Yes, I'm going to have a giveaway in honor of 10,000 hits on this blog!!
When I started this blog, it was mainly for me to document my quilting journey along with a little bragging on my grandkids! I just can't help that--aren't grandchildren the best?!
So after the holidays, I was quite surprised to see that my hits had surpassed the 10,000 mark in a little over a year. I know lots of other blogs are bigger and do a lot better than that, but I'm talking about my blog. It's amazing that people visit my little site. Isn't the internet wonderful? We all can learn so much from other people. Sometimes it just fuels me to try something new. Other times I just love viewing other people's projects.
Best of all, I love the tutorials I find on blogs. I think quilters are so kind to take the time to help other quilters in this way. My hope is to do more of these on my own blog. I sometimes think that everyone knows what I do, but I am realizing that there are new quilters all the time and maybe those people can learn a little from me.
So....back to the important thing--the "giveaway". The prize will be a surprise and all you have to do is leave a comment about what you would like a tutorial on or maybe what tutorial has helped you most or loved the best. I would love you to share some of these if you want to leave a website address also. Let's all learn something from everyone!!
If you want to post this giveaway on your website, feel free to do so! Oh, and the giveaway date???? Two weeks from today is my son in law's birthday, so it will be easy to remember--January 18th at midnight, CST. So on the 19th, I'll do that random number thing and post the winner!
Thanks for visiting the QUILT COOKIES!
Linda
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Congratulations on reaching 10,000 hits!! I would really like to see a few more tutorials on applique. I keep wanting to give it try but just don't feel comfortable yet. I will include your giveaway on my blog tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, grandkids are the best!!!!!
YES Grandkids are the BEST !!!!
ReplyDeleteAlso Congratulations on 10,000 hits...WOW that is a lot......the post that most caught my eye was the one you did on the Flat Dolls...that was back in April 2010...I even made some myself and the Grands Love them.....
Thanks for being my Blogging Friend...
Prayers, Bo
Oh I absolutely agree about the grandkids. Just have to hear their names and I have a smile! Congratulations on your 10000 hits! I've just started blogging and love it- probably spending too much time on the computer now :-) I also enjoy tutorials. I am going to be learing hand quilting as a neighbor gave me a very nice frame. So I would like to see tutorials about hand quilting.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 10,000 hits! That is fabulous. I like tutorials any quilting technique. All of us have our own ways of handling a technique. It is interesting to see how one thing can be accomplished in so many different ways. I learn alot from reading everyone's styles.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! Love tutorials......everything is good! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 10,000 hits! I love any quilting tutorials, always willing to try something new, or something old a new way! :)
ReplyDeleteI love surprises! Congratulations on the success of your blog. Hard to pick a favorite tutorial, there are so many good ones. I think the one that helped me the most though is this one from Alicia's Attic. It demos how to join the ends of your binding so it looks almost seamless:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot7Trk6J2Vw
Applique would be nice..but anything quilt related.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I love any kind of tutorials. I think we learn from each quilter, whether we have been quilting for years or are a newbie. Thanks for the giveaway. I am new to your blog, and I am going to take a look around :-)
ReplyDeleteokay, so I am partial, but I really love the tutorials that I have put together for the Moda Bake Shop. A lot of love has gone into them. You can find them here. http://happyquiltingmelissa.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the 10,000 hits. I heard about your blog through Stray Stitches blog! I like EVERYTHING about tutorials. I love the step by step instructions (even if I already know how to do something)!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on reaching 10,000 hits. Fellow bloggers are really amazing. Can we ever have too many tutorials? We can always find that there are many ways to do something. I would really like to see more on applique as I do not do much of that.
ReplyDeleteGrandchildren are awesome!
Congratulations - 10,000 hits is wonderful! I'm in agreement with Needled Mom on the tutorial. I would like to see more on applique. I am wanting to make a Rose of Sharon quilt for my bedroom and could use any tips out there. Happy quilting.
ReplyDeleteI love the tutorials on little projects that I can give as gifts. My favorites so far have been a crayon roll, a gift cardholder key chain and a miny fabric basket. Quick projects that I'd never figure out how to make on my own! Congrats on all the hits (you must be black and blue by now!)
