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Friday, August 19, 2011

Supplementing your Quilting Budget

Have you ever won quilting supplies from a giveway or contest?  How did you feel?  Excited, happy?  Were you happy that you were able to obtain the quilty item and not worry about your budget? 

I certainly appreciate whenever I win a quilty contest or giveaway as it definitely helps by quilty budget.  And, I do appreciate all the sponsors that sponsor bloggers or hold their own giveaways on the internet.  I for one, definitely think this is the best PR ever...and great fun.

While I enter a number of giveaways, I also try to share insights about the ones I've found and those that others may have shared with me.  I update try to update the page on my blog labeled "giveaways" a couple of times a week, and definitely try to do some searching to ensure it has insights on new giveaways every Monday.  You may want to visit this page and bookmark it in your favorites, and check it throughout the week to find out about various giveaways and enter.  After all, you can't win if you don't enter.

Here are some highlights of some current giveaways that you may not have heard about:

AccuQuilt is coordinating a Camp Quiltalong Prize Giveaway where you are invited to join them in some campfire fun for a chance to win great prizes totaling over $1500! Fons & Porter, Fabric.com, and AccuQuilt have teamed up to provide us all with a huge giveaway on Facebook. Simply “Like” these three businesses on Facebook to gain access to all three sections of a secret code that unlock your chance to win! Follow the camp trail on the bottom of each sponsor’s page and it will take you to the next campground to retrieve the next section of code. Once you’ve captured all three pieces of the secret code, go to www.accuquilt.com/indianblocksand enter the full code to register to win! Deadline: August 29th

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Also, AccuQuilt is giving away 22 quilt patterns, for free, to those that sign up for their email newsletter.  And, they are also improving their "newsletter" with weekly Blogger insights about various dies that you definitely will want to read about.  If you are not yet on their mailing list, click this image to sign up.
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Quilt in a Day has a fun contest on Facebook where you get a free block pattern and you can make this block and enter a photo of your block for a chance at winning a $50 gift certificate for Quilt in a Day.    Deadline: September 2nd

Starting this coming Monday, Sue Abrey (Quilt Times) is coordinating a fun blog hop where you'll hear insights on her delightful new book "Pick Four: Easy Fabric Choices for Great Quilts".  And each blogger in this blog hop will also have a giveaway where you could win a copy of this new quilt book.  I have a line up of all the blogs in this hop on the page of my blog labeled giveaways.

The week of September 4th, Kari Carr (New Leaf Stitches) is celebrating the release of her new book "Just Around the Corner" with a blog hop and giveaway.  Each blogger in this hop will have a giveaway of Kari's new book and one of her famous and amazing Clearly Perfect Angles.

And, you need not have a pet or enter the Pets on Quilts Show to be able to win prizes.  Everyone has thru Sunday, August 21st to enter to win prizes (e.g. vote for your favorites, view all the entries, PR angels, etc.,

Doesn't this sound like fun and a great way to supplement your quilting budget?

Don't forget to periodically check the page on my blog labeled "giveaways" for current insights on contests & giveaways.  Good luck.