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Merry Christmas Everyone!

This is the 9th Blogiversary of Sew Fresh Quilts….

My first post was written on December 24th of 2012. It was more of a New Year’s resolution post than a quilting post, but I kept my promises to myself and then made another New Year’s resolution type post the following year. And since then, it has become a tradition to make a post each year…. to celebrate how “It’s a Wonderful Life”!

Nine years of quilting/blogging has meant an accumulation of lots of stuff. Fabric of course. And many, many quilts. But best of all, these years have given me the opportunity to make so many, many friends. You are my friends and what I treasure above all else in this journey. Your friendship, love and support are what I am truly thankful for this Christmas. You are a gift that is greater than gold – or even fabric!

Having friends like you is what has kept me going through all these years, but ESPECIALLY the last four years. When I shared this post in December 2017, you all rallied behind me when I needed you most.

Things have changed a lot since moving to a new home and starting a new life. And you have been there for me, just like friends are in REAL LIFE. YOU are what makes me look forward to many years to come!
THANK YOU for being here for me!

To celebrate these last NINE years, I am having a giveaway!

There will be 3 MAIN prizes as shown at the top of this post, and LOTS of paper patterns to give away!!!

Please comment below to enter to win. Or comment on my Instagram or Facebook posts!

Winner will be chosen in the New Year!!!

Happy 2022!!!

Keep On Quilting On!

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178 Responses

  2. Thanks for all the great patterns you have brought in your nine years . I made 5 as gifts . The giraffe 2 times . Keep bringing more awesome patterns . If you ever do a dirt bike tag me in the post . Lol hint for a new pattern

  3. Merry Christmas and congratulations on your 9 years! I have made many of your patterns over the years and they are well loved. Keep doing what you do.

  10. Happy Blogiversary and Congrats on 9 years! May 2022 bring you more creativity and friendships! 😄

    1. Congratulations on 9 years! I always look forward to what you come up with. You are very talented. Here\’s to many more years and patterns.

  12. I admire your talents and the patterns you’ve created over the last 9 years. I remember reading that post back in 2017 and thinking what a strong and courageous WOMAN you are.
    I’m so happy for you, and Thankful you are in a GOOD place.
    Congratulations on all your success.
    Merry Christmas and looking forward to your creations in 2022.

  13. Thank you for creating such happy and easy to complete projects. Each time I make one (or even look at them) I have to smile.

  14. Happy 9th Lorna! Cheers to goals and many more years of cute patterns and your beautiful quilts. Thank you , this is so kind and generous.

  15. Merry Christmas & Happy Blogiversary to you. I Love reading your blog! I made Elephant Parade for my great nephew – he loved it and I enjoyed making it!

  18. I’ve enjoyed watching your development since leaving that terrible situation behind you.
    You truly are an inspiration, love to you and your whole family
    Xoxo

  19. So happy to have been with you during most, if not all, of these 9 years! I enjoy your posts and am always impressed by your creativity and spunk! May you have many more years of sharing your thoughts and ideas on this blog.

  21. I always love to see your creations! They make me smile and want to create more fun-loving quilts!
    Wishing you the best in your future!
    Hugs, Kathy

  22. Congratulations with your nine years blogging. Even oversees I am following your blog. I like your quilts and ideas, it gives new inspiration. Thank you! Please go on.

  23. Has it already been nine years? Your imaginative patterns just keep getting better and better. Can’t wait to see what you’ve got up your sleeve for the next nine years! Happy ninth blogiversary!

  30. Merry Christmas Lorna, and happy blogaversary! You home looks warm and comfy, so I would guess that’s the best change since 2017. Congratulations on the journey thus far!

  31. Congrats on nine fabulous years! It sure doesn\’t seem like it\’s been 9 years. Your creativity shines through all the fantastic patterns and they are truly so much fun to make! Cheers to many more wonderful and fun patterns! Merry Christmas friend!

