Primitive Quilts and Projects

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Photos of the Printing in Michigan (Lucky Jeni!)

Jeni is at the Quad Graphics print facility in Midland, Michigan. Her husband Glen drove her up there. They stopped at quilt shops along the way, and are having a wonderful mini-vacation.

I know we refer to our dear West Virginia as "Almost Heaven," but today Jeni would probably say the same about Michigan. Every time she called me today it sounded as though she were holding back tears of joy, as she witnessed our sweet newborn magazine take its first breath as pages rolling off the presses.

Jeni with the first few pages

The Beezly Beary Mohair Bear Project

Front and back covers

Primitive Quilts and Projects magazine rolling off the press!

Thank you, QuadGraphics, for doing a wonderful job, and for showing Jeni and Glen such a nice time!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The New Magazine will Ship this Week!

After lots of fun, work, fun, editing, fun, proofing, fun, editing, fun, proofing, fun, editing, fun, proofing, and, did I mention fun?...we finally have a magazine. And we are so pleased with how it turned out.

Jeni drives up to the printing site in Michigan on Tuesday for a Wednesday press proof. She is so excited and we are so envious!

We will now get back to schedule with our weekly newsletter. Mom is writing an answer to a question as we e-speak!

Judy

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

First Things First

Before giving birth to our new magazine, I'd like to introduce you to my new (and first) grandchild, Julian Maxwell Williamson! He was born this morning at 3:00. Mommy, Daddy, and Baby are doing well.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Count-Down

Counting down and working a lot to finish this wonderful magazine. We're so excited. Ships to subscribers 3/31. We've put the newsletters and Block-of-Week on temporary hold while we wrap things up before deadlines.

Loving it!
Judy, Jeni, Gretchen

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

And the Winners Are.........

Here are my pets watching me (well Buster's watching; Boomie is snoozing) cut the list of names into little slips of paper for the drawing. I crumpled each piece and put them all in a big bowel along with a lucky penny.

Here are the winners:

ShabbySheep
Courtney who was sent to us by Kate at Primitive Woolens
Kate at Primitive Woolens
BillieBee (billiemick), sent to us by Linda at Stray Stitches
Linda at Stray Stitches
Jacque, sent to us by Joanne at Snippets and Scraps of Mind
Joanne at Snippets and Scraps of Mind

Please email us at homespunmedia@aol.com with your address and let us know which pattern you'd like for us to send to you! Congratulations!!!

Thank you to everyone for participating, for following, and for sending followers.

On a side note, you should see the photos of the projects. We picked up the proofs yesterday--NICE!

Thanks!
Judy, Jeni, and Gretchen

Monday, February 14, 2011

Valentine's Day to Presidents' Day Take-Your-Pick Giveaway!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We're giving away a handful of prizes.

We'd like some more followers. Beginning today and through next Monday (Presidents' Day) if you will refer some new followers to us, we'll put your name and the new followers' names in a hat for a prize drawing.

The prize? Take your pick of any Woolen Willow pattern.

For those of you who refer new followers: If we pick your name, you get to choose a pattern.
For the new followers: If we pick a new follower's name, the follower gets a prize, and the person who referred them gets a prize.
If we pick a new follower who joined us without being referred...you can pick a prize too!

We'll draw the winners around closing time on Monday, February 21.
We want to give away 5 or 6 patterns. We're keeping that number squishy because we won't know how many pairings (referrer and refer-ee) or singles (referrer only, or new follower who joined without being referred) we'll draw.

I hope that all made sense. Anyway, let's see how many new followers we get! Yay!

Judy