10 Year Blog Birthday GIVEAWAY!!
Hopefully you all got a chance to read my post yesterday. The 6th of June was 10 years to the day since I started writing this blog and I spent a little time reminiscing and sharing my very first post.
I also mentioned that I would be hosting a special celebratory GIVEAWAY today, to say a huge THANK YOU to all my readers and followers! It really means so much to me that so many of you have stuck around all these years to listen to my ramblings, mwah!!
Well here we go… Giveaway time!! The photo above shows the full extent of the glorious swag that you could win!
There are 20 gorgeous Fat Quarters of Liberty of London’s newest craft cotton line, Hesketh House, courtesy of EQS, thanks guys!
A fabulous Sew Motion Curved EPP cushion kit designed (and kindly donated) by the lovely Louisa Goult. Check out all of Louisa’s kits here. And thanks Louisa!
A pair of Warm Crochet Scissors. These exquisite rose gold scissors are both beautiful and extremely sharp!
A tin of Karen Lewis Textiles own flavour of Sew Fine thread gloss! These are new and pretty exclusive, check out the full range on Karen’s website here.
A special myBearpaw custom project pouch from Sarah Ashford Studios! This is the largest A3 size that Sarah sells, order your own custom pouch here!
Thanks so much to Karen, Sarah and Warm Crochet for these wonderful prizes!
And lastly one of my Sherbert Dip collection boxes from the amazing folks at Aurifil! This large collection includes 12 x 50wt cotton threads (the best threads you can buy!) in all my favourite colours! Thanks so much to the very generous Aurifil!
Phew! That’s a lot of booty! And because of that, and this special occasion, I am making this giveaway available for entry both here and on my Instagram feed. I will gather together the entries from both this post and my IG post and choose a random winner from all the entries. I feel like my IG feed is a natural extension of this blog, a place where I micro-blog before returning here to expand more, and where a lot of my earlier blog readership prefers to connect with me. What I am basically saying is that both places are important to me and I want to give as many of my followers as possible an opportunity to enter.
Edited 12/6/19
The winner is Carol Nelms! I used the random number generator to choose a winner from the 140 comments below and a scraper tool to choose a winner from my Instagram comments. I then put both names in a hat and asked my husband to pick one. Carol won! Congratulations Carol, I have sent you an email, please send me your address.
Commiserations the rest of you and thanks so much to all who entered.
How to enter:
To enter the giveaway all you need to do is comment below. If you have any specific memories about my blog then I would love to hear about them, for instance how long have you been reading? Did I ever give you some good advice, or make you laugh? Do you have a favourite quilt of project of mine? If you having nothing particular to say or are completely new here then just say hi!
The giveaway is open to international entries and closes at midnight UK time on Monday 10th June..
If you are on IG too you are welcome to head over to enter there also!
GOOD LUCK!
Hi! I really enjoy your blog, Jo, and I especially like your use of colour. I would love to visit your shop, but it’s a bit of a hoof from Reigate in Surrey! X
Absolutely love your fabric and colors! Jadahlgr at yahoo dot com
your site is exciting, congradulations on 10 years helping quilters and sewers make fab items.
Hi Jo! I’m so happy for you to be celebrating this huge milestone. You’re only six months “younger” than me! I had a giveaway on my blogiversary day too. This is such a fantastic giveaway though. Wow. I’m only sorry I didn’t know you sooner… but thrilled we met at QC in Savannah. Wishing you the best for another ten years. (Though, from my point of view, blog reading and commenting have dramatically dropped. Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth all the time and effort.) Thanks for sharing, and for your generous giveaway!
First, congratulations on your tenth anniversary of your blog. I’m very happy you are still blogging as many of is are not on Instagram and prefer the more chatty and informative nature of blogs. They’re like the old fashioned letter from faraway friends that our ancestor quilters used to write, sometimes in round-robin style. Thanks for offering up such a fabulous giveaway!
Thank you for the giveaway and congrats on your anniversary. I’m a fairly new follower and love your IG posts. I also thank you for introducing me to the Great British Quilter podcast. Cheers!
Hi Jo. Congratulations on your 10th Blogiversery! I’m so glad you asked for memories from your blog because I was going to mention your Tag Square Bee that you ran on Flickr. That must have been near the beginning of your blog journey. I still have my quilt on our bed and it reminds me of the beginning of my quilting journey, too. Although mine hasn’t been as successful as yours! Thank you for offering an amazing giveaway!! I’ve been very lax with MY blog ‘A Time for Stitching’ in recent years since.
