So this is it. The moment you all have been waiting for. I'd like to think that the quilt along and all the giveaways along the way have been fun. And educational. And worthwhile. But let's face it. They don't mean squat in comparison to this.
I know things people. I've been to college. And around the block a time or two.
I've got my finger on the pulse of the human spirit.
You have been waiting for the mac daddy. And today is the day.
Leave a comment to this post for your chance to win the miraculous Janome 6600.
It is fantastically amazing. I love it so much that I missed it while on vacation. For real.
Some of my favorite features are:
-- the independent motor for bobbin winding
-- speed control lever
-- the start/stop button
-- the almighty automatic thread cutter!!! (can't I get a Amen on that one?)
-- extra high pressure foot lift
-- knee lift!!
Oh. I. Could. Go. On. For. Days.
What? You don't want me to go on for days? Hmmm.
Ok. Well, let me just summarize by saying that I love the Janome 6600 because it allows me to make quilts with absolute ease. Like this.
::Deep cleansing breath::
Leave a comment to this post for a chance to win the Janome 6600. Only one comment per person. International entries welcome. Contest will run from now (June 29, 2009) until next Monday, July 6, 2009 at 6:00pm EDST US. A winner will be announced on Tuesday, July 7th.
Good luck!
-dana
1,783 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 801 – 1000 of 1783 Newer› Newest»Wow, already 800 comments and it's only the second day. Hmmm...my chances are not great. But it would be so nice to win a new sewing machine. Mine is about 12 years only and VERY basic! Thanks for the great give-away.
How exciting! Pretty quilt!
Get your finger off my pulse, girl! You know what I want. I want the Mac Daddy of all giveaways. This has been so fun. And yes, educational. And fun. And your quilt is beautiful. Let's see if mine turns out beautifully too when I finish it (hee hee).
Dear Dana
I would love a chance to win this fabulous machine. I participated in the quiltalong and posted pics on flickr of my strawberry quilt. I have to quilt it but am still working on that. Really enjoyed the community of quilters that you gathered around Dana. Its been inspiring and encouraging. The tutorials have been great - clear and humourous. Thanks for everything
Oh my gosh what a prize! Love your blog. Crossing my fingers with all the rest. :)
I need a new sewing machine and I would love to win this wonderful Janome!!
She is a beauty. I would treat her right, I swear! Drool...
I never win. I don't have my own blog. But if I won this, I would give my current Janome to my DIL, who wants to sew. I really would love for her to sew with me. No one else does. She wants to make quilt like I do! That is so awesome.
Please pick me! You'll be giving 2 people a sewing machine and tons of good memories!
PLEASE pick ME! Thanks for the lessons!
I hope I win!!!!!
WOW! So many comments. Here's my shot at winning. I have enjoyed watching the progress of the fun quilt along. Thanks for the inspiration and all of the wonderful give aways.
WOW! So many comments. Here's my shot at winning. I have enjoyed watching the progress of the fun quilt along. Thanks for the inspiration and all of the wonderful give aways.
Well, I happen to be very unlucky when it comes to blind chance, but I'm going to go for it anyway - this would be a pretty major improvement over my bargain basement Singer! Thanks so much for the opportunity.
I've never won anything in my life! I'm currently sewing/quilting on a Sears Kenmore machine from the late 60's that my parents purchased 2nd hand for me in 1983 as a birthday gift. The buttonholer hasn't worked for years but it stiches just fine. I would love to have a new machine but #1 It's not a priority financially and #2 I don't begin to know what to look for/look at in a new machine.
Thank you for your generosity to the lucky winner!
Please, please, please!!!!!! I am about ready to throw my current machine out the window! I could use a new one that has lovely tension!
Awesome! Thank you for being so generous!
Wow what a wonderful machine! I have a wee Janome that's a little powerhouse, but the one you're giving away? Um, WOAH! and WOW! Please pick me :)
It would be so fabulous if I won this! You can definitely pick me if you feel like it!
-Kate
I'm keeping my fingers crossed....
I'm feeling really lucky about the number 820. We'll see...
Thanks for the great tutorials, a fun blog and now this giveaway! This will be one lucky winner!
