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Sign up by 3 pm MST on Monday, November 16–leave a comment here that you’ve signed up (or that you already get it)–and I’ll pick 2 random winners to receive a copy of 100 Blocks.

Congratulations to #9 Sandra and #13 Nancy.

I like making up the rules as the blog tour progresses!

So far today, as I’ve been reading the comments, no one has used my first “secret word of the day” which was PURPLE. And no one used my second “secret word of the day” which was BATIK.

I did find 6 commenters who have used a form of my third “secret word of the day”: SCRAP! Each of the following people wins a copy of 100 Blocks. (All dates and times are MST and, now that the secret word of the day has been revealed, using it won’t result in more surprise winners.)

Commenting on 100 Blocks Giveaway: Snow Shoo:

• Freddie, #3 at 3:48 am
• Lynne, #4 at 4:26 am
• Mary Flynn, #12 at 6:08 am
• SewLindaAnn, #22 at 8:27 am
• Lisa N, #24 at 8:40 am

Commenting on 100 Blocks: Roundabout

• Helen in the UK, #75 at 4:00 am

Congratulations all!

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BONUS: If you subscribe or renew by 3 pm MST, Monday, November 16, leave a comment here and I’ll pick 3 random new or renewed subscribers to win a copy of 100 Blocks.

Welcome to our new subscribers! These special offers will still be good for a while. The winners of a copy of 100 Blocks are:

• Christine, #7
• Jocelyn, #2
• Ray, #1

Congratulations!

Welcome back to the 100 Blocks Blog Tour! Pick up your copy of 100 Blocks at your local quilt shop, bookstore or here.

Today we have another list of great designers for you. Click on the links to visit their blogs or websites and have chances to win lots of great prizes.

You could win this block by Terri Degenkolb!

Come back tomorrow for a chance to win our Big Bundle Giveaway with lots of contributions from designers, fabric companies and publishers.

You could win these titles from Martingale!

Be sure to scroll down each day to see all of our active giveaways. Just leave a comment as instructed in each post. (There are some still active that have moved off the first page.)

You could win these fat quarters from Windham Fabrics!

Today’s Featured Designers:

1. Dodi Lee Poulsen: squirrelhollowgals.blogspot.com
2. Heidi Pridemore: heidipridemore.blogspot.com
3. Jane Quinn: quiltinginthecountry.com
4. Camille Roskelley: camilleroskelley.typepad.com
5. Kathy Schmitz: kathyschmitzstudio.blogspot.com
6. Terri Degenkolb: whimsicals.typepad.com
7. Elizabeth Scott: the-latebloomer.blogspot.com
8. Wendy Sheppard: ivoryspring.wordpress.com
9. Laurie Simpson: minickandsimpson.blogspot.com
10. Karen Brow: javahousequilts.com
11. Eleanor Burns: Quilt in a Day: Chit Chat (registration required)

Also participating today are our fabric friends at Windham Fabrics.

You could win this embroidered block by Kathy Schmitz!

Other ways to win:

Win an actual block made by its designer! Find the entry form here.

Scroll down to see more posts and all our active giveaways.

Visit on Friday to enter the Big Bundle Giveaway!

You could win this block by Karen Brow!

Remember, tomorrow is the Big Bundle Giveaway, and you need to leave a comment on that post to be entered into that drawing! Good Luck!

The name for my block, Snow Shoo, was inspired by two things. The fabrics have a ’snow’ theme, and the basic grid is  similar to the traditional shoofly block.

If you’ve been following our blog for a while, this block might look a little familiar. I designed it to show off fabrics I designed and had printed on Spoonflower, and blogged about it back in July. It’s a fun and quick block to piece, so when it came time to make my block for this special issue, I decided to use the same design.

Several of the blocks in this issue use fabrics from a single line by one manufacturer. Snow Shoo uses the Snow Days line by Mary Jo Tuttle for Connecting Threads. When you pick fabrics for a quilt, do you try to choose fabrics that you know will ‘go together’ because they were designed in the same line, or do you like to mix colors and styles from a variety of manufacturers? I’ll pick someone at random from the comments after 10 am MST on Friday morning 11/13 to win a 100 blocks issue.

And the winner is: #23, Wendy. Congratulations! Wendy will receive a copy of our 100 Blocks issue.

I can tell from your comments that many of you visiting our blog tour this week are EQ users. Do you know about the QM-EQ Design Contest? There’s a post here with info and you’ll find the entry form and official rules here.

Jenny at EQ made a sample to show a virtual quilt with virtual quilting:

QM-EQ Contest Sample: Quilting Designs from Vol. 3

Start designing–we might be making your design in a quilt! The Grand Prize includes Quiltmaker making the winning design into a quilt that the winner will get to keep. Entries are due by 10 pm MST on 12/1/09. You can use any combination of quilting designs from any of the seven volumes of Quilting Designs.