  32. Congratulations, my how time flies! I have so enjoyed the ride aka your creative journey. And I wish you a joyful and healthy new year!

  34. Happy anniversary! I love your patterns and one of my all time favorites is the Elephant Parade quilt along:). I made it for me but ended up gifting it to my grandson (who just turned 6 so that was a while ago). I am going to have to make my own one of these days! So many great quilt patterns not enough time!

  35. Congratulations on your nine year blogiversary! I don’t know what we would do without our blogger friends. I love your pattern and hope for many more years to come. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

  37. I have enjoyed your posts and your style of humor for these many years.
    I’m wishing a happy and healthy 2022 to you and yours .
    Bobbie from CA

  40. I love your patterns and have made quilts, wall hangings and other. I especially love your wavy line quilting and hope you’ll someday post a tutorial!

  42. Merry Christmas Lorna. I have followed your blog these past years and your perseverance and bravery have motivated me to keep trying and putting my best foot forward in my own life. Love your style of quilting and look forward to seeing what the new year brings.

  43. Congrats on your 9th year blogiversary. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and continued success and blessings in the New Year!

  48. Congratulations! So exciting for you. I have enjoyed receiving your emails and watching for the next new design. Love all the animals quilts. One day I will get one made.
    Thank you for all you do for the quilting world.

  49. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful designs with us. I have purchased many patterns and they are enjoyed by everyone I give a quilt to. Hoping you have a blessed new year.

  50. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas season and a Happy New Year. Hope this next year is a good one for you. And I love your patterns.

  51. Congratulations on your blogiversary. I have enjoyed watching your designs over the years. Your ideas are always so much fun. It’s wonderful to support a Canadian business.

  52. Merry Christmas and happy Blogaversary! I’ve always enjoyed your posts and your patterns. Wishing you a great year!

  53. Merry Christmas and congrats on your nine year blogaversary.
    I have enjoyed many of your patterns. Keep up the wonderful work.

  54. Merry Christmas and Happy Blogiversary! I have enjoyed reading your blog for years….your creativity and your strength should be an inspiration to all! Your patterns are so creative and always put a smile on my face. (Also, as one who does not like to free motion quilt, your quilting style assures me it’s ok not to free motion quilt!). I always look forward to your latest patterns!

  55. Love, love, love your creative patterns! I loved creating the Giraffes in a Row quilt. Keep up your creativity!

  56. Thank you for sharing your talents with us. I have followed you from your beginning. It’s been a pleasure to watch you grow

  57. I really enjoy the simplicity of your patterns. They have a big impact because you choose such great colors. Thanks for sharing your quilt visions with us!

  58. Congratulations on nine years! You have created so many fabulous patterns in that time. Thank you for sharing!

  60. Congratulations on the first nine and here’s to the next nine, and then some!! Your creativity seems never ending with great attention to detail in their designs. Merry Christmas!!

  61. I have to pay a picture of my Christmas quilt that I have my quilty Mom of the Christmas quilt along you did a few years ago! I love your patterns. So easy to follow. Merry Christmas!!

  63. when i re read your 2017 post, and realized i’ve been following you and being inspiried by you for “so many years”, i was first caught by the elephant parade quilt. at the time, i though i would never have the skills to make that, but step by step, i’ve made it, and i’m still reading and loving you emails. thank you for sharing and inspiring me, have strenght and keep going with joy.
    shoshana

  64. Dear Lorna, happy Blogiversary and Merry Christmas for you!!! Thank you for all your awesome patterns, my favorites are the Holly Jolly Christmas Quilt and the Alphabeth…
    xoxo
    Katrin

  66. I have been reading your blog since the beginning and I love your patterns! Wishing you the best year yet in 2022, many happy and creative days ahead! Happy Blogiversary, Lorna!

  68. Merry Christmas and congratulations. I love making quilts using your patterns because they make you smile.

  69. Merry Christmas and Congratulations on 9 years. That is a long time. Imagine if you had made one quilt block for every week of that 9 years. It would be a big quilt.

