OMGoodness! Despite the wonderfulness of this quilt, it has nothing on YOU! ♥ I never imagined we’d hear so many interesting, creative, touching, evocative stories, did you? Was that fun or WHAT??? So, we do have a winner. Only one, making me almost sad before I get excited and tell the name! I need more quilts!!!
But . . . let the trumpets blare . . . (click here, you just have to :-)) Because one of you is the lucky recipient, and she is . . .
Well, not so fast . . . let’s think about this for a moment 🙂 . . . before I announce the person who is soon going to receive this beautiful vintage quilt, I want to show you the tiny stitches some unknown creative woman made in this quilt. ♥ I really wish she knew what’s happening with it today, what inspiration she has provided! Wouldn’t she be surprised? ♥
I think all the wonderful writings you girls did these last two days have osmosised themselves into this quilt now: one thought, one pumpkiny, windy, leafy, butternut thought for every stitch. ♣ Whoever gets this quilt, she gets to wrap herself in a Blanket of Love from us to her! This is the true Girlfriends Giveaway. Not just from me, but from all of us. So, without further adieu, as they say in the movies, the winner is ( . . . I have butterflies in my stomach, I really do!)
Wait for it . . . we’re shaking up the RDM, our “random drawing machine!”
La, la, la . . . la-lee la-lee la-lee daaa . . .
OK, here it comes….
Isn’t this EXCITING???? I CAN’T WAIT!!!
Shall we hear the trumpets blare again? No? OK, then, here we go . . . (Ahhh, the deliciousness of this moment . . . when anything is possible, it should last forever!)
The random drawing machine has GOT a WINNER!!! AND THE NAME IS . . . .
C I N D Y T U N I N G ! ! !
And I don’t know where she’s from yet, because I have to email her and tell her, but I hope she comes back and takes a big bow under our comments below. We gonna wrap her up in love. ♥ We gonna send her to the moon!
Because all of this would be nothing without Y♥U!
I wish I had a quilt for everyone, so there’s a mini consolation prize (and it comes with a Song), which will warm you almost as much as the quilt because you get to make it yourself! Your house will smell like heaven and your friends and family will make you feel every bit of the winner that you are when you make this Zucchini Nut Bread, all hot and moist from the oven, laced with cinnamon, studded with walnuts, one loaf for you, and one for your best friend? Did someone say something about that in our 1500 replies yesterday???? I’m sure they did! We covered everything!!!
And when I started this blog three months ago, I thought I might be writing out into the wind, to the empty sky, with no one there to listen! Have I told you lately that I love you? ♥
I see you, skipping through your windy neighborhood, popping over to your moms, or dropping a loaf of this tea bread on your girlfriend’s front porch . . . Oh! Did you need a recipe? I can do that!
Direct from my private recipe-box stash . . .
Delicious with tea, with breakfast, lunch, and of course, dinner; with an old movie, and after your walk. And while the baby naps.
And here’s the rest of the story, where your kitchen starts to smell really good!
And when you pull this from the oven, remember me, a person with good handwriting and bad handwriting, but with a really good recipe for Zucchini Nut Bread, the luckiest girl because, besides this to-die-for recipe, she has a LOT of wonderful, poetic, expressive, heart-in-hand girlfriends, YOU. Loving to learn, everyday, more and more, we are not alone!!! Happy October! Baby take a bow. ♥
Plus, October arrives this weekend! So let’s celebrate all us kindred spirit vagabonds and our wild gypsy blood with this . . .
. . . gorgeous quilt, which will soon be in the hands of some lucky winner! All you have to do to enter this giveaway is leave a comment at the bottom of this post, and answer one simple little question: What’s YOUR favorite thing about fall? 
Or maybe you love outsmarting the first freeze and getting the last of the tomatoes in from your garden to ripen on the window sill… because they look so darn cute up there!
Or is it the way your house smells with your little dinners of acorn squash and homemade chicken and mushroom soup? That could definitely be it! 
You could eat that soup in front of this wonderful old movie, which if you haven’t seen, you would love. Have dinner with Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Bring your twelve-year-old daughter. 
Or maybe the change of season is so wonderful because we get to have more fires, turn off all the lights and pretend it’s 1840.
Or could it be the sound the leaves make when we crunch through them and kick them into the air? Don’t we just love it when they cartwheel down the road, tip to tip? Or, when we get to make wishes on the ones we catch in mid-air?
Or is it this, the smell of cedar, juniper trees, bayberry, musky rotting leaves, thick dampness in the air, salt and ocean; being swept along the dirt road by the wind filled with flying leaves; looking at Joe, cute in his black beret, the woodland around us laced with spider webs sparkling with dew on foggy mornings . . . could this be it? Yes, it could!
