My friend Adria, who got me into quilting, is having a reallllllly awesome sale right now on her quilts. She makes the most gorgeous modern quilts and has the BEST taste in fabric (I learned from the best!)  She just finished a custom robot quilt for a little boy named Jack.  She taught me most of my skills, so I thought I’d show some love.

Anyway, check the sale out. Tell her chimes sent you and she MIGHT give you an even better deal!

<3

Calee

Hey all!

I’m going to be moving soon, and would like to move my inventory from my todiyfor etsy store. SO, I’ve decided to have a crazy sale!  If you mention this blog post or my tweet in a convo, I’ll even give you free shipping.

Here’s all the items I have on sale …

Off the Shoulder Korn Shirt — $10

Murderdolls Tiered Ruffle Skirt — $10

Music As a Weapon Off Shoulder Shirt — $10

Slipknot Iowa Zippered Lace Shirt — $25

Michael Jackson Beat It Necklace — $10

Deconstructed Heavy Metal Punk Quilt — $40

I’m pretty excited about this sale!

I’ve been working through my fabric scraps and I came across the Heather Ross Mendocino scraps that Adria had given me a while back.  She had leftovers after making a really cool mendocino quilt.

Here are a few of my favorite ones … They’re 5″x6″

I’m going to add 5-6″ of white fabric around each block to make it look like they’re floating and make a larger quilt out of these.  So excited! 

If you want to see all the blocks, I’ve got them posted on Flickr.

One of my favorite blogs, a la mode fabric, just turned one. She’s having a fabric giveaway of absolutely adorable fabrics (what else would you expect?).

My favorite, of course, being the blush mendocino set.

Anyway, go here for details! Contest ends February 28.

I feel as if I may be neglecting my blog lately. Life has been busy and some surprises have recently caught me off guard.

However, I’m feeling kind of sassy today, so I’m announcing a Post-Labor Day Sale. Right now it encompasses one item: my hard rock quilt.

POST-LABOR DAY SALE Deconstructed Heavy Metal, Rock and Punk T Shirt quilt FREE SHIPPING

POST-LABOR DAY SALE Regular price: $125 Sale Price: $85 ——- This hardcore punky quilt is made from a collection of rock, punk and metal t-shirts. It’s embellished with fabric paint and embroidery. A deconstructivist approach was used to create this unique piece of art. T-shirts include: Slipknot Korn Static-X CGBG Lynyrd Skynyrd The Misfits … and many more Quilt measures 45×45 inches and the batting is warm and natural. The quilting is a traditional pattern and is in a slate grey thread. The binding is slate grey with a black backing. Fabric (aside from t-shirts) is 100% cotton. T-shirts are vintage and well-loved.

Not the kind of lottery that involves money, unfortunately, but still awesome all the same!

I recently participated in FatQuarterShop.com’s Jolly Jabber Block Lottery (see my entry here)… and I won!  I get 1/3 of the blocks sent in.

Here’s my bounty of blocks (you can only see the top one):

Not sure what I’m going to do with them but I’m sure I’ll come up with something crafty (probably not something approved by the makers of the blocks, but still).

ALSO — on the same day I won Iowa Girl Eats’s Pure Bar Giveaway.  That means I get to try 4 flavors of Pure bars for free. How cool is that?  I think it’s pretty cool.

Wow. Lucky day, eh?

A while back I was going to participate in a charm pack swap on craftster, but didn’t realize that I had to complete a swap before I can do two at a time … and I really wanted to rock the metal swap (which I blogged about earlier in the summer).

Anywho, I bought a buttload of fabric and made a bunch of charm packs to send out.  I decided today to make a quilt top (I have a 2nd one in the works) out of the charm packs I’d put together.

Enjoy!  There’s some Amy Butler, Michael Miller, Kaffe Fassett and MUCH more. 

I think I’m going to do an oatmeal/cream backing and do a pink polkadot border (from the Wonderland fabric set). I’m wanting to do an all-over stitching pattern with either stippling or some sort of floral.

I haven’t mustered up the courage to do the quilting myself, so I’ll be sending this off to a quilting lady to work her magic.

I recently marked down a LOT of items on my etsy shop for an Independence Day Sale.  I decided to extend the sale into a summer sale.

As always, shipping to Des Moines and Ames is free.  Just contact me before buying so I can adjust the shipping price and arrange a drop-off/pickup.

Here are the items I’ve got on sale:

Wonderland by MoMo Charm Lap Quilt

Regular price: $150
Sale Price: $100
1 Available

Lotsa Hearts Handbag

Regular price: $18
Sale Price: $10
1 Available

White Fiestaware Musical Flowers Cup and Saucer

Regular price: $15
Sale Price: $10
1 set Available

Birdies and Coffee Cup

Regular price: $8
Sale Price: $5
5 Available

Vintage Flower Fiesta Bowl (turf green or gold)

Regular price: $10
Sale Price: $7
2 Available (one green, one gold)

Tea Time with Gram Cup and Saucer Set

Regular price: $15
Sale Price: $10
1 Set Available

Birdies and Coffee on Vintage Lime Green Pyrex Cup and Saucer

Regular price: $15
Sale Price: $10
2 Sets Available

Custom Etsy Banner and Avatar

Regular price: $15
Sale Price: $10
5 custom designs Available (below are examples of banners I’ve done)

You can e-mail me at calee@chimesdesign.com or PM me on twitter (@chimes) OR convo me on etsy if you’ve got questions, concerns or special requests.

ALSO — heads up!  I’ll be doing Market Day in Des Moines on July 25th and will be having a special that day ONLY at Market Day.  All dishes will be buy one, get one half off.  I may be cooking up some more specials, and even a raffle or giveaway… STAY TUNED!

In honor of the 3-day weekend and of our forefathers… I’m having an Etsy sale! As always, shipping to Des Moines and Ames is free, just contact me beforehand to arrange a pickup/dropoff.

Feel free to share this around!

Here are items that are on sale:
Wonderland Quilt

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27132485

Lotsa Hearts Bag

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26505809

Flowers and Music White Fiestaware Cup/Saucer

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25808834

Birdies and Coffee Cup

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25807559

Flower Fiesta Bowls

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25796749

Tea Time with Gram Cup and Saucer

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25796541

Birdies and Coffee Cup and Saucer

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25796407

Custom Etsy Banner/Avatar

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22289621

Not really, but I always feel special when something I do ends up on somebody else’s blog.

A while back I blogged about a block I sent in to the Jolly Jabber Block Lottery.  I sent it in a while back. Today I was catching up on all my blogs in Google Reader after the weekend in Chicago (which I’ll blog about later once I get photos from my girlies).  I got to FatQuarterShop.com’s Jolly Jabber Blog and saw my name was mentioned! They were updating on the block lottery and picked a few blocks that had been sent in so far.  I’m not sure if they only had a few to choose from so mine was chosen or if they just really liked it…either way, I was kind of excited!

(here’s the block for reference)

Okay…so I found the group on flickr. They don’t have a lot just yet, but mine is clearly one of the cooler ones.

Check out the original blog post on FatQuarterShop.

Did I mention I sent in my first official block?  I’ve only made quilt tops out of non-block patterns before. I’m currently working on a quilt for my sister with this block pattern (different fabrics though).