Phew the fabric for bees is landing in my postbox left, right and centre! I barely churn one block out and the next is waiting to be made!

Rachel, from p.s. I quilt, wanted pinwheels for her block. Any type of pinwheels but only using the nikki fabrics by Pat Sloan. I found the selection of fabrics quite dark. I am not a big fan of dark and it took me a while to work out how to put the fabric together into a block that was not too drab. I only had a small piece of white and I was nervous it would not be enough. It wasn't but I found something extremely similar in my stash.



I decided instead of one big pinwheel I would make a number of smaller ones. This took some time. I thought it would be a great idea to paper piece but wow was that a chore to take all the small bits of paper off at the end. Does anyone have any handy hints as to how to do it? Do you do it dry or wet the freezer paper?

I do like the end result but I will not be rushing to make another of these blocks any time soon!

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On another note, I was very lucky to be the winner of the Think Pink giveaway by the Mum and daughter team of Spoonful of Sugar. Lisa and Sarah have a terrific blog packed full of fantastic ideas. It is for me a must read.

This is what they sent me. I am so very lucky. Thank you soooooo much.

Almost every day this week the doorbell has rung and our chirpy postman has brought me some new goodies! Fabric for the quilting bees, the spring swap, a giveaway I was lucky to win and some sneaky Japanese fat quarters I bought as an early birthday present to myself.

Just look what the lovely Joanne, from a Little Patch of Heaven, sent me for the Spring Swap, organised by Darci.



Some Easter fabric panels!



Some flower buttons, yellow ribbon, green ribbon with hens on, 2 lovely fat quarters, 2 curly wurlys and what you don't see here is the big bag of Maltesers - they disappeared pretty quickly ;-)

Joanne very sweetly included little packages for both my girls. Inside was a Kinder Egg and a tissue holder. It goes without saying that the girls loved the eggs! But I was a little surprised to see how much they adored the tissue holders! Amelie insisted on taking hers to Kita to show all her friends and Hanna spent the whole day taking the tissues out and trying to stuff them back in again. Thank you so much Joanne that was so sweet of you.

Jacqui, of Hazelnuts had a giveaway and when the random generator came up with the number 7 two times in a row she thought it was a bit dodgy and decided to have a third go! This time it was my lucky number! Thank you very much Jacqui. The fabrics are gorgeous. I already have plans for the pink coriander and I have fallen in love with the grey and yellow print. Not my usual colour tastes but I REALLY like it!

I always wanted to sound like one of those people who rattles off acronyms and confuses everybody else! Unfortunately I never remember what they stand for!

Thank you very much Shel for all the PIF (Pay in forward) goodies that you sent me. Check these out:



Not 1 but 3 delicious felt donuts with pretty sprinkles. They look good enough to eat! Amelie has been busy playing at baking cakes ever since she set eyes on them. Check out Shel's great tutorial if you want to make your own.

Some lovely bath salts - also home made! Wow! I am definitely looking forward to using these.



A beautiful pin cushion which I desperately needed. A felt heart pin and to top it all off this great felt bag to store it all in.

Thank you so much Shel. A lot of work went into this PIF and I am very lucky to have received it.

Now for the WIP (Work in progress). I am busy working on this chappy.



He is going to be a cute little rabbit bag for Easter and I am hoping to have the pattern written up by the end of the week. Which leads me to this - would anyone like to test the pattern for me?

OK so I thought I would do some cool photos of my stash to entice you but then I got struck down by the girls' flu and I reckoned that you probably didn't need too much enticing to want more fabric.

So I have a couple of options for you.

Number 1

A couple of Kaffe Fasset fat quarters.

Some vintage pink fabric. Fake patchwork and pink and brown flowers.



A bit more vintage.





Number 2

3 Dutch Fabric Fat Quarters (a weeny bit of each missing!)



Pink and green vintage.



Some pieces of fabric.

So all you have to do is leave me a comment saying which you are interested in and I will draw a winner for each package on Friday.

Make sure you go here and visit all the other bloggers giving away their stash! I am off there now.