I can't believe how swamped I've been over the past couple of weeks but there is plenty of good reason and I'll fill you in on that shortly but today is just going to be a day to celebrate.
A few days ago this blog became 3 years old.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to write this post then but I do now. It is hard to believe that it has been 3 years already. Time sure has flown by fast. It is fun to look back at my first months of posts and remember just how much of a newbie I was and think about where this journey has taken me so far. It really is amazing
One of those amazing things that recently came my way was an invitation to be a guest speaker. My friend Sharon of Vroomans Quilts asked me to speak to her guild, The Schoharie Valley Piecemakers, at their November meeting about 100 Good Wishes Quilts.
It was a thrill and an honor and from the feedback I've heard, it was a huge success. Whew! I admit that I was just a tad bit worried about that. My friend Alana came along for technical and moral support. That group is fantastic and so much fun. Too bad they aren't close by....I'd join in an instant. I'm happy to report that they "got it" and many of them are now thinking about making some 100 Good Wishes Quilts, for new babies or weddings or graduations. I can't wait to see the pictures of what they create.
(Thanks Sharon for allowing me to use your picture.)
But not only am I celebrating this blogiversary, but this just happens to also be my 600th post!
One of those amazing things that recently came my way was an invitation to be a guest speaker. My friend Sharon of Vroomans Quilts asked me to speak to her guild, The Schoharie Valley Piecemakers, at their November meeting about 100 Good Wishes Quilts.
(Thanks Sharon for allowing me to use your picture.)
But not only am I celebrating this blogiversary, but this just happens to also be my 600th post!
That averages out to 200 posts per year. Not too shabby I think, especially considering I still work and have little kidlets at home.
Now it is time to party! I'm not receiving presents but two of you will. Reaching dual milestones calls for dual goodies in my eyes.
One winner will receive Judy Madsen's Quilting Wide Open Spaces book. It truly is fabulous and the instant she announced she was getting it published I put it on my wish list. Well...I ended up receiving 2 copies so one of them will go to one of you.
The second winner will receive my last half yard bundle of Petal Pushers by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics. I love the bright colors and fun prints in these fabrics and considering the nasty early winter weather we've had lately, I'm trying to keep spring-ish thoughts. Hey, a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do to get through the bitter cold months.
Now it is time to party! I'm not receiving presents but two of you will. Reaching dual milestones calls for dual goodies in my eyes.
One winner will receive Judy Madsen's Quilting Wide Open Spaces book. It truly is fabulous and the instant she announced she was getting it published I put it on my wish list. Well...I ended up receiving 2 copies so one of them will go to one of you.
The second winner will receive my last half yard bundle of Petal Pushers by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics. I love the bright colors and fun prints in these fabrics and considering the nasty early winter weather we've had lately, I'm trying to keep spring-ish thoughts. Hey, a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do to get through the bitter cold months.
These giveaways are open to one and all and will close at Midnight Tuesday, November 25th.
To enter for your chance to win one of these goodies, leave me one comment and one comment only answering the question:
What One thing are you hoping Santa brings to you this year?
Have many wishes on your list? I'm sure but for this giveaway you have to pick and tell me just one.
My followers get a 2nd entry, just tell me how you follow.
I'm looking forward to what year 4 might bring. One never knows what exciting new avenues might open up.
I hope Santa brings me a quilt certificate for fabric.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your third birthday and 600th post.... that's a lot of great blogging! Thanks for the giveaway....seems like we should be gifting you. I already have Judy's wonderful book so you can leave me out for that one. May your have many more blogging anniversaries!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm a happy follower! Good health would be my greatest wish!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on both milestones, here's to many more!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the chance, the fabric is gorgeous.
* I'm wishing for a good light to do my hand stitching by!
* I'm a follower through GFC & Bloglovin' :)
I'd love to have my own sewing room for Christmas, but since that's not likely to happen, I'd be happy with an Amazon.com gift certificate, so I can add to be collection of quilt books. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI hope Santa brings me the book 'Patchwork City'! Congrats on your two milestones :-)
ReplyDeleteI follow on Bloglovin!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your milestones! I really don't have a wish list this year. I am pretty content :) But every girl can use a great new quilting book and fabric ;) Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations sweetie! I follow with GFC. I don't make wish lists as they just don't come to light. But I would love the BlockRockit14 quilt machine.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your milestones. 200 post per year isn't to shabby at all. The one thing I want is the Havel's Fabric and Quilt Cutter.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping Santa brings my new flooring before Christmas this year!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the milestones!
