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I got mine today. Thank you Nickilee for my stuffed stocking. I love it and everything in it. As soon as I can figure out how to post a pic from my phone since I can't get to my gimp right now I will

Sue and I always always got a present on Christmas Eve, My dad would sit in his recliner and ask our mom to get a "present for these girls" and mom would go into the hidey hole and find one for each of us. So Sue opened her stocking just a few minutes ago. We decided that we would buy stock in the tape companies well before Christmas next year.
Angela, your stocking is so beautiful and what a lovely sentiment you enclosed in your card. A very nice Christmas pin is decorating the cuff of the sock. Just lovely. We will open gifts after I get through the tape on my box. LOL

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My stocking is from Heartmania, It is so unique and beautiful. I love the little pockets and I just had to peek and see the fabric eraser.

Just want to say that Sue and I are having a blast alternating present opening, anyone else going to open? It is 8:50 pm here in Wisconsin. Did i get the time wrong??? Pat

I think that it was 9:00 Eastern. I busted into my box and found a beautiful stocking from muggo muggo! I loved the surprise of your identity and all of the Maine goodies. The shirt is a perfect fit and I will share all of the edibles with my family. The fabric postcards are great too! So much fun and I appreciate everything. It is even better since we have met in person--three times, right?

Merry Christmas to all! I am hoping to feel better tomorrow, fever has hit tonight.

Lisa, Glad Sue and I aren't the only ones opening. Pat

My SS was Wiley!! Thank you for the beautiful stocking!! I also love the angel, the two frogs (two of my favorite things to collect!!),the fabric and the great card!! Thank you soooo much!
OOps, I forgot the skittles bank!!! Love it,too!!


Merry Christmas all!!

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WOW!! my stocking was from ToryAmm. Such fabulous gifts and original packaging. I will be copying some of them.
So many items where to start?
*Thanks for the 100 block magazine (good thing that I had not had time too buy it).
*The beautiful quilted scarf in my colors.
*The box of assorted candy which will go by my sewing machine.
* The 10 fat quarters which were the perfect colors. I will enjoy using them.
*The mystery books I will enjoy reading.
*The cookie cutters will be put to great use.
* The needle threader which I would like to know how to make
* Several other items, but I don't want to keep on bragging.
Thanks, so much.

Sorry added a extra m to Toryam's name.

I thought I was really late for the open party, just got back from church. Where is everyone? My SS was LadyJ66!!! Thank you so much I love everything. My DH & DD had a chuckle when they saw 2 items with our dogs name on them. Too cute! Pics of them to follow, I'm not sure how to post more than one at a time. My stocking is beautiful! Thank you again for everything.

Dianne

Kirin checking out her SS gift!

Sophie wants it open.

Heartmania, I absolutely LOVE my stocking, It was filled with so many little gifts, You even found a quilt pin for me. Thank you so much!!!
I'll take a picture or two tomorrow and post, when the light is better.

I am off to bed, but will check back tomorrow and Wednesday for more pics. I will also take a pic of my goodies tomorrow.

Angelinamor, I totally LOVE my stocking. Your cross-stitch in the center of the stocking is just beautiful. The gifts you gave were perfect. I love everything, especially my quilt pin. I will take a picture tomorrow and post the stocking with all the gifts. Thanks again for making such a crafty stocking. Sue

Ok my SSSS is fishingwidow, She is an awesome FUNNY Lady. I opened my box and took out the first thing, a Create & Decorate (Holiday Issue)magazine, then I see THIS LLLLOOOOLLLL look at the picture, no words can be said you have to see it.

as I was opening the other stuff I seen why she used these to make a cushion. Neet idea. here is the rest. I will come back later and give the list.
Oh Mary Thanks so much for the book, I don't have that one so after the first i will start reading it.

Good Night Everyone, Think I'll go to bed so Santa doesn't by pass my house tonight.
Merry Christmas.

You are very welcome, Sister Sue! I am so glad you like it!

I really enjoy this swap - creating the stockings and collecting all the little gifties! Since I am not a crazy quilter, but I do like to cross-stitch, I have tried to find a way to incorporate my stitching into the stockings. And, since my stitching teacher adapted quilt blocks for us to stitch it was a natural combination!

Oh! A quilting friend of mine gave me the idea about having the kitty tangled in the tree garland.

My SSSS was CQwannabee and a wonderful SSSS she was. Thank you so much Jody for the beautiful CQ stocking, I just love it. I also received pink and green pillowcases that go vey well with my bedroom, a thread catcher with a needle holder, two beautiful asian fabrics and a bundle of fabrics for my CQ habit. Thank you again Jody it was a wonderful package.

Julie

Fleur 55, so glad you like your package. I'm so glad you showed your fur babies, I hope they liked their little gift from Santa, we can't leave them out can we? The stuff in the red tin is tea, but I'm sure you knew that. The name is on the bottom of the tin. A new tea shop opened in the mall and the man said this was a mild breakfast type tea. I can't drink tea so I had to go on his recommendation. I hope you enjoy it. It was fun putting this package together for you.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas.

