Friday, February 5, 2016

7 Year Blogiversary Giveaway


I made my first blog post on February 11, 2009- you can see it HERE if you want.
What's a blog with no readers? A really quiet and boring blog! This giveaway is my way of thanking you who have read and left comments over the past 7 years! Thank you for making the world a bit more personal and intimate.

Here's the little World Piece basket quilt that I'm giving away to a reader. 

 My theme bundle was India. I love the elephants.

The quilting is light and simple.


More elephants! Too cute!! The fabric was designed by Mary Fons, printed by Springs Creative.
The basket pattern I used was designed by Blackbird Designs and is in their book When the Cold Wind Blows.


Leave a comment for a chance to win. If you are a no-reply commenter please leave me your email address. If you don't know if you are a no-reply or not, I'll reply on the comment and let you know if I cannot contact you- so check back on your comment if you aren't sure.

Have a fantastic weekend. I'll draw next Wednesday to give everyone plenty of time to enter.

This giveaway is now closed! Thank you for your positive responses!!

168 comments:

  1. Seven years...congrats! The quilt is very cute and I love the elephants too. My grandmother had a collection of wooden elephants along with a few other safari animals. I loved those and have a few now of my own. Whenever I see an elephant I think of her.

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  2. Cute quilt for your Blogoversary giveaway. Count me in! I love the little baskets.

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  3. Congratulations on your 7th blogiversary! I don't remember your first post, but know that I've been following for several years. Your quilts are beautiful, inspiring, your QALs are fun, and the fact that you embrace humility in your work is empowering. Thanks for making the blogiverse a better place!

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  4. Ahhh! Elephants! I love them, too. Thanks for the chance to win. lynnstck(at)yahoo.com

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  5. How sweet! I must say I have enjoyed your blog immensely! I was introduced to the blog world by my friend Cyndi (Busy Thimble) and I must admit that I read them for years before starting my own. I thank YOU for inspiring all of us!

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  6. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging! Your blog is one of my favorites and I'm so happy to have met you in person a few times - and hopefully more in the future. The little quilt is darling!

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  7. Congratulations on your 7th year blog-anniversary! I have been following your blog for several years.
    cyeon at videotron dot ca

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  8. ♪♫ Happy ♫ Blogiversary ♪♫.
    I am so glad I've found your blog. You are such a generous person with your time and talent. May God keeps you in good health so you can continue for a long, looooonnnng time still. Your mini is simply GORGeous!! The yellow binding was the perfect choice. I don't own a basket quilt and would be so honored to get this one! Thanks for the chance. ♥ ;^)

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  9. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging, I started my own blog almost same date march 5 2009...because feb. 22 I turned 50 and wasn't in a good mood !!!

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  10. Happy Blogiversary!!! 7 years and still going strong! Thank you for everything you share & your inspiration!

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  11. You have made the world a larger place for me. Happy to have met yo via your blog!

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  12. Congrats on your seven years! I love reading it. I check in almost daily to see what you are up to. You've been an inspiration to me.

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  13. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging! I so enjoy your blog, your quilts, and the inspiration you share with us! Here's to many more years!! (The basket quilt is so cute -- love the elephants!)

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  14. Happy Blogiversary! That is a beautiful quilt and a wonderful piece to bring spring cheer and friendship to a lucky person.

    Debbie

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  15. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging! Your quilts are beautiful and your blog inspiring.....thank you so much for sharing with us all these years :)

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  16. Wow, can you believe how quickly that time passed??? This quilt is so cute, how can you stand to part with it? :) I would be so happy to have it come live with me. :)

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  17. Congrats on 7 years and for providing us with the enjoyment of reading one of the best blogs!

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  18. Congrats on your Blogiversary. You quilt is so adorable. Here's to another 7 years. Hugs

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  19. Here's to at least another 7 years! Congratulations! Hope you made one of these for yourself. How adorable and thanks for the chance to share it. Love reading your blog!

