Thank you for all the wonderful comments about my new blog look! You ladies are the best! I've had some questions as to where the blog roll is? I have put that list at the top under "blogs I love". So if you click on that button, it will take you to all the blogs I had listed on my sidebar. You're still there! If you weren't, I wouldn't be able to reach all your lovely blog homes!
Oh my goodness, it's a big week for me. As I celebrate my last few days of being in the forties, I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than to give back to all of you. You have inspired me, challenged me, comforted me, and made me laugh. I feel so blessed to have you here, every day.
For today, I'm giving away my entire stash of Christmas fabric. Yes, you read that right. Most of it is the fabric I used to create this quilt. In addition, I'm including a fun book by Piece O'Cake Designs, "Quilt a New Christmas". Though we aren't doing our monthly "Sewing Christmas" anymore, I wanted to give you the opportunity to get started for next year.
There will be a giveaway each day, Monday through Thursday. I'm stopping on Thursday since that's my birthday (and hopefully my family will be keeping me busy that day!). Friday I will announce all the winners. You have until midnight on Thursday to enter. For today:
To enter~
Be a follower of "Sewn With Grace"
Leave me a comment telling me
your favorite Christmas gift you received this year!
Love you all,
116 comments:
My Mom got my husband and I a dishwasher. We didn't have on in our house and now we do....YAY!!! No more washing all those baby bottles and nipples by hand now. And the fact my husband did the install too. He is so handy. He had to cut 1/2 the cabinets out of one side of my kitchen but it is well worth it.
I do love your new blog look. I just had my 50th birthday on the 11th!
I hope your upcoming birthday is a wonderful one!
I am a follower. I think my favorite gift was an antique tea pot that my niece found for me last year when she studied abroad. She gave it to me at Christmas. It was more the thought that she took the time to find me something he knew I loved.
My very favorite gift this year was handmade ornaments from my children!
I am following you. One of my favorite gifts was a felted bird house.
Happy Birthday week! I have to say my favorite gift I received was the purse my husband made me, he made the pattern up and everything. It's beautiful
I'm a follower of your blog, and I'd love to win this. :)
One of my favorite Christmas gifts this year was time with family!
Happy Birthday a little early! I hope you have a very special week!
joyfullysewn at gmail dot com
Happy early birthday! I am a regular follower. My favorite Christmas present was some applique patterns I had been drooling over for months. Thanks for the opportunity to enter your fantastic giveaway!
I would have to say my favorite gift was to bring my dad who is in assisted living in with all of us for Christmas.It was lovely.
Happy Birthday Week!! Your new blog look is beautiful! My favorite Christmas gift was from my husband and Annabelle and Zoey, my bulldogs! I love all things pink and once in a while we will get a donut for a treat. They found three beautiful pink glitter donut Christmas ornaments and gave them to me in a beautiful covered glass cake pedastal. It was so sweet and thoughtul that it is my favorite gift of all time!! Shannon :O)
Early Birthday Blessings! I am a follower. Fav gift a quilt from a fab friend. Thanks for this.
Being a little over 50 - material gifts have come and gone. These days I love the gift of doing. The day after Christmas as part of my Christmas we visited a small town in North Georgia and stayed in a great cabin by a rushing stream. (the only think rushing in that town) Being with family and having time to be alone is one of the best gifts I received this Christmas. I did get a cameo silhouette for using with craft items. 50 is the new 30 -- enjoy.
my best gift was an awesome Cuisinart popcorn popper - my healthy afternoon snack as I stitch.
happy birthday, dear girl - enjoy it the whole week.
I am following you
Happy Birthday Week to You!!!
Thanks for the great giveaway....my goal this year is to start Christmas gifts EARLY...this fabric would get me going!
Gail
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Good Morning Renee,
A very happy Birthday week to you!
We are suppose to be giving gifts to the birthday girl not you giving the gift..you are so sweet!
I have been a follower for a while now and always enjoy my visits.