Tell me by 3 pm MST Friday, Nov. 13 if you use EQ to create your own quilts. (And, yes I’ll give away another copy of 100 Blocks to a random commenter.)

Congratulations to Norma #2 who wins a copy of 100 Blocks. Now, for all of you who design with EQ, I want to see your submissions into this design contest!

Since today is 11/11, I’ve been watching for comments this morning and no comments came in at exactly 11:11 am, so I picked the comment before and after, both are on Carolyn’s 100 Blocks: Roundabout post.

1. DianeY commented at 11:06 am
2. quiltgranny commented at 11:17 am

You’ll each receive one book (randomly as I fill the envelopes) from one of the 100 Blocks authors and a copy of 100 Blocks! (I’ve emailed both winners already.)

The books are:

• Fat-Quarter Quilting by Lori Smith
• Gorgeous Quilts for Gracious Living by Sonja Moen and Vicki Lynn Oehlke

Congratulations.

Recently our Facebook Fan page disappeared from Facebook. We don’t know what happened to it. We have a new Facebook Fan page set up, and we want all of our fans back. Become a fan of Quiltmaker this week, and I’ll randomly draw 5 fans on Monday 11/16 to win a copy of our new 100 Blocks from Today’s Top Designers.

update: become a fan by 12 noon MST on Monday for a chance to win.

The five winners are: Susan Brooks, Connie Makl, Janet Kopecky, Robert Taylor and Della Cornell. Congratulations to all of you.

It’s been so interesting to click on the links each day of our 100 Blocks Blog Tour. I have added lots of new blogs to my Google Reader. If you’re just joining, each day we’ll list about a dozen blogs of designers who contributed to this great new issue, available at your local quilt shop, on newsstands and here.

By clicking on the links in the list below, you might win a free copy of the issue along with finding lots more quilty goodness. Be sure to poke around the daily posts here as well for surprise giveaways, ideas and inspiration. And we keep posting throughout the day.

You could win this block by Celine Perkins!

Today’s Featured Designers

1. Laura West Kong: blog.laurawestkong.com
2. Sue Marsh: wpcreek.blogspot.com
3. Diane McClun and Laura Nownes: dianaandlaura.blogspot.com
4. Bonnie Olaveson: cottonway.blogspot.com
5. Maria Peagler: quiltsandcreativity.com
6. Pearl Pereira: p3designs.com
7. Celine Perkins: perkinsdrygoods.com/blog
8. Julie Pieri: quiltedpleasures.blogspot.com
9. Joni Pike: amazon.com/Joni-Pike
10. Jackie Robinson: animasquiltsblog.com
11. Paula Barnes: bonniebluequilts.wordpress.com
12. Beth Hayes, Kathy Patterson, Laura Roberts: mccallsquilting.com/blogs

[Day #3 Update: Watch for a 100 Blocks giveaway on Twitter from Hoffman Fabrics at twitter.com/HoffmanFabrics ]

You could win this block by Laura Nownes!

Quilt-related businesses taking part today:

Krissy Benner of Stash Quilting Company
Do check out Krissy’s great invention, shown at the center of page 66 in 100 Blocks. Definitely part of the Big Bundle Giveaway! See Friday’s post for details.

In case you haven’t heard, we are giving away all 100 blocks, too! One hundred lucky winners will each win a block. Find the entry form here.

Come back tomorrow for another list of great blogs and today’s winners plus even more giveaways. The Big Bundle Giveaway pile is growing, too; you’ll want to read Friday’s post and leave a comment to enter.

You could win this block by Julie Pieri!

No matter what your favorite technique is, 100 Blocks has you covered!

Designing blocks has been a passion of mine for a long time  so, of course, I was excited to design a block for this special issue. I have always been drawn to the Log Cabin and Roundabout is based on a Log Cabin variation. To add some interest to the block, I decided to piece the colored “logs” from 1″ squares. When the sections are sewn together, it looks like there are two different blocks that alternate.

Roundabout

My original thought when I designed this block was that it would look nice sewn in a straight setting.

I used EQ6 to draw the quilt in a straight set.

Roundabout straight set

 

Diagonal Set

Diagonal set with black background

 

I know which one is my favorite. Leave me a comment letting me know which one you like, and I’ll randomly select one person Thursday around 10 to receive a copy of our 100 Blocks from Today’s Top Designers.

It was a revelation to me when I started coloring this design in EQ. When I designed this block, I was drawn to the combination of 30s prints on a white background that I had seen in a different quilt. That’s what I had in mind for this block. And I still like that combination. But when I decided to color the background black, I realized how much it made the design pop. In case you’re wondering, my favorite is the diagonal set on black—it seems like a lot of you agree. A couple people commented that they would like to see partial blocks in the triangles around the edges. I also tried that in EQ and it did look nice, but I decided to just post the diagonal sets with plain setting triangles to “float” the design.

And, now for the winner: #17, Jane. Congratulations! Jane will receive a copy of our 100 Blocks issue.