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  20. Congrats! I've admired your work for years and would love to give your quilt a good home!

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  21. WOW! Seven YEARS!! Time flies when you are having fun...and I have had FUN reading each and every post! Congratulation, Lori!!

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  22. love reading your blog, hope you keep on posting! and a lovely little giveaway too...gracemth@yahoo.com

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  23. Happy anniversary blog ! I'm so glad to have discovered your blog 3 years ago !
    Thank you for this giveaway ;)
    Hugs !

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  24. I think I have been reading your blog almost from the beginning. Isn't it amazing how the time flies by?! I look forward to many more years of reading your blog.
    quiltschon@att.net

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  25. Happy Anniversary, and that is a great use of the fabric line.

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  26. Congrats on 7 years--what a way to celebrate.

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  27. Congratulations Lori! I've only been reading a few years so I went back and started reading from the beginning..I am enjoying seeing all your beautiful quilts and adventures. Thanks for a chance at the giveaway. Here's to many more years of blogging.

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  28. Happy anniversary! I do hope you plan to continue blogging at least another seven years:) You are part of my morning routine and I truly enjoy your blog. Your sew-alongs and your beautiful quilts are so inspiring! The baskets are adorable!

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  29. We started blogging around the same time, then! So glad to have met you online :) your quilt is sweet, unique, and charming, like all your work! Here's to many more enjoyable blog posts

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  30. It's always a pleasure to start my day with one of your posts. Thanks for sharing so much.

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  31. Happy anniversary, and thanks so much for all the effort and inspiration!

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  32. Thank you for all you do.....would love to win a Humblequilt!!!!!!!!!

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  33. Love this cute little basket quilt and would also love to win it!

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  34. I enjoy checking in on your blog. So many wonderful quilts to see and so many ideas shared. Thanks.
    laurel@carriagetravel.net

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  35. Congratulations on 7 years! I really enjoy following you blog. You make wonderful quilts which are an inspiration! And I enjoy following you QALs. I have been able to do a couple after the fact and have enjoyed them. I love the quilt you are giving away and would be honored to win it.

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  36. Congratulations. I always like to see what you are working on. This is a very nice finish. Yesterday I saw the Kaffe Fassett display here in PA and one of the old English quilts that he used for inspiration had the most interesting applique stitch. It was sort of a tiny cross-hatch, very different.

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  37. So generous! I've only been reading you for 5 years, maybe I need to go back to your very first one and read it. I'd love to win the quilt and wouldn't it be nice that it would stay in OR.

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  38. I can't believe its 7 years, wow Congratulations, that is about the time I found Bloglovin. Great Job.

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  39. Happy Anniversary! 7 years--you have me beat! Hope you enjoy many more!

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  40. Wow 7 years! Congrats! I love your basket quilt....wish me luck!

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  41. First of all, congratulations on your 7 year anniversary. I love the little elephants on the quilt. My son brought me a little elephant when he was stationed in the Middle East. They mean good luck!

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  42. Lori Felicidades!!
    me encanta visitar tu blog,
    me gusta el edredón cestas es muy guapo
    saludos

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  43. What a lovely give away, great choice for the quilting, little baskets are delightful.

    Have a lovely weekend and early happy anniversary!

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  44. I have loved that little basket pattern since I first viewed it. Your blog is one of my first blogs to view with my morning coffee.
    Congratulations on your dedication to you for this one and Get to Goal. Can we look forward to another doll quilt swap this year?

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  45. Congratulations! I love reading about your quilting and various adventures. Thank you for such a beautiful giveaway! sarah@forrussia.org

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  46. Happy Blogiversary! I don't comment very often, but I am a faithful reader of your blog. Looking forward to the next QAL.

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  47. Since I didn't start reading blog until 5 years ago, I have not been with you all seven years, but I have loved every post of the 5 years I have followed you. In that time I have made all but one of the SALs you have shared and I have collected the patterns for the ones you posted before I came on board. Love your quilting and blogging style. And I appreciate how real you are. Congrats on this milestone!
    That little basket quilt is a very generous giveaway. Who wouldn't want one of your creations?

