Sweet Home Quilt Along Giveaway Week 4
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.
Recent #SweetHomeQAL posts in the Instagram hashtag pool
Is your Instagram post featured in this #SweetHomeQAL hashtag pool snapshot for this week???
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 Hobbs Batting!
Hobbs Quilt Batting has manufactured high-quality batting for hobbyist, commercial, art and show quilters since 1978. They're proud to come from a family of quilters and are committed to providing the same quality Hobbs batting that provide to their own family of quilters. At Hobbs Batting, they never forget that quilts are gifts from the heart - an expression of love, commitment and caring for a specific recipient - or an expression of artistry and skill- artistry and that's submitted and judged in quilt shows and events around the word - or both! At Hobbs they're committed to doing their part to enhance our #JoyofQuilting!
Hobbsbatting.com * Blog * Instagram * Facebook * We hope you visiting Hobbs Quilt Batting!
For this week's Sweet Home QAL Giveaway, Hobbs Batting is offering two lucky winners a Hobbs Tuscany Silk blend batting that measures 72” x 96” (twin size) in the size needed for the Sweet Home quilt. International entries are welcome for this giveaway and winners outside the US will only pay the difference in postage between domestic and international shipping.
Hobbs Tuscany Collection Silk Batting photo courtesy of Hobbs Batting
This is my personal favorite choice for batting. Hobbs Tuscany Silk Batting is soft and supple, quilts magnificently by hand or machine, and drapes like no other batting. The luxurious feel and lightweight nature of this batting is ideal for both quilts and garments.
Hobbs Tuscany Silk Batting breathes naturally, making it an excellent choice for airy, lightweight quilts and coverlets, and while it’s a ‘cool’ quilt, it can also provide excellent warmth.
Hobbs Tuscany Silk Batting is a blend of 90% very fine imported silk filaments and 10% fine polyester, ingredients which are carded and bonded to help retard bearding and fiber migration.
The quilt in the photo above has Hobbs Tuscany Silk inside and it gives lovely definition to the machine quilting. The long arm quilting for my Vista quilt was done by Brooke Becker of Lady Belle Fabric. I’m also using Tuscany Silk Batting in my Sweet Home quilt for this quilt along.
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. Two winners will be drawn from the growing hashtag pool on Monday, October 5th around 4 pm Eastern and the winners will be tagged and notified on Instagram on the original giveaway post.
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.
Next Wednesday for week 5, we’ll talk about sandwiching your top, batting, and backing, quilting, and binding.
—Happy sewing
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