Good Morning, Quilters!
As the Downton Abbey series comes to a close, let’s celebrate the hours of fabulous TV it offered with a GIVEAWAY!
The show had its ups and downs to be sure, but the costumes alone were worth watching for…
The beautiful clothes, jewelry, furnishings….
I WIN–YOU WIN!
At the Craftsy Instructor Summit in January, I was the WINNER of 5 bolts of Downton Abbey fabric from Andover Fabrics!
I would like to share the bounty with THREE LUCKY WINNERS-
Each will receive 5 yards of beautiful cotton fabric-for quilting or dressmaking!
HOW TO ENTER–THREE WINNERS!
In the comment section, leave YOUR favorite Downton Abbey quote–there were so many!
Google them if necessary…
If you really can’t come up with a Downton Abbey quote, share any favorite sewing or inspirational quote!
The contest will run until 8 pm CST on Thursday, March 10th.
Winners will be announced Friday, March 11!
(Due to shipping costs, this contest is limited to US and Canada only–thanks!)
Thank you, Andover Fabrics!
Thank you, Craftsy!
Lady Lori Crawley (my real maiden name!)
PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and are intended for personal use only. Feel free to re-blog, pin or share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt. For all other purposes, please contact me at lckennedy@hotmail.com Thanks!
586 comments
Deborah R
“What’s a weekend?”
Kevin B.
There are so many funny comments from Grandmama. Too many to choose one, but I like this one…
“I wonder your halo doesn’t grow heavy. It must be like wearing a tiara around the clock.”
elizajane120
Nothings coming to me off the top of my head in a quote but I watched the show because I love the costumes and the time period it was set in. Such a fun show!
Brenda Dunne
no quotes, but love every line uttered by Maggie Smith’s character.
Wanda Calderwood
I must say,”What’s a weekend” was my favorite. I have often thought that myself…. Thank you Lori for you generosity even if I don’t win!
Carol Fraley
Isobel: “How you hate to be wrong.” Violet: “I wouldn’t know. I’m not familiar with the sensation.”
Ingrid
From the Lady Grantham,the Dowager Countess, “Weekend? What is a weekend?”
I will truly miss this show. Thank you for the opportunity to win these beautiful fabrics.
Rebecca H
So SAD my favorite show is finished. Mary in one of her last sentences about “we’re sisters you know”. Hum Mary, she has a funny way of showing it! The fabric is lovely.
Kristi Ryther
I love this one! “All life is a series of problems which we must try and solve, first one and then the next and then the next, until at last we die.”
Linda
Violet …”You know me….Never complain, never explain.
Will miss this wonderful production!
Kathy Roslansky
What is a weekend? From Downton Abbey
Rachel Trindle
Don’t be defeatist dear; it’s very middle class. Among many other dowager duchess quotes.
Lori Tsatsa
I Love all the quotes!!! and I am so sad the show has ended,, I got half of it watched last night,, will finish it tonight!!!!
Susan
“No, you see, you must never think that education is only for special people, you know, for clever people, for toffs. Education is for everyone.”–Molesley
Susan Griffith
It’s good to be in love, whatever age. Violet Crawley.
I love Downton Abbey. It’s my favorite show and I will be sad to see it end.
Diane D.
Oh so many great lines!! Violet seems to have a lock on the most witty/amusing comments and zingers!! Some of my favorites:
Stop whining and find something to do.
What’s a weekend?
It’s a Grandmothers job to interfere
Of course it would happen to a foreigner, no Englishman would dream of dying in someone else’s house.
and of course…I’m a woman…I can be as contrary as I choose.
REALLY going to miss this show!!!
Great giveaway, Lori…thanks for the opportunity to win some terrific fabric!
Sarah J.
I just received the first 3 seasons as a gift and I’ve only seen the first episode, but my favorite quote was ” every ship is unsinkable until it sinks” (Countess Violet). Thanks for sharing!!
Nanci Swaim
As a very happily retired teacher, I loved it when Maggi Smith asked, “Week end? What is week END?”
shoshana
“Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it, and every ship is unsinkable until it sinks!
Patricia Gail Cooper
Dear Lori,
One of my favourite quotes and scenes is Mrs . Hughes saying to Mr. Carson at the waters edge on the staff outing day , when he shows hesitation to step in the water,”You can always hold my hand if you need to feel steady.”. And his reply ” I think I will hold your hand. It’ll make me feel a bit steadier.”. It reminds me of Luciano De Crescenzo’s beautiful words ” We are each of us angels with only one wing and we can only fly by embracing one another .” Both quotes are very significant to me as I feel this way about my relationship with my dear husband who has held my hand through my unsteadiness with Multiple Sclerosis for the past 22 years of our 35 years of marriage.
Sincerely,
Patricia Cooper.
Lori Kennedy
Lovely!
Linda Hubbard
With so many wonderful quotes on DA, especially from the Dowager Countess, it’s almost impossible to choose a favourite, but I’ve always liked Mr. Carson’s quote “the business of life is the acquisition of memories.” What a wonderful series it was, I certainly will miss it. Thanks for the giveaway chance! Have a great day.
lynn jarzombeck
” A lack of compassion is as vulgar as an excess of tears.” (said to Mary by the Dowager) Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess continually cracked me up. Absolutely adore her. So many of her lines were nothing but grand. This one is serious and so worth remembering.