ReplyDeleteI will also remember this date because it is my daughter's birthday too!!
ReplyDeleteI love tutorials that I find and have done so many, I can't really say what is a favorite - love them all! Happy sewing and quilting!!
Congrats on 10,000 hits! I love tutorials that are easy, but the finished product looks like it took a lot of effort! Lol, a lot to ask for I know! :)
ReplyDeleteTutorials are the best - I'm a newbie and need all the help I can get. Congratulations on 10,000 hits! And thanks for the giveaway chance...
ReplyDeleteI love tutorials. My favorite websites for tutorials are the Missouri Star Quilt Company and Leah at www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com. Congratulations on your 10,000 hits and thanks for the opportunity to win a surprise. I love surprises!=)
ReplyDeleteHi Linda!! MY very best Xmas gift was gingerbread hearts baked for me by my grand-daughter!
ReplyDeleteI see in one of your older posts you visited our Australia last year. I live 100 miles north of Sydney! My husband and I were also on the harbour on Australia day, maybe we passed by each other!!!!
I have a couple of good tutorials to share. I hope you like them. As well as quilting, i enjoy applique and stitcheries.
http://tozzscorner.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorial-for-needle-turn.html
http://val-laird.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html
the last site has bullion roses tutorial and a very pretty frilly coathanger.
both these sites are also running a free block of the month this year!
Enjoy!!! :-)
sandangels1945@hotmail.com
Applique seems good to be as well.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on all your hits!
Billie
Congratulations on your blog and hits! Blogging is fun and exciting and I love making new friends. I've enjoyed some table runner tutorials this past year (disappearing 9-patch runner) and also have enjoyed participating in a couple of quilt-alongs.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your hit level. I'm new to your blog - will have to browse around a bit. I would like to see a tutorial on double wedding ring quilts. I am about to embark on one (sometime this year) and need some guidance.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 10,000. I cannot even imagine that. Just took a look at your fabric doll tutorial (I really liked the fact that you got rid of the tabs by using flannel on the back of the doll). That was really cool. Please enter me in your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it wonderful when you exceed expectations? I'm so proud of you, and celebrate with you. I love tutorials that show us shortcuts or tips to make things that "look" hard easy to make. dmj53(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 10k!
ReplyDeleteI am a new quilter so any tutorials are helpful!
Wow, 10,000 hits! That's an awful lot. I like all sorts of tutorials. You can never stop learning!
ReplyDeleteContratulations! Would love a tutorial on how to block a quilt so the binding is straight and doesn't "ripple."
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tutorials - right now it's fancy blocks. I like seeing new ways to make and piece blocks...and it makes me brave enough to try new techniques!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations....I would love any tutorial...thanks for the giveaway...
ReplyDeleteAt this time my favorite tutorials are about long arm quilting. A while ago it was aprons! Congrats on your numbers!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on that remarkable number of hits! I do like tutes; I can do alot of things without pictures, but sometimes it just gets me over the hump of timidity to actually try something new. I'd like to learn more about fusible applique for quick wallhangings for different seasons and maybe some purse construction (esp with zippers!). Beading and embellishing quilts too...I can think of so many things I want to try but haven't yet...
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your blog milestone.
ReplyDeleteAs for tutorials I like any and all I can always learn.
Isn't it fun to see what other quilters are doing all around the globe. Congratulations on reaching your 10,000 hit.
ReplyDeleteI have just reached my 100 th post so I am having a giveaway of my own. You can find it here:
http://quiltmomsjourney.blogspot.com/
Regards,
Anna
Congrats! Any tutorial is such a gift.
ReplyDeleteI just did a hands-on lesson with my daughter (new quilter!) on Foundation Paper Piecing. She had read up on it but was home for Christmas ...as she said "I need to see it"! Soon had her first block - a jar with a fussy cut frog prince inside :) "Now I have (another) UFO". Told her she had to take - it was counting as HERS.