I think your quilt turned out awesome.
I unfortunately did not come upon this blog until recently so looks like I will be doing this soon, and alone.
Thank you for the information and tips that you have provided everyone. Unfortunately, my sewing machine has died (it was 'birdnesing' and pieces were falling out of it), so I will post my quilt when it is done.
Thank you also for the chance to win this great sewing machine.
Lindsey, Alberta, Canada
Please, please, please,
pick me, pick me, pick me!
What a great giveaway!
What a fun experience this was. Good luck to everyone!
Giving away a sewing machine? How cool is that!!
oh how i can dream. i see the blog post that says #825. and then you send me an email. how wonderful! and i make quilts from now to forever more!
This is embarrassing. I'm drooling. No, really. Hurry up and tell me I've won! Pretty please.
Oh how I would love the chane to win this wonderful machine. What a great quilt along. Thank you for hosting.
The tutorial for the quilt was SUCH a lovely thing to 'happen upon' and I am really hoping to get a quilt going this summer. My fingers are itching (and my foot pedal too!). And the Jenome 6600 is quite a sight!
Thank you.
i don't have a blog, i'm just a blog stalker. i loved your quilt-a-long and the quilt pattern. it's a great stash breaker. thanks for sharing your love of quilting with everyone.
(natalia_borkolofski@hotmail.com)
Wow, I think I saw the sky parts and the angels sing! :)
Please put my name in this awesome drawing. Thanks!!! :)
Oh this would really make my life so much eaiser, and I would really love to win this beauty. Pick me!
Will today finally be my lucky day?!?!?!?! I sure hope so!
Thank you for so much quilt a long fun, Dana!
Angelia
Oh good gosh! It would be so amazing to win this. Sigh. Drool.
Oh! I'm so excited!!! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that luck is on my side this time :)
I LOVE your playlist. We like similar artists, so I always make sure to turn my speakers on when I come to your blog.
Very cool sewing machine. WAY more features than my mine. Hoping for the best!
Am enjoying your blog. You make me want to drag out my dusty spider webbed supplies and start quilting again. Thanks
What an amazing give-away! Please pick me!
Could it possibly be me? I hope so!
Pick me! Pick me!
Thanks for this opportunity!
Kim
I just discovered you blog a few weeks ago and love it. I check it all the time. My favorite part is your playlist! Everytime I come here I get a little mood lift from the music.
I hope I win the sewing machine and thanks for the great blog!
I would love to win. Teaching myself to sew and your quilt was one of my first projects. Still working on it...the binding is a little intimidating. ;)
Love your blog!
what a giveaway, and what a great machine! i'm just sitting here thinking of all the quilting I could get done on a machine like that! i've enjoyed watching the progress of the quilt-a-long!
I would LOVE to win this :D
Me, me...pick me!!!
I have followed you quilt along - with no time to actually do it. But it is beautiful - and now it is bookmarked - so thank you!
Would love to win the machine!
Incredible giveaway! So generous of you, btw i LOVE your blog, such inspiring creativity!
andreadevisser@shaw.ca
Would love to see if it is as fabulous as you say (I am sure that it is but what the heck, I want to try it out for myself)!!!!
I would love a machine like this.
I can't believe you are just giving this beauty away...Thanks for the quilt along. I had a great time, learned a lot, and I know my cousin's gonna love the quilt! Oh yeah, and please pick me :)
Count me in. I have been interested in watching your techniques. The daughter of a quilter, I don't even consider myself a novice so it has been fun to watch this quilt along.
Thanks for the fun!
Well it can't hurt to try!!!
I am entering to win this amazing sewing machine for my mother. My mother broke her leg in 2006 and after numerous surgeries is still not fully rehabilitated and suffers constant pain. However, since my mother is superwoman she continues to work, be a devoted wife and an amazing mother, regardless of the pain.
One of the few things that have been able to take her mind of the pain has been creating amazing quilts. She has gotten so into quilting that my bedroom at my parent's house has been transformed into her quilting room!!!! Furthermore, she is also an avid reader of this blog and every week she sends me pictures of the progress she has made doing the quilt alongs.
