With summer in full swing, it is the perfect time for thoughts of cooler weather. It is also time to start to plan out all of the gifts to be stitched for for our loved ones. Amanda Murphy has a wonderful new book filled with ideas of all sizes to fit your holiday needs.
Modern Holiday- Deck the Halls with 18 Sewing Projects published by Stash Books may be just what you are looking for to inspire the fun colorful gifts that will make you proud to give more! Amanda, well know for her beautiful design sense has brought her brand of style to your holiday.
Welcome friends into your home with a bright advent calendar made with Ready, Set Snow by Me and My Sister Designs for Moda Fabrics is ready with the most adorable yo-yo bows to count down the days!
Hanging these stockings by the chimney with care will be super simple. Trying to decide on a favorite will be difficult with these fabulous four designs. The choices include a vertical zig zag, a horizontal zig-zag, a circle, or a mock hexagon, all fun and perfect for all ages. The stockings shown are made with Santa’s Workshop by Doodlebug Designs for Riley Blake.
Winter without a quilt to snuggle under? Poppycock! Amanda’s Snowfall quilt made with a mix of fabrics from Brrr! by Laurie Wisbrun for Robert Kaufman Fabrics and Mixmasters by Patrick Lose for Robert Kaufman Fabrics will be the go to quilt when the temperatures start falling.
This fun Blog Hop will last for two more days so do not miss any of the fun!
Monday, July 8th
Stash Books and Amanda Murphy Design
Tuesday, July 9th
Sew We Quilt
Wednesday, July 10th
Sew Sweetness
Thursday, July 11th
Me and My Sister Design
Friday, July 12th
Fat Quarterly
Monday, July 15th
Bernina (We All Sew)
Tuesday, July 16th
Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio
Wednesday, July 17th
Diary of a Quilter
Thursday, July 18th
Ellison Lane Quilts
Friday, July 19th
A Quilting Life
Monday, July 22nd
Aurifil Threads
Tuesday, July 23rd
Laurie Wisbrun/The Scarlet Fig
Wednesday, July 24th
Amanda Murphy Design
The best part of this Blog Hop is that Amanda is kindly giving your holiday a jumpstart by offering a giveaway of a hard copy of Modern Holiday ( or an e-copy for international friends).
To make this giveaway even more exciting there will be also an Aurifil The Basics Collection by Mark Lipinski. This collection features 12 of Mark Lipinski’s favorite threads, the Basic Collection includes a variety of Aurifil’s outstanding threads in the 12 most versatile colors, each 1422 yards, 50wt.
One winner will receive one hard copy ( or an ebook for international friends) and one collection of The Basics Collection by Mark Lipinski.
This giveaway is closed. Many thanks to everyone that left comments. It was very fun to read all the traditions and memories!
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My favorite holiday tradition is listening to my father read How the Grinch Stole Christmas on Christmas Eve. He’s been doing it for almost 40 years now! Thanks for the chance to win such an awesome prize!
I love the Snowfall quilt!
Every year on Christmas Eve we go to the midnight church service then come home for mulled wine and mince pies!
I love making everyone a small gift each year. This year is a coiled basket for keys or small change.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the Christmas stocking. They’re very special at our home where we get some of the funniest, fun, and special gifts. My husband gets very creative!
I suppose Holiday traditions are a little different in the Southern Hemisphere! Would it surprise you to know that Carols by Candlelight, on Christmas Eve is my favourite tradition- especially if the weather is balmy and warm!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is opening Christmas stockings early Christmas morning while eating homemade cinnamon rolls.
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with friends on Christmas eve. Thanks for the giveaway! :0)
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My favorite holiday tradition is taking out the Christmas quilts that I’ve made and hanging them or tossing them where they will be used during the season. There is a quilt for each of my grandchildren to inherit. Each quilt will carry with it memories of Christmas at grandma’s house.
I’ve been following Aurifil for a very long time!
My favorite holiday tradition is driving around town and enjoying all the light displays on Christmas Eve. I also follow on Facebook.
We try to keep it simple and loose, not big on struggling for tradition sake. Every year, though, my husband saves the silver bells for my to hang on the tree. One was given to my mother on my birth and the other was given to me when our son was born. That one I don’t mind.
My favorite holiday tradition was making a big bowl of eggnog (homemade with a little rum and bourbon) to sip while trimming the tree. Unfortunately it is now just me and it had fallen by the wayside. But last year my nephew was here to help put up the tree. And I made a batch!!!! Will have to continue, even if it is just me. Just for the memories. And wonderful memories too.
