Bloggy Giveaway at Quilting & Patchwork
July 28, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
I’m holding another giveaway/drawing at Quilting and Patchwork. This one is in conjunction with the Bloggy Giveaway Carnival, July 28-Aug. 1.
I’m offering the book, Sarah’s Patchwork, a novel by Stephanie Grace Whitson. We follow orphan Sarah Biddle as she starts her heirloom patchwork quilt in her new home in Lincoln, Nebraska. She grows from a frightened orphan girl to a courageous woman, stitching her quilt of past and present. This book is part of the Keepsake Legacies series.
The giveaway is open to those who live in the United States or have a mailing address here. The dates are July 28- Aug. 1, at 11:59 AM eastern.
Leave a comment below. (Include your e-mail address in the sign-in procedure, so I’ll know how to contact you. E-mail addresses are not made public.)
Tell us about your quilting, if you’d like. Do you have any heirloom quilts in your family?
The other Giveaway I have at Quilting and Patchwork ends July 31. This is for the book, What I Learned from God While Quilting.
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I love to quilt and have many of my own, although I give away most of them. I like to do everything by hand. We have my husband’s grandmother’s quilt, which is very special to us.
pianananna@gmail.com
I’m not a quilter yet. However, I just keep buying fabric, pattern books, etc. I’m just a little intimidated about starting a project– but I love to shop
We have quilts in my family that were my grandmother and grandfather’s families. I’d love to be able to make at least 2 (one for each of my children.)
I have a lot of my grandma’s old shirts that I would love to make into a quilt.
wow i love to try and win this
I’m having so much fun blog hopping. I love quilts Great giveaway! I hope I’m the lucky winner
i LOVE to quilt when I have a few spare minutes and even when I don’t, I have a few old quilts from a Great Aunt and some blocks from my grandma that I still need to finish into a quilt.
I have quilts made by both my grandmothers and also several aunts. My grandmothers & one of my aunts taught me to quilt, so their quilts are special to me.
just started
I have three “heirloom” quilts, if you stretch the definition a bit. The oldest is a baby quilt from the early 1950’s. It made for me by the women in my mother’s church circle. My sister used it as an infant, and she used it for her two children. Mother made two kit quilts in the early 1960’s. Mine is a pansy wreath that is now in use in my guest room. (My sister’s was turquoise cross-stitch; I don’t know what happened to it.) The third–which stretches the definition–is the first quilt I made. (Am I old enough to make heirlooms?!) It’s a double-bed, cross-stitch (avocado green) from a kit that I made the year I was in library school. I did the embroidery first semester and the hand-quilting the second semester. That was 34 years ago–and I still use both the quilt and the degree!
I have two heirloom quilts–one made by my dad’s mom is a small baby quilt and has appliqued butterflies on a white ground. The other made by my mom who was not crafty, which makes me love it even more. It’s a Sunbonnet Sue using blocks made by my mom’s two sisters and their mother from scraps of my clothes from childhood. It is worn almost to thin air in some places. When we moved to Rhode Island from California, this quilt was the one item that was lost. I cried and cried. Imagine my joy when on Christmas morning there was just one more present for me–they had found my quilt in the potato cellar of the new house!! Thanks for the fun chance to win a book and share stories.
Since I know of no quilting history in my heritage (although I know that I had great-aunts who were career women- one was a butcher!) I am first generation quilter with another cousin or two that does some…
I appreciate the history and love that has gone into quilting in the past.
My husbands grandmother is teaching me how to quilt and I love it!!
We do have heirloom quilts in our family. My Grandma used to quilt and gave each baby one and also gave a quilt to each bride or young girl for their beds. I wish I could quilt, but I honestly haven’t had the time to take on another project.
There’s a quilt in my husband’s family that’s been past down for several generations. He was very upset when it was passed to his sister instead of him. Every baby born into the family has to be wrapped in the quilt. I’m not sure how it started, but it’s pretty neat!
My heirloom quilt is the one my great-grandma made for me when I moved out of my crib and into my “big girl” bed. She died shortly thereafter, and I have very little actual memory of her, so it is precious to me to hold this quilt, touch the fabrics, and know that she used them, selected them, cut them out with her template made from newspaper, and then handstitched each piece together with love for her great-granddaughter.
I am working on my first “real” quilt, but I hope to progress throughout the next few decades so that I can pass on some heirlooms to the next generation!
