Hi Everyone… This evening before the start of the row along in the next few hours, I am posting the schedule as a helpful way for you to find who is on what days. While I will also post this daily along with all the giveaways and such, I do want you to have a reference to the schedule should I be late posting one day for some odd reason.

I’ll make this post brief with just the schedule, but will also add a few noteworthy things to it such as the PInterest link for the row along, Hashtags you can use such as: #myhappyplaceral, #myhappyplacerowalong2018, and #myhappyplaceral2018. Thanks to Karen Overton who created these for the row along.

If you’ve never participated in a row along before or followed a long with it. It is very easy. I’ve posted all the info before in this post here. You can also find this post by clicking the logo on the side of this blog for the row along.

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Today is the last day of  the announcements for the giveaways. I believe in a post I did for Qwilt Qwazy Queens 2016, I mentioned that my sewing room has no overhead lighting in it. You can imagine what this is like when your sewing at night and have very little lighting. At first, I purchased some cheapie lamps from Amazon, they are floor lamps, but all they do it seems is light the ceiling. That is of no help when your sitting there stairing at a ruler and fabric and you need to make a precise cut. So, I took the plunge and purchased some better lighting. I purchased some Ottlite’s. They have been a sponsor of several of my events at this blog and I wanted to give back. Ottlite is not an inexpensive solution, but it is the best solution for me. I need good lighting. I have bad eyes, and they aren’t getting any younger. I’ve only lived in one state ever that didn’t require I wear glasses while driving and it’s not my current home here in Colorado either. I can be sited with a ticket if I’m not wearing them. Suffice it to say I keep a pair of glasses in the car all of the time. 🙂 I couldn’t afford to buy all the lamps I needed at once, but I did buy one a month for several months until I got enough lighting going on in my sewing room that I felt I could see well enough with. Every single lamp in my sewing room is an Ottlite lamp. I simply love them. There are 5 lamps in my sewing room currently and I’d like to get one more for use in the closet area as I keep bins in there of the small things like buttons, beads, paints, etc… They are on a shelving unit and it would help to not always carry a lamp over to the closet. 🙂 Sometime soon I’ll buy another lamp. But during the Row Along, you can win there newest designed lamp. I hope you will love them as much as I do.

Next is Martelli Notions, they to have been very generous in many of my blog events always with an offer of one of there wonderful rotary cutters and some extra blades. While it took me a bit of getting use to cut with mine, I absolutely love it and actually use it more now than I do my original Olfa cutter I bought back in the early 80’s. The great thing about the rotary cutters from Martelli Notions, is that they are meant for people who have problems with there wrist such as arthritis, carpal tunnel, and even tendonitis. You do not need to use a lot of pressure to cut with these cutters and that’s a bonus to anyone with these wrist issues. They even offer a rotary cutter for left handed people.

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Oh my goodness, can you believe it’s Thursday already. We are just 5 days away from the Row Along starting. I feel like a little girl getting ready for Santa to come leave the gifties under the tree I am so excited. 

We have 47 bloggers participating in this years Row Along, that’s 47 free patterns to come your way over the course of the event. Each blogger will be featuring one of these giveaways I’ve been writing about all week long.

Today’s featured giveaways are from Moda Fabrics, and BlocLoc Rulers. One of the funny things about Moda is for many years I thought there name was actually Moda Bake Shop, because I kept hearing about the great things they were showing on that blog. I’d go and look and wonder where the fabric collections were. I know, it’s crazy, but I really did think that for a very long time. It wasn’t until I decided to write them to ask for giveaways that I really had to track down just who Moda was and how to contact them. They are such a creative fabric company with there fun prints and fabrics, who couldn’t resist hitting the fabric shops just to see what’s new.

On the other side, BlocLoc Rulers was a company I just happened on when looking for a new 6×24 inch ruler this past summer. I had apparently dropped mine on the floor and didn’t notice, and what did I do? I ran over it with my chair and split that puppy right in half. So I had to go on the hunt for a new ruler. I happened upon Blocloc by looking for those rulers and what’s even cooler, they are just about a two hours drive away from me here in Colorado. How cool is that? They have some really cool rulers, and so I wrote  them and asked if they’d be willing to do a giveaway and they were very happy to, so this years row along features there rulers.

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