  73. Life is held together by threads and Friends. I cried with you back in 2017 but smiling every day since. Thank you for being our friend and such a giving one. Love all your patterns.

  74. Congratulations on ALL you have accomplished.

    I EnJoY ALL your patterns & have many. “Thank you.”
    A Dear Friend of mine/online have followed you and we both really REally like your patterns! Keep up the awesome “work” <3
    Happy New Year!

  75. Congratulations on all you have accomplished! You are such a strong and talented woman. I am always amazed at your creativity when you post a new quilt. May you have a Blessed New Year.

  76. Congrats on 9 years of blogging! I love your creativity! That Boo Kitty is cute ( I love animals and especially cats!) Wishing you many more fun years of quilting and blogging!

  77. Congratulatiions! You have really given a lot of creativity to the quilting community. Thank you.

  79. Happy Blogiversary! I’m so happy that your life is so happy now and I know that you will continue to create awesome designs for all of us to enjoy.

  80. Merry Christmas and congratulations on your 9th Blogiversary! Thanks so much for all the great patterns & quilty inspiration!

    1. Happy Blog-versary! ❤ I enjoy your patterns and am so glad you started this! 😊 Very encouraging and easy to follow patterns! 🍻 Here’s to another nine!

  83. Merry Christmas and happy Anniversary. It has been a joy following your blog the past few years and seeing your creativity evolve and grow. I love your designs. Thank you!!

  84. Have loved your patterns for years, but it was that 2017 post that truly hit home. I followed suit a year later and now am in a new home, new life and couldn’t be happier. I guess this is a thank you for that tough email. That was one of many I read before I pulled the plug – and I remember that post to this day. Thank you for your courage – without knowing it, you helped me regain my own. All the best in the year to come.

  85. Congratulations on nine years of your blog! I really enjoy reading it and I love your cute quilts!!!

  86. Thank you for sharing your blog with us. I have enjoyed reading it. Wishing you many more years of creativity and looking forward to reading all about it!!

  88. Congratulations on 9 years, Lorna! I backed a quilt with Grumpy Cat ( so fun to put together) and some of your Christmas ornaments. Best to you and yours in the new year.

  89. Congratulations on your blogiversary. You\’re quilts are very cute. I\’ve adopted your technique of quilting wavy lines for many of my quilts. Happy New Year!

  90. I have just recently found your blog and I’m also new to quilting looking forward to more of both in the new year

  91. I just finished another baby quilt using your cow pattern. It is a favorite! Thank you so much for the chance at more Sew Fresh fun.

  92. Hope you and your family had a very Merry Christmas! Thank you for all the wonderful patterns you do. So easy to follow which means a lot!

  93. Congratulations 🎉 on 9 years of blogging & thank you for all your wonderful patterns 💝👏👏👏

  94. Merry Christmas and Happy, Healthy New Year. My kitty’s favorite Christmas quilt is your Christmas sampler quilt from a few years ago. He’s either on it or under it every day of the holiday season.

  96. What a great designer you are! I hope you had a Merry Christmas and I hope the next year will be better that the past couple of years.

  97. I have been following you for several years and have enjoyed making a few of your quilts. I have a couple patterns still waiting to be made. Your patterns are fun and can be enjoyed for everyone. I appreciate that the quilts can be loved by both sexes no matter what age.
    Wishing you many more happy years of creativity and success in what you love to do. Cheers!

  98. I’ve been following your blog since your Christmas sampler quilt. I’ve made some of your quilt patterns (the Giraffe’s 3 times now). I’m glad that you are in a better place now, personally. That book at the top looks cute. Happy Blogiversary!

  100. congrats on 9 years. looking forward to many more
    have a few up your patterns coming up soon on my list
    thanks for sharing your talents.💝💝💝

  101. Congratulations on 9 years!! I look forward to your new pattern to make this year. Love your creative ideas!!!

  102. Congrats to 9 years… so far! Love your artistry & imagination. Wishing you & everyone hear great health for the New Year!