Julie

This is a QUICK thank you post as I have to go and I will try and post a photo later. Thank you to JLU! The stocking is sweet and I appreciate everything you sent. My favorite is the Snoopy ornament, of course
I also received a beautiful asian fabric panel, a candle, ribbons, gold metallic thread, a magazine, Christmas socks, santa fabric, and a beautiful rabbit mini. Thank you for your kindness I will get photos later and post.
Thanks to the host as well! Ali/Shogun

Was out last night and totally missed this!

My SSSS was GEMSQ! Thank you so much for filling my stocking with holiday cheer! First, here's the stocking (empty, of course I had to get to the pressies)

And here's all the pressies! 6 lovely FQ - two general, one Asian and three very nice Christmas ones (hadn't seen these fabrics before!), a bath and body lotion set in Mango fragance, some dark organic fair-trade chocolates (great cause), a Christmas book and note saying it was very funny, and lastly, a Chicago thimble which will look great in my collection - my first and only Chicago one!

Thanks so much Barb! I really appreciate and like all my gifties!

Merry Christmas and thank you very much LindaJ52. Love everything in my beautiful stocking with lots of beads that are sewn on by hand.. A pretty kitchen towel, 9 fat quarters, Mary Engelbreit note cards, a bar of hand made soap, a little cookie gingerbread house, a hot pan holder- crocheted, and last but not least dark chocolate. Thank you very much

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Good Morning everyone,Merry Christmas. just have to say to McPatches. You will be laughing so hard at all the antics in your new book. It is very funny. I've read it a couple of times.

And my lovely gifts

My awesome stocking is from Aliquilts. Its beautiful!! THANK YOU, ALI!!!! I love stars!! And the tone on tone creamy snowflake fabric is GORGEOUS!

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Did I say how much I love star blocks? So imagine my delight when I realized the FRONT was even more beautiful, lol.

Picture of my stocking and lovely gifts that I received from Heartmania. I even got a quilt shop pin and a 4 little people for my Christmas Village. I'm going to wait for my grandkids to come tonight to help me find the most sincere spot to put them. They help me set it up every year, kind of a Tradition. Thanks also for the thread, socks, pincushion, ruler, small herra, beautiful orange fq.,measuring tape, tech. duster that is so little and cute. sewing machine needles,altoids peppermint flavor, a homemade and embroidered white wool hanging holder. I love it. I'm going to take a close up of it and post it. Mary Ann, Thank you so very much for the lovely stocking and all the presents. Pat PS forgot to add the picture, I see that you can see the white emb. holder very nicely, so I don't need to post the close up. Pat

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And it was stuffed full of goodies:
Handmade ornament, Beading needles, beaded trim, lip balm, gutermann threads in beautiful jewel tones, JA's gift card & a Louis Lamour book! Everything was wrapped in a gorgeous assortment of batiks & sparkly rickrack.

Thank you so much, Ali!! It was so much fun to open & it was wonderful to receive a package that was so obviously compiled just for me. Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to All!!!

My SSSS was Kentucky_Sunshine, Trish thank you for the set of pretty Christmas ornaments. They are perfect for my little tree. We have two trees, one pre-light 12' tree in the living room decorated with family ornaments etc. The other one is a smaller tree in the entry way that I decorate with the HGTV CQ swap ornaments and ornaments I've received from the SSSS swap.

LadyJ, glad you liked your stocking it was fun stitching it.

Happy New Year and Happy Stitching in 2013.

Oh what fun! I am enjoying all of the cheer right along with you all! Thanks for sharing your joy and pix!

Merry Christmas!

Angela, I just finished placing my ham in the oven, setting the table and cleaning up my mess, so now I can look at my stocking again. It was very impressive and I love every item and how you made it so personal. So here goes for what I received. Snowflake FQ, stamper with my inital on it, lime green fingertip towel, (love lime green), peppermint candy, apple cinnamon candle, gray gloves, hand sanitizer (will use it in my purse) pearlized pins in a cute Santa tin, 2013 calander, McCall's craft pattern's , which I will share with Patty J. Also white and dark chocolate kettle corn, double chocolate chip cookie, book, mug with hot cocoa, small empty containers that I can always use,recipe for mushroom pork tenderloin, home made magnet for the refrig. (so cute),note book,triangle charms and a quilt pin from Colorado ( I collect shop pins). I love them all and thank you for spending so much time on this beautiful stocking. Sue

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Merry Christmas to all. It looks like we have some beautiful stockings which were opened so far. Will check back later to see who else has opened their stocking. Have a great holiday. Sue

I finally had an opportunity to open my package, and to my surprise I found TWO stockings--one for me and one for Mom!

MY secret Santa is Patty J. Patty, your stockings are adorable and I just love mine. Mom was thrilled when I brought her stocking downstairs to her while in the middle of setting the table for Christmas dinner (we just opened up our presents with the rest of the family).

Here are the photos of Mom and her stocking. Patty, she LOVES all her goodies, especially the scarf. You will be getting a proper thank you in the mail!