My favourite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas
tree!
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My favourite holiday tradition is to drive around our town looking at all the Christmas lights with my children and dogs.
We pick our favorite Christmas card and frame. Each year when we decorate for Christmas we hang all the cards from past years and reminisce.
Following Aurifil on Facebook. Now if I could just find a retailer in or near Deland, FL to buy Aurifil thread. Before my stash runs out!!!!!
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I love the colors they used in this Christmas book I’m sure I would make alot of things in it. I love the holidays and my tree is up just after Thanksgiving. It takes me 3 days to get it all just right!
I would love to win this! 🙂
I love reading and listening Christmas music in the odour of Christmas tree in the light of candles
Thanks for the great giveaways. The best part of Christmas is the blessings from spending time with friends and family. A highlight is the annual cookie bake – couples, families, grandchildren get together for an evening of making cookies, food and fellowship, then home with dozens of cookies!
My favorite holiday tradition is the family meal. We use plates and silverware and many items that belonged to family members who are no longer with us–my mother, mother-in-law, my grammy, great-grammy, and lots of aunts. The meal is filled with nostalgia and laughter.
My favorite holiday tradition is the supper my husband and I host for my large family. It is so great to have everyone together and share the magic of Christmas. Would love to win this great prize.
My favourite holiday tradition is to go to the beach with my family on Christmas Eve, eat hot chips on the sand and then walk along the beach or in the water if it is really hot. SO relaxing and a great way to start the Christmas period.
My favorite holiday tradition is that we all cook together ~ every person has a dish they make best, even the little ones. It’s a little crazy in the kitchen but we do have lots of fun!
Thanks so much for a lovely giveaway and the chance to win.
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My favorites are the cookie baking and gingerbread house decorating. Lots of family bonding time that’s creative.
My favorite Christmas tradition is filling my advent quilt with chocolate for my children.
My favorite tradition is Christmas eve with the extended family and watching all of the little ones open their presents
My favorite Christmas tradition is giving my sister in law unusual/funny gifts that I have accumulated all year (from garage sales, thrift stores etc). Then I wrap them in wrapping paper that is different than all the other paper and sign it from a different character every year (ex: Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, etc). We all get a very big laugh out of it (even my sister in law).
My favourite holiday tradition is the bake exchange I’ve been organizing every year. So much fun for the girls to all get together. <3
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I just fell in love with the Snowfall Quilt. I simply admire Amanda Murphy and would be so happy and grateful to win her new book for myself. What a wonderful Christmas in July present along with those Aurifil thread. Like a Quilter’s Dream come true. Thank you for the chance to win. Just love Amanda Murphy and Aurifil.
Sandi Timmons
I love waking up in the early morning, turning the lights on the Christmas tree and having a cup of my favorite coffee!
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Our favorite traditions are opening your Christmas pajama package on Christmas Eve. The next morning having a long brunch while opening presents slowly. The having our extended family of about 65 over for dinner!
My favorite tradition has to be the tree. If I got no other decorations up I could be happy with just the tree. I love to just look at the tree with the twinkling lights & ornaments. Thanks for the chance to win such a fabulous prize!
My favourite tradition is putting out our Christmas houses.
My favorite holiday tradition is a Christmas Eve feast of scallops and filet mignon with family and friends.
I love doing holiday baking and of course sharing the goodies with neighbors and friends.
We always have Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve and then sleep in and eat leftovers!
Our tradition is to gather at our house on Christmas Eve to open presents! I always make a nice meal so no one has to worry about cooking and we get to visit and play catch up as we are eating! Then we open the presents!!
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My favorite holiday tradition is listening to my father read How the Grinch Stole Christmas on Christmas Eve. He’s been doing it for almost 40 years now! Thanks for the chance to win such an awesome prize!
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I make a recipe for a Polish Nut Cresent that I mail to friends – probably about 20. It makes me happy to do this every year.
It’s the simple gatherings with the people I love!
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Our favorite holiday tradition is spending Christmas Eve together as a family and opening one gift after dinner. Then, we watch “The Sound of Music”!
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I do an Advent Calendar with my two daughters (now 22 and 20) and they have little gifts all the way up to Christmas. They love that more than their actual presents.
We have a young family, so we’re in the process of creating new traditions. I do enjoy Dutch traditions that I grew up with – certain songs and foods.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is driving around on Christmas Eve and looking at all the lights. I do love the Christmas quilts and Stockings hung on the mantle.
