Thanks to everyone that entered their fabulous quilts for this Weekly Themed Quilt Contest. This week’s theme is Valentine’s Day.

Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner with the most votes will receive a set of Tracey’s very unique Country Cards.

• 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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P.S. Next week’s theme is Winter Sports (Olympics). Get your cameras out!

Facebook readers: You need to visit the Quilting Gallery blog to vote: CLICK HERE.

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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Enter the Holiday Traditions Quilt Contest for your chance to win one of these fabulous prizes:

• 10 1-yard cuts of Asian fabrics from Kona Bay Fabrics
• Fat quarter bundle of Whimsyland from LizzieB Cre8ive
• Free Motion Fillers Volume 1 DVD and downloadable workbook from Day Style Designs
• Quilting for Peace by Katherine Bell and STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books
• Log Cabin Geckos and Hibiscus Flower patterns from Anne Maundrell Designs
• Creative Ways with Books and Journals by Sue Bleiweiss & Terri Stegmiller from Two Creative Studios

The theme for this quilt contest is the holidays. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, U.S. Thanksgiving, New Years or others, us quilters make such wonderful creations for display at this time of year.

It’s two contests with one theme: small projects (e.g. table runners, bags, wall hangings, lap quilts, etc.) and full-sized quilts.

Read the full contest details, see the prizes and submit your photo(s).

Thank you to the fabulous sponsors for their prizes for this contest:

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Gudrun Erla of G.E. Designs has invited eleven very cool ladies to have some fun blog-hopping around the country starting today.

Each will post every day sharing favourite Christmas recipes, traditions and stories.

And each day, one of them will share a Christmas/Holiday project with you. Twelve days… twelve free projects. WOW!

There will be prizes!!!

Start your hopping here:

• Nov. 9th. Gudrun from GE Designs
• Nov. 10th. Sandy from Pieces from my Heart
• Nov. 11th. Terry from Atkinson Designs
• Nov. 12th. Pat from Pat Sloan & Co.
• Nov. 13th. Heather from Anka’s Treasures
• Nov. 14th. Pam from Pam Kitty Morning
• Nov. 15th. Kari from New Leaf Stitches
• Nov. 16th. Terri from Whimsicals
• Nov. 17th. Sherri from This ‘N’ That
• Nov. 18th. Carrie from Miss Rosie’s Quilt Co.
• Nov. 19th. Roseann from Rosebud’s Cottage
• Nov. 20th. Linda from Linda Lum DeBono

Fun, fun, fun … for everyone!!

For day 1, Gudrun has posted this adorable quilt-as-you-go Sweet Trimmings Christmas tree wall hanging. It’s super cute and very quick to complete as you quilt it at the same as you put the top together. I definitely need to make one of these for myself. Maybe add a few buttons to serve as ornaments too.

I was lucky enough to spend Halloween with my nieces this year. Lucy was the prettiest princess and Alice a very cute Jaguar. It was a windy night, cold and a few sprinkles of rain, but thankfully no snow! Lucy had a fabulous time and made sure to ask everyone for candy for her baby sister Alice too.

Those that have been around the Quilting Gallery site for a year or more may remember the birth of my Alice Lynne, last Halloween.

This year, I’ll be taking my nieces out trick or treating for the first time. Lucy, at 3.5 years old, is very excited to be a Princess (again!) and Alice will be a pumpkin.

Here are the pumpkins my sister and Lucy made this year.

I’ll post pictures of Alice’s birthday present later in the week.