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  48. Wow! Seven years! I love reading your blog, and appreciate the mission work you do. I also love your quilt and would love to win it.

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  49. Thanks for the chance to win. Keep up the good job

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  50. Love, love basket quilts! Congratulations on seven years! I so enjoy your blog!

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  51. Congratutlations. I've not been here very long, but it's a great blog and I enjoy it. The elephants are very cute! Thank you for sharing.

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  52. I can't believe you will be giving your adorable quilt away!! You are going to make someone's day/week/month...heck year :)

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  53. Wow have enjoyed your blog since your trip with Randy and Bonnie. Such beautiful work. Keep it up. ldakins@gmail.com

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  54. Gosh, I do not know how long I have followed you blog but it has been quite a long time. Congratulations on your blog anniversary Lori.

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  55. That's a lot of blogging - and you are much better about posting than I am! Love your little basket quilt! And Happy Blogaversary!

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  56. Happy blogaversary, Lori!
    I love the little baskets in the quilt, and I do love the elephants,too. A big elephant made of lava rock, from our volcano Etna is the emblem of my city, Catania.
    I always enjoy to read your blog!
    Rina, in Sicily!
    june.seven60(at)gmail.com

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  57. Congratulations and thanks for all the inspiration - always so humbly given too :)

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  58. Oh my gosh, that is so adorable. And you are so generous too. Congratulations!

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  59. I found your blog after I joined your Humble Quilts Facebook group. I enjoy reading your blog even though I do not quilt. I think all quilts are works of art and I truly admire anyone who has the patience to make one.

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  60. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging!! I love those baskets and the elephant fabrics are wonderful :0)

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  61. Thank you for your wonderful blog. I love seeing all the fun things you make.

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  62. Lori,
    We live so close but I also met you through your blog! We may have met when I was working at SMQ, that would be fun to chat about! It has been a joy reading about your many adventures on your blog!! Happy 7th and I look forward to many more fun adventures you share!

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  63. Happy blogaversary Lori! Those baskets and elephants are just so much fun!

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  64. Lori your elephants are adorable

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  65. What a wonderful giveaway gift? I just love the baskets and the elephants. Very cute. Thank you for the chance to win it.
    mudd4chewee@gmail.com

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  66. Oh WOW! Pick me, pick me! I love minis and am not a fan of doing applique so I only have one with it in my collection! Great giveaway, so happy I am one of your readers!

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  67. I love everything about this quilr!!!

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  68. Congratulations on 7 years! I so enjoy seeing what you share and always feel so inspired after visiting your blog. Wonderful little basket quilt!!

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  69. Congratulations on your anniversary! I really enjoy seeing your quilts and I'm amazed at the amount of quilting you complete. I know we all say we should get more done but you seem to really do it! I'd be so honored to win this charming quilt! Thanks for the chance.
    Ellie
    elively@indy.rr.com

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  70. Congratulations on all of your blog years. I always enjoy reading your blog. Thanks for the chance to win your cheery basket quilt.

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  71. Happy Blog Anniversary. I really enjoy reading your blog and find inspiration from all your beautiful projects.

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  72. Congratulations on seven years of blogging. I know how hard it is to keep a quilting blog lively and engaging when life gets in the way of so much quilting....let along blogging. I enjoy following your blog and applaud all your hard work and effort

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  73. We are almost twins--I started my blog on Feb 18, 2009--still planning what I want to do to celebrate-
    so congratulations to you and all your wonderful,delightful posts--keep them coming--
    love and laughter, di

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  75. Lori, Congratulations.. has it really been that long?? I always enjoy reading your blog and seeing what you're up too, and i always look forward to your fun sew-alongs too. Thank you for all you do, in bringing so much joy into people's lives, and continuing to inspire each of us.
    Thank you also for the generous gift of the World Piece basket quilt.. it's simply charming!
    Btw 11th Feb just happens to be my eldest son's birthday.. imagine that :))

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  76. Seven years a long to blog. Can't imagine coming up with new exciting comments for seven years. You do such nice quilts.

