"Sew Mama Sew" 
is having a giveaway week. I am joining her and giving away a pattern called "Overlapping Stars".
is having a giveaway week. I am joining her and giving away a pattern called "Overlapping Stars".
This pattern is a spinoff from my book "Simply Triangles" . The quilt on the front of the book has a similar layout but is pieced with a different star pattern.
To be in the drawing,
leave a comment about what is your favorite Christmas family tradition.
For an extra chance in the drawing become a follower and come back and let me know.
This giveaway will be open until Dec. 7 at 5 p.m. PST. Then we’ll choose a winner.
This giveaway is open world wide.
We pull out the manger scene. Our children and now our grandchildren enjoy the figurines and playing with the small animals and moving them around.
ReplyDeleteWe go as a family to find and cut down our tree then decorate it together!
ReplyDeleteI am a new follower. =)
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I have a growing ornament collection - each one is special and we enjoy taking each one out of it's wrapper and hanging them on our tree. Thanks for the give away - you do beautiful work.
ReplyDeleteWatching the kids whack the pinata Christmas Eve at my in-laws.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing my grand kids for the holidays!
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower! Love the table runner!
ReplyDeleteWe used to let the kids open one gift from Mom and Dad on Christmas Eve, before Santa came, but now that they're all grown and gone, I'm going to have to come up with a new one!
ReplyDeleteWe exchange sibling gifts on Christmas Eve - makes the kids pay more attention.
ReplyDeleteI always buy a big box of chocolates (even though I don't need them)
ReplyDeleteMy brother and I decorate a gingerbread house together even though we're now in our 20s.
ReplyDeleteBarbara this is a cool give away. You been talking to Julia?
ReplyDeleteOne tradition our family has done for years is to have a fondue sometime over the week of Christmas. I've been wanting to quit that but traditions die hard. Each year they want to do it again.
I am now a new follower!
ReplyDeletewe still have christmas eve at grandma's house
ReplyDeleteWe go caroling at my church before the Christmas Eve service!
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty pattern. Thank you for the chance to win it.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I don't have any traditions for Christmas anymore. We use it as a day to spend time by ourselves and relax.
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I don't have any Christmas traditions that I make sure I do every year, except that I do listen to Christmas music year round :)
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I have special ornaments that we put on the tree first. Our girls are not allowed to add anything until we put these on.
ReplyDeleteWe have oyster stew on Christmas eve and go to Midnight church services. Then we go home and open all the non-santa presents.
ReplyDeleteWe have a big cookie-baking night with a bunch of family friends. We've been doing it since I was small, and it's always something I look forward to.
ReplyDeleteWe eat, as all swedes do, saffronbuns and gingerbread cookies. A great combo is the cookies and stilton cheese, yummy!!!
ReplyDeleteOur holiday tradition is to go for a late evening drive to see all the christmas lights.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is eating my mum's lasagna and her homemade smoked salmon for Christmas dinner! Thank you for the giveawy!!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite family tradition is playing game cards and singing on the Christmas eve :D
ReplyDeletereading the Christmas story.
ReplyDeleteWe have a special Christmas Eve meal and we usually wait until New Years to have gifts .
ReplyDeleteI am a follower
ReplyDeleteI love baking, decorating, and eating way too many delicious cookies!
ReplyDeleteUsually we go as a family to a Lessons and Carols program in Charlottesville. We've been for the last 22 years. This year's program is this coming Sat night, and I'm not sure we're going to be able to make it. The director we knew is no longer in charge, and the music has changed a bit. We'll have to find a different Christmas concert to attend.
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ReplyDeletescratch-off tickets in the stockings on christmas morning.
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The Jesse Tree - hanging and ornament each day and reading scripture with each. See my Etsy Shop (Pink Scissors Design) for photos of my Jesse Tree Ornaments.
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I am a follower - Google Reader and email, too.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many wonderful traditions at Christmas time. I like that we extend the excitment of opening presents by first eating and doing the clean-up before gifts!! :)
ReplyDeleteBarbara, our favorite Christmas tradition is to go out for Chinese on Christmas Eve and then go to the Christmas Eve service together!
ReplyDeleteI am a new follower!
ReplyDeleteBuying ornaments for each of my kids every year and then remembering why that ornament was chosen when we trim the tree. Lots of fun memories!
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ReplyDeleteStargazing on Christmas Eve is one of our favorite traditions!
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We sit around on Christmas morning drinking mimosas while waiting for the stragglers to wake up so we can open gifts.
ReplyDeleteWe all stir the Christmas pudding mix and make a wish!
ReplyDeleteI pick out a new ornament for each of us every year.
ReplyDeleteThe whole family snuggles under a quilt together for a nightly Christmas story read aloud for the month of december
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ReplyDeleteI love eating Christmas dinner with family and friends. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
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My family piles up in a car and goes Christmas light looking.
ReplyDeleteI give my kids a special ornament each year to take with them, when they move into their own place. They also get Christmas p.j.'s on Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteI have lots! Visiting Father Christmas and having a look around Harrods, putting up the decks, the school Nativity play, new PJs on Christmas Eve, watching a panto, a quiet Chridtmas day followed by bedlam at the in laws on Boxing Day!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite family tradition is taking a drive to see the Christmas lights. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI love baking cookies with my kids.
