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Sew Mama Sew 2014 Giveaway Day!

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Happy Giveaway Day!  That’s right ‘tis the Season for Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day!  I LOVE Giveaway Day! (well..technically week).  It’s a great opportunity to take some time, check out bloggers, and of course – win some giveawaydaydec8goodies in the process!

Before we get to the giveaway I want to tell you WHY you want to follow my blog and read it every time I post!
Project QUILTING – a fun quilting challenge that gets posted every other week.  Season 6 will be starting at the beginning of January and it’s never too late to join in the fun!  Either check out this POST to find out more about Project QUILTING OR watch the interview I did with Nancy Zieman for Sewing with Nancy. 
I’m also hosting my very first Project QUILTING Retreat weekend this coming January!  There’s still room for you to sign up and join in on the fun!  All the details can be found HERE. 

Quilt Alongs – We’re nearing the end of the 52 Twisted Traditional Block Quilt Along!  I just have three more block tutorials to share with everyone but feel free to take a look back and see how 49 different traditional blocks were twisted into something unexpected! 
I have a plan in my mind about a quilt along for 2015 but I have to iron out a few details before I announce the details.
Block Tutorials – Whenever other bloggers are doing quilt along’s I’m always happy to create a block for them.  When this happens it is also shared on my blog with my readers/followers.
Propelled Pixels Quilt

Random Projects – I’m constantly making something!  I do my best to share with you what I’m working on, how it’s going, and things I’ve learned.  One of my latest creations is ‘Propelled Pixels’. 

Family and Orchard – I have three beautiful baby girls, a handy hubby and an apple orchard.  You’ll get to hear more about our adventure’s throughout the year and for some reason it seems like we’re never lacking in adventure.

Alright… enough about me!  Let’s see what I’m GIVING AWAY this week!…

WHAT CAN YOU WIN FROM PERSIMON DREAMS?

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One lucky randomly drawn person will win a bundle of six fat quarters of fabrics I hand-dyed AND a BIG BOX of Pat Bravo’s ‘bold beauty’ Aurifil thread!!!
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I will ship internationally.
REQUIRED:  Easy – Just leave me a comment answering this question:
Be sure to include your email address so I’m able to contact you when you win!  If I can’t contact you I will choose a different winner.

What is your favorite holiday tradition?

2015 christmas treeI had to share with you all our ridiculously large Christmas tree.  The little person in the mid-left bottom of the picture is my standing three year old, Pip.  My husband had to cut 8-feet off the initial tree he had picked to fit it in the house …

BONUS Entries  Leave a separate comment for each to gain extra entries

The Giveaway is now CLOSED!  Thanks for stopping by!

Seriously – if you don’t leave your email address, I won’t be able to get ahold of you and you won’t get the prize…this is very important!

And…now that you’ve entered my giveaway – head back to SewMamaSew and see what other blogger’s have to offer!!!
There are TWO posts over at SewMamaSew…

Fen Koan - Finished Quilt
PS.  I also love to put samplers together in ‘different’ ways.  Check out my original hexagon layout on my quilt ‘Fen Koan’. 

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  1. My favorite holiday tradition is trimming the tree with our kids when they were younger and now our grandchildren. We have so much fun looking at the different ornaments collected over the years, some I made some were bought for special events. Then we have cookies and treats.

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  29. my favorite tradition, is making a large basket of Christmas cookies and bringing it to my late husbands dialysis center. They have to work Christmas eve and they don't get lunch breaks. This gives them something to snack on during the day/night while they work.

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  30. My favorite holiday tradition is actually getting up Thanksgiving and watching the parade and then hanging out all day while the food cooks. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  52. Trimming the tree while listening to Christmas music. I love watching my kids hang ornaments, I love seeing the joy on their faces. Thanks for a great giveaway. Merry Christmas.

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  67. My favorite holiday tradition is the junk Yankee Swap my family always did. Everyone brings as many 'presents' as they want and in a round robin fashion, everyone picks a gift and opens it. You are allowed to swap your 'gift' for anyone else's gift and there is always one thing that became the sought after gift. When I say gift I mean things like empty toilet paper tubes, ziploc baggies full of dryer lint, a box with 1 earring back in it. Silly, ridiculous gifts that cost nothing and made us all laugh. It could last for hours and was so much fun. And the kicker is that it was only for the adults. Xmas is for kids but this activity belonged to the adults. I was so excited the first year I qualified to play ' the game' as we referred to it! Not only one of my favorite Christmas traditions but one of my favorite memories, ever. monique.belmer at gmail dot com

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  80. We decorate a gingerbread house. This year I bought a house already assembled and it was a dream to decorate! We always have plenty of candy because one goes for the house and one for little mouths 🙂

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  91. We usually go to a sisters house and spend the eve with them and their grand child. This year there just might be a new baby too. The tradition is a soup supper before church. It is so calm and relaxing.

