Pat Sloan the Cutest Snowman of All Holiday Giveaway!

I have the best time catching up with the Sweetwater design team each market. They are mom Karla Eisenach in the center and daughters, Lisa Burnett in the front left and Susan Kendrick front right.

One dinner we spent with them they got to meet the Shipping Department (my husband Gregg) and they spent quite a bit of time telling Gregg about their farming, the equipment... and oh all kinds of things like that! We sent him for drinks a few times and tried to change the subject when he returned... there were promises of asking farm staff (their husbands) how certain equipment REALLY worked... insert eye roll by ALL of us!

Listen to my interview with the Sweetwater girls (well ONE of them... Lisa) Nov 26,2012 in their booth at Houston.

One of the reasons I love these girls is their designs, I think I hoard their fabric lines.

And I'm a personal "quest" to collect their prints. This is a new one.. isn't it awesome? I also belong to their club.. which I'm also COLLECTING... don't judge

Visit their ETSY store and buy some prints.. they even have some cool custom ones (but don't ask for those before Christmas... wink!)

Let's get to know them a bit better!

Favorite Drink:  We all 3 agree – Coke from McDonald’s is the best

Favorite Holdiay Food to Make:  Buttered Noodles – it is a tradition in our German family and it is always a must.  They are made with homemade noodles, a cup of butter, and toasted bread crumbs!

Favorite Holiday Tune:  O Holy Night – Love that song and it is always sung during our Christmas Eve service at church.

I asked them to share a favorite Christmas gift

Susan - This is my favorite Christmas Gift that I got last year from my mom.  She found an old chair recovered it in our canvas fabric and then also made me some cute pillows to coordinate.

It was love at first sight!

Visit Sweetwater... join their club, have some fun! http://sweetwater.typepad.com/

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Sweetwater Designs is giving away a "Snowman Bunting" kit..

which was the best seller of their 12 Days of Christmas Event!

this is STINK'N CUTE

 

To enter to win this kit tell me

" What is your current FAVORITE quilt you have made"

Leave a comment by Dec 31.. I'll pick a winner New Year's day!

Don't know how to comment? CLICK HERE

COMMENTS CLOSED! Winner is

Miss Jean who said

"That's a difficult question. I think it's always the quilt I just finished."

These Holiday Giveaway posts are still open for comments...with 3 more giveaways planned before the end of the year, so come visit me every day!

Aurifil Thread box .. CLICK HERE

Bunny Hill's ADORABLE kit CLICK HERE

and the Sugar club membership HERE!

3 Winners picked last night and emailed.. they are

Minick/Simpson Kit

Liz Willis answered the question "What Color would you Paint your living room if you have no fear" she said "
Barn Red to go with the 8'8" Texas Long horns over the fireplace."

Me & My Sister FQ Bundle

Pat Onderdonk answered "Do you usually have snow over the holiday" with "
Well, since moving to North Carolina almost exactly a year ago, I've only seen a dusting ... last winter. BUT ... I was born and raised in New York State(near Albany) and "way back when" we had storms that piled walls of snow up past the windows of the house! I miss the snow for Christmas ... but it can melt the day after and I'd be happy."

Julie Herman Giveaway

Tiffanee Noack answered "What is your Favorite Tool" with "
Besides the normal necessary tool like a rotary cutter and mat, I would have to say my favorite tool or gadget would have to be those new wonder clips...I HATE (with a passion) to do binding but those little clips make it so much easier and safer than pins...so I bought like 5 packages of them!! Thanks Dow the opportunity to win....I have several JayBird patterns and I LOVE them!!"

Comments

[Nan Ellsworth]

Is it too late to post for a chance to win? I love the airplane motif quilt I made for my husband. He had a 22 year Air Force career working on airplanes. The quilt only gets used by him when he's a bit under the weather.

[Celine]

Currently, mine is a blue and gold log cabin. It's sofa quilt size, but I've been pulling it over my feet and legs when I sleep and it is so warm! My cat loves it too.

[Pam Duxbury]

The first quilt I made completely by hand is my favorite, I learned a whole lot of what to do and what not to do.

[Debbie]

My favorite quilt is the T-shirt quilt that I made for my son when he graduated from high school 4 1/2 years ago. It includes t-shirts from pre-kindergarten through his senior year of high school.