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my favorite holiday tradition is putting up the tree on Christmas eve. My children have an ornament for each year given to them by my mom.
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My favourite holiday tradition is probably breakfast: waffles with fruit sauce and vegan whipped topping.
AS a child our fave holiday tradition was on Christmas eve we all received new pj’s and then were allowed to open one gift of our choice form under the tree!! I will never forget those days. Now I have tried to start a new tradition with my children and grandchildren. we still do the one gift Christmas eve, but I have also started with a new Christmas ornament for each with their name and date on the back and a music box.
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I started a new tradition last Christmas. I made a Christmas quilt, wall hanging and took it to my children’s home for Christmas. This year my oldest daughter gets to display the quilt and then will pass it on to daughter #2 for the next year. Then she will send to son, and then back to me. In the meantime, I am going to start another one and continue the cycle! Should be fun! Christmas is of course, my favorite holiday. Thanks for the opportunity to win!!!!
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My favorite tradition is an early morning breakfast before we open presents!
Our fav holiday tradition is getting together to string popcorn for the live tree:) What fun!
We make Christmas cookies with the grandchildren and great grandchildren every year. It is so much fun to do but what a mess when they get done.
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Every Christmas Eve we watch It’s a Wonderful Life together as a family. mfarner1423@embarqmail.com
My favorite holiday tradition is driving to celebrate the holidays with all the family! Thanks for the great giveaway chance!
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My husband is Puerto Rican and I love the Christmas Eve gathering food that his mom made. She passed away this year so I don’t know what will happen in the future.
My favorite Christmas tradition started by accident. On Christmas morning I take a picture of the kids sitting on the top stair waiting for the okay to come down and see what has been left under the tree.
My favorite holiday tradition is waking up as early as possible to see what “Santa” brought for the kids! Thanks for the chance to win!
I enjoy baking lots of Christmas cookies and passing them out to friends and neighbors. Everybody loves getting cookies!
Favorite tradition is making tamales with family and friends. It is a great day full of love, laughter, and margaritas!
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Our favorite tradition was the children dressing up in the proper attire as they acted out the Christmas story. One of them read from the Bible. My sister and I both lost our only sons , so these memories of those precious children sustain us and keep hope in our hearts…this is a wonderful giveaway…
I am following Aurifil on Facebook.
My favorite tradition is baking cookies with my children.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the card that we give each other on Christmas. Each member of my immediate family buys a special card for each member of the family every year. I have saved close to all of them. Thank you for this super great giveaway.
Have a super great sewing and stitching day!
Midnight Mass with candles and preceded by carols. And the birthday cake for Christmas dinner dessert.
Holidays always brings family together. Spending time with my family is my favorite tradition!!
Our favorite holiday tradition is to get together and make a family favorite of my Grandmother’s – (who was born in Czechoslovakia) kolachy.
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My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with family and letting the children open one present on Christmas eve! Even though my child is grown up, he still likes to open one present the night before Christmas.
What a lovely giveaway! One of my favorite Christmas traditions is lighting the Advent wreath each Sunday leading up to Christmas.
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Love the Aurifil thread , no breakage for me. Liked it on facebook.
Look the fabric on the Christmas tree quilt.
my favourite tradition, is to decorate the christmas tree with my kids
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My favourite holiday tradition is our family getaway! 😀
My favorite holiday tradition is hiking out into the woods to cut our own Christmas Tree. Thanks for the giveaway!
Favorite tradition is hand made gifts.
Love decorating the Christmas tree! Thanks for a great giveaway.
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My favorite tradition is making cookies with my children. We still do this even though they are now grown. Thanks for the giveaway.
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My favorite tradition is when each of us in our family opens a gift on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Thanks for the chance to win! My favorite tradition is opening stockings on Christmas morning – it’s a time we spend with my immediate family!
My favorite tradition is attending the candlelight service at our church on Christmas Eve and then sharing the rest of the evening with our children and grandchildren.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is for my two children (23 and 20 now) to exchange their gifts on Christmas Eve. When they were younger, they gave each other a game so we would play the games after they were opened. It helped pass the time quickly waiting for Santa 🙂
I am already a follower of Aurifil on FB. BTW, I absolutely love the Countdown to Christmas wallhanging 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies with the children! We always have so much fun and make such a mess!!
making a lot of my Christmas gifts and lots of fish on Christmas eve (I am Italian).
