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**Ladies, the December 2012 will be our LAST FQ lottery for a while, so let’s make it a good one!**

*** Rules for the 2012 Lottery Session***


PLEASE TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO CAREFULLY READ ALL THE RULES—IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE PM ME.

****ARE YOU READY FOR THE ‘TWISTS’????****

** If you plan to play the 2012 FQ lottery, contact me via PM with your email address. I will in turn email you a questionnaire for those of you that are new to fill out before playing. This information will be used for the “twist.”


**Those of you who played in the 2011 FQ lottery already have a great advantage! For instance, if you played in the June 2011 FQ lottery and play in the June 2012 FQ lottery, you will get a bonus ticket in the drawing for the twist!

**If you send in at least one (1) FQ for each month (total of 12 FQ’s) and your package is postmarked by 12.31.11, you will get a bonus coupon for each month for the twist! Be aware that your 12 FQ’s must meet the guidelines of the theme in order to be allowed.

**If you send in an incorrect fabric(s) for the specific month’s theme, I will not substitute fabric from my own stash as I have previously done. I can, however, either return back to you at your expense or enter them into the December Stashbuster lottery. Remember, if you send me the 12 fabrics as listed above they must meet the theme standard or the bonus ticket offer will NOT apply. So, please be certain they meet the guidelines before shipping! Questions? Just ask!

**If you send in a total of six (6) FQ’s in any combination of the month’s themes for ALL 12 months you will have a HUGE bonus advantage for the year-end blowout prize!

**Okay, okay, so what is the FIRST twist???

Each month we will have a surprise gift drawing—it might be a gift card, a quilting book, fabrics, sewing notions or a pattern—but it will be quilting related (does chocolate count???). Trust me when I say it will be worth the trouble! Now for the real fun! In order for you to get your FQ’s to me early, this drawing will be held at different times of the month. On the first day of each month, Mom will pick a random date from a hat and all the players with FQ’s in house (in transit doesn’t count!) will have a ticket (and any bonus tickets you have earned) put into a hat and a winner drawn. So, if Mom picks out the 15th, the winner will be drawn after the mail is delivered on the 15th!) This is an added incentive for you to ship your FQ’s in early. So, if you snooze, you lose! Once the winner is drawn, their name will be posted on the boards along with a picture of their prize and mailed out to the winner at my expense. In December, we will have our annual large prize drawing for a $50 JA gift card and some other special events sprinkled throughout the year (still working on some details!).

**SECOND twist**-It wouldn’t be fair for me to play, but some of your fabrics are just too yummy for me to resist! So, if I can’t live without it, it will go into my stash and I will replace it with a different print. And you will WIN too! You’ll get an extra bonus slip for the twist AND an extra slip for the FQ lottery! Just remember I am a BIG lover of black and white and 30’s repros, hint, hint!

Note: If you win the monthly FQ lottery, you are still eligible for the “twist” drawing (and visa-versa). We will have three winners in November (see special notes in theme description for more information.) And yes, you can win all three! WOW!!!

Again, and I cannot stress this enough, please contact me with any questions. In order to make this a smoothly run and fun-filled lottery, please follow all the rules and be fair to others.

Lastly, if adding these “twists” do not get you excited to play and increase our participants, it will be my last year as hostess of this lottery. Remember, all these bonuses are coming out of my own pocket and I cannot fathom the costs if we cannot get more people to play. So, sign up your secret sister or quilting friend (and yes, you can enter a non-HGTV player as long as you are responsible the shipping of the FQ lottery winnings). So, ladies, get those engines running and start shopping!

However, do want to thank those of you who have sent me goodies for the twister prize drawer. I really do appreciate it and I know the winners do too!

Here are the basic rules for the FQ lottery fabrics, shipping information and themes:

Use only good quality 100% cotton FQs are acceptable. No thinsies or lightly woven fabrics, please. Any fabrics not meeting the standards for quality will be returned back to you. And remember, NO SOLIDS-NO FLANNELS-NO GLITTER-NO HOMESPUN!

**If you are sending in fabrics for a TOT (tone on tone) selection, this is described as a “tone of one shade of the same color on top of another.” That is, a tone of red on red, blue on blue, etc. This doesn’t mean any additional color or a print with an added color. If you question your fabric, please let me know before mailing it to me.

A Fat Quarter (FQ) is 18 inches by half the Width of Fabric (from selvage to selvage), but must not be less than 20 inches nor more than 23 inches. Please be sure not to send in a short piece! Thank you!

Each FQ entered that month must be a different fabric.

Please, we prefer UNWASHED fabric. If the fabric is already washed, please place a sticky or pinned note on it so that the winner will know it’s been washed.

**The Lottery will have two separate collections subjects each month—one themed fabric and one color of tone on tone fabrics (except July). If you wish to enter only one, you can send from one to six (6) FQ's for that theme. If you want to send in for both themes, you can send in a total combination of up to six (6) FQ's from the two themes. There will be ONE winner per month for all the FQ’s received!

For each FQ sent, one slip of paper with your name will be put 'in the pot.' If you send six (6) FQ’s, you will have six (6) chances to win that month.

Send each month's FQ entries in one baggy with your name, address, and board name inside the baggie. You can send in more than one month's entries at a time. Just be sure to place each month’s FQ’s in separate bag and label it with the month and theme of the swap and quantity sent.

FQ’s must reach me before the last day of each featured month. In other words, December Lottery FQ’s must be in my hands by the last day of December.

