If you’ve ever coveted one of those large rotary cutters by Olfa, today’s your lucky day. I’m giving away the 60mm quick-change rotary cutter, so you can slice and dice through your fabrics just as if you had a Ginsu knife! Then you can change that blade with the press of a button, instead of carefully laying out the pieces on your cutting table, in order, the way I do to ensure I don’t put them back together the wrong way. Wow, I could use one of these.
By the way, you greatly increase your chances of winning if you leave a comment reflecting that day’s request from me. So, yesterday’s winner of the Apron Jazz pattern is SarahB. who also won the day before. Why? Because I asked what your favorite Christmas tradition was, and Sarah shared her love of baking cookies and sharing them with neighbors.
So, if you want today’s terrific rotary cutter, tell me your favorite quilting gift you’ve received for Christmas. Here’s mine: I love quilting books, and to me they are the gift that keeps on giving, because I get loads of ideas from them and reread them over and over again. Fabric I use up, notions wear out, and many quilts I sell, give away or go into books, but the books are mine forever. Share with us the best quilting gift you’ve ever received in the comments, and the rotary cutter could be yours!
That rotary cutter would sure come in handy. Like yesterday, I shared my favorite Christmas Tradition. Today, I will share with you my favorite Christmas Quilting Gift. I have to say it was my Rowenta Iron that my hubby and kids gave to me one year. I love it and it has served me well over the years. Once I received that, then we did my favorite tradition, breakfast.
My favourite Christmas quilting gift was a little handmade box that a friend gave me, with needles, a new seam ripper, a thread cutter, a box of silk pins and a couple chocolates inside.
My favorite quilting gift was a quilting table I got last year. It’s great because now everything is level when I quilt. These are great little giveaways!
Oh, here’s the boohoo story. I’ve never received a quilt related Christmas gift. Sure, I’ve bought myself things before or after Christmas, and yes, I am a bit fussy about my quilting (and sewing, and knitting) things (I want what I need, not what someone thinks I might like.) Plus, I’m a big anti-gadget type and I don’t use patterns, so that limits the choices even further. But would a gift card hurt? A nice packet of glass-head pins? Oh, wait! The lady who does the long-arm quilting of my tops sent me a little packet of sewing machine needles last year in a Christmas card! So I’m wrong, I HAVE gotten a quilt related gift! Yahoo!! And I guess as the only one, that would have to rate as my favourite! (But a nice big rotary cutter sure would be nice, too.) ;o)
I have so many Christmas quilts gifts that it is hard to pick my favorite but I think it would be my wedding ring Christmas table cloth. I live in the country and it add such warmth to my Kitchen plus the red, white and green fabrics just adds to the Christmas spirit.
WEll, I never received a quilted/quilting gift. None of my friends of family like to sew or quilting, so nothing made. And they also don’t understand about it so they never bought me anything to help with my craft. Everything I have I had to buy for myself. But I can tell you about the best quilted gift I gave someone: I made a baby quilt for the grandson of a friend. I Think it was beautiful and I made it with a lot of love and it was a success with the baby.
One of my best Christmas presents was actually early this year. I made all in my small and intimate quilting group a sewing booklet that holds their needles,pins, small scissors and an extra pocket for thread. Each was personalized with their own colors, etc. and now they will be able to reach into their baskets easy to obtain an extra pin,etc. Since Christmas is the season to be giving, my best gift has been the ability to give and share the love in simple notions of quilting with others. Skeat
I can name my favorite gift because it was a real testimony to my husband’s patience! He went to my favorite Quilt Shop and asked the owner to help him pick out gifts for me. He gave me two wonderful books, a great beaded chain for my scissors, great threads and a gift certificate. The real gift to me was that he spent over an hour in that shop listening to all the ladies and the shop owner…that meant more than the items! He has my admiration!
I love to refashion sweatshirts into cardigans, or just embellish them with quilting, and one year my husband got me a beautiful pigment dyed sweatshirt and an array of wonderful coordinating fabrics to use — what fun!! Another year he bought the cute hand-quilted teddy bear panel that I’d seen at the quilt store and fell in love with = }
The rotary cutter is the best invention ever!! My favorite Christmas gift in the quilting dept. came from my husband who bought me a cutting table that folds out so I cam spread 2 yards of material out at one time….It is great. He never complains of the mess or scraps on the floor….He truly is my special Santa….
My favorite quilting gift, without a doubt, was the *smile*, and *hugs*, and *laughter and squeals of delight* that I received when I presented a Christmas quilt (with matching doll quilt, too, of course!), to a very special little girl!!
(Then, when she next opened the box with the matching “little girl and her favorite doll” pajamas I made for her, the reaction brought tears to my eyes!)
Her joy was a priceless gift, that I will never forget!
(Things wear out, get lost, fade…. and little daughters grow into beautiful young women… but the happiness and love that we share is forever!)
Blessings!!!
Maria,
My favorite quilty gift was the gift of time from a friend. She offered to help me go through my UFOs and WIPs and help finish some of the projects. We now go to each others homes once a month and work on whatever the other wants. For example, I use to do 9 patch swaps online and now have an enormous box of them and want to put them together and make some small quilts to give away. We are going to put our heads together and our stashes and make some lovely quilts.
Have a wonderful holiday season, Chanukah, Christmas and new year