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  77. Lori- I always enjoy your blog! Thanks for sharing yourself with us. Your quilts are beautiful...
    Tgee9821@gmail.com

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  78. I am going to have to buy some of those elephants!
    Lovely quilt, lovely blog.
    Congratulations on seven years!

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  79. Love the quilt, I've enjoyed your blog over the years...
    thank you : )

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  80. Congrats on seven years of blogging, lots of words and photos. I've especially enjoyed your quilt-a-longs, and all the good work you do in South America.

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  81. gotta say I have a `borrring blog`I have lost my followers and commenters due to sporadic posting you are always regular and very entertaining loved your blog from day 1 very inspiring Thanks for your time and effort in not being boring..LOL

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  82. I love mini quilts and I love baskets too! I would love to win this beautiful quilt. Thanks for the opportunity. chocolatewiskers@aol.com

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  83. Thank you for sharing your blog; I get a lot of pleasure out of reading it. I hope you get something good out of it, too. I love your basket quilt and the World Piece fabrics you used.

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  84. Lots of readers now! You were one of the first blogs I started lurking on way before I had a blog myself.:) Congrats on having a wonderful blog! Your 'humble' motto is very inspiring to me still!

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  85. Such an adorable quilt! Thank you for your blog, I always look forward to your updates each week.

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  86. Wow! That is some achievement. I lost my way a bit with my blog posts but am feeling spurred on to try again. That is a lovely little quilt and a fabulously generous giveaway.

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  87. 7 years is a long time,always enjoy reading your blog. Love all the little elephants on your little quilt. Thanks for the chance to win it. lyn.robyn.smith@gmail.com

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  88. Dear Lori,
    happy blog birthday, congratulations and thank you for the giveaway.
    Looking forward to many more years and posts with your blog.
    Greetings,
    Sylvia

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  89. I love that elephant fabric on the back too and the yellow is so bright and happy!

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    2. This is really odd since I'm a google register and it's worked previously I know for sure. Are you certain? :-)

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    3. Yes, I am sure. Shoot me off an email and I'll show you what I see. Your name doesn't bring me to your google profile at all.

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  90. Love your first blog post with the poison green and pink fabrics! Love the wee baskets and the elephant print. Thank you for the chance to win this little quilt.
    Happy Stiching! :)

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  91. I so enjoy reading your blog! I have made several of your little quilts from your sew a-longs. Thanks for a chance to win your little basket cutie!

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  92. count me in. I'm sure if a no-reply commenter wins they will send you their address.
    Congrats on 7 years and so many faithful readers and followers.

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  93. Happy anniversary. I am an avid reader of your blog. I love your eye for color. Thanks for this opportunity to win an awesome piece of your work. Lila

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  94. Lori~ Congratulations on your blog anniversary ! I have been a reader for quilt a few years and I always smile when I get the notification there is a new post. I would absolutely love to have your quilt to come and live with me...it would be in good company with my Raggedy Dolls and little quilts. What a generous gift : ) ~ Joan

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  95. New to your blog -but is now one of my favorites!!
    I am amazed at the amount of quilting that you accomplish! Do you ever sleep?! ;-)

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      I don't sleep much, but it has nothing to do with quilting! LOL

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      Have the same problem with sleeping!)

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  96. Congratulations, Lori. I have been reading your blog for a number of years now, and it is always the first one I look at. I especially enjoy seeing pictures and reading your posts about your trips to S. America. I find those very meaningful.

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  97. Lucky 7. Great accomplishment I enjoy the mix of topics. Charming eleflomp mud spelling intended as that is what I called them as a kid

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  98. Beautiful quilting! Thanks for sharing your work! :-)

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  99. Really cute quilt. Congratulations on your blog anniversary. Hugs, sandi. szil949@yahoo.com.