Happy 10 years! I’ve followed you on IG but this is my first visit to your blog – can’t wait to explore it further! Congrats!
Congratulations on your anniversary. I follow you on Instagram. Thank you for the inspiration.
Hi from Sussi
Huge congratulations on 10 years……I think I managed 2!! For me, it was your single fold binding….I fell instantly in love and haven’t used anything since to bind my quilts! More recently (last week!) I listened to you on Sarah’s Great British Quilter podcast…..brilliant. Thank you for all the inspiration you provide! X
I so do adore your blog! Every few months I read from beginning to end and love it each time!
I’m compl5new here! Congratulations on your 10 year blog birthday! (I like that so much more than blogiversary.) Your thread collection is gorgeous. I love the bright colors!
Congratulations. You’ve provided a lot of inspiration.
Congratulations on 10 years! I have learned much & enjoy all of your IG posts! That’s a huge prize package & you’re a wonderful generous person!
Thank you! Marcia Baker
@the.quilting.nana
Thank you for the give-away. I love your hand quilting and your colourful quilts. And the Great British Quilter podcast which I found last week!
Congratulations! I’ve been absent from the blog world for a while, I’m glad to see you are still here!
Congratulations on 10years
I love your Instagram posts
Thanks for introducing me to quilting at one of your fabulous workshops!
Hi Jo, congratulations on your anniversary and thank you for the competition! I think your blog is a wonderful place, here’s to the next ten years! zx
Happy 10 years! This bundle looks fantastic 😘😘😘
I have followed you for a few years and enjoy your blog! I like all the inspiration and projects! Congrats on 10 years. I will check out your IG, I tend to me more a blog reader and love reading them rather than the short snips on IG. Thank you for the lovely giveaway and blog !!
Thank you for a fabulous giveaway. My favourite things from your blog have to be the tendril pouches that I keep seeing, one day I must make one. I used your tutorial for hand quilting last year when I decided to hand quilt a special 50th birthday present for a friend, my stitching has a long way to go to be as good as yours. Happy blogaversary, here’s to many more years of fabric fun. x
Love the blog, your classes and this giveaway is pretty spectacular
Great giveaway
I love your designs in Love Patchwork and Quilting Magazine. Thank you for the chance on this giveaway!
Jo, I am so glad you started your blog and that it led you deeper into the world of quilting and all your other crafty stuff. More importantly I’m glad that you started teaching for I have learnt so much from your classes. Thank you so much.
Congratulations Jo on 10 years. Been following you many years since a gift of beginners’ patchwork day course at your Morningside Shop started me on the quilting journey (or should I say ‘obsession’)
Wishing you good luck for second decade of blogs.
Happy 10th Blog birthday Jo. I am a bit of a lurker on here as I rarely post anything but I have been reading your posts for years. I also like your tutorials on the blog. Congratulations – I am quite new to Instagram but enjoy reading your posts there also.
I saw your New York Beauty in Todays Quilter then at the Festival of Quilts… totally inspired me. I followed you pattern and have pieced my own…scared but am about to quilt it myself.Also hoping to visit your shop in August cant wait
I love the colours you use they have inspired a number of my makes. Thank you.
Thanks for staying with blogging all these years, and for offering such a fabulous giveaway to celebrate your 10 years!
Hi! Happy 10 years! I enjoy seeing your different projects, learning new things from your blog.
Congratulations Jo! I enjoy your blog and instagram feeds immensely. I hope you continue to be inspired to share quilty things for the next 10 years (or even more!).
Hi Jo, I love your blog very inspiring. Who knew the first class would lead to an addiction!!
CONGRATS ON 10 YEARS BLOGGING! LOVE READING IT!
THANKS FOR A NEAT GIVEAWAY!
I’ve been reading and following your blog for years. I love seeing your gorgeous projects! Even though I don’t do embroidery, I love seeing the stitching you add to your quilts and projects that make them extra special. And you have such a talent for putting colors together! Congratulations on 10 years, I hope you will write for many more. I prefer blogs to quick snippet type social media. Thanks for the chance in this fabulous giveaway!
I’m just finding my way into blogs and I’m enjoying the experience. Congratulations on 10 years of blogging. The prize is fantastic and very generous. I would love it to live at my house. It would be very well looked after- I promise!
I am new to your blog and can’t wait to read it. I’m always looking for new ideas and good advice.
Congratulations on 10 years of blogging Jo. So glad I came to one of your early workshops in Morningside. Your encouragement has been a great support over the years.
