Tidy Up Tuesday - Show Your Stripes Blog Hop - Mr. Random Speaks!!

Welcome to another edition of Tidy Up Tuesday!!  Last month, I participated in the Show Your Stripes Blog Hop hosted by Carla @ Creatin' In the Sticks.  This is my Hop Prize announcement.  DS1 pulled out his phone to employ the help of Mr. Random.

The winning comment was Number 13...

A scroll back the list revealed that our winner is:

grammajudybFebruary 24, 2021 at 10:08 AM

Your stripey pincushion is so cute. I like stripes a lot! Red and white, black and white, blue and orange, yellow and green. I can't decide, you pick! "grin"

Congratulations, Judy!!!

I notified Judy of her BIG win, via email:

You actually WON!!! Now, you have to decide what color you want. :P

FYI...

If you don't want/need another pin cushion, I can make a mug rug instead. 

Congratulations, Judy!!

The following conversation ensued...

Judy replied:

You can never have too many pincushions, can you.  I think a black and white would be fun! With or without a pop of color! 

Thanks so much!  That was unexpected. Do you need my address again or do you still have it?  

Again, thanks for the giveaway!

Judy

I responded with the following:

Black and white with or without a pop of color? OK. Got it!

I'm sure I have your address somewhere, but I couldn't find it when I looked just now.

Please send it along.

Thanks!

Joy

She sent her mailing address and that's when I warned her...

Thanks, Judy! I'll get this done as soon as I can. I'm not sure how long it will take, as it's a Challenge week for Project QUILTING and I have 3 client quilts in the house to finish.

This was Judy's gracious reply:

No hurry! No worries at all!

Would you believe that I got busy on her prize pin cushion???

The VERYNEXTDAY!!!

I thought that you might like some process pictures...

First, I pulled my favorite pin cushion book off the shelf:

I went in search of the appropriate scrap baskets and pulled

some of my favorite black and white prints, including a STRIPE

that I didn't end up using in my Hop project:

Piecing came next, but I didn't get a picture of that.  I had decided on the Tetrahedron

pattern, since I haven't tried making that shape before:

Stuffed with Batting scraps, crushed walnut shells, and fiber fill, Judy's new pin cushion is waiting to be stitched up:

Looking at it now, I probably should have turned it the other way around, as that black swirl fabric would have made a better base:

Here is the completed pin cushion (Speak up, now, if you hate it, Judy!), waiting for its trip to the post office:

Too bad I'm allergic to the post office!!  Days later...

I missed posting the above.  :o((

SEW...

I'm combining it with the receipt of the following.  :o))

The pin cushion went and this arrived:

Judy sent me this darling quilted card...

Thanks, Judy!  Do I spy one of the yellow scraps from my very own studio?!

... Along with a few kind words:

I'm SEW glad you like your new pin cushion, Judy!  I really enjoyed making it from some of the scraps in my collection.

Whooping it up with Sarah

@

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

and

Sharing with Cynthia

for

Oh Scrap!

After several days, I got this review from Judy:

I am still loving the pinnie you gifted me, I like that it’s got a little heft. I placed a bobbin over a big headed pin when I was hand sewing the binding to my bunny mini and it worked so well! It just fed smoothly as I rethreaded my needle. Thank you again!

Until next time...

Stripes for the WIN!!!