Please drop my name into the birthday hat, who ever receives the gift of Christmas fabric will have a blast creating a special quilt for Christmas 2012.
My most treasured gift this year was my Dad, he's been so sick and all our prayers were answered that he would be well enough to enjoy Christmas with all of us, that was my "Gift".
I love your new blog look..very much! I am looking to freshen mine up, I saw who designed yours and I am going over now to visit her.
Have a sweet day and birthday hugs, Elizabeth
My favorite gift was a family portrait from my son which was made at their church. I love getting one every couple of years especially since they keep adding children. :). Blessings, Marlene
Happy Birthday!! I did get a nice pair of winter hiking boots so I can keep excercising in the winter. Only 6 degrees this morning hard to get motivated. reading blogs much more fun.
You blog and button are so cute! I like the feel of the place, it definitely is you, What a great birthday gift for yourself :-}
I do follow. My best gift was to have my honey get out of the hospital. Christmas is best when you can have your loved ones with you ~
:-}pokey ps thank you for he opportunity, your quilt is beautiful!
I received EQ7! (Electric Quilt 7)
Thank you for a chance to win these lovely fabrics! I think my sister-in-law will be jealous if I won!
Love following your blog & I do really like the new look. My favorite Christmas gift was a trip to Williamsburg VA from my husband. Happy Birthday!
I am a fairly new follower and am so glad that I am. Your blog inspires me! We are both January babies! I have one more year left in my forties, but I don't think about it so much. :) The giveaway is so sweetly generous! My favorite gift this Christmas was one I gave myself. As an assistant department head, I often work more than I should. I gifted myself a real break this winter and got a few have to dos done and slept in often. It was well needed. Thank you, Kelly
unDeniably Domestic
My favorite gift was a GO! Would love to give your Christmas stash a new home. Thanks for a chance.
I just love your blog. It is one of my favorite places to visit each day. My favorite Christmas gift this year.....my daughter and my daughter-in-love both told my husband and I that they are pregnant and both due in August, and only two days apart. This my daughter's third baby and my daughter's-in-love first baby. We are praising God for His blessings!
I am a new follower. I think my favorite gift this year was a new iron my parents gave me!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Happy Birthday to the youngest looking 20 year old around....Thirteen years ago Santa brought me a bouncing baby boy...He was and is a gift we celebrate every day...Dec. 28th Santa waited long enough to let us take the decorations down...smiles...Renee
My favorite gift this year was a trip to Hawaii. :) We took the whole family and I didn't buy any gifts for them at all. It was so relaxing and warm. I could do with some of that warm now. It has been -20 or colder for three days now.
Well HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! My favorite and special gift was the gift from my six year old granddaughter..And spending time with our family and our 89 year old mother..grandmother. Love your blog and the new look..Also thank you for the chance to win your giveaway.
Happy birthday to you! I thought for sure I had clicked to follow long ago, but couldn't find my avatar, so now it is official! My fav gift this year was finishing the reno in our basement...not much furniture, but oh what a difference to have walls and ceilings that look nice!
Happy Birthday! I don't get many presents these days, buy my favourite was from one of my bloggy friends and beautiful quilt.
My best gift this past Christmas was moving back to my home state to be near family.
Happy Birthday to you!!!
My favorite gift was my four children, and three grandchildren all home for Christmas.
tvbart@charter.net
Happy Birthday!!! And Wow! such an amazing and generous giveaway!! One of my favorite gifts this year was a pretty red throw that my youngest son picked out all by himself. But more then that, I loved that my family was together for Christmas. That was the best gift of all :-) I am a long time follower.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ♥
MY FAVORITE GIFT WAS "MORE" FABRICS FROM THE COLLECTION" TOWNE SQUARE-LOVE IT!
THANKS FOR SHARING!