Congratulations on 10,000 hits. That must be a great feeling for you. I have yet to figure out how to get my own blog up and running. This, of course is probably because I spend more of my day reading all the wonderful blogs and tutorials than learning bloggy type things. LOL
ReplyDeleteAs far as tutorials, yes, I love them. Coming from a new quilter I have to say the more detailed the tutorial is, the better. I like seeing a tutorial that is written for a beginner since that will help everyone. I am a visual learner and love the videos showing how to do things, BUT, I can't print out a video and take that to my machine or cutting table to follow along so if someone does a video tutorial I'd also love to see a step by step tutorial with the same information enabling printing of that. I'm not sure that was much help or what you are looking for.
Tell your son in law Happy Birthday from another January baby. My own birthday is the 10th and then I had twins whose birthdays are on January 15th. Lots of January birthdays in my family. And thank you for the giveaway no matter what it might be.
Congrats on 10,000 hits. I love tutorials on anything but would love anything on quilting especially free motion.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 10,000 hits as that is a huge milestone (I'm a nonblogger so is hard to imagine the hard work involved). My favorite are tutorials and would enjoy straight line machine quilting tut (as want to learn how to do). Thanks for the surprise giveaway.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on going over 10,000 hits. It's because you have a fun blog. I would love a tutorial on Flying Geese. FG block is the hardest block for me to just go and make. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on going over 10,000 hits!
ReplyDelete10,000 hits!! Wow!! Congratulations. I love applique (and piecing, quilting etc.. etc) and you always learn from tutorials. One of my favourite places is http://erinrussek.typepad.com/ Erin is so giving, and the tutorials, videos are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
ReplyDeleteI love the tutorials, blocks and patterns found at http://learn2quiltonline.blogspot.com/
I would like to see tutorials on bag making because I am just starting to make one
ReplyDeleteCongrats on reaching 10,000 hits Mom! That is quite an accomplishment! You amaze me with your continuous yearning to learn new things whether it's with your quilting or on the computer blogging. You rock!
ReplyDeleteLove, Julie
P.S. Don't include me in your giveaway! Make sure one of your quilting buddies gets the surprise!
Well I checked in at the right time. 2011 is proving to be a lucky year so far. Goodness knows I need it. 2010 was horrible, health-wise,financially and otherwise. Anyway, having loved that table runner you did w/the circular attachment, that would be my vote for a tutorial. I love anything that uses our decorative stitches. That's why we pay so much for our machines, we ought to use them.
ReplyDeleteHI LINDA!
ReplyDeleteCONGRATS ON 10,000!
I'M A BEGINNING MACHINE QUILTER+I'D LOVE MORE INFO ON THAT! THANKS SO FOR SHARING!
jldouglas@wispwest.net
Congrats!!! Bloggers are the best
ReplyDeleteI love seeing the different ways people sew and their take on lets say...putting a zipper in, or doing a pocket...different ways....
Thanks for this opportunity!!
Congrats on hitting 10,000. I love the tutorials. It helps so much to see the pictures with the instructions. I, too, would love a tut on using the circular attachment. Thank you so much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 10,000 hits... Find it interesting reading different blogs getting idea. Love to do scrap quilts, so would like to see ideas on what to do with them. (I know scrap quilts make good comfort quilts.) Thanks, Robert, in northern Iowa.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on Over 10,000 hits....
ReplyDeleteI would like to see new needle turn applique tutorials as they have been most helpful.
I'd like to see something on making your own pattern pieces or super sizing them. Trish
ReplyDeleteCongrats!!!! Wow---10,000 & counting. Regarding tutorial possibilities, I say surprise us :) I fell in love with your posting of the "Plump Ladies" Although it wasn't a tutorial, it was one of my favorite postings. The small quilt group I belong to followed suit & recently made Plump Ladies blocks (I'll forward the pictures as promised). Some of the blocks are quite hilarious! Did I mention the members ages range from a teenager (new member) to ninety-years young. They are a great bunch, and thanks to your site we made our own Plump Ladies. Again, Thanks for sharing, & giving so much of your time!
ReplyDeleteBrenda C.
Texas (no blog)
Wow! 1000 hits means a lot of readers. That is great. By the way, my Birthday is Jan. 19 and it would really make my special day "special" to win a little something. Sarah
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the tutorial by Ricky Timms on one seam flying geese
ReplyDeletehttp://averagequilter.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-seam-flying-geese.html