Welcome Quilters, Fiction-Lovers, and Santa’s Elves! Today is Friday–Open Line Friday…which means I need YOU to provide the answers…
Anyone who leaves a comment today will receive a chance to win Secret Santa or Between Heaven and Texas by NY Times Best selling author, Marie Bostwick. (Thank you, to Ms. Bostwick for your generous donation to our Giveaway!)
Yesterday, I offered my annual “Stocking Stuffers for Quilters” recommendations for 2013.
Today, I’d love to hear your picks this year…
What quilting/cooking/ household/beauty notion/or book will you put in stockings this year?
If you are not a quilter, that’s okay–quilters love non-quilting items, too–so please join the fun–and earn YOUR chance to win one of these fabulous books in our Giveaway!
Nineteen days until Christmas–and I’m still looking for ideas…
Shopping, Decorating, and Quilting in (-4 F Minnesota!),
Lori
PS–I will include the recommendations received yesterday as well! Winners will be chosen on Monday, December 9.
166 comments
Claire
I’ll be leaving thread, snips, fat quarters and rulers for my sewing buddies. My teens will get park passes to the local National Park and gift cards to their favorite stores and if they’re really good, a gift card for Amazon and iTunes. 🙂 Hubby Dearest gets a book from his favorite author and a coupon for back rub/foot rub.
Cindy
I hope to receive a Fiskars Classic Stick Rotary Cutter and a few replacement blades in my stocking this year.
kay
A cute kitchen towel for my husband (he’s chief cook in the family) is an annual stocking stuffer tradition. I’m hoping Santa will put a Quick Curve Ruler in my stocking…
odile
I hope to win !! Thank you for your blog .
Odile ( from France)
Marianne
I’m making mug rugs for as many stockings as I can find.
I love this blog! It combines tips, tactics, and teaching for free motion quilting that are clearly stated and illustrated. It’s also is full of humor, fun, information, new places, new tools, and books, all of which I’m happy to learn about.
A huge thank you!
bonniesrecipes
Marianne, what a great idea. I will have to keep that in mind for next year.
Pam C
Nothing exciting for the stockings in my family. My DH loves lottery tickets, so I will buy him some of those.
Susan Stanton
I’ve had my eye on a Hera Marker. It is useful for making lines in fabric that doesn’t leave a lasting mark (for domestic machine quilting). Also, I’ve seen it used to turn out curved applique for a smooth seam line. I think that would make a nice stocking stuffer!
Kathy
I have two daughters and this year I am putting a book called “Let me sing you gentle songs’ in their stocking. It is about a lovely relationship between two women, set in Sweden. Lovely book.
Kathy
Diannia
I have 2 granddaughters that are sisters and 2 years apart (ages 6 and 8). I’m giving them the children’s version of the book “Jesus Calling” to share.
bonniesrecipes
that is a great gift! I didn’t know they made a child version. That is my favorite devotional.
Donna Phelps
I have a few recommendations of books for Christmas would be “Practical Guide to Patchwork” by Elizabeth Hartman, “We Love Color” featuring the Robert Kaufman group and Kona Cotton Solids, and any of the “Free Motion Quilting” books by Angela Walters. These are all good reference books for any quilter.I would love to win either of your giveaway books (Fern is one of my fav authors).
bobbie
Chocolate candy for both quilters and non-quilters.
Noreen K
I have been purchasing various Clover notions throughout the year for stuffing stockings and Secret Santa gifts.
jimsqueenie82
I have never owned a Christmas stocking in my life but if I had one I would love to have the last three years of the Fons and Porter series (buy 2 get 1 free) or some sewing needles, size 9/12 for paper-piecing and for everyone to have a blessed Christmas and be healthy!! Bless you for this site, Lori, because it offers so much for so many quilters!!
Pat Rime
Stocking Stuffer? A reservoir watercolor brush pen — with a fountain-pen type water reservoir and foam pointed tip… and ink pens for sketching on the run. Along with a small water color paper notepad. Good for doodling, too.
Kerri Ribinson
I really enjoy your bog, especially you FMQ tutorials! Your silent Sunday pictures are wonderful also
Debbie-do
Between Heaven & TX sounds like a great read! I’m in a small south Texas town… it’ll be fun to see the similarities (and differences).
As well as the standard Christmas ornaments, bag tags and checkbook covers, this year I’m making bowl koozies for the microwave!
Noreen K
I made those a couple years ago. Fun gift
Judy
Having adult children, gift cards work really well. For the grandchildren I try to make a fun item. This year’s won’t fit into a stocking, though. I’ve made each one an animal pillow out of fleece. . . two lions, one monkey, one puppy, one teddy bear. The pillows are heads only, nice and large and fluffy. Another year I used their handprints and a shoeprint to make Rudolph on a Christmas placemat. Such fun!
Melanie d
I would say, a new Tourquoise Olfa Rotary cutter!!
Jeanne
My gratest find this year was the new Frixon gel pens. Absolutely love them for marking my quilts. All my quilty friends will receive one this year!!!
