I love the New Year. The idea of starting fresh just sits well with me. Ok, I know it’s all in my head, but I like it anyway. Maybe this is the year that all my resolutions will turn into lifelong habits. Daily exercise? Check! Organization? Check! Finish up all projects before starting a new one? Check!
A girl can dream, right??!!
So now to the fun part! I’ve had a giveaway planned in my mind for weeks and here it finally is. There will actually be two giveaways;
Giveaway #1: Leave a comment on this post to be entered. I’ll pick one winner randomly.
Giveaway #2: I really appreciate everyone who leaves comments on my blog, so this one is a little thank you. I’m gonna go back through the comments on this blog, all the way to the beginning and include every comment. I’ll pick two winners randomly from all these comments.
Next: Prizes!
I have five different prizes to be won, and each winner gets to choose two!
another pin cushion.
Now, there’s only one charm pack, and one of each of the pin cushions, but there’s a few of the fat quarter sets, so here’s how it will be. The first and second winners from GiveAway #2 (the one with comments from past posts) will get first choice on which prize they want, then the winner from GiveAway #1 (comments on this post) will get what’s left!
I’ll leave this open till Friday, January 7. But I’m gonna go find the winners from the previous comments right now. (so if you were thinking of being sneaky and commenting on every past post, don’t waste your time!:)
and I’ll announce all three winners on Friday!! So leave me a comment, and you may win two of these smallish prizes. (but don’t grump, cause they’re free!)
wow, that's quite a feat to go through all your comments! and what a great giveaway!
Happy New Year! Thanks for the giveaway and love the way you are doing it. Have a great day.
Thanks for the fun giveaway (my fave is the orange and tangerine pincushion – adorable)! Thanks for the inspiration over the past year!
How nice of you! I love reading your blog, you make the cutest stuff. Happy New Year!
Wowza–great giveaway! The winners are lucky, lucky!!
Yay! Count me in! What a nice way to start the year. It is not breaking my "fabric diet" if the fabric is free, right?? 🙂 Thanks, Jolene!
I love that bus! :o) Happy New Year.
wow this is amazing thanks so much
Sweet!! I love your blog and this giveaway is awesome. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love your blog… an inspiration for someone like me who is new to all things crafty!
Wow, how sweet of you! I love your blog, I find it very inspirational.
thank you and happy New Year!
So nice!
But, let me check: are you insane? :)))) All the comments? Count them? Brrr :)))
What an awesome idea to go through past comments! And what a generous giveaway!
What line are those FQ's from, they are so pretty?!
I've decided not to have any resolutions this year, therefore no disappointment in myself later in the year if I don't adhere to it all. I'm going to try to liver healthier, more happily and in a simpler fashion. Here's to the New Year!
Happy New Year. Thank you for the chance to win such great gifts. I love the pincushions.
what a fun giveaway! you have such great taste in fabrics! hope i left lots of previous comments!
I love pincushions – who would grump at the chance to win?
Thanks for the giveaway! 😀 It's nice that you are giving to other commenters – makes us readers appreciated!!
Here is my "random" comment for today:
There are three potatoes sitting in a room. How do you know which one is the prostitute?
It's wearing a sticker that reads, I-Da-Ho!
Perhaps my New Year's Resolution should be to stick with my day job?
♥Duff
I love January too! It's fresh and ready for lots of possibilities. If you got everything perfect this year, what would you work on next year? 🙂
Great blog. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks for offering such a fun giveaway:) I am loving this new blogging thing- mostly the reading of other people's though:)
what a way to start a new year! thanks!
awesome giveaway! have always loved your work and fabric choices! please pick me!!
cute pincushions and fun fabrics. thanks for the giveaway.
nettiepete at gmail dot com
Fun giveaway! I've been eyeing that grey farmdale fabric for a while now!
What a wonderful giveaway! And going through all your comments-that sounds like quite a time consuming feat. You will certainly make four people very happy! Thanks!
what a fun giveaway… happy new year!
Thanks for the great giveaway! Hopefully it doesn't take too long to go through all your old comments!
