"Stuff I'm loving" Saturday

As I wander around blog land and the Internet I see so many wonderful things to make, great ideas and inspiration. Some people are so clever. I'm not talking about the perfect house/life  people. I'm talking about real every day people.  I bookmark a lot of them away for future reference, but I've decided to share some of them with you. Maybe this will become a regular feature of things I found in the past week or two or maybe it wont make it beyond this one post but this week I've been totally inspired by heaps of really cool things and wanted to share.

Marg's Ricotta and Spinach Cannelloni- I'm not a big fan of Cannelloni .  I made it once 20 years ago and vowed never to make it again. Thank Goodness I didn't listen to myself.  What I loved so much about this is that it's meatless (and we all know from my failed Meatless Monday experiment how much I love meatless meals-NOT  ) but I  LOVED it and managed to fill the cannelloni tubes without coating myself, the bench and the walls (very much) Definitely a keeper. Snaffle this recipe quick!

Some people are just clever. Lisa D over at Recaptured Charm refinished a cabinet. Yeah I know some of you aren't into furniture restoration/re-purposing. Wander over and have a look at what she did with it and I'm sure you'll be saying "Wow".  I just sat here in complete awe. And while you're there she's having a butterfly  jewellery giveaway.

The most impressive  quilt I saw this week was over at Love to Quilt. Quilting Queen's  Chinese Checkers Quilt is just stunning. There is something about multi-coloured bright quilts that just makes my heart sing. Since I failed miserably at maths at school and this involves something called a 60 degree angle, I'll likely never make one of my own , unless I become a quilting genius at some point. Thank Goodness  I can live vicariously through other people's eye candy and creativity.

For those of you with kid-lets, check out this great idea for party favours at Cap Creations.  Little fishes swimming in soap. In a bag ! Just like a fish you buy from the pet store!  Easy, Cheap and Impressive. You can even download the tags for free.

And I'm still really excited about the EQ7 giveaway. The 10 lucky participants have been chosen, and are running contests on their blogs. Many of those contests are now closed but Mary at Mequilter , and Ann at Prairie Primrose Stitches still have active contests. Wander over and comment if you're interested in a chance of winning  a copy of EQ7 for yourself.

I'm off to quilt! Hope your Saturday rocks.

Quilting News: New EQ7 coming!

The quilting world has been abuzz with news about EQ7 which is being released in June.

I've wanted  EQ since I started seriously quilting. One of my quilting limitations is sometimes ending up with quilts that don't look exactly  the way I envisaged in my head. Who could forget the devil quilt from early 2010?  If I'd had EQ that would never have happened and I've been insanely jealous of everyone who already has EQ. Yes- My name is Shay and I've had EQ envy. If I had EQ I could see what my creations were going to look like before I made my first cut.  However I've also realised that at the rate I buy fabric, and what with laundry and kitchen reno's going on here at Maison Pyjamas  I might have to live to be 100 years old before I get my own copy of EQ.   Hmnnnnnnnnnnn...my scheming little brain has been thinking about how to get around my fabric obsession /house renovation/ need for EQ dilemma.

Enter  those wonderful EQ people,  who may be about to make my dreams and possibly your dreams come  true.

EQ are giving 10 incredibly lucky bloggers the chance to give away a copy of the new EQ7  on their blog and receive a copy of their very own.  I love to share , you guys love to win, and I want a copy of this program. Frankly this seems like win /win situation to me.

This version  of EQ has a ton of features. You can check them all out here  and apparently it's packed full of stuff for newbies like me. Yay!  Sign me up and let's start quilting.

So, hopefully  the EQ people are stalking my blog right now deciding to make me one of the 10 bloggers chosen to give away a copy of this program to one of you!

And because I'm nice and don't like to hog all the chances to win ..if you want the chance to give away a copy on your blog you can go here and get all the EQ gossip!