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  100. congratulations on 7 years!!! that's very impressive.*raising glass*" here is to 7 more!"
    love the elephants!
    sara
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  101. Wow 120 comments so far. Lol! I would love your little quilt in my place - down under! Thanks Lori.

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  102. What a happy little quilt - baskets are always a fun subject matter. Thanks for the years of blogging, I think I have six under my belt so far....

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  103. Happy Blogging..thanks for a opportunity to win such a beautiful quilt.

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  104. Happy 7th to you and your blog! The Peace Basket quilt is serene and lovely and would be a terrific addition to anyone's collection. Right now I have more UFOs than quilts so I'd best get busy. Thanks for sharing.

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  105. How lovely! If I am lucky enough to win, please let me pay for the shipping to England xx

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  106. Thank you for sharing your quilts and especially your sweet self!
    I'm sure you've finished The Boys In The Boat by now--terrific story! Have your read All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr? Another outstanding book, hard to put down, amazing writing!

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  107. Love it and would love to display it here in my home.........you do a lovely job!

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  108. I have really enjoyed your blog. It always reminds me why we quilt. For the joy and not necessarily the perfection. Thank you.

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  109. Congrats on 7 years!! What a beautiful quilt!!! I really hope to win this :) that fabric and pattern are the best together. Thanks for sharing such a special gift.
    Karrie
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  110. No way! I can't believe you are giving away that darling quilt. Heck yeah I want a chance to win it
    it is adorable. Thanks so much.
    Happy Blogversary and I hope you have many more happy years of sharing your passion for quilting.
    Can't wait for your next sew along :0) Happy Sewing and a blessed 2016 to you Lori

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  111. Congratulations on a great blog. Thanks so much for sharing.

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  112. Congratulations!! What an amazing 7 years of blogging journey?! May there be many more. Love the quilt and those India fabrics!

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  113. Seven years! Congratulations! That is quite some time and quite a few blogposts! Here's to the next seven years! Love the quilt, the baskets, the elephants!

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  114. Congratulations and thank you. Your blog has been a great source of inspiration. I have enjoyed your quilt-a- longs and reading about your adventures.

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  115. Congratulations! Amazing how time flies and thanks for sharing all you do, hosting the QALs and shedding light on the many of the missions you help with. Blessings to you.

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  116. Congrats-----I love reading your blog----here's to many more years of fun blogging....I love the quilt and the India fabrics----Love, Love it...thanks for the chance to win....

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  117. Happy Anniversary. Just started reading your blog recently and have been enjoying it. Thanks! jturcotte.on(at)gmail.com

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  118. Congrats...you have a great blog, enjoy reading it.

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  119. Congratulations on 7 years! You keep things so interesting I enjoy following your blog.. HUGS... and stitches

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  120. Congrats! Love that little quilt!
    Sew4given AT AOL DOT com

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  121. Love your little quilts, especially this one. You always greet me in the morning when I am trying to wake up. I can only imagine looking out your window at those beautiful mountains. Carline, bandcanthony@gmail.com

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  122. Congrats on 7 years! Love the little quilt, especially all the little elephants.

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  123. I love that quilt, it's beautiful

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  124. Lovely quilt, thanks for sharing your works!

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  125. I love love love your adorable basket quilt! Congrats on your anniversary. Rooyle at olemiss dot edu

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  126. Congratulation!!! Love the basket quilt. Thanks for sharing.

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  127. Congratulation!!! Love the basket quilt. Thanks for sharing.

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  128. Congratulations! I like the elephant fabric too.

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  129. Oh 8 finally figured it out! And I got half love the blogaverssarey quilt! I collect baskets and soo love it will be someone's treasure!

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  130. Basket quilts are my favorite and being small is even bigger! I enjoy your blog and your travels, congratulations from NJ
    Karen D
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