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  94. My favorite Christmas tradition is spending Christmas Eve with my son. The lights of the tree illuminate the room and we watch a variety of Christmas episodes of his favorite television programs.

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  102. My favorite tradition is shopping for a child off of an Angel Tree. My family is small and we don't have kids to shop for, so I love getting to browse toys and clothes and books, picking out something I hope a kid will like.

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  111. My favourite Christmas tradition is looking at Christmas lights with our church family. We all load up on a bus and drive through several different neighborhoods, stopping along the way for coffee and hot cocoa. Lots of fun!

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  112. Our holiday tradition is that my mom's family gets together on Christmas Eve. We have drinks and a nice big dinner. The kids, 3 little ones, opens presents first. Then the adults. This gives us a chance to relax and have another glass of wine or a bloddy mary. It brings the family together and you just get to enjoy everyone. Thank you for being a part of Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway and the opportunity to win fabric and thread. It's like a quilter's dream come true.

    Sandi Timmons
    sandit1@sbcglobal.net

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  113. My favorite holiday tradition is cranking up the Christmas tunes on the radio and decorating the tree. So many memories of friends and family are rekindled as I hang the various ornaments, and my favorites remain the ones my children made when they were youngsters.
    Thank you for your generosity in donating such great items!

    Karyn
    karynkit@yahoo.com

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  115. I have yet to lay my nimble fingers on Aurafil thread…I need some!
    My favorite holiday tradition is taking our kids out in their jammies (all wrapped up in a hand-made quilt) and driving around town to see the lights and decorations. Then we'd head home and tuck them in bed!

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  117. My favorite longtime tradition is honoring the meaning of Christmas by attending a midnight service on Christmas Eve to bring in Christmas Day. geneblack At gmail dOt com

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  119. Making & putting up all the paper snowflakes that hang from the ceiling. It looks like a snow storm inside with the slightest movement of air. We did this with our sons & now do it with our grand kids…and although our great granddaughter is too young to participate in the making of them, she loves watching the snow flakes dance.
    ntzasqrl2(at)msn(dot)com

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  120. My favorite Christmas tradition is buying a new ornament each year to add to my family's collection and then having everyone try to figure out which is the new one!

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  129. I live an ocean and continent away from my family so my favorite Christmas tradition is seeing them!
    mongoosenamedt at yahoo

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  132. My favorite Christmas holiday tradition is playing for Christmas Eve services and getting together with family.

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  133. My favorite tradition is to decorate the Christmas tree the day before Christmas Eve. In Norway we call that day little Christmas eve. And we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve.

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  150. My favourite tradition is probably all sitting down together for Christmas dinner on Christmas Day. It's always a wonderful time. Thanks for a fab giveaway.

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  152. My newest Christmas tradition is also my favorite, and that is gathering with my husbands family a few days before Christmas before dinner. I help his mother in the kitchen before and after and she is generous with the Wassail she makes every year. We are a fantastic duo in the kitchen and it feels more like relaxing than work (though that could be the Wassail!). We also put the yule log on the TV, which started out as a joke to us and it it stuck, so that's my other favorite thing! Thanks for the chance to win!
    purlverdeknits at hotmail dot com (preferred email)

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  153. I follow along on Facebook also. This fabric is incredible by the way, this is the giveaway I'm really holding out for!
    purlverdeknits at hotmail dot com (preferred email)

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  156. My favorite holiday tradition is going home to see the family. I live in Texas now and they are all in Virginia, so it just makes Christmas that much better knowing I get to spend an extended amount of time at home!

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  159. Since we don't celebrate Christmas I will pick a different holiday. My favourite tradition is decorating the front yard for Halloween and watching entire families ooh and aah at it.

    What a great prize to possibly win. Thank you. kj_hahn (at) telus (dot) net

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  175. My favorite holiday tradition is listening to "old" Christmas music – the stuff that my parents played on vinyl when I was a kid. Oh, Bing Crosby, how I love you…
    This "new" Christmas music is just the worst. Why oh why is the French Canadian singing a Spanish-language song?

    I'm really not as old as I sound…

    Lovely giveaway!

    sunshine_in_wi at ymail dot com

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  176. I love when the whole family comes to my house and we watch the grandkids open their presents and Pappy runs the trains under the tree for them. Love your tall tree. !