Please notify me on this board or by PM or email when you mail your FQ’s so I can watch for them. I will acknowledge receipt of your FQ’s on this board and/or email.

Photos of the month's entries will be added to the album so everyone can see what's going to be in the drawing. The month's albums URL will be posted on the FQ Lottery thread each month. If you have any questions regarding a questionable fabric, contact me before mailing it out.

One name will be drawn the last day of each month. Winner will be announced later that day or on the following day, unless I am waiting for a delivery made late by the USPS. Under no circumstances will I wait longer than the 3rd of the following month. Save money and send in a group or all of your entries at once. You can then check off that project as “complete.”

**CHANGE** You do NOT have to play the minimum two months following a win.

Postage reimbursement plus confirmation cost by the winner will be expected by check or money order shortly after the winning fabric is received by the winner. You don't have to enter every month. If you like the fabrics that month, feel free to enter. If you don't, skip it!
Here are the December themes:
December-“Stashbusters”-Get serious! Who has time to shop for fabric for December? Take a break and pull your fabrics from your stash, but remember no dogs. That is the November lottery. Be charitable and pick out your BEST prints. No solids.

December-“Breaking the Mint”-Get ready for your spring 2013 projects! Think pastels in pinks, blues, greens, peaches, violets and yellows. NO baby prints. No solids.

And here are our players!

*Aliquilt-1
*LisaTX-6
*Sister Sue-6
*Royalboomer-6
*cksvett-6
*Nancyc20-2
*Shequilts-6
*Gonesewin-6
*Fleur55-6
*Kay-lin-6

This message has been edited. Last edited by: KC1930,

So, who will come and join us for the last FQ Lottery of the year???? It will be fun and the FQ's will be beautiful. Sue

TTT!

TTT!

How are you ladies doing?

Sue is doing fine, she is in Vegas, just getting off the plane now. Hope she finds lots of beautiful fabric for me on the Shop Hop she is taking. She'll be home in time for the grand opening of the SSSS.

I've got my eye on those pretty pastels.

Still time to play with us!

Should I be expecting any packages in the mail???

Since no one is coming forward, I will be drawing our last two winners of 2012 today! Who will it be?

Mom is still in bed and I decided to brave the post office first thing this a.m., sooooooo it is up to me to do the drawing....

And the winner of the FQ's is.....


GONESEWIN!

...and the winner of the twister mystery box (this one weighs a ton! ) is....

LISA-TX

Congratulations to both our winners and thank you to all of you who have played along since 2008!

Merry Christmas to ME!!! Thank you KC for choosing my name. Thanks for doing this all these years. Merry Christmas to you all

Congrats to the winners! Enjoy your goodies.

Thank you KC for hosting, this was the first thing I joined when coming to the board.

KC- Thanks for hosting the FQ swap for the 3 years I have been in. You have done a great job promoting this swap. I hope you and your mother have a great Christmas. Congrat's to Lisa TX and Gonesewin for being the final winners. All have a great holiday. Sue

Yea! Congratulations to Lori too! I will be excited for that twister box. You are so sweet, KC, it has been a fun few years.

Hey Lisa, did you get your JA gift card from last month?

Sad news--the post office was SWAPPED, so the packages will have to wait until next week to be mailed out.

Mom just arrived home after taking GS out to a show and I have to tell her that her brother in CA just passed away. Out of nine kids, she only has one sibling left.

So sorry to hear about your uncle, KC. Hugs and prayers for you and your mom. I thought that I posted when the card arrived. So excited to use it after the kids go back to school. My checkbook went missing with all of my checks and I finally found it a few days ago after coming home from a funeral out of state. Will send you my postage check right away. Not to worry on the other package, none of us would have wanted you to stand in a big line.

Congrats! Lori and Lisa TX. Have fun with your winnings.
It was a great year KC. Thanks for hosting this swap. It was a lot of fun.

Congratulations ladies!! Thank you again KC for all the work you have done over the past few years for this swap. You are so very much appreciated!

Ladies, your packages were mailed out 12/26 and I will PM you the tracking info.

Please let me know once they arrived, okay?

ok. Where are the pics of the fq's?

Congrats to all the winners! Although circumstances prevented my daughters and me from participating more recently, we did so enjoy this event years past. And we always, always, always appreciate the efforts of our tireless quilting cheerleader, KC! All the best in the new year

Oh, the free Webshots account turned into the new Smile with a fee. I didn't see any sense to pay for a photo album starting in December when the lottery was ending that same month--I guess you will just have to enjoy the surprise when it arrives!

KQ, thank you for the kind words. While I am sad to end the FQ lottery, perhaps as time goes on we can do it again.

I totally agree KC! I guess it'll be an extra surprise when the box gets here!

Wow! What a collection
I'll try really hard to remember to send you a check today.

A big box of goodies arrived yesterday. At first, I was trying to figure out what KC would have sent me. Duh! It is the twister box . I'll take a picture to post later today. Guess I should be able to do that with my iPad, huh? My favorite thing might be the magnetic pin holder for your shirt. I have admired those at shows, but never got one for myself.

All of the floss and packaged binding are going into my box of goodies for the girls to use on doll and pet clothing. Yes, DD#1 is very into making sample outfits for pets and wanting to sell them to people that we know. There will be some well dressed pets around here! She already did some with tie dye in the past .

Thank you KC, you truly are the hostess with the mostess!