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ReplyDeleteHappy blogaversary! How neat it was that you got to speak at Sharon's guild. Wish I'd been there.
ReplyDeleteMy wish is for another healthy year in our family. I have Judy's great book, but I'd love the fabric.
I follow through Bloglovin and GFC.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations all the way around. So many wonderful things. Petal Pushers is so pretty. Peace and quite would be nice for the holidays. 24Tangent@gmail.com
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ReplyDeletecongrats! Not sure what I want for Christmas, I'd like a V17 upgrade, but that's too much $$, I'd also like a nicer camera but don't NEED it. Really I think we're doing small gifts this year (hubby and I) as we're pretty sure he'll be laid off in the new year- thought it would be this year, but hasn't happened yet.
ReplyDeleteWow! Wonderful for you to celebrate two milestones!!! I really, really want a new tablet because mine has a crack and since then has not been much fun to use! I'd also be very happy to have new pj's too!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! One wish - to spend the day with my grandbabies, the first ever since up until a couple months ago we lived 3000 miles from them!
ReplyDelete600 posts in 3 years is amazing to me. Congrats. I want Santa to bring a rolling tote for my machine so it's easier to get to sew days.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
ReplyDeleteMy wish is for Bloc Loc ruler!
I need all the help I can get when cutting and making HST!
I follow you on Bloglovin!
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ReplyDeleteI am hoping that Santa brings my grown-up daughter here (in Florida) from Brooklyn!
ReplyDeleteI follow you with feedly. CONGRATS on your double celebration!
ReplyDeleteI am a regular follower. I think I have been following you for at least two of the three years! Congrats on all of your finishes these past few years. I look forward to seeing many more.
ReplyDeleteA little thing I'd like to see under the tree this year is Bonnie Hunter's book: Scraps & Shirttails II. I have most of her other books. Some year I'm going to work through one from cover to cover. Have a great holiday season.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your double celebration. 600 posts is amazing. For Christmas I would like to see a day where we welcome heathy newborns into this world. I am working a 12 hour shift as a midwife. Thanks for the chance to enter the giveaway, I have Judis book and love it.
ReplyDeleteI follow through GFC.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought too much about Christmas yet. I am kind of hoping my MIL gets me some fabric, so will wrap my presents in them :) I love it!
ReplyDeleteThat fabrics is GORGEOUS!!!
I follow you through google friend connect.
ReplyDeleteLove reading your blog - congratulations
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My wish is that we all have a healthy year next year after a few rocky times
ReplyDeleteMy Christmas wish, for my family and friends to stay healthy.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 3 years and 600 posts! I follow your blog via email.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the milestones! I enjoy following your blog. The biggest thing on my list this year is a new tablet. hope I have been good enough this year lol.
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I don't have a list of "things" but time with my husband and son would be my wish. Lately we all seem to be going in different directions!
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog via GFC. Congratulations on your milestone!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I'd love for Santa to bring my husband a job. Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteI also follow via e-mail. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 600! that's a lot of blogging. Although I'm loving being unemployed and having lots of extra time to sew, I guess a new job is number one on my wish list.
ReplyDeleteI follow through Google
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 600
ReplyDeleteI follow thru email
ReplyDeletecongrats on 3 years and 600 posts.
ReplyDeleteI hope santa brings me a civil war brooch, a civil war fan and civil war ladies dress gloves. Our son is getting married and having a civil war themed wedding. so I will be making a civil war dress and would love to dress it up a little.
Congrats on your 2 big milestones!! I've been a follower for quite a while....not sure how long for certain :)
ReplyDelete***if Santa were real, I'd ask for a long arm....since I'm a realist with 2 sets of little feet running around, im asking Santa for a couple days to finish moving my sewing room and get it all back in order :)
Gurlllll yiu got it going on! Many congrats on 3 yeas and 600 posts. I really enjoy your blog. I hope Santa brings me a gift certificate for fabric. Thanks for the chance to win. I have been eyeballing that book!
