Thursday 18 December 2014

Celebrating 4 years of blogging

Today is the day when I say thank you for popping over here for the past four years and keeping me company, cheering me on and generally raising a few smiles as I sew my little heart out.



So without further ado, this year I am thanking one lucky reader with this absolutely gorgeous bundle of 6 fqs of Mimosa by Windham fabrics.  I did have trouble choosing just 6 of these Mimosa prints from the selection available at Cindy's Fluffy Sheep Quilting shop (just saying) because they all look fantastic but I hope you will want these ones enough to enter the giveaway even if your favourite Mimosa didn't get shortlisted.

To win the bundle you need to leave me a comment telling me what your biggest stitching plan for 2015 is.  Maybe it's a pattern you're dying to try, a technique you hope to learn or just a long time UFO/WIP you are determined to get stuck in to.  Whatever it is, tell me and, if you can, share a link to a picture or pattern to give me a little inspiration - like I really need more ideas?!?  I can only accept one comment per person, so in case of duplicate entries only your first will be valid.  Please include an email address if you are a no-reply blogger or I will have to redraw.

Giveaway is open internationally and entries close 18.00 GMT Monday 22 December 2014.


In the interests of sharing, here's the quilt I am most hoping to make next year.  I might break out my Bonnie & Camille fabrics box for this one!

33 comments:

  1. congratulatons on 4 years on your blog, i have not been bloging so long but have throughly enjoy following you. My major plan for 2015 is the Women of the Bible quilt and also have plans to do the Farmers wife one too. Do not know how to add photos but they are on my blog if you want to check them out. Did look at the moda one you are doing but chickened out!

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  2. Happy 4 years anniversary! This is amazing and time is flying fast. Funny to start a blog a week before Christmas :) My biggest plan is to finish one UFO and make a quilt with a friend what I am really looking forward to! Your Moda is going to be gorgeous

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  3. Congratulations on four fabulous fabric-filled years! Next year for me will be filled with more hexis and miniature quilts to share with others. I hope to spread the quilting love and your fabric giveaway will be a great way to start my first 2015 mini to share.

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  4. Happy bloggy birthday! Next year I'm aiming to finally finish hand quilting my hexy quilt!

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  5. I'm going to enter three items into the Quilt and Stitch Village show- a quilted dress, my bear quilt I've not yet full revealed but is up on Instagram in parts, and one which will conquer the curve!

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  6. Congratulations on keeping going for 4 years. It takes time and effort to blog and I really appreciate the ones that have kept going. I reviewed my finish along list from January last year and embarrassingly I've not finished anything on there. The one thing I would like to finish is my Tailfeathers quilt as I've put many hours into the embroideries that I realy should piece the 1" sqares for the frames and get it finished.
    http://indiannadreams.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/tail-feathers-and-wings.html

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  7. yay! another four year celebration! congrats and heres to many more! my 2015 sewing plan is simple. finish my 2 brit bee quilts! obviously i'd hope to do lots more inbetween.... lol

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  8. Congratulations on being four! My big plan for 2015 is to get round to sewing a quilt for my husband. We've finally decided on a pattern (Star Plus) and I think I have collected enough shot cottons for the stars so there is no excuse not to start it.

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  9. I have 2 big plans. First, some major finishes - no bees in 2015 so plenty of time. Second. You may have seen my big fabric pull on IG. I untied 2 hoarded bundles and want to make a king sized quilt with them using Stereo by JayBird Quilts. Thanks for the great giveaway.

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  10. I love reading your blog. Thank you. My plan for 2015 is to finish quilting all my UFO tops--about 5 to go, down from 50 a few years ago, before I got my longarm. (bekedams at yahoo dot com)

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  11. Gorsh, that's purdy!! My only plans for next year are to do more FMQing - I see feathers and swearing in my future. *g* And I do believe Helen/Archie and I are having our own wee shawl-along but that's knitting. Heh heh. Everything else is totally open to inspiration - congrats on four years!!

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  12. Congrats! What a delicious way to celebrate! I have my share of Ufo's to choose from next year & I am going to try to spend the whole year om those. Two are Christmas flimsies

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  13. Wow, I remember when you started your lovely blog, and already 4 years are finished. I am looking forward to the next several years too. I had not thought of my plans for next year, it's time to do that. My one goal in place is to get a bunch of patterns written and out for sale.

