Loving my books!

Recently, there was a big blog hop with more than 250 blogs participating.  I did read ALL the blogs, but I controlled myself and only entered 20......the ones that had the prizes I thought I would be most likely to use.  I didn't want to win something that would have been more important to someone else.  I really didn't think I'd win anything by entering only 20 out of the 250...and considering how many others also entered those 20 giveaways, but.....much to my surprise, I did win on two of them!   I won this really nice collection of books and a set of postcards about quilts that are in the Michigan State University quilt museum.  This was from the Quilt Doctor blog.

I also got this very nice book from Janet K......and I am tearing my hair out looking for her blog name.  (My email is acting up on my computer BIG TIME and many things are not accessible to me right now, including my exchange of emails with Janet that has her blog name in them!)  This book has a lot of great applique for various seasons and holidays....all shown as table runners/toppers.  I'm not so great on applique but I like several of these enough to give it a try.  NOTE: Edited to add the name of Janet's blog ..... A Hug Delights. 

And....on Christmas morning, I got these 3 books AND a nice Amazon gift certificate to order more books for my Kindle.  I love to find ways to cut and make traditional quilt blocks using my GO! cutter, so the two quilt block books will be a terrific resource for me!  You can see I have lots of fun hours of reading (and quilt-making) ahead of me over the long, cold months of January and February!