Mom LOVES to model!

The maple coffee will be served with dessert after dinner...

Now, time for ME to open MY stocking!

When I starting pulling items out of the stocking, out came a Ziplock bag of triangles...hmmmm...then came out a paper towel tube with what looked like quilt blocks and a paper surrounding it. Patty, you sweet thing, noted all the things I couldn't have, like chocolates, and decided to make the Louisana quilt blocks for the Sunshine group for November and December (thus the leftover triangles!). Being my favorite color is green, she made these all in my shade of bright!

Thank you, Patty, from the child who will receive a quilt made from these happy blocks! How thoughtful are you???

And after drooling over the stockings, I finished pulling out items from the stocking and found a "I love Quilting" key chain, a rotary cutter holder AND a gift certificate for Connecting Threads!

I cannot think for a better stocking and sending you, my sweet Patty, hugs and kisses. You made my Christmas!

It's a good thing that I posted my stocking before as DH is upset with me, so may not get a picture of the items posted!!!!!

My SSSS is mcpatches. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! First the beautiful stocking. One year for the birthday fat qtr exchange I requested beige fabrics as I want to do a beige quilt. The beautiful stocking reminded me of that. Really need to post a picture of the other side of it as the back is just as pretty as the front.

Inside and around it were The Art of the Quilt 2013 Calendar, a box of Russell Stover All Dark chocolates (love dark chocolate), a Christmas Cat Wall Hanging kit (collect cat fabrics), a lavender bath set with bodywash-handcream-soap-nailbrush, wild Christmas knee socks, snowman note book, a sardine can with a Quilter's Emergency Kit and 3 yard cuts of rwb fabrics to make pillowcases for QWL.

Thank you again for everything and I hope you loved your stocking as much as I did mine... Chris

SueB is my SSSS! My stocking is so beautiful and what goodies all wrapped so snug inside.

5 beautiful hankies for my collection
2 pretty fatquarters
pincushion to add to my growing collection
Christmas Bell/angel ornament
crocheted doily
pen with curly ribbons popping out on top
box of artisan rolled wafers-delicious!
shopping tote that was inside a strawberry,
really cute.
pillow panel with chickens and another piece
of "chickie" fabric, love it.
At the moment my camera is charging so will be back to post a picture of everything.

You're the best SueB!!

A special thank you to my SS, Luvthosequilts, who sent her pkg express, and then her pkg was delayed. So, I opened a few and will wait til she opens hers. The stocking is exceptional, crocheted in a white very soft and silky yarn. Can't imagine the directions. Then a few of the items are: a current edition McCalls quick quilts (perfect for me, as are the other items). Vanilla sugar moisturizing cream, container of vintage buttons and charms, a lighted glass angel in a globe ornament; a small size journal, a snowman ornament, and a decorative box with an actual wish bone in it! The dark chocolate candy was a real treat. So, there is even more to go; a very generous gift assortment. Can't get the picture figured out with my new computer, but hope to master it soon. Hoping your package comes tomorrow.

KC, I'm so glad that your Mom liked her stocking,. Since she was so much a part of the fq lottery, I thought she deserved something a little special.
I hope those blocks are going to be ok for your Sunshine quilt. yep, that pattern can be addicting. I can make more if you need/want more.Let me know. Also if you have trouble with the gift card at CT let me know. I had a lot of fun making both those stockings and filling them up. Have a Happy Holiday. Pat

I had to call Patty after I opened the stocking and we had our own little gab fest! It's so nice to verbally connect with each other, isn't it?

Merry Christmas ladies, you all have received great stockings and gifts. Sue b, I sent my box by the click n ship method. My first time doing this. So after I input the addresses. When it printed out my name and address, I didn't,t want to mark it out, as I didn't,t know if that would invalidate the label. Anyway will have to check that out for next year, seeing if I can put s.sister as the name somehow. I enjoyed making that stocking and liked doing the different color squares. Glad you like the gifts.

Just put the roast in the oven at my DD,s. and relaxing with a glass of chocolate wine. It wAs a gift and pretty good. Although it looks like mud.

Will open my stocking when we get home. We were going to go home on Thursday but now there is bad weather for tomorrow so will have to see what develops. So,

Merry Christmas all

Mary

Ps sorry about the bad typing.

Merry Christmas Everyone! Had a great time thank you Kblue I love it.

Thank you again J Lu!

Crazyboutquilts is my SS. What a beautiful stocking she made for me. She also made me 4 wonderful Christmas placemats. We will use them tonight. There are only the 3 of us and I never put my tablecloth on the table this year.

I also received what I believe is a potholder with a pocket that she made. If it has a different use please tell me. She also made me an ornament that you press and it places music. I also received a spool of thread, a box of assorted teas, a yo-yo maker, a bag of Jelly bellys. Lastly a pack of 5 FQ's in purples and coordinating colors. I can see a quilt being made with those FQ's.

First a picture of the stocking.

Here are the placemats. The picture is upside down.