I would love to be able to present my mother with such an amazing machine, which would allow her to take her quilting to the next level.
Oh, what a great prize! I've been following the whole quilting lesson - very good job. I would SO love to win this. (Well, wouldn't we all???)
What an amazing giveaway! I would love, love, love to own one of these machines.
This would be soooooo awesome! A definite step up from my old timer!
wow. I really hope I win that. I'm still sewing at my '61 Singer Slantomatic 500.
That sewing machine seems to have all the bells and whistles. How lovely! I would love to win. But if I don't I'll just keep following along. You provide a wealth of knowledge and inspiration.
Oh my goodness....this is THE MAC DADDY!!!!
My girls and I have an old clunker of a sewing machine that we share.
It's not even worth mentioning the name. It's not Janome!?!
What we could do with this little beauty!? Oh me oh my!!!!
Oh I hope I win. this quilt along has been so much fun and I now have a wonderful quilt to take to camp with me. I hope I win the sewing machine, it would make quilting so much easier. Thanks for making it so much fun to make the quilt.
OMG! Pick me!! I would love to win!
Oh my goodness - the sewing machine looks awesome and I would really love to have it. However, the fabrics that you have been showcasing are to die for.
Simply amazing! Thank you so much for this contest. I'm keeping everything crossed that I could be the lucky one!
I love your blog:) I've been enjoying watching your creations take shape and I'd love to put this machine to good use on some of mine:)
Blessings,
Gayly
(quilt-n-mama.blogspot.com)
this is fantastic!! how lucky is the winner.
It just may be a dream! I would absolutely LOVE to get a machine like this!
mmimica@maimonides.cl
Pick me Plz!!!! Woot Woot!! jessicagreene@msn.com
Jessica Dawson
Oh my! This is so exciting! Please add me to the list. Thanks so much!
Here's hoping!
Thanks for offering this great give-away!!!
oh, pick me! a knee lift would be a dream come true!
You have no idea how anxious I've been about THIS day! :) Thanks for the great tutorials. I learned alot along the way and am thankful even if I don't get the mac daddy of all prizes. Oh yeah, and I have some paula prass fabric in my quilt. PLEASE can I win?!
I am in need of a new machine, but funds are not here currently. Best of luck to everyone but I am hoping of all hopes that I am the luckiest of all! (selfish of me I know!)
Would love to win this!!!!!!!!!
This would be awesome to win for my mom's birthday!!!! :)
I would love to own the Janome 6600P. Thank you for your consideration.
Sheryl
Oh my! That beast looks like a nice slice of heaven right there.
How exciting! Thank you for positng the quilt instructions; I'm excited to get sewing!
This has been an amazing quilt along. I as out of town last week so hope to get my quilt done soon. It will look sooo good. Thanks for doing this!!! Maybe I could be so lucky to win this!
what a great quilt-along! superb tutorial and absolutely fan-freakin'-tastic giveaway!
here's hoping. . .
Shut up! This is great. What a great giveaway, I have a basic Janome that I've been using for around a decade and would love to upgrade, they are the best! Great, great blog. So glad I found it.
Shut up! This is great. What a great giveaway, I have a basic Janome that I've been using for around a decade and would love to upgrade, they are the best! Great, great blog. So glad I found it.
Wow! What a prize! My gf introduced me to this blog and how could I NOT enter this amazing contest?
I just got into quilting about six months ago and could easily see myself becoming consumed with fabrics and patterns of all kinds. A new machine couldn't hurt either:)
I know this is my lucky day! thanks for all your sharing. I love your blog.
I NEED this machine to motivate me to finish all the projects I have half-done. PLEASE pick me!
I would die if I won this.
Ok, the odds are so low here....but hey - I love to quilt and I'd LOVE to do it on that machine!
I am so excited!! I hope i win, I hope I win I hope I win...
Oh, if only, I could be so lucky. Thanks for offering such an amazing giveaway.
I don't have a sewing machine, and I would LOVE to win this one!!
Thanks for all of your tutuorials!
I need a new sewing machine!! My janome has acquired an attitude against me! :( Or maybe it's just menopausal...
Okay - one last comment!!!! I have LOVED, LOVED this quilt- along. THANK YOU!