Thx for the chance to win such pretty things. Happy New Year!
So I *just* started quilting, and I *just* found your blog through your flickr stream. It's safe to say that I've visited here like every day in the past week. And now a giveaway!
Please keep up the amazing work, you are inspiring! xox
Meg @ Tea & Brie Photography
the pincushions are adorable! I'm looking forward to a creative year.
It's all so adorable – Thanks for such a great giveaway.
I just discovered your blog a few weeks back and loved all of your quilts you've made especially the one you blogged about on Nov. 27th. The colors together are so pretty. Your work is very inspiring.
Posts like this will hopefully help me out of google reader so I can be a better blog reader and commenter, one of my goals for 2011! Happy New year…
Wow, great giveaway! I adore your little pincushions, they're so cute!
Oh I love everything that you have. So gorgeous! I would love to win.
I would be delighted to win any of those prizes – so lovely. Thank you for the giveaway!
Thank you! Great giveaway!…I'm in!
nichi
Thanks for the great giveaway opportunities! Happy new year!
Thanks for a chance! Cheers <3
Wow! That is so fun. Thanks for the chance to win. I hope this dind't post twice my computer messed up as I was trying to post.
Enter me! giveaways are fun, eh?
How great! I love your blog – and the giveaway!
Thanks for the motivation to delurk. I found you recently and love your quilts. Happy new year! Thanks for the chance to win something.
I just stumbled accross your blog. It is fantastic! What a great giveaway as well. Happy New Year!
Wow you are going to be busy with all your comments.
Thank you so much for the giveaway, I love to read your blog.
Great giveaway – thanks for the chance to win! I especially love your pincushions. I found your blog last year and look forward to what you have in store for 2011!
fun giveaway! I'd love to win!
Thanks for the chance, it's a great give away. I love reading your blog and seeing all the beautiful things you create.
I'd love to win! Thanks for the opportunity
Aww man…just discovered your blog last week but it's been in my reader since then. Love your quilts…esp. when you tuck some of American Jane (my fave) in there.
I just found your blog yesterday. I found your QAYG potholders first. You have amazing quilts fresh and bright. Great giveaway, very generous.
i love your blog.you are so creative and colorful.i dont deserve a freebee but i will enter anyways.mum b
I like this giveaway idea, Jolene! What a fun way to say thank you to people who have commented in the past.
I love all the stuff you make, and those groups of fabric are fantastic! Winning any of it would be great!
What a motivating give away! Happy New Year to you!!!
Great giveaway! thanks for the chance to win! :]
Thanks for the giveaway. I'm trying to get more quilting "finished" in the new year. I don't want to let the UFOs pile up again.
Awesome giveaway! Those pin cushions are wonderful!
Thanks so much for the giveaway! I would love to know how you did the "cheater" hexagons. I'd like to do a pillow or two, but I too dislike hand-piecing (or doing much hand sewing in general). 🙂
Rachel Horton
ravery at email dot unc dot edu
Ohhh nice giveaway. Pretty sure I have left a few comments. (I cant remember)
What a GREAT giveaway! THANK YOU!
Those are fabulous prizes! What do you mean, smallish?? Awesome giveaway, and thanks for the chance!!
Thank you for a fantastic giveaway. I just found your blog today, and I love what I see. Signing up as a follower so I can see more of your awesomeness.
Wow this is an awesome giveaway!! And I usually dont make resolutions but I would NEVER be able to stick to the one about finishing a project before starting another! I swear I have around 20 WIP's right now!
Yay! Fun giveaway. No need to justify how you run your own giveaway. I just hope that I've left you some comments lately!
Thank you for a great BIG giveaway. The pincushions and FQ are lovely. The name for your blog is fantastic. Happy New Year.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Found your blog through Flickr while looking for a nine patch quilt. Just love it!
awesome giveaway! there are so many fabrics out there that i just want to have in my posession, but that VW bus fabric I WANT. LOVE it!!
thanks for your inspiration!!
don't grump?!