Congrats and thanks for the great giveaway! I enjoy your blog.
Many congratulations, I’m new to your blog, but looking forward to being a regular follower.
I’ve been following your blog since I came across your stall at a Malvern show 3 years ago. I bought a quilt kit (squares in grey/ Alison Glass fabric) which was the first quilt kit I ever bought. It was a gentle introduction to a hobby that I have become hooked on. I’m enjoying the EPP work that you’ve been showing us of late. Maybe one day I’ll be brave enough to try this as a project too. Congratulations on reaching 10 years, I’m looking forward to reading the next 10.
I can’t remember if I first did a class with you at the old shop or read your blog – obviously I continue to do both. They are great and always make me smile!
I hadn’t realised you had a blog (I follow on Instagram) so now I have lots of wonderful reading catch up on! ❤️
Follow you on IG but new to your blog. Congratulations on this milestone anniversary!
Really enjoy reading your blog Jo … lots of inspiration . Especially like your fabric choices and the way you put them together x Cathy M
Thank you Jo, here’s to the next 10 years and beyond! Massive thank you for your inspiration,. Loved your stitch gatherings in Edinburgh and so looking forward to the summer retreat in Yorkshire , hoping not the last, Bristol just that little too far away! Keep up the inspirational work online, in the magazines and in you shop etc.
Love love love it.
Congratulations Jo, I so 😍 Enjoy your blog it gives me great inspiration to tackle many projects. Thank You 😊
So glad we got to meet at the past couple QuiltCons! Congratulations on your 10 year blog anniversary! 🎉
First congratulations, I was trying to think of something and I remembered the crochet blanket. Beautiful, here’s to another 20 years.
Congrats. New to your blog and love it!
Congratulations on reaching ten years!!
I love all your pouches; such a lovely way to use up odd blocks, but so useful!
I first found your blog in about 2012 when I searched for embroidery and found one of your posts on the great tapestry of Scotland. I loved it and followed ever since. Thanks for all the inspiration!
Love the blog and your IG!
Congratulations on reaching the milestone 10 years of writing a blog! Blessings for many, many years ahead! I’ve been a blog follower for a few years and was initially drawn in by your projects using improv and your incredible use of color! I love a blog that is full of inspiration…yours is top notch! <3
First, congrats on this HUGE milestone!
I’ve been reading your blog for about 8-9 years now. (Yikes how time flies) And I must say, I quite enjoy it. Love your improve houses! On my to-do list already. Xx
Congratulations on your blogiversary. I’ve followed your blog for a number of years and it’s really bright and inspirational.
Congratulations on 10 years! I have been a follower since I did the cot quilt classes at the morningside shop around 5 years ago, and have been hooked on quilting since. Your patterns and ideas are always so colourful and creative and I love seeing them in the blog!
Gosh, I cannot remember when I first started reading your blog. About 7 years ago maybe. I attended one of the retreats at Folly Farm with my friend Jane and had so much fun learning from you. I am still using my pouch with the vine applique.
Many congratulations on your 10 year anniversary
I am new to the blog but I have been following you on IG. Congratulations on your 10 year! Looking forward to reading thru the site! Thank you for the giveaway to prompt me to your site! Best wishes for many more years!
I have been following you since… well, a long time ago 😉 I love your inspiring patterns, and visiting your blog is alway a joyfull moment
Congratulations on 10 years! And Thank you for offering this awesome wonderful giveaway collection! I love it!! Good luck to everyone!
Congratulations on 10 years. I look forward to the next 10.
I have been following you for a few years now and love seeing the quilts come to life. I have still to take the plunge myself. I adored the quilts made for the Social bite Village. I adore the tiny houses and the idea that the people in the village have a hand made quilt for them for life is awesome.
Aw, Jo! Congratulations on 10 years of blogging! I’ve enjoyed visiting your blog over the years. Not sure when I first found you, I thought it was through the mug rug swaps on Flickr, but maybe it was pincushion swaps …… but it’s been a long time! I love your quilting style, and your lovely embroidery. You did some fabric painting for a pouch, a while back, at a time when I was experimenting with painting on fabric …… I still need to stitch my painted fabric! Tee hee!
Wow, what a wonderful giveaway! I’d love to win!!
You will certainly make someone v-e-r-y happy! I hope it’s me!!!
Hugs,
Barbara xx
Congrats on 10 years! I always enjoy reading about and seeing your projects.
Thank you for 10 years of hard work for you and inspiration for us. I love your choice of colours.