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  186. My favorite holiday tradition is painting rolled out sugar cookies with egg yolk paint. I started this when my oldest was 3 and now he's 35 and over the years the kids have really become great artists. They are "painted" and then baked and look like stain glass windows. We use lots of different cookie cutters from my cookie cutter collection. kthurn@bektel.com

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  188. As a child,my favorite tradition was waiting at the top of the stairs with my brother and sister until our parents were up and my dad had gone downstairs to turn on tree lights (and let the dog go outside). Only after that waiting could we rush downstairs to fi d our stockings.

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    • So glad to have found you on this Giveaway Kim & love the prize you are so generously providing. Thank you ever so much.
      The favored tradition "around the Christmas tree each Christmas Eve" is sharing our memories of all our family members "who have gone on" (here no more). The youngsters are enthralled to know that their great, great grandmother did not have a washing machine, etc &, the fun times with family reunions, working the farms, attending a one room school with a coal burning stove, etc. You can imagine the questions that follow from these "techies" & even some of us older family members learn new things about our ancestors. So, we keep them close by remembering, sharing, laughing, & crying. That is our very best tradition! (loosecannon2@live.com)
      I will follow on FB.

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  219. My family's Christmas tradition is going to Christmas Eve service at our church. It always ends with candlelight and a Christmas carol – really gets you in the Christmas spirit!

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  220. My favorite tradition is decorating the Christmas tree! My father left me half of his lifelong ornament collection, including a few ornaments from his grandmother, and his mother, and I too have collected ornaments since I had my first tree. I LOVE your tree – your husband sounds like a wonderful "over the top" person and it makes me happy to think that the two of you are together!

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  226. I love all the traditions we do at christmas…christmas eve pj's, chinese food, watching the christmas story, christmas baking and cardmaking with friends

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  232. My favorite holiday tradition is inviting family and friends to my home for chili after our Christmas Eve service at church. I put the chili in a crock pot and we all just relax and enjoy each other's company before the "big day" arrives.

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  234. My has these angles she gave me that she has been displaying for Christmas since I was a little girl and now I started putting them as part of my Christmas decoration.

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  248. My favourite holiday tradition is hanging all the handmade decorations on the tree that I've accumulated over the years – ones made by me, friends and my children.

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  262. Our favorite holiday tradition would be trimming the Christmas tree and making cookies and candy. Thanks for the chance to win!
    wigglypup2 ( at ) yahoo ( dot ) com

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  274. We just started a new tradition last year. My teenage daughters and I go out to a fancy dinner on Christmas Eve.

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  277. Oh WOW!!!! Your tree isi amazing!!! I had to hunt for your little fella in the pic! lol! One of my favorite traditions is getting my kids all in their jammies, heading to Krispy Kreme drive-thru and eating donuts while we drive around looking at Christmas lights. Never gets old! Thanks for your generous giveaway!

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  295. My family would go Christmas caroling and delivering cookies to friends and neighbors. It was a lot of climbing in and out of the van (there were 8 of us kids) but there are some very fond memories of doing that every year. My husband doesn't sing, and my daughter is only two, but we still like to deliver goodies to friends.

    Beautiful fabric and LOVE the thread! So bright and colorful! mindily at hotmail dot com

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  297. my fav tradition is going ot my grandmother in laws for Chicken and Dumplins on Christmas Eve Night and talking as a family about what we are all thankful for from the previous year

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  303. My favorite tradition is dressing up in boots, hats and mitten and driving to the mountains to cut our Christmas tree. My married children and their family always join us. After we all pick out our favorite trees and the chopping is done, we go sledding, have a fir and lots of hot chocolate. Watching my grandchildren laughing and having fun just melts my heart

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  304. My favourite holiday tradition is delivering gifts to relatives on Christmas Eve, followed by going home and putting on my new pjs from Santa (he always delivers them the night before :D)

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  323. My favorite thing to do for the Holidays is to make family and friends ornaments. For several years, I embroidered snowflakes but this year I have switched to quilted mini stockings.

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  331. My favourite during the holidays are spending time with friends and family and eating together. I love this all year long but with christmas it is just a bit "extra"

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  337. On the night of Dec. 6 we have the kids put their boots outside the door so that St. Nick can fill them, I think this is a German tradition that has made it to my family and now that my son is named Nikolaos, Dec. 6th is his name day, so a double celebration.