This book sounds TOTALLY up my alley!!! I would LOVE to have the chance to read it! I have never quilted before…but i LOVE quilts and the histories that go with them! I would love to learn to quilt someday as well!
I don’t quilt. I love all the Amish novels I read and imagining their quilting circles. I may ask my mom to teach me one day.
that book sounds good. =) I dont quilt, but I have some quilts my mom and grandma made that I will pass on to my kids
Thanks for the great giveaway!!! Please include me!
gerijones64@hotmail.com
my quilt is a 5 generation quilt that started with my Granny and ended with my daughter. Granny held a needle in her hand and put the last 10 stitches in when she was 5 days old.
I have never quilted, however I plan to one day! thanks for the chance.
Great giveaway! Although I don’t quilt, it’s a craft I would love to learn one day.
All my aunts worked together to make my grandmother a quilt when my aunt died. It has a special heart patch from each of them and a patch with each of their names embroidered on it for her. She had a lot of kids so it’s a really big quilt!
This sounds like a book I would really enjoy. I don’t quilt but I enjoy looking at them because they’re so beautiful. I sew but not too well. Maybe one day I’ll try quilting.
i heart good books and i was born and raised in nebraska . . . sounds great! thanks for a fun giveaway!
kristen
ryankristenwilson(at)msn(dot)com
Sounds like a neat book. Unfortunately, the closest I have gotten to quilting in a long time was making a t-shirt quilt- does that count?
This sounds like a great book! I would love to learn to quilt but I have not as of yet. We also do not have any heirloom quilts in our family. Thank you for the giveaway!
My grandmother and my mom were the ones that taught me how to quilt. I hope to be able to leave many heirloom quilts behind for my kids. I still remember the times when we go to my grandmas and spend hours looking through her cedar chest of quilts. love it!
I’ve never quilted but have often thought of doing it.
this sounds wonderful! I am working on my first quilt now, and wouldn’t that be poetic?
please come by and enter my giveaway too!
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I’ve always been fascinated with quilts but have never made one!
I am not a quilter, but my Mother-in-law is a great quilter. We have several heirloom quilts made by her. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
I do have an heirloom quilt! It is just a little over 100 years old and came from the neighbor next door to my Granny when they were all still alive. Even though a relative of mine didn’t make it I still cherish it. I am a quilter too but still don’t have the skills like some others out there.
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway that you are having!
I am not a quilter, but I love Quilts, does that count?
My mother made some beautiful quilts until she got arthritis. I have several, but we use them and they show some wear.
I’m currently the only quilter in my family!
I’d love to read this book!
I have never quilted although I have a few homemade quilts from when my daughter was born that are beautiful. I would certainly like to have the talent involved in making a quilt, unfortunately I do not. Would still like to win the book. I love to read.
I love quilts. I have tried it a few times.
I would love to enter your drawing. I love quilts, but don’t know how to make them.
My three older teen daughters took a quilting class and they won blue ribbons at the fair.
Kathy
bigfamily8 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Sounds like a great book! I don’t have any heirloom quilts but do have a bedspread crocheted by my great-aunt. I took one quilting class and loved the quilting part but don’t do well at piecing.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Sounds like a great book! I have a quilt that my great grandmother made. And each of my girls has a quilt on her bed that was made for dh when he was little.
My grandmother’s quilt was lost because of my grandfather’s 2nd wife. It’s a sad story.
I loved Stephanie Grace Whitson’s other books. Thanks for offering a great prize and the opportunity to win it!!
rpow515(at)aol(dot)com
I do not quilt because I don’t have the knack for it. I do, however, like to read and this looks like a good book.
I want to learn how to quilt so i can start a family tradition, since we do not have any heirlooms to speek of.
My mom made each of us girls (3) and the boys’ wives (4) a doll quilt. I got mine for my 16th birthday. She’s currently working our the grandkids quilts (15).
I enjoy quilting but haven’t done much lately with a 2 year old and a 4 month old!!!
Sounds like an interesting read . Something different once.
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Nikki
homeschooling mom of 6
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This book sounds great. I’m not a quilter but own many beautiful quilts that have been gifts. Thanks!
I have a number of quilts that my mother and grandmother made in the 1930s. Also, three friendship quilts Mom put together for me when I graduated from high school. It’s great to look at them and see names of the ladies who lived in our community back then.
I am new to quilting, just started this year after the birth of my first grandchild. But I have finished one quilt top for her and started another for my daughter. I am having a blast! I also just found this website and I love it!