Gotta get GO!ing!!!

And the winner is..........Deborah in Atlanta! E-mail has been sent to her and package will be on it's way tomorrow!

Edit.....Because Blogger was unavailable for most of the last two days, I am extending the deadline to enter the little giveaway for Jacquelynne's charm pack and fat quarters. You have until noon Sunday to leave your name and e-mail contact. For those of you who signed up on Wednesday, while your comments were not restored when Blogger had problems, I did get them in my e-mail inbox and you are entered in the drawing! So, back to the post that I made on Wednesday...........

No, I am not going to Market. I am right here in my sewing room. Instead, it is time to get GO!ing and share how happy I am with the GO! Baby that I received from AccuQuilt a few weeks ago. I received it shortly before the DayTreat event that I hosted in April. It came in verrrrry handy!!! You'll see why in a minute. Once the DayTreat was over, though, holiday and family life became very busy behind the scenes of my blog and so I must apologize that it has taken me so long to share about this clever little gadget. Actually, it's more than a gadget. It's a super-gadget because it clearly makes cutting multiple shapes very easy to do and very accurate! As you may remember, I made a mug rug for everyone that attended my DayTreat. I made them from 5" charm squares and used my GO! Baby to make it happen!

The GO! Baby was much easier to use than I anticipated. I mean much easier!!! I am always intimidated by machinery. No need to have worried about that with the GO! Baby. You basically just take a piece of fabric that is slightly larger than the area you are going to cut..........

You place it over the foam covered die plate (in photo above) and then place the cutting mat over the top of that (in photo below) ......

Then you just turn the handle...............

and voila!!!! you have perfectly cut 5" charm squares!!!

The little bit of scraps that you see here are all that are left after the squares are cut. You can also see that I am placing the pieces on yellow card stock that eventually became the finished mug rugs.............

Each mug rug begins with the 5" charm and then I cut several more charms into strips from 1" to 2" widths and sewed those together. I cut the sewn strip sets into 5" x 4-1/2" pieces and sewed them to the 5" squares, added borders, then batting and backing, and a bit of quilting and they were done!!
This is the mug rug that got me inspired to stitch one for each guest........

And if you want to know more on how to make a mug rug, just go here. It's my post about my mug rug collection and contains links to my various projects. That post had a giveaway that is now closed but perhaps you'd like to have a little chance for a prize, too. Thanks to Jacquelynne over at TheNobleWife, I have a charm pack and a couple of fat quarters of her "Sewing Room Social" fabric line that I used for the DayTreat mug rugs and one of you could be the lucky winner. And I also have some of the coffee print fabric that the mug is sitting on. You'll get a bit of that, too.  Just leave me your name and e-mail by 11:59 p.m. on Friday the 13th. Who says the number 13 is unlucky?  It could be your lucky Friday!!!  I'll post a winner on Saturday, May 14 at noon. 
I have more projects "in the works" with my GO! Baby and will share soon! Thanks AccuQuilt for the chance to work with this great "Super-Gadget"!!!
Have a great day!!
Sandi