I would love a chance to win the Janome 6600
Soak up the glory the fame! You deserve it with all you have put into this :) I'd love to add to my Janome collection!
Thanks so much for doing this giveaway! My name on my Flickr account is IrishRoses ~ Milwaukee and I've used Paula Prass Flights of Fancy fabrics!
That machine would be a dream! It would help me finish my quilt along quilt - I started a few weeks behind you, but am still having fun with it.
seriously...I don't believe it!hope # 900 is lucky!
Thanks for posting the tutorials, and I would love to win the machine.
Fingers crossed and by God's good grace maybe I can hope!
Can I just say that life with my grandmother's 40 year old Kenmore is very difficult some days and winning this machine would just send me over the moon!!!
Thanks for your tuts and all your great advice.
I would love to have a Janome 6600.
What a great give-away! I'd love it!
mrs2a50@gmail.com
I need a really good machine and this one fits the bill. Please pick me.
I have completed my quilt, though it was a different pattern, and am very excited and proud of myself. I hope I win this machine becuase my machine is like 100years old. It works but it would be nice to have this one with all the bells and whistles...cheers:-)
Boy, that's one serious sewing machine - it would totally intimidate the simple no-frills beginners machine I currently have!
I have been following along from the beginning, the end result was fantastic! Adding my name to the hat for the great sewing machine.
Wow! What an amazing give away! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I love the colours you have used in the quilt too. It looks beautiful and funky.
jrmorawitz@yahoo.co.nz
Many thanks for hosting such a fantastic quiltalong. Your instructions have been easy to follow and I have loved watching everyones progress over on Flickr. I am very nearly finished my own quilt and am really excited to see it in all its crinkly glory! Of course the icing on the cake is the chance to win a proper grown up sewing machine with proper grown up buttons and dials and things like that! Thanks again xx
You've convinced me! This is the machine that I want. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the great tutorials.
Sure would love to win this amazing machine. Boy what fun I could have.
I would never have made a real, big quilt if it hadn't been for the quilt along. You made it easy and fun and I just love how it is turning out.
And I would love that machine too!
I loved following the quilt along. It has been so inspiring! Now if only I had a Janome....
Oh my...I so need this!!! Please pick me...please pick me!!!!!!!! I had so much fun doing the quilt-a-long!!!
This is an incredible giveaway. Excuse me while I go and wipe the drool from my chin!
I love your blog, been watching the progress of your quilt along and have some ideas about making one now! It would be thrilling to bring home that nice machine, I like mine well enough now but I think it would end up in second place.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Andi
andisunshine@hotmail.com
I love your blog, been watching the progress of your quilt along and have some ideas about making one now! It would be thrilling to bring home that nice machine, I like mine well enough now but I think it would end up in second place.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Andi
andisunshine@hotmail.com
OMG, is this for real? What an awesome prize to win.
This would be a dream come true!!! Jamie V in MT
amzanioli@yahoo.com
http://rem-nants.blogspot.com
Oh wow how lucky some one will be..
i wish it could be me.. I would do love it..
Good luck to everyone..
Thank you.
Amanda E
Long Beach CA
My wife would die to have this machine. She has a small older janome and loves it..
This is so great..
Mike E
Ca
wow...are you ever right...i can't imagine how many entries you will get...but i can't help but try...i have never had my own machine...i have two of my mom's that i am borrowing (an old black singer that only straight stitches and another singer that is newer but still basic) ... i can only dream of owning such a - well- DREAM machine....thanks for the chance!
I can't tell you how much joy it would bring me to win. Wow what an amazing giveaway. Good Luck everyone!!!! but I hope I win!!!
Pick me
pick me..
hehe
I can only with right..
I loved the Quilt along..
will you please please do another one...!!!
Melissa S
from Sunny California
um wow! out of the woodwork they flock lol!! Started cutting today will post photos later. Here's hoping. fingers AND toes crossed!!
Commenting, commenting, commenting. Thanks, Sara
Dana-This was so great of you to do this. Count me in!!
This would be awesome! My machine is in the shop. The mother board has to be shipped off to get fixed. It could take months and it is $450 to fix! Yikes! Thanks for the giveaway.
