Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Make it Modern! Giveaway!


I love Lotta Jansdotter Fabrics... I made this picnic set, and I'm happy I get to finally share it with you! THese fabrics are all Bella By Lotta Jansdotter for Windham. The issue has many fun projects inside, a special issue from APQ... Run, find a copy!


In the spirit of GIVING, in connection to celebrating  the 
ONE year Anniversary of 15 Minutes of Play, 
I'm continuing doing giveaways the month of December, 
so be sure to keep swinging by each week!




Wanna win a copy of MAKE IT MODERN?  
Ahhh, sure you do!
Leave a comment, I will pick a winner on Dec. 8th 6 pm.

What's one thing on your xmas list this year?

127 comments:

  1. T I M E. Do you think that Santa can help with this? I'd like an extra uninterrupted hour a day . . . .or maybe just 15 minutes!

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  2. I am hoping to get some paper piecing patterns as I have been wanting to try them.

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  3. there is nothing on my Christmas list this year, I think I've got everything I need, of course I wouldn't say no to a copy of Make it Modern :)

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  4. I'm thinking this might be the year to ask for some gingher sewing shears.

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  5. Oh lindaroo, you won't be disappointed I got my first pair last year and I have been in love with them for the months since.

    Like Pip, I have everything I want or need this year so my list is for others to get what they need to make their lives more bearable. There are those among us who lack even the basics and it is for them I wish. I have way too much already.

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  6. Happy Tuesday to you!! Love the quilt on the front cover - yum! And yay for the book Anniversary!!!

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  7. I want some block loc rulers! Great giveaway!

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  8. I could always use more fabric so that's my Christmas wish this year :)

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  9. I'd love to be in with a chance of winning the magazine :) For xmas, I'd love some of the new Kona colours or Botanics by Carolyn Friedlander. Keeping my fingers crossed ...

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  10. I'd love to win a copy! I'm soooooooo excited, the one thing in my Christmas list is a long arm! I'm just waiting for confirmation of shipping and delivery date! Squeeeee!

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  11. There are books on my Christmas list, books of all kinds. But no fabric, I don't wait for Christmas to buy fabric, ha.

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  12. A new sewing machine. Found out yesterday our local miracle man can't fix it. They can send it to the manufacturer but there is no guarantee that would work either. Sigh, at least I have a back up!

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  13. Be happy and healthy....hummmm may be have more fabrics to play with.
    jchiagan at yahoo dot com

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  14. I have a couple quilt books on my list.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  15. Oh geez my table is full of projects to make but I am focusing on finishing the ones I have started.

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  16. I'm hoping for some Clover wonder clips!!

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  17. I would love to have our real estate person call to tell us she has found "The perfect place" for us (and be right this time) as we are looking for a retirement home.

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  18. I'm not asking or wishing for anything this year. There are too many people in my county that have nothing, and I'm thinking of spending my Christmas at the soup kitchen volunteering to help feed the homeless.

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  19. My wish list....good health for everyone and maybe just a little more fabric for my stash!

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  20. Can never have too many quilt books!! Thank you for this chance

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  21. Well one thing on my list is an iron, I went through 3 (pretty old ones) this year. However I am not sure I want someone to get one for me so it might be on my list for a while. :)
    Love your picnic quilt.

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  22. Thanks for a great giveaway, I would love a copy of this magazine as it is one that we don't get in England. I am hoping for some new quilty ideas books and fabric. If my dreams were to come true there would be a new sewing machine too!
    ks(dot)eyles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

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  23. Love your picnic quilt and am adding it to my to-do list. I would love a new Bernina (!) for Christmas...my much-loved 1260 bit the dust a couple of months ago :-( thanks for such a great give away!




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  24. Love the picnic quilt and the magazine looks great. Thanks for the chance to win. I am hoping for some fabric this Christmas and a new magazine would be fun too!
    Shawn

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  25. I would like a new lighter sewing machine. My Bernina is hard to carry up and down stairs as I go to quilt group meeting at church each week.

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  26. I already got it! A big, beautiful new Bernina!

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  27. I really need a new cutting mat. Thanks for the giveaway. I'd love a copy!

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  28. i would like someone to send me on a retreat for at least a weekend to get some sewing done with no interruptions

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  29. Too many quilting books! A Practical Guide to Patchwork, Kaffe's Shots and Stripes, Sunday Morning Quilts, and others!

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  31. LOVE your work. Thanks for sharing All that you do and I would love to win a copy.

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  32. What a great picnic quilt. Your work is lovely as always. I am wishing for a white Christmas.

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  33. The book looks wonderful. Would love to win a copy. Thanks for all your updates. You are one busy woman. Don't really have anything on my Christmas list. I've been very blessed.

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  34. What I want for Xmas is for our MQG to regain some new life in 2014. So few people show up for meetings and a few of us are trying to figure out what to do. The picnic quilt is great!

