“I Love Candy” Moda Blog Hop
Hi everyone! Welcome to the Moda Blog Hop and Bunny Hill. When Chelsea heard this was about our hometown and Moda Candy she got so excited! She begged me to let her show you around and there’s no keeping that dog out of things when she decides she wants in. She’s been after the “Candy” I’ve had stashed for my giveaway ever since I brought it home. Maybe she’ll forget the “Candy” if I let her show you around.
We live in the San Francisco Bay area in a town called Discovery Bay. No one really knows where Discovery Bay is except for the 13,000 that live here. It’s not even a an official city yet but we like it that way. If you drive in the San Francisco Bay area you are guaranteed to find freeways filled with traffic but Discovery Bay doesn’t have a freeway. We drive through country roads where the only traffic is created by driving behind a slow tractor on a 2 lane road.
OK Chelsea, show them where we live!
Here’s a map of the San Francisco Bay area and Discovery Bay. Wait! I think Chelsea’s standing on our house! Chelsea move over please!
At one end of town you’ll find waterways…inlets coming in off the River Delta with houses lining the waterways. You can walk out your back door, jump in and swim because these inlets are fresh water. This is only a few blocks from our house but poor Chelsea hates to swim so we try to stay away from this area. Being the brave dog she is, she agreed to jump in just for the purpose of this picture.
…At the other end of town you’ll find acres of farmland.
Chelsea loves to visit the fruit orchards and vegetable stands. She’s really into chasing birds healthy eating.
Chelsea get out of those onions! (…sorry but she likes to pick out her own veggies.)
Bunny Hill is located inside my Discovery Bay home. The studio is on the upper floor of my house so it’s not open to the public. Chelsea’s been trying to get me to open a store but I know her reasons are a bit one sided…more attention. She gets enough attention already. She sleeps in a little drawer right by my desk and she get pets from everyone all day long.
She’s active in my design work and often puts in her 2 cents worth when I’m designing.
She personally checks my fabric when it arrives…gives it the sniff test to see if it passes.
Yesterday when I got out the Moda Candy, Chelsea was so excited! She’s been watching these little bundles ever since I brought them home! I can’t blame her, just look at these cute little packages of 2 1/2″ squares of fabric. They are perfect for making a dog bed doll quilt, miniature wall quilt, table topper, pincushions, small totes…you get the idea.
If Chelsea will give up some of this “Candy” you could win a few to make a cute miniature quilt like this one!
Don’t worry, I’ll make her part with some Candy and we’ll add it to our giveaway.
You’ll find the FREE pattern for this Candy quilt below:
So what are we giving away? One of you is going to win this beautiful bundle of WINDSOR LANE and three of you are going to win some Windsor Lane Moda Candy to make my Sweet Lily quilt. We’ll announce the winners on September 15th so be sure and check back.
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this blog post telling me where you live and the names of your pets if you have any!
If you haven’t been to Kate and Deb’s blog yet, click on the links below to see what they have for you today!
KATE SPAIN
and
DEB STRAIN
Have fun!
Anne
1,151 Comments
Glynis
Anne, I love your blog and your patterns. I live on beautiful Vancouver Island in BC and my only pets are our fish in our pond.
Marianne
I live in Sarasota, Florida and we have a variety of pets: 18 year old cat named Cinabella, 2 budgies named Henry Tuck and Sophia Charlotte Wurttemberg, and several salt water fish (not named) and hermit crabs also in the tank named Kathy, Louis, and Edmund. And then my hubby has 3 cats at his business, Gracie, Masha and Sasha. Be sure to thank Chelsea for the wonderful tour and I hope she finds her mouse soon or gets loads in the mail!
Andrea Hickman
I always enjoy your posts and Chelsea is precious. I have a maltipoo named Baxter who is my sewing companion. He is much happier when I am doing handwork so we can cuddle. We live inMacon, Georgia which is about an hour south of Atlanta.
Gwen Windham
Thanks for showing us around, Chelsea! What a cutie you are!! I’ve been to San Francisco once– and definitely want to come back someday. And if I do, I would love to visit Discovery Bay! :-)
I live all the way across the country– in southern Alabama— about 30 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico– in a small farming community called Rosinton. I love it here. We moved into our new home a couple years ago. Our cats, Mr. Fat and Newt– along with their new- found friend, Clarance Rogers (there’s a whole story about how *that* name came about ;-) absolutely love prowling around on my Dad’s 40 acres. We also have 2 shelties- Mandy and Kolby– who absolutely love it here too! Mandy, even though she doesn’t look like it, is our guard dog. She lets us know if a plane, or bird, or even the International Space Station (another story) flies over! LOL A couple weeks ago, she *really* proved herself by alerting us to a big rattlesnake that had found it’s way into our back yard!