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ReplyDeleteCongrats on 600! I would LOVE Santa to bring me a long arm! I'd settle for his bringing me a Bernina! But..I'll be happy with some new fabric!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Michele! Thank you for the giveaway. I would love for Santa to bring me a new computer.
ReplyDeleteI follow you via GFC.
ReplyDeletei agree with others....good health is so precious and would be a most welcome gift.
ReplyDeleteI know it's been said already but good health for my family and myself. Congratulations on your milestones!
ReplyDeleteI follow through Bloglovin.
ReplyDeleteI hope Santa brings me a longarm quilting machine but it won't fit in his sack so I won't be disappointed. :( Thanks for the giveaway. I enjoy your blog. Thanks again. I've also shared your giveaway on my Giveaway List for sewers & quilters at WowILikeThat.com. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your blogging birthday! I am hoping for EQ7. I probably wont have time to use it but I still want it.
ReplyDeleteI happily follow you on GFC.
ReplyDeleteI like receiving JoAnn's gift certificates from Santa.
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I follow via Bloglovin.
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Congrats Michele! I would like Santa to bring me a new sewing machine.
ReplyDeleteI happily follow with GFC.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping that Santa will bring me an embroidery hoop this year. I like to do hand embroidery on my quilt blocks and that would be wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI would like a new comfy desk chair for my sewing room!
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower quilty girlfriend!
ReplyDeleteI am hoping that this is the year that Santa bring me my Prince Charming so he can take me away from all of this glamor....lol
ReplyDeleteFor Christmas I would like my quilt magazine subscriptions renewed. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I follow via e-mail. Thanks!
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I am hoping Santa will bring me a serger for my sewing room, plus some good lessons to learn how to use it!
ReplyDeleteI follow you on Bloglovin'.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your 600th post!
Congratulations on your double milestone! I'm hoping that Santa brings our family an adoption approval letter from China - hopefully for Thanksgiving instead of Christmas! Oh, and fabric, too!
ReplyDeleteAnd I follow you via email!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogiversary and 600+ posts! I'd love to get a winning lottery ticket for Christmas. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of Christmas is the candlelight Christmas Eve service, so good weather so we can have safe driving.
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I follow your delightful blog via email.
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Happy birthday and congrats! I follow via Feely =)
ReplyDeleteWhile I always love gifts that support my quilty obsession, this year what I want most is new kitchen towels ... weird, I know, but I'm very picky ...
ReplyDeleteI hope to get fabric store gift cards. To support my addiction. Also because I don't want someone to pick out the fabric for me.
ReplyDeleteImagine making 600 quilt blocks. If you made 200 per year that would be a big quilt. I hope Santa brings me a visit from my Grandchidren. That would be wonderful!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your milestones. I hope that this Christmas I get to spend time with my children.
ReplyDeleteI follow on Bloglovin
ReplyDeleteI am hoping for the sewing table that goes with the machine that I bought a year ago. That way I can do my piecing and quilting in my sewing room. Right now to actually have the room to quilt I have to carry it downstairs to sew at my dining room table.
ReplyDeleteI follow you on bloglovin.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to receive a lot of pretty fabric from Santa :)
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ReplyDeleteI would like to have a pair of left-handed sewing scissors; at the moment I'm using the kitchen scissors. sarah@forrussia.org
ReplyDeleteI follow you with bloglovin. sarah@forrussia.org
ReplyDeleteI'd like one of those speakers you can plug your iPhone into, for listening while cooking or doing dishes. My earbuds' cord hooks on the cupboard handles and it's a nuisance. Failing that, a gift certificate to my fave quilt shop would be nice! annesimonot@sasktel.net
ReplyDeleteA gift certificate to the quilt shop in Huron!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a mid-arm frame. That would be on my wish list :-)
Happy Blogaversary! I'm hoping that Santa brings me lots of thread! And I'm looking forward to your next 600 posts!
ReplyDeleteI've been following your delightful blog on Bloglovin! Thanks for all the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping for the quick curves ruler and book -- congrats on 3 years and the big 600
ReplyDeletei'm of course a follower
ReplyDeleteI just want my family all together for Christmas. Congratulations on two milestones!