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  35. I'm hoping for a new computer...it's a pain to dray my laptop back and forth from work every day....along with gym clothes and a purse and whatever other items I need!
    Thanks for the giveaway! looks like a great magazine.

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  36. My first thought when only the top of the photo appeared was, How did she get the 3-D effect in the circles? Then of course, I scrolled down and saw they were hanging lamps. :-) The only quilty thing on my list would be gift certificates--I don't like others to pick out for me.

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  37. just got a big new quilting machine for my birthday so it would be fabric

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  38. Sure I would like to win a copy :-) On my wish list is a pencil sharpener, that won't eat my quilt marking pencils any more :-)

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  39. Could always use more fabric so I'm hoping for some gift certificate.

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  40. My son and dil asked me what I want for Christmas this year and I said ~ time with the two of you! It's the most precious thing for me. I love being with them, they make me laugh and we always have such a lovely time together whatever we do!
    Thank you for the giveaway too!

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  41. Always at the top of my list : peace, love and happiness--my wish for your family too this coming year!

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  42. I would really enjoy a copy of this mag! An organized sewing room is at the top of my list!

    Liz
    boltonia55@yahoo.com

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  43. A less stressful holiday. Thinking of letting everybody else make a dish for dinner so I'm not doing it all and missing the party.

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  44. The item on my Christmas list is to stay fit and healthy. i guess that is 2 items, but they do go together.

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  46. I have a small Christmas list this year; I want some rulers, paper pieces and this book is on my Christmas list. Thanks for the chance to win it.

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  47. I would love to win your book. I have so much and need very little. I hope for those less fortunate to be warm and to always have enough to be comfortable. Thank you for sharing your incredible talents. I love your picnic quilt and Lotta Jansdotter fabrics as well. Love them!

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  48. I would like some quilting notions and fabric of course.
    smjohns63 at yahoo dot com

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  49. I am hoping for books for my kindle. Love to have the magazine too!

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  50. Material, material, fabric. Living in Mexico, without the ease of quilt stores, any fabric or other quilty need that I can get is super special. Thank you for the chance to win.
    thelady at hotmail.com

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  51. I want to have time with my granddaughter so i can begin teaching her to sew.....at three almost four, she loves spending time in my studio. Doing my best to make a quilter out of her! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.

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  52. My list is long, but on the top of it is making baby quilt for my sister's daughter (she will be born this month, can't wait:).

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  53. I would have to say a safe road trip to SW Minnesota and back.

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  54. A fun holiday w/family a few new quilting books!

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  55. Time and confidence to cut some of my gorgeous fabric.

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  56. what a beautiful quilt! added it to my pins! And I've never seen this magazine before! Would love to pour through its pages! Thanks for the chance to win. My Christmas wish is for a good tablet to watch my Craftsy classes as I sew!

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  57. We are not doing gifts this year. We are traveling from Illinois to Florida to see family! I get yo visit the Keys and the Everglades with my family! So tor me it really is about family time this year! (I have NEVER been yo either of these places!)

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  58. I have a list of books. Every time I turn around, there is another book I want. And of course, 15 Minutes of Play is on that list!

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  59. I'd love to peruse this magazine. Thanks for a chance to win.

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  60. I would really enjoy this mag! I would also really enjoy a speak (ihome) for my IPad so I can watch videos and quilt at the sametime. Thank you for the chance to win!

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  61. Time is tops on my list... :) and maybe someday a new sewing machine. My Kenmore is beginning to feel it's age!

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  62. I just discovered Accuquilt - and love to add a die or 2 for easier and faster quilt making! Love your Lotta quilt - her fabrics and your design work fabulous together!

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  63. I asked for a GC to the longarm quilter.

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  64. I would like an organized sewing schedule and a group of quilters at church to meet people's needs. That would be over the top for me. The magazine would be nice!

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  65. One thing on my Christmas list is gift cards to local quilt shops... :)

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  66. Oh, just one thing . . . fabric fabric and more fabric!

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  67. Love your quilt! On my list is fabric and an Orla Kiely bag.

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  68. Really, I don't need anything. Just having my kids home will be enough for me! But if they give me a quilt shop gift card I won't complain. šŸ˜Š

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  69. One thing on my list are 2 big wheels that I have to find for Santa to bring, the old fashioned big wheels.

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  70. The only thing I want for Christmas is maid service! Thanks for the chance!

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  71. Play time is what's on my list!

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  72. I am hoping to get more book of modern quilting. I have given the list out so keeping my fingers crossed.

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  73. OOOOOOOOOOO I would love to win this! I've been watching the cooking shows while I quilt and I want a fat separator. Not exciting but I don't have one!

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  74. There are several quilt books I did not buy in Houston this year and decided to put on my list. And one of those little needle loading-thingies that you store threaded needles in and it winds them into a little plastic case. About to start hand quilting 2 quilts. My hand quilting class in Houston with Esther Miller was fantastic.
    Besides your demos on 15 Minutes, Victoria!!

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  75. I do, I do! A bookcase for my sewing room. Love that quilt!