We read the story of Christ’s birth from the bible every Christmas Eve. I also make a savory breakfast casserole that evening. We when we wake up on Christmas morning, I pop the casserole into the oven. By the time we have opened all the presents, breakfast is ready!
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I follow Aurifil on Facebook. It’s the only thread I buy, and this is an AWESOME collection! Thanks so much for the chance to win 🙂
MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY TRADITION IS CAROLING WITH FRIENDS+FAMILY!
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My favorite holiday tradition is choosing the perfect gifts for all my loves ones and then shopping for them or making them!
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My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree with my husband, and we remember where and when we bought the ornaments, as the cats try to take the garland away from us.
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My favourite tradition is going to cut down the Christmas tree with my daughter. We go to the same place every year and always have fun picking the tree and cutting it down. Getting it in the car is a bit of a challenge but worth it!
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Our favorite tradition is making Gingerbread houses with the Grandkids
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Being german,
my favorite holiday traditions are the christmas calendar and the Adventskranz – a wreath with four candles, that are one by one lighted the four sundays before christmas.
Great stuff! I love those stockings! A favorite tradition is our family picture on Christmas Eve. We have some great laughs while trying to capture the picture!
the food that my mom is cooking!!!!!! Love it!
My favorite holiday tradition is very un-traditional. Each year, we spend as much time as possible between Thanksgiving and the third Saturday in December checking out all the Christmas lights displays on homes in Phoenix and putting together a “run” (a progression) of the best of them. And then on the third Saturday in December, we lead 30 – 40 cars from our MINI Cooper club on a Christmas lights run through the entire metro area to view people’s Christmas lights and decor. We make a few scheduled stops, including one halfway stop for refreshments and we end up at a house with over half a million lights where one year we ran into Muhammad Ali and his family, also looking at the lights.
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reading Christmas books with the kids
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my favorite Christmas is the morning, everyone gathered together
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My favorite Christmas tradition is our Christmas party that we have on the Saturday before Christmas Eve. We invite family and friends…all the child under say 12 or so receive a toy and the older ones receive movie passes. It is great fun…we don’t have any little ones at home so it is so exciting to see them open the gifts and play.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is Midnight Candlelight Service on Christmas Eve.
I love going to Christmas Eve “midnight” (late night) services – even if it means keeping our little one awake later than usual.
Every Christmas Eve we go to church then come to fondue for dinner.
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Cute ideas! My favorite tradition is baking cookies, and making the gifts. Thanks!
I love going to midnight mass with the family. Thanks so much for sharing
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For 40 years my favorite tradition has been to celebrate Christmas in the early hours each morning and then to celebrate my son’s birthday in the evening…..thank goodness we aren’t getting up as early these days .:)
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My favorite holiday tradition is to bake lots & lots of cookies. Thanks.
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The baking and cooking a big family meal.
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My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas morning and Christmas day with my family. The house is full of joy, love, laughter, noise, activity, food, and warmth in the love for Christ and the love for each other.
Favorite holiday tradition is family dinner for 20 on
Christmas Eve, staying up till after Midnight and opening gifts.
I love filling the yarn and burlap stockings I made, beginning with those for our sons in 1978. New ones are added as the family grows. The stockings that I make now are much bigger than the original ones!
My favorite tradition was always letting our girls open one gift before bedtime Christmas Eve.They knew what it was going to be but they still loved to do it. They always had new P.J.’s They are all grown now and have children of their own and are carrying on the tradition with them.
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Every year we take the kids to go to this huge church tha thas a live nativity Bethlehem villiage. I tis about a mile long route. It is fabulous. They have everthing . And everyone is in period costume. They have the roman soldiers on horses, Angels, camels, donkey, sheep , goats and etc. Their is a live baby jesus. Their is the stable with the 3 wise men. It is just an amazeing event. We go every year and we never grow tired of it.
I have been a followr of the Aurifil Facebook page for quiet some time now.
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Sharing Christmas dinner with family and sharing stories with our grandchildren about Christmas past is always enjoyable to me.
Thanks for the fabulous giveaway! One of my favorite holiday traditions is driving around with the kids to see the houses decorated with Christmas lights.
We celebrate Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day with my husband’s family. We have certain traditions for each day, homemade ravioli on Christmas Eve and the hosts rotate among the family. My husband and I always host Christmas Day. Our traditional food is ham, stuffed shells and other good food. My daughter does the majority of the baking and we have our sugar cookie day where we decorate all the cookies.