Yowsers.....your birthday and WE get the gift. AWESOME!!! Yes I am a follower ( love your blog) and my favorite gift was that my husband organized a weekend for the kids to all come to visit. We just rested, everyone pitched in to cook meals and mostly we just enjoyed the grandbabies and each other. Best gift ever!!!
My favorite Christmas gift this year was my penguin watch, not the most expensive, but my favorite!
I love the idea of putting your blog roll on one page!
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I love being a follower of your blog!! My favorite Christmas gift was having my family together at home and actually spending the day together!!! My second was a picture of three of my grandchildren in a frame. Life is precious.
Happy Birthday!! Even though it's early.
I am a follower and love reading your posts.
My favorite gift each and every year is to have my family here with us to celebrate Christmas. It is such a blessing!
Thank you for having such a generous giveaway!
Love your blog - already a follower. :o)
This is a VERY generous giveaway. My favorite gift this year was just time with my family. I lost my dad a few years ago, and this was the first year that started to feel "ok" again.
My favorite was a visit from my daughter, who lives in Brooklyn, and made the trek down to Florida to see us. It is the people who make the holiday!
Hi Renee, Oh what a generous giveaway and so fun. I too love your new look. I would have to say my favorite Christmas gift was a study by Beth Moore, I love her studies.
Have a great day and thanks for the opportunity to win the fabric and book.
Hugs, Noreen
My children bought me an antique set of Syracuse China. Something I have had my eyes on for a couple of years. The best gift ever though is the contentment of a family that all love Jesus. Nothing surpasses this gift given to us so very long ago... Dawn E. Brown
I'm a happy follower and I love Christmas fabric!! I've been working on a Christmas quilt and would love to marry your stash with mine. I had 2 of our 3 children home for Christmas this year~ best gift ever! We had a wonderful time together, and all talked with our oldest DS on the phone~ hoping he can come home one of these years too. Thanks for the great giveaway! Have a happy day!
Happy Birthday week! I am just a little younger than you, so let me know how it goes! Love the Christmas fabric, and both my friend and I want that Piece O Cake book! Hope this week is wonderful for you. My favorite gift was 3, yes, 3 boxes of Russell Stover's Coconut Clusters! Yum!
Happy Birthday to you....
Well, my favorite was a manual can opener, I often worried about losing electricity and not being able to open a can.
My DH and I don't exchange gifts, so I was surprised that he got me a camera. I love it! What a difference in the quality of my pictures.
Happy Birthday Week!!!! Love that you are celebrating all week! I am a follower of your blog. Did you redesign your blog yourself? Looks great.
We kept our gift giving very low key this year. It had already been a year with many blessings. Perhaps, my favorite gift was from my hubby. He worked on my laptop so that I could print directly from it:) It was actually a computer setting and not a wrapped gift, but one I enjoy each day.
Make sure to eat lots of cake!!
Now I am a follower of your wonderful blog!
The bests Christmas gift this year was the Big shot machine by Sizzix that my boyfriend gave to me!
I Hope I can partecipate to this giveaway... I am italian and love your blog!
Ciao Alessandra
I have to pick one?
"Out of the Box" by Mary Lou Weidman.
Happy Birthday...soon! Long time follower here. Pretty fabrics!
My DH bought me a small lap top pc to use when I am to be laid up with knee replacement!No missing out on my blog hopping!
Hugs,
Lola
I am a follower. My favorite gift was a Keith Urban DVD of one of his concerts. Have a wonderful birthday!
Love the Christmas fabrics!!! My favorite Christmas gift...Shhh, don't tell my husband, but it was a musical snowglobe from our son and his kids. I didn't realize how much I wanted one till I got this one!
I got a laminator for Christmas. I really needed one to laminate things for my sons scrapbook. I love your blog! I am a follower.
I am loving the blog makeover. So adorable! Happy birthday a little early. My favorite gift was that our family was all together this Christmas. It made it very special.
xo,
Danielle
I am already a follower. My favorite gift this Christmas was a new lap top... and my dh thought that I was already addicted to quilting blogs - he hasn't seen nothin' yet!! hehehe Thanks for the chance!
