Is anybody out there???

I have not had an email yet from even ONE of my winners....does nobody want their prize???

(Or have you emailed and my computer ate it or something???)

And the WINNERS are.......

The winner of the Fabric Pack & Pattern is Ros who left the following comment:

Hi Lynda
I am making scp quilts to give to needy causes (floods in victoria at the moment) and that pattern looks so easy and quick
Ros

30 January 2011 8:56 AM

I am extra pleased you have won Ros.....happy to help you provide a quilts for those who need a lift.


2nd, 3rd & 4th Prizes go to

Chookyblue

Dot

&

Ruth Who said this:

I have a Pom Pom du paris FQ set that its just waiting. I have been reading you and we are on the same boat my husband works away also, and its not much ME time, I also have trouble with weight, except I loose not gaing still a problem do, before he started working away five years ago I was on a size 8 almost 10, now I'm between 4 and 6 so I still think its not great. So even if it isn't a good thing at least we are kind of the same. Hugs: Ruth.

30 January 2011 7:31 AM

For those of you who missed out and have asked about purchasing a copy, you can find them here in my ebay store

ALLSORTS PATTERN

Congratulations to the 4 winners. Can I get you to please email me at lynda.bosworth@gmail.com with your snail mail address so I can post your prize.

The Draw is CLOSED......Stay tuned.

The draw is extended....

I am such a goose, I had in my head I had to draw the prizes on Sunday night..... D'oh.....what a ninny....just checked in and saw I SHOULD have done it last night....So I am keeping it open till Sunday night.......AAAHHHHhhhh

Happy New Year.....

....so I am a little late....LOL! I just cannot believe that we are already 3 weeks into 2011....Maybe coz the last 3 weeks have been a whirl wind...busy busy busy. I have been trying to set myself some better work habits while the kids are on holidays....HOPING that when they do go back the discipline will continue.

So what I have been doing?? Well I FINALLY finished my new pattern.....and to celebrate that and the new year.....LETS HAVE A GIVE AWAY........!!!! YAY!!!!



The Allsorts Quilt is made from 9 FQ's, can be cut in 15 min, and stitched up in just a couple of hours. Quilt it yourself and you can pretty much have it finished in a day. Finished size is 120cm (47") x 150cm (59")

I have 4 up for grabs! It is 10.30pm Friday 21st lets leave it open for a full 7 days. So leave a comment to enter the draw before 10.30pm Friday the 28th of Jan (A.D.S.T.)

Good luck......



PS I have decided to crank it up a bit....there will be 4 patterns BUT the first pattern will come with a lovely pack of 9 Robyn Pandolph FQ from the Somerset Cottage collection. (Pink,soft green & lemon)

http://www.robynpandolph.com/somerset.html

I'm back......

Well I would like to say that I will return to posting more regularly, but I have learned not to make promises I may not keep. BUT after bumping into Ramona AGAIN, and her questioning my lack of updates AGAIN. I thought I really should post an explanation of sorts.

Firstly my husband relocated to Tasmania for almost 4 months to work. He came back on the odd weekend, but I think over that 16 weeks he came home about 6 times. That of course left me in charge of EVERYTHING. Not a bad thing being the only grown up in the house, except when you have 4 teenage children & YOU are the only one with a license!! LOL I spent so much time in the car over that time.... especially once child 3 (no 2 son) got himself a girlfriend!! I was very very time poor!!

In general, Life has been challenging for me for the last couple of years, that is too a long a story to go into right now! (Come for a cuppa & I will tell you ALL about it) But anyway, anyway, ANYWAY! Over that time I have progressively put on more & more weight & in June this year I decided it was time to do something real about it! I have made half arsed attempts over the years & only gotten bigger. In fact I remember writing a self indulgent post on a quilting forum the day I saw 99.9kg on the scale. The thought of hitting triple figures threw me for a loop, but was still not the catalyst I needed to put a stop to it. I got bigger.... 10kg bigger in fact, topping the scales at 110kg on the knocker.

Thankfully I stumbled across a program by Michelle Bridges the female trainer on Australia's Biggest Loser. Called the 12 Week Body Transformation program it is an Online Exercise & nutrition info & most importantly it was affordable. With husband away it needed to be something that I could manage from home without adding gym visits or meetings or consultations into my already overloaded schedule. The program is run in 12 week blocks & I signed up 24 hours before the 2nd round for 2010 started. It has been without a doubt the best thing I have ever done. In the first 12 weeks, I lost 11.8kg which bought me back under 100kg. We are 6 weeks into Round 3 & I have lost 4.6kg so far. That gives me a grand total of 16.4kg lost! It might actually be more than that as tomorrow is weigh in day......eekkk! My goal for this round is to be under 90kg... I am closing in on that and feeling very confident of getting there.

Sooooo...why does that stop me from blogging.

1. I have started another blog to track my weight loss journal
2. The 12 Week Body Transformation website has a forum, I am there often contributing etc
3. I have joined Twitter to stay in touch with other participants around the country & the world
4. I am exercising up to hour every day.....

So most of that basically means, something had to give! It has been an almost all consuming process. The timing has been right for so many reasons and I owed it to myself just to run with it! With the kids so grown up & far more independant I am more able to work on me, as in I can go for a walk & leave them home for example. In fact my eldest daughter FINALLY got her license just last week and although she still lives at home, she is now pretty much independent of us. My son is in the middle of his VCE exams as I write this, so our family lives will change again over the next few weeks as he enters the next stage of his life.

Once I am closer to my goal, I expect to be back blogging more regularly, well probably about as often as I have in the past which at best would be called spasmodically!!! I already have more energy & hope that this will translate into an increased output! SO watch this space.....I am not far away.....


cheers

Time for a Sneak Peek....

My the year is flying by...it is just so hard to comprehend that we are almost at September. I know I have been absent from my blog, been feeling like I am spreading myself a bit thin lately. Although the blogging has fallen off a bit, I am still busy creating AND this was the first place I wanted to reveal a peek at my latest project.




As usual I am making 2 versions, mainly as I just cannot decide between fabrics. LOL it also helps to cement the process in my brain before I write the pattern. I am very excited about this one: so simple. ESPECIALLY the cutting. It takes 10 cuts if I am counting correctly! So a bit of ironing, sorting and cutting maybe 30-45 min and you are ready to stitch!!! Gotta love that!! watch this space for further previews.