I would absolutely love to have this beautiful machine. It would make my dreams come true.
Please I really want to have this wonderthing, I promise she will be in good hands, evene if she ahve to travel a long way to the heart of europe!
hope to read from you!
Alexandra Austria - no not Australia
The Janome 6600 rocks!!! I hope you pick me so I can help others realize just how amazing it is.
I have really enjoyed the quilt along. Everyone in the house has claimed the quilt. My husband won out though..
Tanya
(candcsmomquilts)
lucky number 935!!!! thanks for a great quilt along, dana!
Thank you so much for the quilt along! It was so much fun!! (Even though I am still a little behind!)
I want to win this for my wife - saves me the cost of letting her buy a new machine :)
toplinecreations(at)telus(dot)net
Fabulous prize! I'd just love a new sewing machine :)
Oh wow! oh wow! I would SO love to win that! Thanks for a wonderful quilt along. It has been so inspiring!
I would LOVE a 6600...have heard nothing but good about this machine! Great giveaway!!
hugs,
Cheri
cheris56@yahoo.com
http://cheroldsplace-cheri.blogspot.com/
My daughter is having our first grandbaby so I immediately learned how to quilt. Your blog has been VERY helpful. I would love to win this machine to make tons of baby quilts for my first grandbaby.
Can't wait to win :-)
Really enjoy your blog and check it multiple times everyday!
Wow. Wow. I _really_ would love that machine. Thanks for a great give-away.
That machine is RAD!!
I hope you pick me....me....me!!
What a fantastic give away - I'd love to win the Janome! Thanks for hosting a great quilt along!!!
Ok, currently I stand a 1 in 945 chance. I'll take it! Those are ok odds, right???? Crossing fingers, crossing legs, and anything else I can cross!
I am so grateful for my Brother machine..it was a gift. How could I not be grateful for a free machine but I so would love to win this AWESOME machine. PLEASE pick me.
This is the giveaway of all giveaways....ever. I think if I win this, I can retire from giveaways (or at least just enter for friends instead). THank you for being beyond generous. I desperately need a machine, period. This machine would be the greatest thing ever.
Great givaway! How thoughtful and generous! I love to quilt. I am a granny quilter starting in my 50's. I wish I had started quilting sooner. I have made two quilts for my only grandson which he loves. I have a Janome machine and love it. Best of Luck to us all and Happy Quilting! Linda
Need to win that sewing machine. It seems to be fabulous.
Oh. My. Goodness!!!! I have been waiting for this for weeks! :)
Good Luck everyone!!!
What an awesome giveaway...
I would love,love,love to win this fabulous machine. Thanks so much for this great giveaway. Hope I am the winner of this one.
Mary
mburn@comporium.net
953 comments! WOW! I have never seen a Janome in person, but it must be good.
Great give away! I dont have a sewing machine and would love one like this :)
Shari
maria_shari@hotmail.com
Just looking at the pictures of it makes me "oooo" and "ahhh". Here's to crossing my fingers!
Oh my! Oh my! This would be a godsend considering my sewing machine is about to bite the dirt it seems. (darlingchatterbox@ymail.com)
Oh my goodness...so many want this "gateway to creation"! I have my fingers crossed....
I do love my old machine, but some weary parts are no longer replaceable...so I'll accept a new one ;).
I need a new sewing machine, please pick me!!
Here's my entry. Also uploaded photos to the flickr pool (hopefully), and using flight of fancy fabric. Hopefully if I've read right, that is an additional 150 entries.
I have so loved this Quilt-a-Long and have my fabric ready to go as soon as I win the machine!!
WOW! I would LOVE this!!
I would love to win this machine. It sounds really wonderful. I have been following along and really have enjoyed your easy steps and explantions. Can't wait to see future projects on your blog.
Dani
By discovering your blog, I dicover my new passion: quilting. I love your style, it's fresh abd easy. I hope I win the machine. Thanks to you for your creativity and generousity.
Let's hope 965 is my lucky number!
Could I be the lucky one?? Yes??