  103. Many, many congrats on both 9 years blogging and your courage to move forward! Been following since Elephant Parade.

  104. I love your patterns and have made several of them as gifts. I love the giraffe pattern so much I made a single one to hang on my sewing room wall! Keep designing. Have a great year. Here’s to the 10th anniversary next year and many more!

  105. So glad your celebrating 9 years…. Lets look forward to 9 more. Love your stuff and send people to your site all the time.

  106. I love all your patterns! Thanks for the giveaway. It would so wonderful if I was the winner! crossing fingers…

  107. Enjoy reading your blog and see the pattern
    You have a great talent ….
    A quiet holiday for my family this year
    May 2022 be peaceful & prosperity for you and your family.

  108. Merry Christmas Lorna!!! What a great ride you have had so far, and many more years to come. Thanks for the opportunity of the prize! I’d love to win – I’ve had trouble with my sew-jo lately, and I’m sure this would knock me out of that and get me going again!!!

  110. I have collected many of your patterns over the years. So far, I have made 2 (Giraffes in a Row & Kissy Fishy). I love the humour in your patterns and how well they look when made into a quilt. Thank you!

  112. Lorna, so proud to have a wonderful Canadian designer (that’s you!) who has so many great designs. Thanks for your fox pattern, and the ugly Christmas sweaters, and the giraffes — it goes on and on!

  115. Congratulations on 9 years, such a great accomplishment and inspiration to many. Love your creativity and enjoy making art with your patterns.

  116. Love reading your blog and viewing your ideas/patterns. Thanks for the “give away,” and keep on blogging!

  119. I look forward to reading your blog when I see the new entry. I have gotten ideas to better my quilting and have tried hard to not want all the patterns. I’ve certainly enjoyed the free sew alongs. Keep up the blogging and the creativity!

  120. Awesome – I am pleased you are still blogging as I gave it up many years ago! Happy blogiversary!! Keep designing, writing and documenting 🙂 We love it!

  121. have always been drawn to your patterns – great imagination. happy that you recognized what was right for you and your family and took the steps needed to follow through for a much happier life. would that everyone could be so lucky.

  122. Congratulations! Nine years is a long time to blog and stay consistent at it. I for one appreciate that you still blog as I do use instagram and Facebook, but I guess I am old fashioned and prefer blogs. Thanks for all you have shared over the years and the fabulous giveway!

  123. I first found your blog after I bought your Forest Friends pattern (which I still have not made!) Love your style!

  124. Love your patterns, hopefully I will have great grandchildren before much longer and I will have fun making quilts for them.

  125. Congratulations! Your patterns are unique and fun. They never fail to make me smile. I love making tops, but am not a confident quilter. Your signature wavy line quilting made me feel more confident about quilting my tops. It made me realize I didn’t have to do “feathers” and other complicated motifs to create a great quilt. Although I own 20 of your patterns, Kishy Fishy was my first and remains my favorite.

  127. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and congratulations on 9 years. Love all of your patterns. I made the PrimeMates quilt and can’t wait to make the Lemurs and Ostriches!

  129. I am so in awe of you. I also left my husband of 18 years in 2018 and am now retired. I absolutely adore your giraffes but I think I will need to make the foxes in some form for my 27 year old baby.

  130. Happy Holidays/Blogiversary Lorna. Has it really been that long? Nine years is amazing! Your blog was one of the first I followed and you hosted the first QAL I ever did. Thanks for the memories and the fun. ⛄️😉

  131. I’ve had sew much fun doing quilt-along with you!
    You make such easy, fun, cute patterns, thank you!
    reillyr2(at)hotmail(dot)com

  138. Happy blogiversary! Hope you had a joyous and peaceful Christmas, and all the best for a happy and prosperous 2022 💕🎄🍾

  139. Congratulations on celebrating 9 years.
    Thanks for the awesome giveaway.
    Good luck everyone.

  140. I fell in love with your patterns when I saw your elephants in the baby quilt. So glad you kept going for 9 years

  141. Congratulations on 9 years. Wish you continued success and inspiration! Love your patterns/style!

  142. Thank you for all the wonderful, fun-filled patterns over the years. I was a pattern tester for you once, and always look forward to what you will come up with next.

