The hints keep coming and some of you might think I’m being tricky. I would never be tricky, even if I look a little like the lion in Michaela’s drawing right now. I said in my last post “here’s a “little” hint”. Little was in quotes, a hint, and not one of you mentioned it! Maybe you need some more help! My grand-daughter Michaela has kindly offered to help with the word “little”:
I’ve had 39 of you guess the theme of my new block of the month! 39! How about those odds for winning the prize! I’m closing the contest on Friday so you have until 9PM Pacific time to guess the theme! Come on my little stragglers. You can do it!
I’ll be picking a winner sometime next week, announcing the theme and showing the prize, but you’ll have to wait a bit to see the quilt. Just to entice you, here’s a sample of what’s included in the prize! I picked these tins up at the Cath Kidston store in London!
Ready to go over the hints again?
1. Christmas with some pieced blocks
2. A little bit of snow
3. A tiny bit of pink in the quilt, 5″ x 5″ or smaller.
4. The fabric I’m using is” Le Petie Ecole” from Kaari, the French General! Did you notice the gray in that fabric?
5. There’s a critter in the quilt that I like to draw almost as much as a bunny!
6. There’s a house in the quilt, and it’s set on snow.
7. Last hint and this is a BIG one! It’s an American theme with the critter and a few reindeer.
For a bit more fun, I’ll be announcing the winner of the “I Love my Pet Contest” in my newsletter on Saturday! If you see your name you’ll be getting that fabulous gift basket in the mail! I had 566 of you send in a over 800 pictures and one of you is going to win! To see all the pictures, here’s the link to Flickr!
You’ll also be getting block number nine of Snowbound on Saturday! I can’t wait to show you! Just look at my Snowbound group on Flickr! These are such cute blocks and you can post your blocks too. I look at them all!
Back soon!
Anne
When I read the clue “little” my firdt thought was a bug. But after some thought i will say it is a mouse!
Judy
It must be Twas the Night Before
Christmas with a little grey mouse ????!!!! I can hardly wait you always have the cutest patterns!!!!! Nurse Payne :D
Guessing a mouse, hoping it is a squirrel!
Well gee whiz I am slow….a mouse of course and my favorite holiday…..Christmas. We read The Night Before Christmas every year as the grandkids go to bed….so fun. You are a fun lady and your granddaughter will be designing for you soon!!!
Been away from my computer….It has to be Jolly Old St. Nick and the Night before Christmas. Little critter has to be a mouse,lambs are cute too but, they don’t rhyme with house. Can’t wait to see it!!!!
Well I would think it might be the Night before Christmas and it has a little mouse that was not even stirring! I sure hope that is it! I can’t wait to see it as I’m sure it will be fabulous:) This has been a fun contest!
Laura T
I believe that Mercer Meyer has a literature character called “Little Critter.” As far as a classic American tale I would guess that the story is ‘Twas the Night before Christmas.
Just a quick little guess from an elementary school teacher. :0)
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring….but wait – there’s a mouse!
I think it is The Night Before Christmas with the little mouse, reindeer on the house rooftop, snowing–with room scenes inside
Duh, the critter is a mouse with a pink nose and ears.
The house is the one where there’s no creature stirring, not even a mouse…
The Night before Christmas!
Still disappointed that it isn’t English/French/European tho’
My guess is “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”.
What a great puzzle. Could it be St. Nicholas and the mouse?
I will have to jump in with “Twas the Night Before Christmas” aka “A Visit From St. Nicholas” too. Very American! Oh I want to win that Cath Kidston stuff. I LOVE her!
Or maybe “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer”.
I would love to see a Santa’s Village quilt too. Could that be it?
All the hints point to the Night Before Christmas but where will the bunnies be? I am loving stitching the current block of the month and swore I wouldn’t start another before I had finished but maybe I will have to change my mind.
I’m going to have to go with the popular answer of The Night Before Christmas. I can’t wait for the big reveal!
My guess is like the most of the guesses before: the Night before Christmas and the critter must be the mouse (what else? LOL)
Quilty regards,
Inge from the Netherlands
Well now that I have read the plethora of comments I realize that a pink flamingo is way out there LOL! So a squirrel sounds reasonable but not sure how that fits in with reindeer. I guess a mouse and the night before Christmas must be it…that’s my guess. Would be totally cool to win!!
I am guessing The Night Before christmas also. It would be a great theme!