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One of my favorite holiday traditions is when my daughters and I light the Chanukah candles. Also when a group of friends and family go out for Indian food on Christmas Day. Nothing like a family of contrasts.
We love shopping for the perfect tree.
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Christmas morning sausage balls and cinnamon rolls! Once a year treat!
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My favorite part of the holidays is getting to visit family we don’t normally see. It a tradition of ours to visit one family member each Christmas, we typically rotate as they live far away.
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One of my favorite traditions is decorating the tree with my daughters. They love hearing about how and why we got each ornament.
My favourite tradition is decorating the tree. The kids and now the grandchildren each make a new ornament every year, so it’s a joy to bring these precious items, and memories, into the light.
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I love having eggnog on Christmas Eve.
My family plays the Yankee Swap gift game but we try to find the worst gifts ever and then hide lottery tickets in them – lots of fun!
My favorite Christmas tradition is trimming the tree with my grandsons. Thanks for the giveaway. I love Aurifil thread.
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I love attending our local holiday parade. We always see a ton of people that we know.
A traditional we have is that on the first of December we always put up our Christmas tree and decorate the house.
My favourite Christmas tradition (we Brits have Holidays in the summer..) is going to the crib service on Christmas eve – church is lit by candlelight and we sing the same traditional Christmas songs as the children bring the characters to the nativity scene.
Baking special treats for my family and watching seasonal movies together.
My favorite tradition is cutting down our Christmas tree.
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My favorite holiday tradition is opening presents on Christmas Eve, following dinner. Christmas Day is visiting and a luncheon.
Our favourite tradition is to open just one gift from under the tree on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the awesome giveaway.
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Our favorite holiday tradition is to all go together to the local Christmas Tree Farm. It’s the same farm I have gone to since 1959 and is still owned by the same family. I’ve taken my own children there since they were born and now one of them who still lives in the area is taking his own family to that same farm. My husband and I have sadly not gone the past few years because of my health and I have to admit not going there leaves a huge hole in my Christmastime celebrations. That is such a very long history for me to have gone to the same farm for that many years.
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My favorite holiday is groundhogs day … we traditionally have a brunch with ginger groundhog cookies
My favorite Christmas tradition from my childhood was opening one small present on Christmas Eve. My parents always got us kids some little special gift to open.
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Baking Christmas cookies is my favorite tradition!! Hope I win, I love the projects in this book!!
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My favorite thing is getting together with friends and family and the gift making .
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On Christmas night we get our coziest PJ’s on, grab our hot chocolates and pile in the car to go to “Lights on the Lake” It’s millions of Christmas light displayed on a 2-3 mile drive in a local park. Santa is there, Christmas music is playing. It’s beautiful and we look forward to it every year!
The book looks beautiful!
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about the only tradition we have is our stockings on Christmas morning – thanks for the chance to win!
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My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my family to make Christmas cookies.
Every Christmas we swap names in my family for gifts. Usually there is a theme involved, so it is fun to see what everyone comes up with for their gift!
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My favorite holiday tradition is our family’s white elephant gift exchange. Last year I got a union suit with a button flap in the back.
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I love decorating our Christmas tree.
I love making a lot of my Christmas gifts. That started many years ago and I still love doing it. Thanks for a chance to win this grand book and Aurifil Thread!
OMG, I love that quilt!
My favourite Christmas tradition is wrapping presents with my mom. She does the wrapping paper, and I do the ribbons and bows, and we help each other with fingers when needed, all while listening to Christmas carols. All family members bring us their presents for wrapping (we switch jobs for our own so we still have surprises!). We’ve done it for over 10 years and I look forwards to it every year.
Having our big family here to eat and open gifts
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Hrmm Favourite holiday tradition .. probably just spending time with the extended family! We’re spread across Australia and so it doesn’t happen often that we’re all in the same house 😐
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My favorite Christmas tradition is our children putting on a Christmas Eve play/music/scripture reading/etc. They started when they were toddlers dressed as Mary, Joseph, and a shepherd. Now, they’re 20-somethings and still perform…although quite a bit more organized now. Love it!
I look forward to baking cookies for the holidays.
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My favourite holiday tradition is hosting Christmas Day for my beautiful friends …….we all live in Australia and many have their families overseas. Its a day filled with joy, laughter and singing. Marie x
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One of our favorite traditions is buying each child a new ornament each Christmas. It is fun as we decorate our tree and see the past ornaments and include the new. Makes for a fun tree. Thanks for sharing.