Thank you so much for the chance to win one of your wonderful prizes!!! My fingers are crossed!! (And so are Clarance’s eyes ;-)
JUdy in Michigan
Thanks for the chance to win some of your gorgeous fabric. I live in Gaylord, MI, about 200 miles north of Detroit. It’s a rural area with a great little Main Street with neat shops and a quilt shop of course. I love how you cleverly took photos of Chelsea in and around your town.
Beth Strand
I live in Oregon City, Oregon with six cats and one dog. Our cats are Stanley (elderly and nearly blind), his self-appointed flirty nurse cat, Winnie (who is asthmatic), Griffie and Zoe, the siblings (Zoe is the Queen of All She Surveys), Jack (my younger daughter’s cat who is fond of jumping on shoulders of people as they pass by, thus “hi-jacking” them), and Gizmo, the baby who sleeps with my husband and I every night. Then there is dear, sweet, patient Nick. Nick is 106 pounds of Lab who loves the couch, his mom, and fetching a stick out of water…but if there’s not water, he will not fetch anything! So, there’s my crazy animal family. It was so fun stopping by to see you!
rita burhans
thank you for the sweet lily pattern and this wonderful giveaway — you are very generous. i live in mesa/phoenix, arizona, otherwise known as the ‘valley of the sun’. and, this year has been a hot one (broke a lot of records), but we’ve also had a lot of n-i-c-e rains, too. we have no pets at the moment.
Jan
Right now, we only have one pet, a handsome 13 year old Cairn Terrier named Dudley. He’s lived with us 10 years, he’s a rescue and we’re his third owners. He loves to go on walks and to cuddle, he loves his afternoon naps with my husband, too. Lizzie, aka “killer”, just passed. She was 15, a Cairn and a rescue, too. She was a great girl, but couldn’t abide any uninvited critters in the backyard. On her walks she didn’t care, but not in “her” backyard.
Becky Greene
I live in Milford, PA and we do not have any official pets right now. However, living in a woodland community in the Pocono Mountains, we have plenty of wildlife that has decided this is a great place to live. We see deer and wild turkeys practically every day. We also have bunnies, foxes, and other small creatures. Bears are around (I have seen two this year), but I am not outside at the right time to see very many (hubby has seen six so far). The most exciting was the Mom and three baby skunks that lived under our shed for a few days. Fingers crossed that we were just their vacation spot because I haven’t seen them lately – the babies were adorable though!!
mimi'sdarlins
Anne, what a cute post!! I see you’ve become a photoshop master, too :) Your hometown looks sublime. I’m in the country in the upper midwest, hot in summer but very cold in winter, and I love the seasons. We are just a short drive to malls and cultural events, so we have the best of both here. I am currently between pets, but as you know, Max was my precious little cat for 22 years and still in my heart :)
Thanks for the sweet pattern (hmm, I wonder who inspired the name?) and wonderful giveaway…I just love love those little precuts!
Terri U
I live in a rural area with an address of Elwood Nebraska. We have a dog Pete and several outside cats Brooks, Fritz, Smokey, Crusty and Boots.
Wendy Greene
I live in Gilbert, AZ. Unfortunately no pets. We did find a snake in front of our house the other night, we chose not to keep it!
Sheri
I live in La Porte City, Iowa in the middle of the country. We have no pets….
DebrafromMD
I live in Severn, Maryland. No pets at the moment but we once had a pair of brother cats named Bartles and Jaymes.
Chris Yanner
Hi Anne! I live in Pella Iowa, home of Pella windows, Pella bologna and Dutch letters! My cats name is Darwin–he weighs in at almost 20 lbs…he’s big boned…Our girls named him after my husbands former boss :)
Thank you so much for the opportunity to win this BEAUTIFUL fabric!
PS I’d love to see some of Chelsea’s blankies that you’ve made for her! She’s a cutie!!
Cathy McMann
Ii live in central New Jersey and have two Corgis, Reggie (male) and Dillie (female). My dogs love candy too.
Cindy
Hi! I loved taking the tour with Chelsea. We live in Cordova, TN. We share our home with two beautiful cats that we adopted last October 6th. Sweetie and George. Our previous beloved kitty had died in August, and their previous owner had died in August and they wound up in the shelter. They were so unhappy there, and they came to live with us. I’m so glad that they did!
v-icki boschman
Laughed my way through your post-beautiful area. thank-you. Yes I have pets – 3 dogs, Tonto (84 lbs), Molly (12 lbs) and Sophie (10 lbs.) and 3 cats, Bruce, Kink and Peggy. Needless to say, they rule the house. I am loving this blog hop. Thanks
Jocelyn
I live in the Sunshine state of Florida. I love living in Florida as we have beautiful weather year round. No pets, but we do have gold fish in our pond :-) Thanks for the tour of your town, and for the very generous giveaway.