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  76. I don't really have a list for Christmas. I was blessed with our first grandchild- a girl in August and everyone is healthy. What more can I ask for?

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  77. I never thought I would like to make these new geometric modern quilts, but today's fabrics are so bold and exciting that I can't wait to try one!

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  78. A place to sew! Everyone healthy for the holidays! Aurifil thread! Your book and a copy of Make It Modern! Not much to ask for is it? Merry Christmas!

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  79. Like I told my kids "material,material,material"

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  80. Don't have a List really...but a new coffeepot is a neeed! Old one has died. : ( All the Kiddo's....near & far are goin' to be Here this year....is all this Momma's Heart wants....

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  81. Christmas list? I would like to go look at the Christmas lights, maybe do a bit o' caroling. Thanks for the chance and the pondering moment. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

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  82. I really have most everything I need and wish just for good health and recovery for a dear friend and a relative .
    have seen that mag/ book and would love it!!!!

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  83. I love that Lotta collection! I have 2 charm packs that I can't decide what to do with.
    The only thing on my Christmas list is to go out for dinner at a fancy Basque restaurant.

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  84. Don't really have a list but a cpoy of this book would be nice. Greetings lia.vandenbrand@live.nl

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  85. I want my man healthy...that is a great Christmas present

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  86. I would like to have a lamp specially made for quilting - could be used at my sewing table or moved easily to the living room when I am sitting in the arm chair doing hand stitching! Thanks for the opportunity to win this publication. I am totally enamored with modern quilts!

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  87. I would like to meet the members of our newly formed Maritime Modern Quilt guild! having only seen them so far on my iPad

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  88. I want my trusty old 1958 Pfaff sewing machine serviced!

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  89. all i want for christmas is healthy kids! its been one cough, one sickness after another.!! thanks for a giveaway chance!!

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  90. Fabric of course! Thanks for the opportunity to win!

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  91. thanks for the opportunity, V. I enjoy getting those yearly cards with pictures of the sender...I get to see how the kiddos have grown and it gives me a lot of enjoyment.

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  92. World peace and a long-arm. I will settle for good health and happiness.

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  93. another grrreat giveaway!! thanks. wishing for january, Christmas wears me out.

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  94. I would like a packet of Sonnet fabrics in blue at the top of my Christmas list. ;)

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  95. Right now actually this magazine is on my list!!!! No really it is!!!! But I may have to get it for my self and everyone knows I would love anything to do with quilting!!!!! Then tonight I saw some beautiful blue orchids for sale!!!!! Would love one of them too!!!! Thanks for the fun!!!!

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  96. I'm still debating my Christmas list ... I don't really need anything, except more time! Maybe a Fitbit ... Thank you for the giveaway! I haven't been able to find that magazine here yet ...

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  97. I got what I wanted before Thanksgiving. My son and his unit returned from deployment safe and sound. A copy of Make It Modern would be great, thank you for the chance to win.

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    1. one of the very best gifts of all -- enjoy! We all thank him for his service.

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  98. I love surprises, so I don't make a list.

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  99. I'd really like to the couching feet for my machine. That's on the top of my list.

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  100. I am not a giftee lover. But if someone were to gift me, I'd like a handyman to do a few chores on my to do list!

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  101. I don't do lists ... but if I did, I would ask for a big bottle of extra virgin olive oil. I seem to buy it every time I go to the store! Merry Christmas, whether you make lists or not, and thank you for the chance to win this!

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  102. I actually have rotary cutting blades on my list. How I get them home on the plane from the other state I am having Christmas at would be another story.

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  103. If I thought I'd actually get something off a Christmas list, I'd put down that I need a new sewing table - custom built, please! ;-) Thanks for the give-away fun!

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  104. A list is always so hard - family time is what I crave the most - and a good dose of sewing time! Of course a new magazine to inspire would be fabulous! Thanks and wishing you a wonderful Christmas season!

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  105. Feeling very practical these days… I would love a new set of towels:)

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  106. Ahhhhh, extra time to play with fabric, and make some fabric too!

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  108. Fabric is on my wish list, Botanics or Waterfront Park would make me very happy. Thanks for the lovely giveaway!

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  109. I´m wishing for new sewing machine and fabrics :)

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  110. I want a new pressure cooker. Making faster meals will give me more time to sew.

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  111. I have more than enough fabric. What I need is someone to come and quilt my quilts for me.

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  112. A real sewing table so that I can stop using my dining room table.

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  113. A real sewing table so that I can stop using my dining room table.

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  114. Have been blessed beyond measure, so I don't have a Christmas list -- but would definitely enjoy a copy of this publication! Thanks!

    Judy W.

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  115. I'm wishing for successful surgery on my shoulder so I can get back to sewing. Thanks for the giveaway, Victoria.

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  116. I put a new cutting mat on my Christmas list....I wore the last one out!

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  117. Extra time for play with fabrics!!! Thanks for the giveaway!!

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