My favourite Christmas tradition is handwriting Christmas cards and a letter to friends…no electronic greetings from this house!
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Putting the star that my children made about 35 years ago on the top of the tree. If you are new to our family or a first time guest at our Christmas celebration the honour falls to you. The tree is not complete until the star is hung.
Favourite holiday tradition? Getting out the Christmas quilts!
I already follow Aurifil on Facebook. My favourite thread and I am excited to try the new floss and linen threads – hopefully SOON!
My favorite holiday tradition is the Christmas Eve celebration with my 8 siblings and their families. We are all married with two children and some grandchildren; therefore, it is always “a riot” especially when we play the kris kringle game of stealing gifts from one another. We don’t go home until it’s almost 4am Christmas Day. I am not on Facebook; otherwise I would follow Aurifil there.
My favorite holiday tradition is visiting with relatives who live too far away to see more often.
My favorite holiday tradition is making Swedish limpa bread.
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Eating fresh Tamales on Christmas Eve then going to Midnight Mass.
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My favorite holiday traditions are going to the early Christmas Eve service at church and then coming home for dinner. We then read the Christmas story and open gifts. Christmas morning we open Santa gifts after having our traditional breakfast casserole.
My fav holiday tradition is watching movies Christmas Eve night and Christmas morning. Christmas morning is always waffles :-). I spoil myself with syrup, whipping cream, and sliced strawberries. I also love making dinner…it’s very canadian…maple turkey, maple cranberry sauce, and buns…all made from scratch 🙂
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My favorite holiday tradition is gathering with all of my family the weekend before Christmas. Sometimes we get snowed out from doing this but we still somehow always get together.
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Because my husband is an EMS helicopter pilot we have to sometimes get “creative” about the day we actually celebrate Christmas, but we always hang out in our pj’s and have a wonderful brunch after checking our stockings (for gag gifts) and opening presents.
Love the book and of course, Aurifil threads! Thanks for a chance to win!
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Trimming the tree has always been my favorite Christmas tradition; it’s so wonderful to relive special memories associated with each ornament as it’s placed on the tree, and equally fun to fin a special new one each year to add to the collection.
We have always opened our presents one at a time so we can “oooh” and “aaaah” over each gift. My son (college age) always thought this was such a terrible idea…until he was visiting another family and experienced the chaos. He is slowly realizing I have my reasons for doing things a certain way.
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My favorite tradition is to ride through Tanglewood park were they have the festival of lights each year. It gets our family excited about the season.
We have many holiday traditions and they have changed as our children have grown and left home. One that is still a favorite is our Christmas Day brunch — for however many of us are “in town”, with our breakfast casserole, cinnamon buns, etc.
Christmas is my favorite time with the grankids. Love sewing for them.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is being together early Christmas morning, eating sausage cheeseballs, opening gifts and watching the little ones faces. Being together is the best part of the holidays!
My sister in law makes cinnamon rolls and even delivers to our door…yum
I like to make a new christmas stocking each year.
Holiday tradition. I think my real question is what Holiday Tradition don’t I like? Basically, if it’s been any sort of tradition since I was a child I try to follow it. I still love Santa coming for EVERYONE under the tree. We have about 7 family holiday parties to go to. My mom has 12 brother’s and sisters so every year we rent a hall for the over 100 folks that come. Everyone makes an ornament and that’s how we decorate the tree when we arrive. At the end of the party, we pick a name and that’s who gets the ornament we made. This past year was the first year without my grandma and I wasn’t sure how many would make the trip to Christmas. All but two cousins (who live out of state) made it! It was wonderful to be able to share memories of my grandma on christmas with everyone. I could write a novel about holiday tradition but I’ll stop here for now 🙂 Thanks for this awesome giveaway! I heart Aurifil!
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Christmas cookies!
More fun to eat than bake.
I think one of my favorite traditions for the holiday season is make a yule logs. However, since every year has a different theme when it comes to the adornments on the logs, we then end up making a new table runner to place the decorated log on. Then we make a matching tree skirt!
Fabulous giveaway. One of our favorite traditions is to drive to our NC mountains to choose and cut a Christmas tree. We never know what the weather is going to be like when we get up to the mountains. It is a fun time.
My favorite holiday tradition is to give each of my kids a special ornament so they have a whole set for their own tree.