I'm slow on the 'along' part but am working on two versions for twin grandsons on their way so I could REALLY use a new machine to finish up. I see a lot of quilts in my future :)
I work all day staring at the computer and for a break/treat, I visit your site, drool over your projects, learn from your tutorials while enjoying the music. Thank you.
If you love the Janome 6600, I know I will too. Getting my sewing table ready tonight in anticipation.
Thanks!
Oh I would love a chance to win! Thank you for such a fantastic quilt-along and an amazing final prize!!
Oh, how I would love one of these machines. My birthday is July 11, please, please.
Diane in Tampa, FL
Your blog and this quilt-a-long have been so inspiring! This sewing machine looks so amazing. I can't even imagine the possiblities.
Thanks for the opportunity to win a machine!
I wasn't able to do the quilt along but I've been following along and learning lots of new, fun things! What a sweet looking machine. I'm sure it would spoil me for life, but I'm willing to chance it. Thanks for hosting such a fun project!
Wow... it would be so awesome!! It would help me a bunch!!!
What a fantastic giveaway! Thank you so much for the opportunity to win!
I am just learning to sew and came across your blog, everything here is awesome! Oh how I would love that Janome 6600, thanks for the chance to win!
I just found your blog a few weeks ago, and am very excited to back track through the quilt along and make one for my girls! A new machine to make it with would be wonderful!
Hello! Wow. I love to have it!!
Wish me won!!
This is the best giveaway a girl could ask for.
I would so love to win this machine and make quilts as nice as yours
Hi Dana! So excited to be part of the quilt along. I officially finished my first quilt ever tonight and I am so proud! Thanks for your help, instructions and support!
The giveaway is just the icing on the cake!
Liz
Oh the automatic thread cutter and the bobbin winder - be still my heart. Thanks for this quiltalong funfest, Dana! How will we wait 'til Monday for the MACDADDY results?!?!
I would love to sew on a new machine...I do love my featherweight, but it sure would be great to have all those fancy features. We'll see...
Amy Meiners
983 Comments? Is it possible for you to pick this little one? And there are probably more comments as I type this, so I'll look like I don't know how to count. I promise, the number was 983 when I started :)
I sssooo need (ok, want) a new machine! And I know this one is just dying to come and live at my house!
Thanks so much for this quilt a long. My quilt is still just squares, but I had so much fun, met some new friends and had an excuse to be distracted from some of my other projects for a while. Thanks again, you ROCK!!
I am a beginner quilter and would love to get a new sewing machine. I enjoy sewing and making new baby quilts for friends and family. Your step by step instruction and pictures are sure helpful for me when I am quilting.
This looks awesome. It would put my Brother to shame.
Wow! I wish I'd been quilting along the whole time with you! I'll be following your blog from now on! I learned about it from SewLoveFabrics blog...gotta love Ruth! Beautiful use of color!
Keep up the great inspiring work!!
Jamie
A comment. I left one. Now, do I win? :D
Wow! I'd love to win that machine! Thanks for the opportunity.
Thanks for hosting this great quilt-a-long and giveaway Dana.
I've been having fun reading the posts and viewing the photos on the flickr group.
Fingers crossed!
You basically put out a silver platter explaining so beautifully how to make my dream of making a quilt actually come true. In turn you have also created a monster. I have plans in the works for three more.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. This skill is a prize all in itself.
This has been an amazing experience. Not only have I had fun, but I've met some really great people. And to top it all off I have a fantastic new quilt! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This has been an amazing experience. Not only have I had fun, but I've met some really great people. And to top it all off I have a fantastic new quilt! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
As a beginning quilter using an old Kenmore that belongs to my grandmother-in-law, this machine would be awesome!! Please enter me!
oh man~ pls let me win! I have had such a great time doing this. what a great quilt-a-long! thanks Dana for all the great giveaways and the the fun!
oh man~ pls let me win! I have had such a great time doing this. what a great quilt-a-long! thanks Dana for all the great giveaways and the the fun!
You are kidding right? You are really giving away a Janome 6600!! That would be a dream come true. I NEED that machine!! Thanks
Wow! I'd love to win. However, not sure if I'm worthy ;)
Thanks for such great instructions!!
I would be thrilled to be the lucky winner:)
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