  145. Love all your patterns! You are so creative! I smile every time I see your patterns. They make me happy! May you have a blessed 2022!

  149. Congratulations on perseverance and working hard with your creativity. Your work gets better and better. All of your patterns make me smile.

  150. Lorna,
    love the quilt patterns. I have purchased a couple of the patterns just because of the names. Don\’t wine to me is next on the list.
    Here is too many more years.

  151. I have made four of your quilts and multiples of those too. Just finished fox among the birches and it is so cute. Thank you for all the fabulous patterns that are perfect for so many people in my life.

  152. Congratulations, Lorna, on your 9th Blogiversary (woo hoo!) and your journey (double woo hoo!). All the best in 2022 for continued success and happiness. Love your patterns. They are so easy to follow and so cute and clever. They make me smile. (-:

  154. Congratulations Lorna on 9 fabulous years! And thank you for your wonderful, fun patterns – I love collecting them and have made quite a few. I’ve loved your quilt alongs – especially the elephant one🐘!!
    You are so strong and generous!
    I look forward to continuing to follow you and look forward to watching what you come up with in 2022!
    Happy New Year!

  156. Congratulations on the 9th birthday of your blog, which I did the mistake of coming across as I now have several/most of your patterns on my “never ever gonna end” wish list! lol! After going back and reading your post from 2017 it reminded me I just recently “celebrated” 31 years since I did the same with my son’s father. Looking forward to see what you come up with for 2022! Hoping you had a merry Christmas and a better new year than the last one!

  157. I am always inspired by your blog. You have shown your talent and humanity. Wishing you a safe, peaceful, happy, healthy and prosperous 2022!

  159. Congratulations on 9 years! I love your whimsical quilts. I have yet to make one, but it is definitely on my plan to do list.

  160. BIG CONGRATULATIONS on your 9 Year Blogiversary! 🥳 All the very best wishes for the new year and many more blogiversaries to come. 🥰

  161. Happy Blogiversary!!!! I’ve been along for the ride for many of those 9 years, starting with the Teddy Bear pattern you featured in a blog hop I don’t know how many years ago. Your patterns are some of the best out there and your creativity and positive energy never cease to amaze me. Happy New Year!

  162. Way to Go! That is an amazing accomplishment! Thank you for sharing your creativity. Having found your blog and joining over the recent year, I’ve been inspired to try a few more complicated blocks. Wishing you many years of designing, blogging and quilting.
    Connie W.

  163. Congratulations on your anniversary, all the best for a great new year!! Love your designs, keep us inspired!!

  164. Happy Blog Anniversary, and Happy New Year to you! Your designs just keep getting more and more interesting, and are such a delight to see. I wish you many more blog anniversaries to come, and I hope the new year brings you much success and love and passion for quilting.

  166. Big congratulations on 9 years! I love your patterns and have made several of your quilts. Wishing you all the best in 2022!

  168. Congratulations on your 9 year Blogiversary, Lorna. I have enjoyed reading your blog and seeing all the awesome designs you have come up with. I hope the future holds many wonderful things for you. Happy New Year!

  170. Congratulations, what a lovel way to start a new year. Here’s to another 9 years……then another 9!

  171. Congratulations on your anniversary. I’ve just found your blog and website! Such lovely patterns, can’t wait to make some.

  172. I have stitched and gifted quilts from your fun, creative patterns, and look forward to stitching many more💚 Happy Blogiversary!

  173. Is it too late to join this party? Congrats on your Blogiversary! I found you a few years ago when I made your Dog Gone Cute quilt for a friend’s new baby. 🙂 Happy New year!

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