Congrats on 10 years of blogging. I really enjoy your blog, especially seeing your tendril pieces
Congratulations on your 10th blogiversary! I’ve been inspired and learned so much from reading quilting blogs. So I’m immensely grateful to you for putting in the effort to write your blog for 10 years. Best wishes for many more wonderful years of creativity!
Congrats on 10 years of blogging!
Love your blog, and your instagram feed, it gives me lots of inspiration. Just need to do something with the inspiration now!
Congratulations on keeping up such an inspirational blog for so long. I’ve been following since before the first Brit Quilt Swap back in 2011 when you made that lovely, but insane quilt of teeny kaleidoscope blocks! I love your style and colour, always such a feast for the eyes, and I have really enjoyed glimpses of your crochet projects too, Jo. Thank you for the giveaway opportunity.
I have been following your blog for years now. Good way for YOU to see what was happening in your life also. I think what is special is how you work alongside with your husband on the homeless problem. After shopping at My Bear Paw last June, my daughters & I had lunch at a bistro table outside when a young lad pulled a mattress out and layed down blocking the entire sidewalk…an image you do not forget. Thanks for the great, REALLY great giveaway.
Congrats on your Blogiversary! Years of hard work I’m sure! I’ve lurked on your blog for a very long time but started following it diligently when your Medallion quilt showed up at the Bloggers Quilt Festival several years ago–2015 maybe? Didn’t want to miss any more of your quilt! I adore your applique touches and the happy, happy vibe to your color choices. You’ve almost made me want to make a pouch just because I loved the applique work you did.:) Thanks for the chance to win your awesome giveaway and thanks even more with sticking with blogging and continuing to share your creative journey with us.
Hi Jo-Congratulations. Thank you for giving me the chance to tackle FPP for a day with you and the Tartan Kiwi a few years ago. It helped me finally get me head around the process!!
Just found you and your lovely blog thanks to Louisa from Sewmotion and now follow you on Instagram. I have lots of blog reading to catch up with! I love your Harbour Scene Picture, I would love to have a go at this so will look for the magazine. Congratulations on 10 years of blogging.
Congratulations on your 10th anniversary blogging! I don’t know exactly how long I have been reading your blog, but I do know that it has been a very long time. I really enjoy seeing all of your beautiful projects and ideas. Please keep up the good work! Thanks!
Happy Anniversary! I always find your blog interesting. I love the picture at the top of the blog, and would like to try something like that.
Congratulations! I can’t remember how and when I found your blog. It has been a while though! I especially love your bags, with applique and decorative quilting. And the fabric storage pot from your tutorials page is on my todolist!
Thanks for this great give away!
Hi. Congrats on your blogiversary! I found your blog probably through bloglovin, when I saw your posts about the tiny house project. I’ve stayed for the quilting. Here’s to another 10 years. Thanks for the giveaway.
10 years is quite the accomplishment. Congratulations!!!
Congratulations on 10 years! Love your colors and patterns!
Hello there! I absolutely love the thread box and the fabric is beautiful! Congratulations on your anniversary!
I have been reading your blog for about 3 years. I enjoy your use of color
Congratulations to this milestone. I am a quilter from South Africa and love to see your pics on Instagram. I love your colours and the modern approach and am now also doing the NAT Quiltmuseum Qal. Looking forward to meet you in person on my next visit to Ed.
Wow, congratulations! I love your favorite thread colors, they are so bright and fun!!
Congratulations on your 10th blogiversary! 10 years of inspiration and dedication to the maker in each of us! Love your happy colours?
Hi. I just found your blog and love all the wonderful colors you use. Happy to be here.
Congratulations. I love your blog!
Congratulations on 10 years. Your colours and style together with your excellent Quilting are amazing. Generous giveaway!!
I have been enjoying your blog and have learned from you. Thanks for giveaway.
Congratulations. Ten years is a long time to maintain a blog. Thank you for the opportunity to win this lovely giveaway.
Love 💕 all your color choices! Happy Anniversary! Susan🧵
thank you for sharing your quilting expertise!
Hi! Love the blog!
Congratulations and I love your thread colors!
The selected colors on the curated aurifil palette are so inspirational!
It takes skill and love to do all you’ve done over the past ten years. Good for you!
It takes skill, Love and luck to do what you love for 10 years! Good for you! Happy Anniversary
Hi Jo, Congratulations on your first ten years. Off and on I have followed all that time. I even received a little quilt from you in a quilt swap, it’s still hanging on my work room wall. I hope you keep going for at least another ten years.
Congrats on your ten year anniversary! Love , love your colours for thread.
