Is the July heat getting you? This weeks giveaway A Patrick Lose Christmas might not actually cause the mercury to go south but it’s sure to bring cool thoughts of the North Pole. Artist and illustrator Patrick Lose has used his talents and fond memories of Christmas to create this whimsical collection of holiday projects.
This book includes 12 colorful projects ranging from table runners, door toppers, pillows, bed quilts and more. He uses an easy fusible appliqué technique so it’s quick. Gotta like that! Full size patterns included.
The best part about this book is it starts off sharing Patrick’s favorite Caramel Christmas Mix recipe. Although you almost don’t want to know the ingredients you will forever be hooked into making this traditional fare once a year. I’ve tasted it and it’s so darn good.
For a chance to win a copy of A Patrick Lose Christmas leave a comment here or on Facebook by July 27, 2009 telling us about a memorable Christmas project or when you discovered a certain bearded fellow in red wasn’t real.
Hey did you notice? Today is Tuesday not Thursday! Starting today The Weekly Giveaway will now be on Tuesday allowing you more time to comment and try for a win.
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I always knew the bearded fellow did not exist because my mom was a poor single mom raising three kids on her own and I always was the one to help her select 3 gifts to buy from what ever tip money she had.
Oh… i love the whimsy look to that book cover! It just invites one to open the pages!
And a recipe for something caramel…. cant go wrong there!!!!
WHAT???!!! He’s NOT real???!!! Oh no!!
Seriously though…my favourite project is a giant Spider’s Web design in shades of gold and trimmed with beads which depict the ‘Cobweb Curtain’ a spider is rumoured to have spun over the entrance to a cave to protect Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus who were on the run from Pilate…it’s a lovely story :o)
What do you mean Santa isn’t real? I’m shocked! He is real to me!
I love Patrick Lose and this book looks like so much fun. It would definitely get me moving on some fun Christmas projects.
SewCalGal
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Oh, just in time for all the Christmas fabrics…
My mom actually told me Santa wasn’t real when I was in the 2nd grade because I went to school with a ton of really mean kids and she didn’t want me to be picked on for believing even though I really wasn’t one of the ones being picked on, but she didn’t want that to change.
I took a class and made a star. It wasn’t until after it was all put together and quilted and bound that I noticed that some of the pieces are going the wrong way! So it gets draped instead of spread out flat so nobody notices!
I would love to be included in your weekly give away. Last year I made two good size 9 patch quilts for family. It was a lot of work but I’m glad that I did it. It definitely included some early planning and sewing.
We were in Oregon on a trip and I saw a wonderful embroidered santa on a swing. Around the edges was minature Christmas fabrics. I had to make one and then made one for a friend in New York who loves handmade items. Last year a quilting friend of mine gave me three orphan Christmas blocks that I made into a wonderful runner. Even these orphans found a home together!
Last Christmas I presented all my grandchildren with a new quilt. There are 5 of them and it took me almost all year to get them made, quilted and bound, but they love them, even the baby at one year old.
I found out that Santa was Mom and Dad when they asked if I wanted to help bring in the Santa Presents… I was stunned! They thought I knew, and I still believed…LOL
One Christmas, I sewed Batman sweatshirts for my nephews, niece and son. They were thrilled with their matching sweatshirts. For many years after that one, I sewed matching PJ bottoms for all of them. They looked forward to modeling their new outfits for the annual Christmas picture. Unfortunately, they all grew-up and wanted other gifts. Thanks for sparking this wonderful holiday memory!
I made my sister a Christmas quilt many years ago and I noticed that she kept it up year round. Yes, it did somewhat match her furnishings, but still…it was a Christmas quilt. It was the quilt pattern that is a 3-dimensional looking Christmas gift with a bow on top. I was flattered, of course, but finally asked her why she kept it up year round. She said, “because I like it and you made it for me.” I told her to stand back and tell me what she thought it looked like from a distance. She just started laughing and we laughed and laughed until we cried. It was the first time in two years that she realized what the subject matter was.
I loved making gingerbread houses when my son was small. Thanks for the chance.
My Mom knitted each of us kids, 5 of us, Christmas stocking, each one unique. I have been proud and thrilled to carry on the tradition with my 4 kids and 9 grandkids. I still love and use my stocking every year and I hope my kids and grandkids will feel the same about theirs.
I would love to win the book…just in time to make some Christmas gifts from the patterns in it. Thanks for your contests.
One year I made lap quilts for all of my sisters in law. I actually bought the fabric after Christmas when it was marked down. That was really the first and only time that I have planned and made Christmas presents almost a year ahead :-)
My sisters and I arranged a cookie swap a few years ago…invited a few friends and relatives…once at the swap, we then all made ornaments with styrofoam balls and fabric ‘strings’…my ornament was such a pretty thing, but it brings back a nice memory every time I see it! Thanks for a chance at a crafty book!