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What an amazing book. Thanks for sharing and for the very generous giveaway. My favorite holiday tradition is found each year on our Christmas tree. Throughout the year we collect ornaments to remind us of our travels and special times. At Christmas as we decorate the tree we reminisce about each ornament and relive many beautiful memories!
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My favourite holiday tradition is reading “The Night Before Christmas” on Christmas Eve to my kids (now 25 & 29 yo!),,and especially now,,,,to my grandson!
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My favorite tradition is Christmas stockings. Each new child, grandchild, spouse etc receive them. they travel with the family members and are filled wherever they spend Christmas. At our house they are hung by the mantle with care.
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One of our favorite family holiday traditions is our decorated cookies. They are spritz and a painted Santa Claus made from a cookie cutter from the early 60s.
My children are grown and gone so what remains is the Midnight Church service. The candles and bells and music are so beautiful.
My favorite holiday tradition is making gifts for family and friends. Thanks for the opportunity to win such a great giveaway.
Our favorite holiday tradition is baking up a storm before the holidays and then delivering goodies to all the shut-ins that we know. The elderly neighbors adore getting these holiday treats and it brightens our holiday by blessing someone else:) Thanks for the opportunity to win.
My favorite holiday tradition is making fudge and gifts for family and friends.
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Having the whole family over for dinner and just being together with no where to go.
I love getting together with my family for dinner.
Every Christmas Eve dinner is Swedish Meatballs, mashed potatoes, gravy and several other side dishes. Then when dishes are done, we open gifts.
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We always get together and pass out the presents and then open them one at a time, oldest to youngest and then back to the oldest until all of the presents are gone. 😀
My favorite holiday tradition is prepearing food for christmas -and of cause make handmade gifts !
My favorite tradition is playing Christmas music while decorating the tree, thanks for the giveaway 🙂
My favorite tradition is making Ornaments to share with Family and Friends.
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My fave tradition is opening one gift on Christmas Eve. It’s so much fun for the kids
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My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree with treasured ornaments.
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Our family loves making the special cookies that we only make that time of the year. Thanks for the chance to win.
My favorite holiday tradition is making candies with my daughter. Starting November we spend hours looking at recipes and deciding which old favorites to make and which new ones to try. As she’s reaching her senior year in High School, I’m treasuring these times even more, because I realize that one day she’ll move out and begin traditions of her own with her daughter(s).
My favourite tradition is decorating the house, I have lots of brightly coloured tinsel that I hang everywhere!
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I love baking for the holidays, and caroling on Christmas Eve.
We love to bake cookies and sweeties and decorate the tree on Christmas Eve. I love that quilt!
Love the tree quilt, so cute! And your thread! My favorite Christmas tradition is a make a different breakfast every Christmas, no repeats. Makes for an interesting morning a discussion the day before. Thanks.
Our favorite tradition is Stollen for breakfast while the littles open presents… Oh and a Bloody Mary or two!
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I love watching Bing Crosby’s White Christmas with my 2 and 6 year old daughters.
I love baking Christmas cookies. There are certain ones I only make at Christmastime, and they just make the holidays so much more festive.
Amanda’s book is full of so many beautiful items, I’d love to make them all! One of our traditions is opening our gifts together on Christmas morning all together. Love Aurifil as well!
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I love that Snowfall quilt! My favorite holiday tradition is simply spending quality time with family. Thanks for the chance to win! eagarner78 at gmail dot com
Our Christmas tradition is to spend Christmas Eve at Sun Valley, watching the skiers descend Dollar Mt. in a torch-lit parade followed by fireworks, hot chocolate and Christmas cookies, and then having our dinner at home and saying our blessings. 🙂 mountainquiltworks at gmail dot com
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I love this book! My favorite tradition we continue is having our own candlelight Christmas Eve dinner. We break out our beautiful china and eat by candle light. It’s such a peaceful start to our Christmas celebration.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is our big baking day in December with my daughters, we make tons of cookies and goodies for family and friends. Then we relax with some wine and enjoy a favorite Christmas movie together. Thanks for the chance to win !
Every Christmas Eve we have a homemade Italian dinner, go look at lights and open that one present under the tree…Christmas PJ’s.
My favorite holiday tradition is reading the Christmas story from the Bible. It makes us slow down and gives such a peaceful feeling. thanks for hosting!!
One of our Christmas traditions is the gift exchange on Christmas Eve. Our family is very large so we exchange at one family member’s home and then we assemble on Christmas Day at another family home for dinner with additional family and friends.