ReplyDeleteMaking gingerbread houses! Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteChristmas Dinner with the family and playing games afterwards. Thanks for the great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI follow via email. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is my brother and I refusing (at 38 and 40) to eat the baked egg breakfast that my parents have tried to feed us our whole lives LOL
ReplyDeleteI am a follower
ReplyDeleteMy favourite family tradition is decorating the tree with the ornaments we've collected over the years on our travels. Thanks for the giveaway!
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ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition was started by my daughter when she was a toddler. We put up a real tree and the night it goes up with all the lights and decorations she sleeps under it.
ReplyDeleteShe is 14 this year and has done it every year. I hope she still wants to do it. It makes my heart smile.
Kay
year before last all the grands made christmas ornaments
ReplyDeleteSince we can't all be together on Christmas day we pick an alternate day for "express Christmas". Kind of like having two Christmases in one year!
ReplyDeleteWe open on present on Christmas Eve and then all the rest Christmas morning!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite family Christmas tradition would have to be when we head out to our local nursery and find our perfect Christmas tree, bring it home and decorate it! I also love putting out the milk and cookies for Santa with the kids on Christmas Eve! Thanks so much for the wonderful giveaway!
ReplyDeleteOur favorite family tradition is to have Santa hide the presents so Christmas morning is like a treasure hunt! What a beautiful pattern - thanks for the chance!
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We love to take our boys to go see all the lights & decorations on Candy Cand Lane in our city. It's so awesome to listen to the kids oooh & aah over everything they see. Thanks for a chance to win this awesome pattern! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower via gfc! :)
ReplyDeleteOur family's favorite tradition is making a different breakfast every year for Christmas morning. It has to be different and then we comment on all the past breakfasts, good and bad. And some have been BAD!! thanks. Vivian
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite family traditions at Christmastime is new pjs on Christmas Eve! :)
ReplyDeleteWe open our gifts on Christmas Eve one by one going from youngest to oldest. Some years it takes a few hours but it's so much fun. It's always a shock to me when we go somewhere else and everyone tears into the gifts all at once! Thanks for a great giveaway~!
ReplyDeletewe love decorating our christmas tree
ReplyDeletethanks for the giveaway
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I make a Buche de Noel every year. It is a very fussy, but tasty cake made in the French baking tradition.
ReplyDeleteWe like to look at Christmas lights.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pattern! We like to drive around looking at all the Christmas lights. Thank you!
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I like making sugar cookies with kids. Thanks for chance to win.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the time spent with my grandchildren. Christmas is definitely a special time.
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When I was a kid, I loved making Christmas ornaments with my mom.
ReplyDeleteWe love to bake goodies and take them to friends and family.
ReplyDeleteWe love setting up and decorating our tree. Thanks for the opportunity on a great draw. Merry Christmas to you.
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Every year we have a huge family dinner on Christmas day at my moms hous eand my entire family attends. we all cook and bake stuff to bring . It is a wonderful day filled with good food great company and much needed catching up and seeing everyone.
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We're still figuring out traditions with our little one but last year we broke away from the extremely long gift-opening period with the in-laws to attend late night church services. I'm hoping we do that again this year
ReplyDeleteWe always go out for pizza on Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteTrimming the tree on the day after Thanksgiving while listening to Handel's Messiah :)
ReplyDeleteSpending Christmas Eve at my sister's house. We always have a fire and enjoy the evening with our immediate family.
ReplyDeleteI am a new follower.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is Christmas dinner. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteI love singing carols and looking at the lights. thanks, kathy
ReplyDeleteWe like to drive around to see all of the Christmas lights.
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeletemy favorite tradition is our matching christmas pj's
ReplyDeleteFavorite tradition is Christmas get togetherwith my mom's side of family... every year at 1:00.
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ReplyDeleteMy sons are making new traditions with their new families - I'll enjoy spending time with them.
ReplyDeleteWe love putting up the tree together and go through and remembering where some of the more sentimental ornaments came from. Thanksf or the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteDecorating the tree and christmas music playing!!Thanks, cool patten!
ReplyDeleteDecorating the tree and christmas music playing!!Thanks, cool patten!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite I don't know if it's going to happen this year! My father and I always go to the German church service at our local Lutheran church (we're Episcopalian, but he was brought up Lutheran, and I'm fluent in German), while my sister and mother go to the kids' service at our regular church (heh - Christmas is the one time we *don't* go to church together!). It's really the one thing I always do with just my father. But this year we have the baby... who may not want to go!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my extended family on Christmas Eve!
ReplyDeleteWe always go to church on Christmas Eve, where we sing Christmas Carols and remember the real meaning of Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI love this pattern!
Spending time with family.
ReplyDeleteI love going and cutting down a Christmas Tree with my family. eatkin85(at)yahoo(dot)com
ReplyDeleteWe love to bake cookies together as a family and give them to friends and family.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pattern!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite traditions is when we read 'The Night Before Christmas'. I was given the book when I was 3 years old, and this year I'll get to read it to my baby son for the first time. :-)