Hi, this looks amazing. Happy
Anniversary.
The colors in your Aurifil Sherbert Dip thread collection just sing to me! I love their jewel-like vibrancy. Thank you for your inspiration and CONGRATULATIONS on your 10-year blogging anniversary!
HI! Thanks for the giveaway.
Happy anniversary! I always enjoy reading your blog and love your tutorials. Thank you.
Hello! Love your blog and your thread collection.
Congratulations! I found you on Instagram first and just found the blog. I love seeing your work on IG and am going to peruse the blog now. 🙂
Thanks for the awesome give away!
Hi! Congrats on 10 years! Awesome!
Congratulations on your 10 year blog anniversary.
I’m 🤤 over this beautiful fabric and amazing colors of thread!!!! 💜💙💛🧡❤️
Congrats on the 10 anniversary! Big accomplishment and keep up the good work.
I am loving all that I see. New here, but will be following from now on! Would love to be your winner.
Happy anniversary! Love seeing your work
Congratulations on your anniversary. I love your color choices for your projects. I have been following you on IG and this is my first visit to your blog, but I have added it to my reading list!
Hi—congratulations on your blog Anniversary!
WOW! Fabulous giveaway! Thank you! It’s nice to get reacquainted with you and your blog. Happy Anniversary!
Happy 10 Years!! I’ve been reading your blog for quite some time. I love your tutorials, really helped me when I didn’t think I could do something your techniques worked for me, i.e. Miter Corners. Thank for all you do to help us, you are dedicated and bring us new fabrics. Enjoy your Anniversary!
I am loving your blog and have followed it for a long time now. Absolutely love the tendril pouches and make them for my friends as pressies. You have inspired me to move towards modern quilting and I look forward every day to your IG as well as your blogs. Thank you
Hi! I havent seen your blog, but will be checking in, The 6th of June is my wedding Anniversary, We were married 21 years, so that is is a great day for me too. Love all the prizes you are giving, all the beautiful colors of thread and the fabric is to die for, hope I can win, never have won anything like this so it would be grand.. good luck to all. Thank you for giveaway and chance to win.
Thank you for the giveaway and congrats on your anniversary. Thanks to all the inspirations! 🤗🤩💝
Congratulations on your ten year blog anniversary! Thank you for all the ideas and inspiration. And, of course, the generous giveaways.
What a fab giveaway and those fabrics!! Thank you.
Hi! and congratulations.
Hi! I am new to the blog. Happy anniversary or birthday! Thanks for the giveaway!😊
Happy Anniverday Jo. Made your fabric pot for five friends last year whilst travelling in France and Italy, they were great. Oh for another ten years.
I just discovered your blog. I am going to add it to my Bloglovin account.
Congratulations! I love the colors, and your blog is great!
Congratulations! 10ears is a major commitment to others through your blogging. I can’t believe that I am just meeting you now. I have looked back at your blogs and I love your style. I love bright colours, houses, scraps and crewel work. I am finding it really fun to return to embroidery.
I just learned about your blog – it looks like fun and I’ll definitely be following you for the future!!
Thank you for your blog! A wonderful inspiration. Please enter me in your giveaway.
Hello and thanks for the opportunity to win such nice prizes!
Hi Jo! I’m new here and just getting going on quilting, and loving every stitch. Congratulations on 10 years. Here’s to many more.
Hi Jo! Congratulations on 10 years of a great blog! And here’s to 10 more!!
BTW, thise are amazing prizes. Thank you.
Hello! I am new to your blog but love your color choices. Hope you continue for several more decades.
I read your blog every day. I love it so much. Yesterday I MISSED IT! I wish I could have been eligible to win. But so awful person broke into my home and wrecked my day. Well my week, but you can’t BELIEVE how it will wreck your day. Anyone I love love your blog. Keep it up.
Congratulations on your Anniversary and great giveaway.
Congratulations on 10 years! I am a brand new reader looking forward to reading more of your blogs
I follow you on IG. Your use of colour always catches my eye. Your projects are inspiring. Thanks for the giveaway
Congrats on 10 years! I have just found your blog and very much looking forward to the next ten years.
I too just found your blog and am impressed so I’ll be nosing around. What a fabulous way to celebrate 10 blogging years, Congratulations!
All that swag is very generous of you and your contributors. Thanks and it’s nice to meet you.
PS: I have fond memories of the UK as I traveled there 20 years ago and loved it!
Hi! So enjoyed reading your website! New to website but like it so much!
THANK YOU!