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog via email. Thanks for the giveaways!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun to be able to speak to a quilt guild about something you love! I rarely have wishes at Christmas, at least not for things. But I do pray for family reconciliation for those estranged - holidays are hard for those folks! blessings, marlene
ReplyDeleteI follow on Bloglovin'. blessings, marlene
ReplyDeleteI am following you via Bloglovin'!!
ReplyDeleteMy wish is for Peace on earth and this pretty fabric. Following you on Bloglovin.
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I always enjoy getting my quilting magazine renewal for Christmas and some more Elm Creek Novels from my mom. (She's so good to me!)
ReplyDeleteI'm a happy follower through GFC and I have ya right on my blogroll! Congrats on three years!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on three years and 600 posts! That's quilt an accomplishment. I'm hoping for a hand quilt hoop.
ReplyDeleteI would really like to get a new camera this year.
ReplyDeleteI follow via bloglovin'.
ReplyDeleteI just gave my grand daughter my list. The main thing I wanted was a light box
ReplyDeleteI follow by blog lovin
ReplyDeleteCongratulations !!
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I'd love a new winter coat!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope Santa gives all the little children of the world peace and health.
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I hope Santa brings me a bosu ball.
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog through GFC.
ReplyDeleteI always love your 'eye candy!' and your blog. So inspiring! I wish (pray daily) for my children's happiness. I am so blessed. Thank you for sharing and congrats on your milestones.
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog through email and bloglovin! Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy Wish for Christmas is to stay cancer free (celebrated my 1 year in Oct!! YAY!)...anf for all the Kiddo's here for Christmas Dinner..Specially the far away ones! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Milestone's!! :) Lots more blessings to come!
ReplyDeleteI follow thru Bloglovin
A new recliner! Congrats on your 600th post! Wow, that's so encouraging.
ReplyDeleteI'm a very happy follower!
ReplyDeleteI would love to own the new Electric GO! Thanks for the giveaway and congrats on your milestones. b.j.day68@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteSanta could bring me a maid!
ReplyDeleteI hope Santa brings me an organizer for all my fabrics and sewing things.
ReplyDeleteI follow on Bloglovin'
ReplyDeletei want santa to bring me one of the new sewing machines made for quilting.
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ReplyDeleteWow - congratulations! I really want a new sewing machine from Santa. Thanks!
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I follow on Bloglovin. Thanks!
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I hope Santa brings me a new computer! Cynthia Knapp cknapp3626@sbcglobal.net
ReplyDeleteI follow you by email! Cynthia Knapp cknapp3626@sbcglobal.net
ReplyDeleteSanta needs to bring me a some new fabrics and free time to get through my to do list!
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ReplyDeleteThis is very random, but I'm hoping for a Sonicare DiamondClean toothbrush! I recently got Invisalign, and I really want to focus on my dental health in the new year.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping that Santa brings me the beginnings of my new studio. It is looking good since he has already talked to the carpenter about taking down a wall.
ReplyDeleteI follow on Google Friend Connect and congratulations on your milestones.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your blog milestones. Santa could bring me a gift certificate for some quilting books on my list.
ReplyDeleteI follow you via email.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the wonderful milestone happening! I would Santa to bring me an Ipad.
ReplyDeleteI follow via email, thanks!
ReplyDeleteI follow you on Facebook and by email. midwayfarms@hughes.net
ReplyDeleteI have asked Santa for a new iron. midwayfarms@hughes.net
ReplyDeleteI hope Santa brings me a big roll of batting so I can quilt more.
ReplyDeleteI follow you via Tamarack Shack Blogspot.
ReplyDeleteI would love it if Santa could arrange for me to find a little spare time just to have a little me time .... to quilt read or just visit with a friend.
ReplyDeletethanks for hosting a give away and congrats on your 600 post
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I have been a follower for a while now :0)
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Congratulations on reaching your 600th post. I love the fabric and could always use more fabric at Christmas.
ReplyDeleteNew follower as I just learned of your blog and heard you completed your 600th post...I'm still working toward my 50th! Congratulations and hope you make 600 more! Thanks for having a giveaway.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on you blogiversary. I've been following you for months and am always impressed with your projects.
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