Tuesday, December 4, 2012

New Pattern Giveaway

"Sew Mama Sew"  Giveaway Day
 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.


101 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. We go as a family to find and cut down our tree then decorate it together!

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  3. My 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.

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  4. Watching the kids whack the pinata Christmas Eve at my in-laws.

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  5. I love seeing my grand kids for the holidays!

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  6. I'm a new follower! Love the table runner!

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  7. We 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!

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  8. We exchange sibling gifts on Christmas Eve - makes the kids pay more attention.

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  9. I always buy a big box of chocolates (even though I don't need them)

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  10. My brother and I decorate a gingerbread house together even though we're now in our 20s.

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  11. Barbara this is a cool give away. You been talking to Julia?
    One 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.

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  12. we still have christmas eve at grandma's house

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  13. We go caroling at my church before the Christmas Eve service!

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  14. What a pretty pattern. Thank you for the chance to win it.

    My husband and I don't have any traditions for Christmas anymore. We use it as a day to spend time by ourselves and relax.

    kj_hahn(at)telus(dot)net

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  15. 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 :)

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  16. My 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.

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  17. We have oyster stew on Christmas eve and go to Midnight church services. Then we go home and open all the non-santa presents.

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  18. We 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.

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  19. We eat, as all swedes do, saffronbuns and gingerbread cookies. A great combo is the cookies and stilton cheese, yummy!!!

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  20. Our holiday tradition is to go for a late evening drive to see all the christmas lights.

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  21. My favourite tradition is eating my mum's lasagna and her homemade smoked salmon for Christmas dinner! Thank you for the giveawy!!!

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  22. My favorite family tradition is playing game cards and singing on the Christmas eve :D

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  23. We have a special Christmas Eve meal and we usually wait until New Years to have gifts .

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  24. I love baking, decorating, and eating way too many delicious cookies!

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  25. Usually 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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  26. Hi Barbara, I'm one of your followers.

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  27. scratch-off tickets in the stockings on christmas morning.
    Thanks for the giveaway and please enter mine.

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  28. 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.

    Deborah
    pinkscissorsdesign @gmail .com

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  29. I am a follower - Google Reader and email, too.

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  30. There 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!! :)

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  31. Barbara, our favorite Christmas tradition is to go out for Chinese on Christmas Eve and then go to the Christmas Eve service together!

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  32. Buying 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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  33. New follower of your RSS feed. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  34. Stargazing on Christmas Eve is one of our favorite traditions!

    sowingstitches [at] yahoo [dot] com

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  35. We sit around on Christmas morning drinking mimosas while waiting for the stragglers to wake up so we can open gifts.

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  36. We all stir the Christmas pudding mix and make a wish!

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  37. I pick out a new ornament for each of us every year.

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  38. The whole family snuggles under a quilt together for a nightly Christmas story read aloud for the month of december

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  39. I love eating Christmas dinner with family and friends. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
    adriprints(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  40. My family piles up in a car and goes Christmas light looking.

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  41. I 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.

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  42. I 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!

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  43. My favourite family tradition is taking a drive to see the Christmas lights. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  44. I love baking cookies with my kids.

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  45. Making gingerbread houses! Thanks for the chance!

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  46. Christmas Dinner with the family and playing games afterwards. Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  47. My 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

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  48. My 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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  49. My 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.
    She is 14 this year and has done it every year. I hope she still wants to do it. It makes my heart smile.

    Kay

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  50. year before last all the grands made christmas ornaments

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  51. Since 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!

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  52. We open on present on Christmas Eve and then all the rest Christmas morning!

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  53. My 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!

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  54. Our 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!
    ellen(at)myerly(dot)net

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  55. 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! :)

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  56. Our 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

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  57. One of my favorite family traditions at Christmastime is new pjs on Christmas Eve! :)

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  58. We 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~!

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  59. we love decorating our christmas tree

    thanks for the giveaway
    radiyas(at)gmail(dot)com

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  60. I make a Buche de Noel every year. It is a very fussy, but tasty cake made in the French baking tradition.

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  61. We like to look at Christmas lights.

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  62. Beautiful pattern! We like to drive around looking at all the Christmas lights. Thank you!
    anglanouette(at)gmail(dot)com

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  63. I like making sugar cookies with kids. Thanks for chance to win.

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  64. I enjoy the time spent with my grandchildren. Christmas is definitely a special time.
    nicolesender(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  65. When I was a kid, I loved making Christmas ornaments with my mom.

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  66. We love to bake goodies and take them to friends and family.

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  67. We love setting up and decorating our tree. Thanks for the opportunity on a great draw. Merry Christmas to you.
    bonnielarson58(at)gmail(dot)com.

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  68. 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.
    conn_and_vans_mom@yahoo.com

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  69. 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

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  70. We always go out for pizza on Christmas Eve.

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  71. Trimming the tree on the day after Thanksgiving while listening to Handel's Messiah :)

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  72. Spending Christmas Eve at my sister's house. We always have a fire and enjoy the evening with our immediate family.

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  73. My favorite tradition is Christmas dinner. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  74. I love singing carols and looking at the lights. thanks, kathy

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  75. We like to drive around to see all of the Christmas lights.

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  76. I'm a new follower. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  77. my favorite tradition is our matching christmas pj's

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  78. Favorite tradition is Christmas get togetherwith my mom's side of family... every year at 1:00.

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  79. My sons are making new traditions with their new families - I'll enjoy spending time with them.

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  80. We 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!

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  81. Decorating the tree and christmas music playing!!Thanks, cool patten!

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  82. Decorating the tree and christmas music playing!!Thanks, cool patten!

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  83. My 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!

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  84. My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my extended family on Christmas Eve!

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  85. We always go to church on Christmas Eve, where we sing Christmas Carols and remember the real meaning of Christmas.
    I love this pattern!

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  86. I love going and cutting down a Christmas Tree with my family. eatkin85(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  87. We love to bake cookies together as a family and give them to friends and family.

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  88. Gorgeous pattern!

    One 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. :-)

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