Nicole
“Of course I’ll marry you, you old booby”. Was so delighted that Mrs Hughes and Mr Carson got married.
Kathy N
Violet had so many great lines! Here’s a great one: “No guest should be admitted without the date of their departure set.”
I also remember laughing out loud when Violet is alarmed by the movement of a swivel chair. When told it was invented by Thomas Jefferson she says, “Why does every day involve a fight with an American?”
Susan
Hate to say it but it was when Lady Edith called Mary a nasty, scheming b… Was the best line because Mary so deserved it and it was so out of character for the sisters to use such language.
Rebecca
Thanks for the great chance to win, plus all your wonderful quilting tips. There is no one better than the great Maggie Smith, and she has made me laugh out loud – so many good quotes. I like this one:
I’m a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.
Have a great day!
Laura S
“Weekend, what’s a weekend?”
Kathe Howe
“I’ll leave you to it”. What everyone says when they’re having a conversation with someone, and someone else interrupts them or comes into the scene, and one of them feels they need to exit.
peggy mccandless
What is a weekend? That was a great comment and statement on the changing times. Love Violet’s attitude!
Becci
“Stop whining and find something to do”. The dowager. I would lotto play with your fabrics. Thnx for the inspiration .
Kim Hartwig
I just loved it a few weeks ago when Lord Grantham said “Golly Gumdrops”.
Marty Anne Langley
Lady Mary’s tone and expression on her face were priceless when she said “Oh, Granny. You do surprise me. ” plus I’m a gran and great gran.
Sheila C
Love this quote….Edith to Mary: Now you’re happy again, you’ll be nicer… for a while.
Claire Ross
“Oh dear, have you swallowed a dictionary”
Thanks for a fab giveaway. Love this fabric collection x
Aaynne
I’m sharing a poem…written by a friend.
“Farewell, Dear Abbey”
While current politics have made me crabby
Tonight we say “Farewell, dear Abbey.”
The welcome pause we took each week
Away from vulgarity to bits of cheek.
Where incivility took a rest
Under the Crawley family crest.
Upstairs, downstairs—each had its stress
While we admired their fancy dress.
Tea was drunk, and so was hooch
But “Isis” was only the family pooch.
Sisters squabbled as sisters do
Yet nothing like this election crew.
Farewell, o Downton, with all of your grace
Thanks for taking us to that peaceful place.
~ Mary Carlson Mason
A contest? How fun, Mizz Crawley!
Victoria Miner
‘At my age one must ration one’s excitement’ …the dowager countess.
Nana in AZ
I love the fact that the interest in this show helped to raise the money to renovate and save the crumbling Highclere Castle in present day by charging for tours. Interesting history show on Netflix.
Marie S
LOVE LOVE LOVE Countess Violet
“I don’t dislike him, I just don’t like him. Which is quite different.”
She has so many lines that its hard to pick just one. Hope I win. Love this show and own all the seasons.
Virginia
Mrs Padmore to Daisy ‘That’s your story and you’re stuck with it’. My Mother always told us that!!!
Karin
Everything that Maggie Smith was golden, and from last night’s episode I loved this one: “I never answer any question any more incriminating than do I need a new rug.”
Sandy
I *adore* the Dowager Countess! One of my favorite quotes was when she was speaking to Mrs. Crowley, who was being generous about something the Countess had said, not admitting that it was insulting. The reply was along the lines of, “I must have said it wrong, then!”.
Kathryn Hartley
It’s a grandmother’s job to interfere….
Claudia R
“What with all these toasters and mixers and such like, we’d be out of a job.” Mrs. Patmore.
What spectacular writing. I read that the costumers referred to Edith as Lady Beadith, because of her elaborate gowns.
QuiltShopGal
What fun and how generous of you to share such an amazing win from the Craftsy Summit.
Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Ann D
Hi Lori,
What a generous giveaway. Just last month I used a jelly roll of Downton Abbey fabrics to make a quilt.
I actually have not seen Downton Abbey so I have no quote from that series but I thought I would repeat your advice you gave in your blog…”A year from now you will wish you had started today.” You were referring to starting to learn FMQ but I think that sentiment can be used in other situations as well.
Lori Kennedy
You get entered twice for quoting ME! LOL!!!
Christine
First electricity, then telephones! Sometimes I feel as I’m living in an HGWells’ novel.
Pat
I loved Maggie Smith, every line she said and of course, the costuming!
Violet: “You are quite wonderful the way you see room for improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming zeal.” Isobel: “I take that as a compliment.” Violet: “I must’ve said it wrong.”
sunnysewsit
What’s a weekend?
Louise Davenport
“Oh I do hope I’m interrupting something.”
June Neigum
I do not know why but I never followed this on TV. Guess I better start, nefer thought about all the interesting costuming involved. But I do have a wonderful saying I look at almost every day. It is ” Its a good day for a good day”
Comments are closed.