Florence Burton
I live in Cleburne, Texas. Our dog (Belle) is a lab/blood hound mixer. She loves pulling out my quilting scraps from the basket! Thank you for the giveaway.
Staci
What a cute post! Chelsea is such a nice tour guide!
Right now I live in southern AZ not far above the international border. My husband is in the military so home is where he hangs his hat. And that hat will be moving to a new location after the first of the year.
Love the gorgeous colors of your new fabric. It is really beautiful.
Oh, and I love your dresden plate tutorial! I used it earlier this year, and now I think I’m hooked on those plates!
Lou Carter
HI Anne:) I live in Copperas Cove TX next to the world’s largest military base in the world….Ft Hood:)
I am a cat person so have a few:) They are in order of age….Fluffy 18, Buster 9, Waldo 7, KoKo about a year, MisKiti less than KoKo…they were our recent strays that found me:) Then MisKiti had 6 babies that are now 3 weeks old. They are Gemma, Jax, Cinder, Jam, Jelly, and Tigger 2. Am hoping to find homes for most of them but if not they have one here. These are the indoor ones. Then there is Twin that is the baby daddy and he is outside stray. Sad these lovely animals get dumped or left behind everyday around here.
I am a big Bunny Hill fan and have stitched a few of your quilts:) Thanks for teh lovely ideas!
Four dogs and one quilter
I live in Western Oregon with Charlie, Chloe, Chica, Spaz, and Q-Tip.
Jill
I am from Salem, OR and don’t have any pets now, but I used to have a Scotty named “Max”.
joyce kirsch
Please enter my name in the giveaway. I too am a petlover of three right now. Jacie Lou is a papillon, Rocky Joe is a Tzi-Shu, and Sophie Purl is a ragdoll cat. They all sa hello to Chelsey and wave paws.
Regina
I hope Chelsea has a new mouse she is such a sweet little girl. I have two chihuahua’s Abigail Rose….. who is called Abigail no tail or Abbie and Mickey Mouse…..Mickey oh can’t let Chelsea see him. Thanks for the pattern I needed one for my doll quilt swap. We live in Holland Ohio.
Grandma Rita
I live in Eau Claire, WIsconsin and I don’t have pets any more. I love your fabric lines and I know my girlfriend will too. She is going to be a first time Grandma at the end of the year, twins! It’s one of each or as her son in law told her “We’re getting a cat and a dog”. They are so excited.
Joan
Thank you for sharing your pictures of your lovely hometown and your sweetie, Chelsea. She is so cute. I live in L’Orignal, a small town in Eastern Ontario, Canada. I have a tri-coloured sheltie named Sophie . She is our little sweetie. Thank you for the generous giveaway.
Judy C in NC
What a cutie Chelsea is and so very smart to be a partner in your business – I live outside of Raleigh, NC in a small community called Clayton. Everytime we have to go to Raleigh, all via interstate roads, we give a big sigh of relief when we come home and turn into our tree-lined, no traffic street and know why we live here in our golden years. Our little Cairn terrier, Casey Gail, is our loyal companion and is enjoying her golden years right along with us – we all take naps together. A Lovely and wonderful giveaway and sure hope “Vanna” chooses me. Judy C
Verna
We’re in Minnesota, and our dog (Vicky) and three cats (Miss Kitty, Snickers and Dasher) help us keep warm in the winter. Thanks for the tour!
Cindy Simpson
Hi Anne, I live in Cochrane Alberta in the beautiful foothills of the Rockies. My hubby and I have one granddog, Boomer, who is a chihauhau cross and two grandcats, Franklin J Beans and Ruby.
Love the fabrics!!!
Tina
Your Sweet Lily pattern is perfect – love it! We are over the “hill” in Carson City, Nevada. We have three cats: Tommy Moe who is 19 years old and was named after a famous downhill skier; Hogan (aka Hoagie) a beautiful orange tabby; and Daisy (aka Daisy Mae) our little three-legged rescue kitty that rules the household!
Margaret
What a fun post! That area where all the houses are right on the water is really something! I live in upper Westchester County, NY. We have a 2 year old cat named Mia who is currently spread out on my lap, trying to stop me from typing on my laptop. lol Love the free pattern and love your fabric too! Thanks for the giveaway!
Kylee
Hi Bunny,
I live in Sydney Australia. We have a bit of a menagerie; 2 dogs – a brother and sister pair named Rex and Molly, 2 beautiful chickens called Black Chicken and Red Hen and about 20 fish. Surprisingly, the dogs and the chooks get along very well and harmoniously share our yard space without too much fuss.