Paula Harr
No stockings but I’m making THIRTY microwave bowls for co-workers. Would be nice to have elves in my sewing room:)
Carole Diehl
I am giving machine embroidered gifts.
barbara woods
I am making some of my gifts this year
Laura
Stocking stuffers for my non-quilting adult daughters include memory sticks, wine bottle stoppers, mini cutting boards. Also some handmade presents for their stockings: wrist key fob, japanese folded jewelry pot and a purselette.
Ellen
I am putting sewing thumb drives for those who machine embroider, new seam rippers, and some fat quarters. Also the devotional God Calling.
paulathequilter
I usually tuck several lottery tickets into the stockings.
Quilter in Motion
In stockings it’s always a treat to receive something that is useful. Even for adults, I like to put a toothbrush. Who doesn’t need an extra for a guest visiting, a grandchild who comes and forgets to bring his/her own toothbrush or just one to stick in your toiletry bag for travel times. This is one of my daughter’s favorite stocking stuffers.
Teri powers
I love the new seam ripper that has the rubber end to grab the threads.
Joan H.
I have been making quilted microwave bowls, rug mugs, and pot holders as stocking stuffer gifts.
Robin allan
I am making cute pink zippered bags for my girls from left over pink quilt.
Kathy Wollin
I made placemats for a dear friend, barrettes and woven headbands and a stuffed toy for granddaughters. I would like a set of Frixion pens and some stencils.
Maxine
I hope to see some new colored Sharpies in my stocking this year. There are so many colors to choose from now. It makes my graph paper ideas so pretty. Thanks for the chance to win.
Cindy D
My daughters love to bake, so they will be receiving mixing bowls, egg separators, and wooden spoons. I am purchased some plain aprons, that I am going to embroider for gifts this year. Thanks for having a give-away!
Stoney Monte
All my friends wear out their seam rippers, so that’s my gift this year. Why we’re all not perfect, I don’t know, but there it is. We wear out our seam rippers. Thanks for fun giveaway.
Sue W
I am making a sit n stitch for my quilt friends. The ten minute table runner for non-quilters
Barb
Blue line eraser is a great gift. It gets ride if those blue lines even if they have been ironed in!
Sue
Graph paper and Crayola Twistables colored pencils (the big set) for sketching ideas; small Cloverclips- kind of pricey, but I found the large set at Hobby Lobby and used a 40% off coupon, and boy, are they useful!
Jeannie
I would love to have Kaffe Fassett’s quilting book.
Amy Verne
I like to give everyone in the family lip balm and a small tube of creamy hand lotion to help fight winter dryness.
Susan
I always drop a quarter in everyone’s stocking.
Pamela Montague
I like to put many small items in the stockings. Chocolate, socks, scarves, gloves, gift cards, etc…
Jenna O
I´m giving books, socks knitted by me, chocolate etc 🙂
Olinda Aguiar
Hi Lori,
Thanks for fun giveaway.
I have been making mug rugs, coasters, sachets, and embroidery pillows as stocking itens. I like to give everyone in the family with things I do, and I know they love it too!
Hugs,
Olinda (from Brazil)
weddingdressblue
I make several handmade things–the grandbabies are getting hat/scarf sets.
sam morris
Homemade cookies in homemade baskets.
bonniesrecipes
I made my quilting friends owl pincushions. The family always get socks in there stocking. Last year I thought that was kind of boring and skipped socks. they all got upset. I guess the look forward to them! Grandpa always gets McDonalds gift certificate so he can go have coffee with the boys. Grandma is getting a copy of my favorite devotional.my sweetie always gets m and m’s. And I am hoping for a stiletto in my stocking to help push those scraps across the feed dogs and under the feet.
Cecilia
I like to put small gadgets, thread, and fat quarters in my quilty friend’s stocking. My children get Chapstick, slippers, and small tools. I love reading Marie’s books. Thanks for the chance to win.
adaisygarden
I just mailed my Shoebox “secret quilter” Exchange this week. (I posted about it here: http://adaisygarden.com/2013/12/07/shoebox-exchange/). It was a lot of fun choosing fabrics for her and then other little goodies I thought she might like that had to do with either sewing or quilting. This year for my birthday, my son gave me a gift card to a local bookstore and I bought, “Quilting With Precuts”. I really like it and am looking forward to using the ideas included.
lynnj
Wha-who love these give-aways. I’m stuffing a friend’s sock with Karen k Buckley’s new mid size blue serrated scissors. They cut wool wonderfully. Your snowflake is beautiful!
Kathleen
I would love to have my stocking stuffed full of fat quarters. I love when someone else picks out fabric for me!
Sue Joos
Love the give-aways. Love your newsletters as you are teaching us so much.
I am a beginner and am so thankful that I stumbled upon your site. You are awesome!
Joann Verdeyen
I am getting the book Goodnight I-Pad for the geeks in my family. It is a take-off on Goodnight Moon. You would love it !! Also, I bought myself a super slider and I LOVE IT !! I’m not sure how I quilted without it-so much smoother.
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