a picture of our oldest son, posted it to ask.  It is not Will, it's Richard and me, of course.  Richard's mom took this picture just before his graduation from Bunkie High in May of 1978.  How it ended up at Anna's house, I can only guess, but I'll assume that it was given to her mom and eventually passed to Anna.  

Anna is several years younger than we are, so while she probably was at the graduation party that was held over the weekend, she wouldn't remember much of it.  I think she was probably only about 10 or 11 when her cousin graduated and married....not very important events in her life.  

I was happy to answer her question and to "steal" the photo from Facebook.  It's now saved electronically on my computer.  I've gotten a few photos this way since FB came to be.  In fact, all the photos on this post were posted by someone else, but I now have a copy saved to my computer.
  

If you discover a picture you want to keep, you can do the same. First click on the photo: an enlarged version will popup. Right click on the popup photo, and then click on "save image as."  Next choose the folder where you want to save the picture. I rename my pictures before clicking save because it's easier to find pics with names than with a long string of numbers.  This method will work for Pinterest and Twitter, too.  This is one way of keeping copies of photos that you may want to revisit later or ensure that they are not lost.  You can also save a picture on a jump drive and take it to a photo center if you want hard copies.