I am a follower and my favorite gift this year was from my son and it was a Children's Singer sewing Machine he bought on E-Bay. I decorate my sewing room with vintage items (when I can find them) and this fits right in! Sue H
I'd have to say my favorite gift for Christmas was a Skype visit with my 6 year old grand-daughter. I don't get to see her very often and the time we spent visiting was priceless. Happy Birthday! Your blog is a blessing too.
I am a follower and have been since I started blogging. Yours is my go to blog daily.
This is going to sound corny, but my best gift was to have my whole family together for Christmas Eve. Hubby and I, our three sons, their wives and the 10 grandkids. That is so special for me.
Happy Birthday, Renee. You are still a baby compared to me. LOL
Enjoy your birthday week.
Oh what fun! Such colorful fabric! My favorite gifts this Christmas were a lovely sweater, a nice gift certificate to Macy's, and a Beam and Read light from my hubby (which I ordered from IHAN, tee hee). Thanks for the giveaway and I am a follower.
Happy Birthday to you!
Wow..love the prizes, so generous of you.
Well, I received a new smart handphone from my hubby on Christmas :)
I like your new look. I've been a follower for awhile now:)
My fave gift was a Pandora bracelet. I plan to add charms to it.:)
I'm a follower...and my favorite present this year had to be the quilting books and craft supplies that "my family" got me! (sometimes mom's the only one that knows what she wants!)
I'm a new follower, although I've been subscribed to your blog through Google Reader for several months. I love it! My favorite gift this year was a digital photo frame. I love being able to have hundreds of photos to look at anytime I want to within just one frame!
Happy birthday!!!
My favorite gift was the fabric envelope my youngest daughter made for me. She wrote me a love letter and put it inside. It was such a gift to me.
I'm a follower. The best gift I received was a fig tree.
I'm already a follower of yours! Thanks for sharing your b-day! Mine was on the 8th. My favorite gift is yet to come from my hunny in February. :)
My favourite Christmas gift, is spending Christmas Day with family, as due to distance, and work commitments, I only get to see my nieces, nephews, and their parents on Christmas Day! Best wishes for your birthday, and happy crafting, Jenny :)
I got a dishwasher!!! I've wanted one since my husband & I got married 6 1/2 yrs ago. I had been waiting to get a built-in one, but we decided to get a portable & it's wonderful! Now I'm using my "free time" to piece a double irish chain quilt in blue & yellow for my sister. Not that I have much free time with my little girlie learning to walk at ten months!
I can't believe your giving away your Christmas stash, but I'd love to win it!! I'm a follower and the best gift I got this year was a Amazon gift card, still hunting for a good apron book! lol
My favorite gift this year was the gift card I received from my husband. It was a visa card with enought money to pay for a quilt kit and a sewing retreat I hope to attend at the end of February. Happy Birthday to you!
I got some warm, comfy new slippers that make sewing in my chilly house much more enjoyable.
Happy birthday week!
Happy Birthday Renee. I was where you are 9 months ago. It's not so bad... What a wonderful giveaway. My favorite gift last year was a wide angle lens for my camera. That being said, I haven't even taken it out of the box yet. lol
Happy Birthday! My favorite gift was an early one. My hubby and I went on a trip in early December. I love your new look! I follow. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Hello dear friend. :0)
You are so sweet to share your lovely fabrics with us. :0)
You will laugh.
My favorite Christmas present was a tree trimmer. I have already put it to great use. :0)
hugs. Trish
Happy Birthday!!! I received an old quilt top that my sister had purchased at an estate sale. I love her and the top!!
Happy Birthday! I just started quilting last summer. The first quilt I made was for my 5 year old nephew in cowboy prints because he loves horses and cowboys. The look on his face (and then the picture of it on his floor - he calls it is carpet) was the best Christmas gift this year! Thanks! I am a follower.
