Thanks to all that entered their quilts in the first Weekly Themed Quilt Contest. This week’s theme was New Year’s Party Time.

Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner with the most votes will win the fabulous prize pictured on the right from Pat Sloan.

• Voting is open Friday – Sunday @ 11 p.m.
• One vote per IP address (NOT email address), so have your family and friends cast a ballot for your favourite quilt (from home if you send it to coworkers)
• Winner announced Monday!

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What better way to start off the new year than with a new weekly virtual quilt contest. And who better to help me kick off this exciting contest than Pat Sloan.

Join the fun, show off your wonderful creations and be inspired by what your quilting friends have made.

Each Monday a new theme will be announced and you can upload a photo along with a short story of a quilt you’ve created that represents the theme in some way. Hopefully, there will even be weekly prizes donated by generous sponsors in the quilting industry. Each weekend, visitors to the Quilting Gallery site can vote for their favourite quilt.

This week’s theme is New Year’s Party Time. Pat has donated a copy of her new book, Pat Sloan’s Camera, Color, Quilts, a 4-spool thread sampler pack of fabulous Aurifil threads, and some of Pat’s new Georgia fabric.

I had the pleasure of first meeting Pat at the Nashville AQS show in 2008. She is a bundle of enthusiasm and energy, that I’m sure if she could bottle it would be a best-seller. So, who is Pat Sloan anyway? You can read her story here.

Her blog is always entertaining with contests, challenges and give-aways. Be sure to check out her Quilt Mashup Forum and her Death by Quilting games… fun!!! You’ll find her on Facebook, Twitter and in Second Life too.

This weekend, Pat’s also giving away another copy of the prize donated for this contest. To enter that give-away, just head over to her blog and follow the instructions there. Hurry, you have until Monday to enter her blog give-away.

To enter this week’s New Year’s Party Time contest, follow the links below. Come back next Friday (Jan. 8th) to see all the fabulous quilts and to cast your vote for your favourite.

• Guidelines
• Themes, winners & sponsors
• Submit your photo
• How to sponsor a contest

I’m still working on the themes page. I’d love to hear your weekly theme suggestions. Leave a comment or send me an email.

Let’s see your fabulous New Year’s Party Time quilts!!

The Quilter’s Cookbook is ready for purchase at the low introductory price of just $14.00.

It contains 119 recipes and 76 gorgeous quilts and heart-warming stories. I hope you’ll be as pleased with it as I am.

It’s voting time for the Holiday Traditions Quilt Contest.

This is actually two contests in one: Large Quilts and Small Quilts & Projects. You can vote for each contest once. Voting ends December 16, 2009.

You can view the quilts by thumbnail and then click the thumbnail to see the larger quilt, or you can view the full-sized photos. The full-sized photos will take a couple of minutes to load, depending on your Internet speed.

Thank you to everyone that submitted a quilt, they are all gorgeous. Thanks also to the fabulous sponsors of this contest:

• Kona Bay Fabrics
• LizzieB Cre8ive
• Day Style Designs
• STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books
• Anne Maundrell Designs
• Two Creative Studios

Please vote for each contest. Select an option and click the Vote button for each poll.

Large Quilts

View the quilts: Thumbnail Photos | Full-Sized Photos

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Small Quilts & Projects

View the quilts: Thumbnail Photos | Full-Sized Photos

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Congratulations to #19 Sue Cahill for winning last week’s give-away of a free online class and 1 metre of Indigo-dyed fabric from Quilting Weekly and Wendy Nash.

Follow the adventures of Dewey Pellicano, a Silicon Valley techie, who inherits her mother’s quilt shop. She knows little about quilting, but even less about murder. When the buyer for her shop gets killed at a huge quilting convention, Dewey meets up with Buster Healy, homicide detective. Their attraction is swift and steamy. Another murder, at the far-out fashion show, leads Dewey down a path she will continue on – finding the person responsible for the murder.

Author Terri Thayer has been quilting for over 25 years and has worked in quilt shops, at major quilt conventions and taught quilting. She blogs every Friday at Killer Hobbies. You can also friend her on Facebook. She loves to hear from fans of Dewey. Terri was also a guest blogger last February.

This week’s give-away is one set of the three Dewey Pellicano quilting mystery books. If we get more than 100 comments, then a second set will also be given away. To enter the contest, please leave a comment below. The contest closes December 11, 2009.

Reminder: This is the last weekend to enter the Holiday Traditions Quilt Contest. Voting starts next Tuesday.

P.S. If you’re reading this on Facebook, please click through to the blog post to leave your comment. Entries on Facebook will not be considered.

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to #1 Bernadine Riley and #87 Debi R.. You’re going to love these books. Happy reading.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the last day to submit your family-favourite recipe for inclusion in the Quilter’s Cookbook.

I am thrilled with all the recipes that have been submitted so far. It’s going to make a fabulous gift for your quilting friends this holiday season. The quilts and stories that have been included are wonderful.

I hope to have the Cookbook ready for sale as a downloadable PDF file this weekend. I’ll keep you posted.

For those that have asked if they could submit more than one recipe. Sure, go ahead and submit another one if you like. We’re close to reaching 100 recipes and I would be thrilled if we meet (or surpass!) that milestone.