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  14. Many congratulations on 4 years blogging :-) And thanks for a lovely giveaway - such beautiful fabrics. My plan for 2015 is to make a t-shirt quilt for a friend, and to make quilts for my two boys.

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  15. Goodness - 4 years is quite a milestone - congrats. I would like to try the Pile of Fabric 2015 BOM, looks challenging with plenty of new techniques for me - here's hoping Santa will be kind!

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  16. Congratulations on 4 years blogging!
    I have to finally finish the bed quilt and the box for my C&G course, which I hope will not take too long any more (see different progress posts on my blog). Then I will be finishing an UFO or two, and using the many scraps I have accumulated in some simple scrap quilts. I'm looking forward to some simple sewing!

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  17. I've got 2 WIP quilts to finish in 2015. They're both snuggly and backed with fleece - I want to be able to curl up under them by next winter!

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  18. Congratulations!
    I'm planning on making a wedding quilt for my niece -- no pattern yet!!!

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  19. Thanks for blogging. Your blog is one of my favorites. My quilting goals include finishing my first quilt and starting my second one with my quilt mentor. 2015 is going to be fabulous.
    renragjd@gmail.com

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  20. Well done for reaching 4 years! I suppose I shall be about 6 months after you! Biggest sewing project- well, is it cheating to say, I hope to get the upstairs room ready to be a proper sewing / craft room, all organised and logical? with a bit of luck... It is partway there at the moment.. so everything is not strewn all over the house, I just cannot put my hands on anything just now!

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  21. congrats, just had my third., hope to do better on my free motion quilting next year

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  22. Congratulations on the big '4' x
    The Quilt Blocks pattern is top of my list too - I am getting it for Christmas ;)

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  23. Congratulations on your 4 years of blogging.. I love the selection of fabrics, after the Christmassy things around they look, lovely and fresh. What I hope to try next year is to try some dressmaking. I used to make my own clothes years back but lost my confidence over years. See if I can relearn the skills I used to have, oh yes and finish off a few ufos that I have hanging around.

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  24. Happy blogiversary! Gorgeous choice of fabrics! If I can make myself a quilt for my bedroom next year I'll be more than happy! Jxo

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  25. I plan to finish what I start! This wil be hardest thing b/c I am a serial-starter.

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  26. Happy anniversary! I wish I had more time to quilt- maybe that should be my goal!! I really want to try some free motion quilting- I've been putting it off out of fear, but it can't possibly be as difficult as I've built it up to be. (I hope)

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  27. one of my goals for 2015 is to get all my ufo's done and finished - quilts that is.. i recently retired from more than 30 years at a full time job, so 'time' can't be the excuse anymore.
    i've made a bit of organizational headway by sorting and gathering my ufo's and separating them into bins WITH labels on them.... so i really will have NO excuse, right??
    i see your apple core quilt, and i drool...... yep....that could easily be yet another ufo..... hahaha
    all in good time....
    quilt as you go technique is on my mind a lot, so i i can see that in the new year too.
    your fabric selection for the giveaway is lovely..... i can only wish...
    here's hoping....
    lovely blog..
    xo
    eva

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  28. Congratulations on 4 years of blogging ! My sewing wish for 2015 is for a new quilt for out bed to replace the one I made in the year the world cup was in the usa . 1994 I think ?

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  29. Congratulations! And thank you for always inspiring your readers with your lovely work. This year I hope to learn to make a bag - or I could put it off for another year!

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  30. Sarah, it has been a pleasure to read your blog for almost the entire four years and to become real life friends. You are a pleasure to spend time with. Funnily enough my big plan for 2015 is to finally make a quilt for which I have had the pattern drawn up for the best part of this year but never had the time to make, and never knew which fabric to use - until Mimosa came along and I knew it was just the kind of vivid colours and contrasts I needed. So here's hoping I get this quilt made finally. I only have four commissions, and two holidays in the first three and a half months of the year. Surely I'll find the time!

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  31. Congratulations on 4 years blogging, I am going to work more on my FMQ skills or really lack of, so I made up Pinterest board and plan on doing lots of pinning for inspiration. https://www.pinterest.com/grecomara/fmq/

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  32. Congratulations!! 4years is impressive. I hope to finish my camelotquilt... Please keep the posts coming.

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  33. Hi Sarah, Congratulations on 4yrs. Well done.
    Love reading your blogs, you inspire.
    I want to do more foundation piecing and especially this year I want to make the 4 retro dresses that have been on pinterest. Sorry, you know me, not technical, so can't show the picture. Happy Christmas.

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