I'm a happy follower! My fave Christmas gift was a new pair of walking boots!! (we're off walking in Northern Spain in April!!)
I am a new "follower" even though I always had visited your blog and love the new look!
Favorite gift? My son had a car accident on the 19th, surgery on the 21st and we got to bring him home on Christmas Eve! Yeah! Material things do not mean much if part of your family is hurting.
My birthday was the 13th and I was truly blessed and do hope you are also.
I am a follower and just love your blog. My favorite gift this year was a gift certificate to the fat quarter shop!
I have been following your blog since My dear friend Cora(Cora-HeartfeltandHomemade)shared your blog with me, and I am so glad she did. I love your new look, and the blog loads and opens so much faster on my computer too! Oh my Goodness! I can't believe you are giving away all your Christmas fabrics! You are such a dear person, so giving! My favorite gift this year was actually a gift that I gave, a recipe scrapbook that I created for my neices.
Happy Birthday, you will love the 50's, I will kiss 51 in a few weeks myself.
I would love to win this fabric and this book, PieceOCake is one of my favorites.
I am a new follower and I am so happy to have found your wonderful blog!! My - what a great giveaway!!! We moved last year and so all my family gave me money to spend on rehabbing my new craft space in the basement. So far, I have bought tons of fabric, but very little to fix up the space itself... oh, well.... there's always the dining room table :-)
Happy birthday from a new follower! I love the games (Settlers of Catan Seafarers and Ticket To Ride) that I got for Christmas! Thanks for the giveaway!
I am a follower. Happy Birthday to you. My favorite gift this year was the wedding album from my daughter's wedding earlier this year.
I have become a follower! My favorite gift this year was a picture frame, that said "Grandkids", from my daughter and my grandkids. Happy Birthday! I don't think leaving the 40's behind will be all that bad. I will do it in Sept.
I have become a follower! My favorite gift this year was a picture frame, that said "Grandkids", from my daughter and my grandkids. Happy Birthday! I don't think leaving the 40's behind will be all that bad. I will do it in Sept.
I received an iPad for Christmas this year from my daughter. I an really enjoying learning the ins-and-outs of this gift. Thanks for the opportunityntomwin your giveaway. I am a follower.
My husband went out on a limb and decided I needed some new sunglasses. He was so right! I love them! Didn't realize how scratched up my old ones were until I looked at the world clearly once again.
I'm a follower, and I love your new look. My favourite gift was from my youngest son, a terrarium that he made. I thought it was such a sweet gesture. He lives in another city and this is something that reminds me of him everyday.
My son did well choosing gifts this year. He got me a great new iron (the orange one by Reliable!) I've had my eye on and a cute Lime Green camera case. Fun!
I just read the last posts you made and I am amazed at your generosity. No doubt the ladies who will benefit from it will be blessed. Though I am not a crafter I do so enjoy visiting your blog, Renee. One cannot give and not be blessed in return. May our Lord bless you richly abundantly for your kindness.
My favorite gift was a new Nikon Coolpix camera. A great camera, and I've been having lots of fun with it.
I'm a new follower of your wonderful blog! I got a new iPhone for Christmas this year!! :)
:-) My favorite Christmas presents is a treadle machine. I've been looking for it forever, you know, with right price, and in decent shape, etc., etc. Finally my husband found it for me. Hurray!
Thank you for the generous giveaway.
I just found your blog via Stray Stitches this morning and have enjoyed my visit here! I just became a follower and would like to wish you a very Happy Birthday later this week! My favorite gift I received was handmade from my daughter: a snowman table runner and snowman placemats. They were a surprise, and I loved them because I collect snowmen...and SHE made them for ME!! :)
I'm a follower and my favorite gift was a quilt top that my great-great-aunt Edie made years ago and was recently discovered in my grandmother's attic. It needs a few repairs and then I'll get it all quilted up for my bed. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Happy birthday week!!! I'm a new follower but i've visited your great blog a couple of times. My favorite Christmas gift was a very soft and warm cashmere scarf that my kids gave me.
my favorite christmas gift was a fat quarter bundle of Marcia Derse fabrics :) thanks for the chance
I am a follower and my favourite thing a received for for Xmas is hard to choose as loved them all, but I really like my Guess handbag
Wow! What a beautiful bunch of fabric.