[Linda]

I completed two doll quilts for my twin 3 year old great nieces. They seemed to really like them along with their new dolls and the vintage doll playpen I have been saving for them. These were just 9 patch quilts in a simple setting, but it was the thrill on their faces when they saw their Christmas present that is what made it so special.

[Judy Hampton]

My favorite quilt was a king size log cabin with patriotic fabric and the design was a flag. It was. A class, more years back then I can remember, that I took and both my kids want it, so I am going to make another as soon as I can find the pattern, LOL.

[edith brockmann]

My favorite quilt is the one with the crasy blocks I made for my oldest daugther it´s on her bed (also I am every day with her,she is living near the university now)

[Amy Roth]

My current favorite quilt is my "monkey quilt." It's made up of snowball and churn dash blocks with 5 big monkeys appliqued on top! I just love the monkeys. Some have vests, some have trousers & suspenders, and buttons for the eyes. It's just TOO cute! I'm finally going to quilt it here in the next couple weeks!

[Wanda Myers]

My current favorite quilt is the one I just finished for my granddaughter! It's a square in a square done in bright batiks!

[donna russ]

My favorite quilt is a very colorful quilt,the pattern had a lot of different sized of retangles that went together to form the block it was fun to make but still needs quilting.thanks Pat for all the things you do...Happy New Year

[Lois in Wyoming]

I made a king size Lone Star quilt out of batiks. In the large empty sections of the quilt were smaller stars that looked like spinning pinwheels. It was dark blue, green, brown and gold. It was sure hard to send that off to the recipient! But I was tickled when he sent a thank you that said they loved it! Well worth the effort.

[Carmen]

I haven't finished a quilt (yet) ... so I can't say I have a favorite

[Amy]

Whatever I'm working on at the moment... but my favorite of all is the Double Wedding Ring quilt that my DH's husband made for us when we got married. All hand pieced & quilted, it's a treasure for sure.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

[Debbie]

My favorite one right now is one that I made using an older line of Urban Chics fabric that I had a bundle of in my stash. I used a pattern called Sparkling Stars and I love the end result. Just have to layer quilt and bind. I am thinking of entering it in our 2013 county fair.

[Mary]

I just finished a teal and brown queen quilt for my daughter for the holiday using a fat quarter pattern which I call Turf n Surf with the Shadow Song. She has just redone her bed-room in these earth and water tones. She was so blown away by the total surprise!

[Shelley C]

I made matching string quilts for one of my daughters and her best friend for graduation about 5 yrs ago. I used telephone book paper for the foundation and made rectangle blocks so the design comes out in diamonds. My daughter's had a blue strip in the middle, her friend's a red..they are beautiful.

[Gay Wehrman]

My favorite quilt I made was a king size black and white quilt with colorful hexagonal style flowers.

[Amy C]

My favourite quilt was my stash buster log cabin - I made 42 blocks in a monochromatic theme for each block but it became a rainbowy quilt. I sold it to the first person who saw it at work and I wasn't even planning to sell it!!! amycav at hotmail dot com

[Anne Rita]

My favourite quilt is a winter themed quilt that I designed myself. I am holding on to the scraps, I can't seem to spend them all. I am hoping to make Christmas stocking for the family of them.

Thanks!

[Diannia McDonald]

My favorite quilt actually turned into 5! I started with a giant star in the middle and added the University of Iowa Hawkeye symbol in the four corners. That turned out so nice I made two more Hawkeye ones, a Chicago Cubs one and a Michigan one. All are queen sized and I started the first of October and finished Christmas Eve. Now I am taking the leftovers and making a baby sized Iowa one and a Michigan one for their sons.

[diane i]

I have a scrappy star quilt that goes to football games to watch my son, then back to the sofa to keep my toes warm while I'm watching tv with my family. Its a quilt that everybody covers up with while watching tv. It was a scrappy challenge so I actually finished it but I would like to do some quilting on it.

[Merrilee]

My favorite quilt is a purple spiderweb work in progress for my daughter.

[marybeth]

my favorite quilt so far is my paper-pieced Cosmati Rings II, it looks awesome!

[Diane Kennedy]

My favorite quilt is a monochrome orange of rectangles and squares. I just love all that juicy citrus color!

[Kimberly Erpelding]

My favorite quilt that I have made was a BOM in red and white. Not quite finished with border, but that is goal for 2013.