Today we launch our very first blog hop! We have a stellar list of blogs (see list below) to help us raise awareness of our annual fundraising event, Quilters Take Manhattan (QTM) and the Quilt Alliance mission.
To win a QTM Moda Home Ticket via this blog, please leave a comment about why you’d like to win. We’ll pick a winner at midnight tonight (9/5 at 12pm EDT) and post it at the close of the Hop. (Other hosts will give instructions on how to win in their giveaway.)
Also visit today for your chance to win:
Chris Dodsley @made by ChrissieD
Pat Sloan
AccuQuilt
The QTM Moda Home Ticket provides a chance for those who can’t make it to the Big Apple to experience their own home slice of the event. Value of $35 ($30 for QA members). Winners of the Moda Home Ticket will receive by mail in late September a QTM Goody Bag, packed with samples and treats from all of our sponsors, and a chance to win select door prizes. Home Ticket holders will also receive priority access to online video of our Sunday with Sponsors event (sent via email link 2 weeks after event). Please note: this year’s Home Ticket will not include footage of QTM lectures and interviews due to the prohibitive cost. Home Ticket holders play an important role in supporting the work of the Alliance–thank you!
Drawings are open to all, but international winners are responsible for any customs fees that may be charged when shipment enters their country.
2015 QTM Goody Bag (drawing winners will receive the 2016 bag)
2016 QTM Goody Bag ready to be filled, featuring this year’s Handi Quilter Grand Prize winning QA contest quilt by Margaret Cibulsky.
Visit the QTM Blog Hop page for full details.
Schedule of Participating Blogs
Day 1 – Monday, September 5
Quilt Alliance
Chris Dodsley @made by ChrissieD
Pat Sloan
AccuQuilt
Day 2 – Tuesday, September 6
Victoria Findlay Wolfe @VFW Quilts
Erin Sampson – Aurifil @Auribuzz
Freespirit Fabric
Heather Jones@Heather Jones Studio
Day 3 – Wednesday, September 7
Moda Fabrics @Moda Cutting Table
Denyse Schmidt on Instagram @dsquilts
Debbie Jeske @A Quilter’s Table
Day 4 – Thursday, September 8
Jacquie Gering @tallgrass prairie studio
Jessica Skultety @Quilty Habit
Gotham Quilts @Fabric Nerd
Handi Quilter
Day 5 – Friday, September 9
Kim Niedzwiecki @my go-go life
Leslie Tucker Jenison
John Kubiniec @Big Rig Quilting
Good luck, everyone! We hope to see you on our blog today and in the Big Apple for Quilters Take Manhattan in September 2017!
Posted by Amy Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org
Can’t wait for QTM!
Why do I want to win? HELLO one can never have enough quilty stuff and it’s fun to get goodies in the mail. Thanks for a chance.
I love quilting and how relaxing and rewarding it is. The rising cost of fabric and supplies makes it difficult for me to enjoy my hobby. The cost of traveling to a quilt show is not in my budget. I am sure there are other quilters experiencing the same challenges. Winning the Home Ticket would allow me to experience the event without the added costs.
Me either, Emma!
I live in Kansas no big quilt shows or national shows here this would be my chance to see what is available if I could attend.
I would love to win because I enjoy surprises! This one looks like it would be so much fun to play with, and the tote is beautiful! Besides, I am a school teacher, and I need something wonderful to happen this time of year! Please pick me!!!
Quilting goodies!
I love to quilt and would love to win more wonderful items to use. I have never been to a quilt show or event or NY. It would be so awesome to meet all the famous quilters and everyone. Thank you so much for the chance to win! Good luck to all.
Quilting is a true passion for me, I spend every possible chance doing something related to my quilting, either it is designing the quilt, choosing fabrics, cutting fabrics, piecing, quilting, or whatever else needs to be done. To win a prize pack would just be the icing on the cake !!
Oh, I want to win the freebies, of course. But it would be an even better prize to win a trip to NY to attend the event!
Well, I won’t be able to attend the event in NYC so a home ticket would be the next best thing! I am so inspired by modern quilters that I’m sure I would enjoy the presentations. And the goody bag would be an exciting package to find in my mailbox. Thanks for the chance to win.
I would like to win the QTM Moda Home Ticket because I recently within the past two years started quilting, and have been an admirer of some of the NY quilt shops. I’ve been to NYC before, but not as a quilter, so I feel like this is a good opportunity to experience NY quilting from home.
I’ve gone to QTM for a few years, and I’m not sure yet if I’m getting to go this year. The budget has been tight, so it would be so fun to still get the great goodie bag. I love using my bags when I shop, and loved seeing the products inside. I use the Moda zippered scissor pouch for my epp, and loved meeting so many great people. Thanks for the chance.