Not only are they free– they're fabulous!!!
thanks for the chance to win!
hey Jo I just LOVE your quilts and the fabrics you choose are sweet!!! Sue
How generous! What cute pincushions and awesome fabric! I hope I win! (How do you part with them?)
Awesome giveaway! I hope 2011 turns out to be a happy and quilt-filled year!
Thanks for the giveaway! Love that fabric and the super cute pincushion with the van.
Happy New Year!! Thank you for chance to win:)
They say it only takes 21 days to make or break a habit… Not that long in the grand scheme of things when you think about it! Happy new years resolutions!
Wow! Awesome giveaway- thank you for the opportunity and inspiration!
I don't really want to win as I just don't need anymore fabric! I've just popped in for the first time this year to check out what's happening in this space. Those pin cushions are adorable and I'd really love to know where you ordered your labels??? Please???
Love your blog! Great Giveaway too!
Thanks! What a nice giveaway!
Great giveaway! Can't grump about free, that's for sure!=) Thanks for the opportunity to win!=)
Wow, you are giving some great stuff. The winners will be very happy.
I would be thrilled with any of that stuff! I have posted and posted on blogs to win free stuff, to no avail…..this time, I can feel it….new year, I get to win this time???? here's to a new year of hope!
lissaneyhartpc@yahoo.com
the pin cushions are ADORABLE!
Gorgeous, gorgeous prizes! Have a wonderful new year. 🙂
Great giveaway!
I just found your blog:) Thanks for the give away!
I love all your prizes, especially the VW Van pincushion – love orange! Thank you for the giveaways!
What a way to start the new year ## THANKS ## for this give a way .
Awesome
Greetings from Bea
Just found your blog! Happy New Year!
Thanks for the chance-the bliss fabric is awesome. I look forward to reading your older posts!
Thanks for the chance to win this fun giveaway! I love, love, love all the fabrics1!!!
What a lovely giveaway. Hope you plans for the New Year come to fruition.
Lovely giveaway. .some of my favs.
Thanks for the opportunity. Love your quilts!
That Van pin cushion is so cute !!!
I just came across your blog via Sunshine? Paradise? Will add this to my side bar. They all look lovely.
I am new to your blog this year! Love all the creativity! As 2011 started I made 3 new years resolutions… 1. Make more things 2. Go greener 3. Try every sandwich at a local deli! I think they are all obtainable goals! Enjoy your New Year!
crystallacombe_photographer(at)yahoo(dot)com
Just found your blog through The Clip Cafe. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Thank you for a lovely giveaway and happy new year! beautiful fabric and lovely pincushions!
Wow – fab giveaway – what better way to start the New Year – thank you for the chance to win xxx
Happy new year to you! I just found you through the Kitchen swap on flickr, which I'm very excited about. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
I've just found your blog so thanks for the chance to win and I'm off to read about more of the gorgeous things you've made!
No grumping here! Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity! I"m looking forward to continuing reading in the new year!
What a lovely giveaway! I only just found your blog so I must have come at the right time. x
Love this giveaway, and how you're honoring the comment love! I wish I'd found you before today :). But I'm glad to be here now!
Great giveaway! Just stumbled onto your blog from etsy. You do amazing work. Many of your quilts are my favorites 🙂 Thanks!
Cool! One of my friends plugged your Grandma pillow on her blog, and I came over to see that. It's amazing! I love your fabric choices and hand sewing!
This is interesting. I am a new follower. See you…
such a generous giveaway! I recently discovered your blog…you make some amazing things…
Wow! What an awesome way to start off the new year! It's always fun to give and to receive!
Thanks so much!
I really enjoy your blog and all of your creativity….wishing I had more hours in the day to do all of the things on my to-do wish list…though, don't we all!
What a wonderful give-away!!!
The fabric caught my eye on someone elses blogroll! Just had to come over…I may be too late for the giveaway but just wanted to say i love your pin cushions and think its a fab giveaway!
could I buy a bit of that orange minibus fabric? who makes it? That is tooo adorable!