Laurel
Love your little quilt. Would love to recreate it. I’m now an empty nester and a bit of vagabond so no pets currently. Best dog name we ever had was for a basset hound named Tillymae de Longbody. Thanks for the tour!
Estie
I currently live in Germantown, Maryland. I grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii; then off to college in southern California. After getting married, we lived in Chicago, IL, and Fayetteville, AR. As you can tell I’ve really moved east across the USA. As for pets, just a tankfull of dalmatian mollies with no names. In Hawaii we always had cats and dogs. The first dog was Skippy and the first cat was Taffy.
The fat quarter fabrics are delicious. Hope I win!!
Brita
We live on the beautiful Cumberland Plateau in TN, whre it’s growing much too fast! I love the part of the country where you live, and I suspect we drove through there when we lived in the SF Bay Area. Our Ragdoll, Annabella, is our baby!
Elin
Hi Anne, I live in Iceland and I do’nt have a pet in my house but I own a whole herd of cows and one cat that lives in the cowshed, each cow has their own name and they all have their own individual characheristics. I’ve followed your blog for a long time and love all your patterns and fabrics …. so pretty.
MaryBeth
Chelsey is very cute. I live in Maryland about half way between Washington, DC and Baltimore. We have two Havanese dogs, sisters, Poca (Spanish for Little) and Dot. Yeah, not real original, but they are really cute little girls. Thanks for the chance to win the yummy fabric.
Gale Lavers
I just love how you made Windsor Lane calorie free. I live in the beautiful province of Newfoundland, Canada and I have a tibitan spaniel named Soma. Thanks for the great give away.
Amy, a redeemed sheep
What a fun post!!
I live in Iowa and fall has snuck in on us here. It’s cold this morning!
I have 3 fur kids…Gracie the cat, and my two mini aussies Clay and Scotty. Scotty is my special needs dog. He was born deaf due to breeder greed by mating two merle aussies. But there is no need to feel sorry for him. He has no idea he is deaf. =D We use sign language to talk to him and when i need his attention, I stomp on the floor. Oh, and trust me, he has a knack for knowing when there is food around. lol
terry phelps
We live in Nice, Ca which is north of Santa Rosa. Clearlake is the largest natural lake in ca and we love it here. Our animals are Scooby and Kahula (dogs) and Choo Choo our cat. We have named all our cats after Star Wars characators
Shelley
Thanks for the tour, Chelsea, that was fun! I live in Issaquah, WA , a small town outside of Seattle. Like you we have two lane country roads but a lot more traffic than there used to be. Currently we have one black cat, Midnight (of course) and one llama, Princess Daisy. Thank you for the awesome giveaway and beautiful fabrics you design.
Chris in Geneva
Chelsey is so cute! Our Razz would love to play with her, but it’s a long way from Geneva, IL. We just lost his brother Tobe, so Razz is very lonesome.
sandra
We live in Christiansburg, VA, with two dogs- Abby and Brandy. They would love to get together with Chelsea and play! They could hepl her sort all of the new mice toys she is bound to get…Thanks for a chance to win!
Jandy
I live in the Fraser Valley and our three dogs are Molly, Kaci & Eegor. Did Chelsea ever get her mouse yet?
Linda W
Love your tour and especially Chelsea. We live in Strasburg, Pa (Lancaster County) with our favorite Sheltie, Ted. On the other side of a set of doors off our kitchen lives my mother and Callie – for calico cat as identified by the shelter at time of addoption. However she grew up to be a (not very friendly) Maine Coon. And never the two shall meet! – hopefully!!
SWarren
My hometown is a little town about 30 miles from Nashville, TN and my baby’s name is Sami. Thanks for the chance to win that beautiful fabric!!!!
Barb
Thank you and Chelsea for the tour of Discovery Bay – it looks beautiful. I think you’ve let the ‘secret’ of Discovery Bay out of the bag now and everyone is going to ‘discover’ it, too!
I live in a suburb just outside of Detroit and sadly, we just lost our beloved dog of 15 1/2 years about 3 months ago. He was easily the sweetest Bichon ever and we miss him very much. So, as I remind everyone with a wonderful fur family member, cherish them every single day.
I love your blog, Anne. It is truly one of my favorite sites to visit. Thank you so much for sharing your creative gifts with us.
Dee
Chelsea’s just adorable! Looking very spry! I live in Youngsville, NC which is just north of the capital Raleigh with a dog (Gabriel) and 4 cats (Sam, Jack, Moses and David). Actually, Sam and Jack (siblings) just celebrated their 12th birthday this week, so they got lots of ‘candy’ to enjoy all to themselves.