My favorite gift this year was the 2 pounds of coffe my husband bought from a small town coffee roaster. It was so thoughtful of him to go out of his way to get something special that I can enjoy every day.
Happy,Happy Birthday!
Not sure what you are up to! I love your blog, so hope you won't be quitting. My favorite present this year was a little purse my SIL bought for me on her trip to Paris. It is so cute.
I'm a new follower, I love that stash of Christmas fabrics! Thanks for the giveaway!
I am a new follower. And I would love to win the Christmas fabrics. My favorite gift this year was a gift card to the lumber shop so we can do some extra work to the house.
Happy birthday! I hope that this year is the best year yet for you!!!! My favorite Christmas (actually after Christmas)gift was an upright freezer. Being celiac (gluten intolerant), I cook all our meals from scratch. The freezer allows me to cook large batches on the weekends and freeze portions so during the week, I pull something out of the freezer and voila! I guess it's like the equilivant to someelse's fast food drive thru....minus the lineup of cars :) I am a follower, just not through the drive-thru!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Thanks for a giveaway. You are being very generous with your stash. My favorite Christmas gift is "Gold Book of Deserts" written in Slovak language - from my mom.
I am a new follower. I love the Kobo book reader I got for Christmas. Thanks for entering me in your lovely giveaway.
I was invited to friends for Christmas Day.
I'm a follower.
My fave gift was a partial set of dishes from the 50's that my daughter got me. I so am into dishes! These are Kathie Winkle designed ones...I have another partial set of a different pattern, but I love the retro look. AND, you wouldn't believe how little they are compared to the monster plates and bowls of the new dishes...portion size is much smaller than we think if we go by dish size!
Oh and happy Bday today! I hit that big 50 with in the last year myself....I'm falling apart piece by piece now...:P
I'm a follower and Happy Birthday! My daughter gave me some wonderful batik strips for Christmas, I can't wait to work with them!
Quilting by the River
Happy Birthday! I remember 50 with fondness :) I found your blog thru Stray Stitches. My favorite gift this Christmas was getting to spend time with my Sister, and getting my Dads ring. I don't think he ever wore it, but I know when and where he got it.
I am a new follower and want to wish you Happy Birthday!! My favorite gift at Christmas was a new watch that my kids gave me, I love it!!
I'm new to your blog! I can't even remember how I found my way here, through another blog certainly. But, the look of your blog and a shared love of sewing attracted me.
My favorite gift for Christmas this year was the box of vintage hobnail milk glass pieces my husband lovingly tracked down for me! Miscellaneous pieces that I immediately put to use during our holiday parties.
I'm a new follower. My husband bought me a Silhoutte Cameo for Christmas and I love it
I have been a follower for a long while. My favorite gift was from my daughter. It was a snowman ornament (cause I love snowmen), but it was a stack of three, dad, mom and baby (just like our family). She asked me if I "got it." I told oh yeah I sure did. I will treasure it always
Happy Birthday! My favorite Christmas gift was tickets to see "Wicked" in March. Really looking forward to that. Thanks for the opportunity to win although I really don't need anymore Christmas fabric - my stash is already huge. - Denise C.
Happy Birthday!!
This year I received Nancy Zieman's Column Quilts book and DVD. Hopefully I can use up some of the blocks I have received in swaps over the last couple years.
Let's see .... my favorite Christmas gift this year .... probably a Shutterfly book my daughters made of a trip the three of us took to Seattle this spring.
Although my husband bought me a craft mag subscription my favourite gift was the pyrex flute my parents found me. It is beautifully painted and sounds great too.
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