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Jenny
Having grown up in the southern hemisphere, I suspect it was the implausibility of someone wearing such a hot suit in mid-summer that made me suspicious about the reality of Santa quite early on. Though we did have a big fireplace and chimney he could feasibly come down…
Much to my mother’s dismay, I figured out that Santa didn’t exist when I recognized it was her handwriting on the tags for the gifts at quite a young age. After that, she specifically disguised her handwriting on the tags so my younger siblings didn’t figure out via the same clue.
What, the guy in red isn’t real. Then who left me the coal in my stocking when I was 6!!!! Still have that stocking 42 years later with the coal stains.
Every year I make a special ornament for the tree for my kids and all my nieces, nephews and other immediate in-laws. For the kids my hope is that by the time they grow up and leave home, they will have a number of special hand-made ornaments and the memories to go with them to put up on their own trees.
What a cute Santa! Put me in for a win.
I’m working on a Christmas project right now. Sounds funny, but working with a snowman fabric is actually COOLING!
http://kimquiltz.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/x-blocks-snowman-play-piecing-binding-tutorial/
When I was about 21, my roomate and i made a ton of beaded styrofoam balls to decorate our tree…remember those?
I am a Christmas baby (born Christmas Eve) so I’m sure it was complicated keeping my birthday and Santa gifts separate, not to mention adding another gift list to my folks’ already stretched budget! The year I turned 11, I asked for a vanity – a kidney-shaped table with a gathered gingham skirt and stool.
My Dad kept all of our gifts hidden down at his office locked in a back room. I cleaned up & ran errands, along with my best friend, Mary Beth, an afternoon or Saturday each week. We loved playing office behind an extra desk and going across the street for an orangeade afterward chores. At Christmas, we helped wrap presents for Daddy down at the office. He was a big kid and loved Christmas time – keeping secrets, wrapping presents with little clues on the tags, planning parties and singing in the Cantata at church each year.
This year,he just couldn’t keep all those secrets and showed Mary Beth my biggest birthday present – the vanity- one Saturday! (He forgot which was Christmas and which was birthday for me.)
Mary Beth kept a great secret until Christmas morning when I proudly showed her my new vanity that Santa brought. . . her big blue eyes filled with tears, she looked from the vanity to my Dad and to me. Daddy realized his mistake and his face just fell. We were hustled off to McDonald’s for ice cream (while my baby brother and sister stayed with their presents)!
Daddy explained what Christmas was all about. We kind of knew about Santa already but his story about the “real Santa” & the meaning of Christmas -our love for one another and celebration of Jesus’ birth- which would always be very real and never changing, was so sweet. He apologized for his forgetfulness; we let him off the hook and stopped crying. Years following, we were the big sisters who knew all the secrets and we still create clues for every gift tag we make at Christmastime!
Suzanne G in NC
I have lots of wonderful memories from growing up. My grandma especially was very “crafty” and she always had really fun projects to do. One thing we did every year was to take a Reader’s Digest magazine (that was back when it had LOTS of pages) and fold each page so the magazine would end up being shaped like a tree. Then my grandma would spray paint them and after they were dry we got to decorate them using glitter, sequins, stickers, etc. Also, another fun memory for me is that my mom would buy my sister and I a HUGE project book (they have them today, only they’re about 1/4 the number of pages they used to be). They had extra-special Christmas editions with fun projects, recipes for kids, coloring pages, mazes, etc. That was WAY back when Winter Break was called Christmas Vacation. For those of you on the younger side, Spring Break used to be called Easter Vacation! Anyway, my sister especially loved the baking projects and I loved the craft projects. These days my sister is no longer into baking, but she’s turned to crafts, so we have a lot of fun when she comes to visit (last time we did fingerpainting).
When my sister in law was a child (and still believed in Mr Claus), she did not want to go to bed on Christmas Eve (no surprise there). But she wanted to play Trivial Pursuit, even tho she didn’t know any of the answers. (she was only about 5 or 6). The reason? It’s a long game (it was to her, anyway), and if we played it, morning would come that much sooner.
We tried to convince her that it would come quicker if she went to sleep “now”. LOL! Yea, we played Trivial Pursuit.
My all time favorite Christmas memory was from over 30 years ago when our daughter was born on Christmas day. We brought her home a few days later and took a picture of her in a car seat under the Christmas tree. The best gift ever! We named her Kris after a great aunt of my husband but I think that Kris Kringle had a part in that name too. =!=