I have lots to catch up on here: two winners for the last Friday Give-Away, 11 winners for the Reflections on Year 2 Anniversary blog post and 6 winners for the Holiday Traditions Quilt Contest.

Look for a brand new weekly themed contest starting THIS weekend featuring a give-away from Pat Sloan.

Friday Give-Away

Congratulations to #1 Bernadine Riley and #87 Debi R. on each winning a set of Terri Thayer’s quilting mystery books. You’re going to love these books… happy reading. Thanks Terri for the wonderful donation, and for the joy in reading your books.

Anniversary Blog Post

Thanks to everyone who submitted such fabulous comments on the Anniversary blog post. There are so many wonderful ideas and I’m looking forward to planning for the future in the coming weeks. Here are the 11 lucky winners of the prizes graciously donated by Kona Bay Fabrics and RG Quilt Designs:

• #114 Cynthia Lynn (you must share with Betsy!)
• #38 Michele Bilyeu
• #22 Deborah
• #106 Barbara G.
• #56 Janet
• #49 Sara
• #60 Linda Oberholzer
• #80 Jane
• #103 SewLindaAnn
• #98 Kristi Van Os
• #89 Vanessa

Holiday Traditions Quilt Contest

Thanks to everyone who voted in the Holiday Traditions Quilt Contest. The winners are:

Large Quilts

Holly Basket by Denise French

Christmas Star by evejuku

Christmas Fireplace by Sandi Walsberg

Small Quilts

Tablerunner for Christmas by Mirjam

Christmas Table Runner by Denise French

Christmas Tree by evejuku

Charming Botanical December Holly & Poinsettia by Reeze Hanson

Wreath of Doves & Poinsettia by Vicki

For both Denise French and evejuku who won in both categories, the prizes go to the next winner with the most votes. Thank you to all the fabulous sponsors for this contest. It was great fun to see everyone’s holiday treasures.

Wow, I had no intention of taking such a long hiatus from blogging. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas shared with family and loved ones. I had a great time visiting with family and friends in the Toronto area for several days. This year, I made two lap-sized quilts, a table runner and some quilted bookmarks.

Here’s the quilt I made for my dad. I bought this fabric in June 2008. It is Tooling Around by Blank Quilting. I designed the pattern in Electric Quilt 6. The quilt finishes at 60" x 80".

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Break out the wine glasses, grab a slice of chocolate cake, and help the Quilting Gallery celebrate it’s second birthday/blogiversary!!! Two fabulous sponsors are helping me celebrate with 11 prizes up for grabs.

It has been an amazing and exciting year for the Quilting Gallery. Starting with the Charms for Charity contest last winter which raised 1,500 charms and ending with the release of the Quilter’s Cookbook yesterday with 119 fabulous recipes submitted by quilters from around the world.

February saw Guest Blogger Month featuring 58 quilters. In April, the Spring Blooms Mini Quilt Swap was the first of five swaps organized this year with almost 1,000 swap packages being exchanged worldwide. Also in April was the release of the then newly designed web site.

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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

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Small Quilts & Projects

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