Love this contest! My favorite of our holiday traditions is our Christmas Eve! We start with an assortment of appetizers then my brother-in-law tells a story he has written just for this night then they give everyone something to wear that follows this years theme… a hat, crazy glasses, a mask…. Then we all pile into the cars, which have their own holiday decorations and drive around looking at Christmas lights. Afterwards we have desert fondue and open one of our Christmas gifts!
Our family Christmas tradition here in Australia is trying to keep cool. No hot Xmas dinners for us, just easy relaxing nibbles for all. I try and make all my table decorations by hand.
My favorite Christmas tradition is reading the Christmas story of Jesus’s birth in Luke.
I love making quilted gifts for each family on our Christmas list. Thanks for the giveaway.
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We always open one gift on Christmas Eve..the rest on Christmas morning!
my favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the house will the quilted and hand made decoration i have made over the years
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Lol! I thought it said favorite holiday! My favorite holiday tradition is when we put out our elf on the shelf!
i love christmas- the reds, greens, quilting while watching snow fall.
Everyone gets new PJ’s Christmas eve so that we all had them on Christmas morning.
Baking homemade Christmas cookies!
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My favorite holiday tradition is BAKING!!!
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my favorite holiday tradition is the Christmas tree. Having it up makes the home feel more homey and it makes the mood elevate.
I love Christmas eve going to church, the Christmas pageant, and then for a little cheers before opening that one special gift, then to bed waiting for Santa.
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I would love to receive this. One year my hubby gave little red wagons to each of our grown children as a Christmas gift to each family. The grand babies were fastlu arriving. I would like to quilt a wagon design on a pillow top to give those same children this next Christmas. I have not quilted since the 1980’s, and this simple project would jump start me again into quilting. My hubby has now been in Heaven for 4 Christmas’. Memories are what we cherish now!
Favorite tradition is having all my extended family over on boxing day, at least 20 plus wonderful people!
Christmas Eve services that end early Christmas morning. Then a drive home through the areas that have special lighting and luminaries.
Home made cookies and candys are my favorite. We use a cheater recipe now but back when we made fudge the old fashioned way we enjoyed the batches that flopped as much as the good ones. Ever had fudge that didn’t ‘set’ over icecream. ymmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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I just love all the sewing an projects. I wish I could sew day an nite. I love it
My Favorite Holiday Tradition is Christmas Eve at my parents house. Good food, good cocktails and the sisters exchange their gifts.
Wonderful book! My favourite holiday tradition is hanging up my daughter’s advent calendar which used to belong to my grandmother. It reminds me of her.
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Favorite holiday tradition is to make a quirky edible item for Christmas dinner. One time it was cheese stuffed olives shaped like penguins and last year it was Teddy Grahams on peppermint skis.
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But my favorite holiday tradition is making what my mom used to call “monster cookies” these are basically a cookie version of fruit cake. I only make them at the holidays, they remind me of her and whenever I bake them and eat them I can remember her baking them for the family when I was a kid.
Making cookies has to be my favorite!
My favorite holiday tradition is to make yummy treats for family and friends.
We always open one gift on Christmas Eve.
I have a xmas cookie party for grandkids and friends with a homemade treat from me.
My favorite tradition is one that came with my marriage into an Italian family. All the extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws) gather at the biggest house for a traditional meal and gift exchange, and lots of gaiety.
I love to bake Christmas goodies and spend time with family.
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Favorite tradition is the gathering of friends and family for the holidays! And, I follow Aurifil on FB!!
I love wrapping presents while watching Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life. Thanks for the chance.
Our favorite Holiday Tradition is that all my kids (adults now) come over a week before Christmas to make/decorate Christmas Cookies…………….the kitchen smells so good, and I remember them as just children helping……..:)
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I love driving around on Christmas Eve looking at Christmas lights and then heading home for some old movies and chill time.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is going out singing Christmas carols to the senior homes. Seeing their happy faces listening the music brings such joy to my heart.
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I love our tradition of making chocolate waffles christmas morning and topping them with whip cream, strawberry sauce and chocolate syrup! Thanks for the chance 🙂
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Christmas Eve service one of our traditions. I love Aufill thread. Thanks for a chance to win.
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Our tradition is Christmas Eve, family & friends & neighbors join us for a hayride and Christmas Caroling through the neighborhood. Then back to our house for hot chocolate & cider & desserts….
One of my favorite holiday traditions is singing Christmas carols followed by hot chocolate and cookies.
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I love Aurifil thread! and have liked them on FB