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  356. My very favorite is after eating thanksgiving and Christmas dinner the family makes "teams" and we have a bean bag toss competition. It's really fun because all ages can play. From children to adult. We all love it. And since we live in Louisiana it's usually really nice weather to be playing outside. LOL. Thanks for the chance to win. I love aurifil thread and your hand dye fabric looks really beautiful
    Kristenmariej@hotmail.com

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  358. My husband puts the lights on our tree and then my two kids and I put on the ornaments. They are 18 and 20 now – not sure if this tradition will continue! 🙁

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  366. Baking cookies!! The kids and I would bake all day. They have moved to other states now, so we don't do that anymore; but when I bake a batch, I still go back to those days!!

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  371. My favorite holiday is making the pies with my granddaughter at Thanksgiving and baking cookies with my grandchildren at Christmas, things get messy but we have a wonderful time making memories

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  372. Wow that is a big Christmas Tree. I can't believe your husband had to cut 8 feet off. Amazing. Lovely tree.

    My favorite part of Christmas is the decorations, especially the lights. Typically, right after Thanksgiving I pull out all my holiday decorations and enjoy Christmas music while I decorate. Love it.

    SewCalGal
    http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

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  378. Wow, Your work is beautiful!
    Favorite holiday tradition…it's the Hats…those crazy paper yoddel head hats on everyone sitting around the table…wipes every sour feeling of the year right off the map.

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  385. I just love getting together with family. My family seems to get smaller every year, I wish I'd had more children to keep the numbers up, lol! 🙂

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  396. My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with all the family and eating waffles for Christmas Eve dinner. We've done it since I was a kid and now my grandkids are following the tradition too.

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  400. My favorite tradition is gathering at my mother's house and doing a white elephant Christmas present exchange! Everyone is supposed to bring something that they don't like and we number based on how many people are there, then we start with the first gift. Each person has the choice of taking the present before them, and it gets competitive. But number 1 can take anything at the end of the game! One year an enema was in the gifts and my older aunt exclaimed, "I really needed this!" It is hilarious and you can't keep the kids away! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

    tdkcarpenoctem@hotmail.com

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  410. Our tradition is to have mimosas on Christmas Day with a huge mid-afternoon meal of those foods we won't splurge on during the year, like crab legs or crown roast. We also sit around with guitars and sing all types of music.

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  415. Daaaaang that tree! I've had a 6" root we decorate in lieu of a tree every year. My dad gave us an artificial tree last year, which the kids enjoy.

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  431. We always have an open door for Christmas dinner. I love to decorate a tree or two, and do lots of baking of sweet treats. Everyone goes home with a goodie bag of them. lynnmcindoe at gmail.com

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  432. My favorite holiday tradition? I take my girl friend's children ice skating each year at the artificial ice rink. It is a special treat we all look forward to since we live in a "we never see snow climate" in the southern US.

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  433. My favorite holiday tradition is actually St. Nicholas day. Up until these last two years after my family moved too far away to just drive, every year on Dec. 5th we would gather around my mom on the floor and listen to the St. Nick story. Now, I'm 23 and the youngest of us 4 kids is now a freshman in highschool but that doesn't stop us from cuddling up close to one another to listen to the story and but in when my mom "accidently" messes up or forgets a part. Afterwards, we hang our stockings and go to bed early. The next morning we all get up early and see what St. Nick left us – fuzy socks, cute note pads, new pencils/ pens for school, and those chocolate coins. We all say its our favorite part of the holidays because its a reminder that its not about getting expensive presents but about giving to others and focusing on being together. 🙂

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  442. Adding a new ornament to the tree each year that symbolises something special from the last year. This year its an ornament of a kitten under the tree, guess what we got this year!

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  451. My favorite Christmas tradition is for the grandkids to (make a mess) decorate cookies I have baked with frosting and all kinds of sprinkles. It's a lovely mess.
    Hugs

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  463. Wow,that is some crazy Big tree! My favorite tradition is pulling out all of my handmade ornaments each year to decorate the tree! Thanks for the giveaway.

    sewCeLynn at gmail dot com

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  464. My favorite tradition is our family Christmas dinner and gift exchange. We often cannot get our schedules together on Christmas, so we do it first chance we can get together. Sometimes it is in spring! We do that one "treeless" :-0

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  467. We make Christmas last as long as we can, taking turns opening gifts in our stockings one by one, then having breakfast, cleaning up, and settling in to open tree gifts. We take turns doing those too, so it is usually early afternoon before we're done! After dinner we play a family game and stay up way too late, but it's so much fun. 🙂

    janers41[at]yahoo[dot]com

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  468. As a kid I loved opening one present of my choice on Christmas Eve. As a parent, I love giving my kiddos a special Christmas Eve package (made up of new pjs, socks, a book, and hot chocolate).

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