I would love to win-an awesome opportunity-thank you!
I would love to win because I have been quilting on and off for many years and have just started up again with passion since I am now semi-retired.
why do I want to win? Because it is a great prize, and a project I would love to support more. Being in Arizona it is doubtful that I will be able to attend in person, so this would be a wonderful experience.
Sounds like a fabulous event which I’d love to attend but cannot. Thanks for the chance to win.
WHY do I want to win? Doesn’t EVERYONE want to win every contest they enter? But right now I want to win because that 2016 QTM Goody Bag is BEAUTIFUL and I want one!!!
Love, love, love quilting and love to see and learn about everything. Love goodie bags, love quilters. Love seeing gorgeous quilts that others have created.
It’s always fun to win things, especially new quilting goodies!
I would looove to Win because I know I will never get the privilege to attend such a grand event at QTM… and will treasure such a treat! 🙂 Thank you soooo much for the chance…
Sounds like some neat Quilty Goodies to me>Thank You!
I would love to win because I can’t attend the event. I love quilt stuff and promise to share with my mother, husband, and quilt friends.
I would love to win. I’m building my stash, rulers ect. I’ve been quilting 2yrs.
Since I’m unable to travel to New Your for QTM, winning this giveaway would be the next best thing. I can only imagine all the knowledge and eye candy at this event!
Thanks for a chance to win. Fingers crossed ;-D
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I’d love to win as there are usually new quilty type things in giveaways and I so love to place with and use new Quilty gadgets, notions and patterns.
So glad one can join from home: Thank you for a chance of joining by QTM!
Thank you for the opportunity to win from home since I can’t attend in person. Sounds like a great event. The last four years I have been unable to attend quilt shows and events due to a physical issue and miss learning and seeing all the new techniques/gadgets.
I would love to win as I like getting free goodies in the mail. This is the first year I’ll be going to the show.
It would be very cool to win..and I would share with my buddies..thanks for the chance to win! Love NY..from Illinois
Great prize! Cool stuffs! Fabulous sponsors.
I have never been to any quilting events. I always watch on bloggers posts. Thank you for having a great idea for the home tickets, for those of us who cannot be there. Thank you for the giveaway.
I would love to win the quilting goodies, since I will not be able to make it to NY for the event
This would be such a great variety of things to try!
I’d love to win since the goodie bag and access to video would be as good as attending! I am the caretaker of a husband with MS, so quilting is my sanity saver. We are unable to travel, so winning this would be as close to attending and seeing all the new quilty gadgets, techniques and treasures as I get! thanks to you and your wonderful sponsors for sharing the dream!
I’d love to win since the goodie bag and access to video would be as good as attending! I am the caretaker of a husband with MS, so quilting is my sanity saver. We are unable to travel, so winning this would be as close to attending and seeing all the new quilty gadgets, techniques and treasures as I get! thanks to you and your wonderful sponsors for sharing the dream!
How exciting it would be to win!
I would like to win as I am a beginning quilter and it sounds like I could learn a lot.
Sounds like a wonderful event! Wish I could be there in person, but winning this would be pretty nice too.
I’d like to take “it” out of the box, use “it” out of the box, and box what I make with “it” to gift someone special!
Awesome – wish I could go!! but winning fabric and other quilty things would make up for it!!! LOL
I have a quilt UFO group that I love to share with. I can see me bringing the box in and letting everyone pick a prize or maybe I’d wrap them all so they wouldn’t know till they unwrapped what they were getting.
I live far away from any quilt shows, so it would be a nice comfort for me to win a goody bag!
Sounds like a great event. Wish I could be there.
Being there in person would be amazing, but winning this “home” ticket would be a fantastic (and more realistic) option for me. Thank you for the opportunity to win and participate from afar.
I would like to win because I’m passionate about quilting and love receiving quilty stuff. I am housebound with a severely disabled child, so I don’t get any opportunities to go to quilt shows. Thanks for the giveaway.
Oh, don’t we all wish we could hop over to NYC for the big show? Alas, I cannot. When my mother passed away, I found an amazing bundle of partially completed Crazy Quilt pieces and that’s when I knew I had to learn to quilt so I could finish the legacy quilt. I am hooked and never looked back. Thanks for this opportunity.
That is a CUTE bag, and I’m all about the reusable bags, though most folks in Texas aren’t on that bandwagon yet! My grandmother was a quilter, but we have so little documentation about what she did or when and how; we have our memories and her quilts. Thank goodness these days for phone cameras, blogs, and photo sharing programs! There is so much opportunity to document what we do, why, and how, as well as our inspirations, dreams, successes and failures. As long as this internet thing keeps going!
Would love to be there in person….but, if not, the goodie bag would be awesome! Thanks for the your great work!