SMS Hip Holiday Giveaway Winner

Photo courtesy of Westwood Acres Fabric

SMS Giveaway Day Week is over and it always makes me a bit sad.  I've had such fun reading about all of your holiday traditions.  It is clear to me that like with my own family, getting to be together with family plays a huge part in our family traditions.  Food is another big part of our traditions - who doesn't love all those wonderful Christmas treats we only have once a year?!  And combine food and our families and friends?  Now that's a winning combination!

Like with me, Christmas movies play a huge part in our annual Christmas celebrations.  Many of you reminded me of movies I hadn't seen in a long time, or of annual favorites.  Either way, movies help us feel the spirit of the season.

And I even learned a bit about traditions from other cultures!  That was fun!

Perhaps the comments I enjoyed most, however, were the ones that reminded me of Christmas memories, some nearly forgotten.  What a joy those were for me.

A few of you don't celebrate Christmas, and entered anyway.  Thank you.

I hope I was able to respond to everyone who left a comment.  I really tried, although my computer didn't make it easy sometimes.  If you didn't receive a comment, you were either a no-reply blogger or my computer zipped along without letting me respond.  Know that I read and enjoyed every comment.

Photo courtesy of Blend Fabrics

And now...  {drum roll please!}...  the moment you have been waiting for...

The winner of the Josephine Kimberling Hip Holiday bundle from Westwood Acres Fabric is

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Timestamp: 2013-12-15 00:17:33 UTC

406.  Reb Thack  December 11, 2013 at 5:06 PM

We read a Christmas kids book all together every night leading up to the 25th. It's super fun to share in the kids' excitement!

That sounds like a fun tradition I wish I had done when my kids were little.  Maybe next year I'll get the grands 25 Christmas books and give them to their mommy at Thanksgiving for their Christmas enjoyment.  (This year I gave them a chocolate advent calendar, and I think the begging was driving their mommy and daddy crazy!)

Reb, I'm off to email you for your address.

Thanks to everyone who entered.  You really helped start my Christmas season off in a splendid way!

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day - Hip Holiday Giveaway

It's Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day again, and I have to admit that I really wasn't ready.  I've been home from my Thanksgiving Snow-cation for a couple of days now, but I'm still fighting the cold - at least the one in my head.  Nevertheless, I didn't want to let the day go by without playing, you know?

If you're new to my little blog, let me introduce myself...  I'm Wendi, a mom, grandma, recently retired banker, lover of color, quilts, crafts of all kinds, and {especially} these two little people.   And according to my husband, I'm always "too pressed for time", hence the name of my blog (just in case you were wondering.)

And now for the good stuff...

This summer, while I was visiting my daughter, she handed me a fat quarter bundle, and my precious grandbabies, left town and let me not only have the kids all to myself, but make a c-u-t-e Christmas quilt from the yummy Hip Holiday by Josephine Kimberling as well!  Super fun!

photo courtesy of Westwood Acres

And since it's Christmas, and since I can't make each of you your own Christmas quilt, I purchased a fat eighth bundle of the adorable Hip Holiday from my daughter's {new} shop for one lucky winner.  And if you don't win, you could even buy yourself a bundle (ps:  it's on sale!)

To enter:

1.  Leave a comment below and tell me your family's favorite Christmas tradition.  (One of ours -well, ok, mine - is watching "White Christmas" every year.  And the best part?  At least one of my kids will make it a point to watch it with me.  Aren't they the best kids ever?!!)

2.  If you're a follower of my blog (or become a follower) you get a second entry.  Just leave a second comment.

3.  For a third chance to win, head over to my Facebook page and "Like" it, then come back and leave another comment.

photo courtesy of Blend Fabrics

So, you have 3 chances to win!  Good luck!

Sorry - while I have many friends internationally, with the price of postage, I can only ship domestically this time.  Oops, apparently I linked to the wrong thread on SMS, so I'll keep my promise and ship anywhere in the world.

Per SMS rules, the giveaway will be open until 5 pm Pacific Time on December 13, 2013.

And thanks for visiting!

Per SMS Rules, comments are now closed.

Catching Up - Part Three

So here we are at the third - and final - installment of my "Vacation Trilogy" - the one about the crafty stuff I did while I was gone.

(Aside from button necklaces, of course!)

It's pretty inspiring to have this just down the hall...  (Since I was so busy, I didn't take many pictures, so I've swiped Manda's IG photos - she does a much better job at the picture taking than I do!)

I folded a bit lot of fabric...  This one is the Low Volume Dots bundle.

And got to play with some more...  This is Briar Rose by Heather Ross, of course!

I cut and folded this very bundle - so pretty!  This is Nordika by Jeni Baker of In Color Order.  Isn't it dramatic?  Can't wait to play with this!

And helped ship some packages while the parents were gone - but not this many.

And I made this Christmas quilt top.  The fabric is Hip Holiday from Josephine Kimberling, and the pattern is Spin Cycle from Allison Harris of Cluck Cluck Sew.  It was a beast to cut out, but fun to put together.

I hate trimming blocks, but love the little piles that the trimming creates.  It makes such a difference in the finished quilt to have all the blocks the exact same size.

And I put together a couple of quilt tops for Manda.  This one was finished, but she wanted to make it bigger.  She had all the blocks made so it was a simple matter to put it together.  If you want to make one too, this is the Seaside Chevron Hexagon Quilt on her blog.  One more finished quilt top in the stash.

I made Abby a couple of little dresses.  The pattern is the Geranium Dress by MadeByRae.  It's classic and super easy to put together.  And very versatile.  The fabric is Robert Kaufman chambray.  I loved working with it.  Such a nice hand.  And I think she likes it!

She hadn't worn this one yet, but she picked out the fabric herself.  I think she'll like it too.

I managed to get one hexie flower made - which is not too bad considering I only made hexies in the airport while waiting for flights.

I took a weekend pilgrimage to Idaho to visit my friends Carol and Brent.  They took me to the Boise Farmer's Market on Saturday.  It was really fun.  We bought some wonderful fresh-from-the-farm berries.  And the fresh-squeezed lemonade was delightful on such a hot day - it was 104 when I was there.

And she very kindly indulged me by taking me to this fun quilt shop down the road from her house.  I think I may have converted her - she's planning on taking a quilting class from them in August!  (Do I dare say I hope she's hooked??)

And, when I wasn't sewing or playing with the grands, I made a couple of blueberry pies.  You can find the recipe here.

And I might have brought a bit of fabric home... 


So, that's what I have to show for my vacation.  Fairly productive, and lots of fun!


But also very nice to be home.