It's a happy day....this weekend marks the release of my 100th design (not including magazine and teaching pieces); I am so proud to be a part of the needlework community and I truly thank all the supporters and fans of Blue Ribbon Designs...you keep me encouraged, enlightened, and inspired! To mark this big release milestone, I have decided to host a new giveaway...it is just a little way to say thank you for keeping my dream of Blue Ribbon Designs alive and thriving.This time, I will be giving away copies of my brand new 100th design titled "Holiday Helpings" (a stitch starter ruler and holiday sleeve designs)...you will get the chart and the ruler...and never fear, if you have already pre-ordered this design, you may choose to receive "Blessed Beyond Measure" (the original starter design with ruler) in it's place.
How to enter:
Simply leave one comment (to this posting) telling me your favorite Blue Ribbon Design and why - for example: it could be the verse, or the colors, or a personal meaning behind the motifs - just tell me a little bit about why it is special to you. Make certain you leave an email address in your comment or it must be visible in your profile - entries without a valid email will be not be eligible...and if you enter anonymously, please also include your first name so I have a way of identifying you, should you win. Please leave only one comment - multiple comments will be deleted/disqualified.
I will choose one recipient for every 50 entries (comments) received....so the more entries, the more winners! For example, if there are 101 entries - I will pick two recipients....if there are 260 entries, I will pick five recipients. Feel free to tell your friends and have them join in on the fun!
The deadline to enter will be 11:59 pm CST, Friday, February 25th. Recipients will be chosen by random draw and posted on my blog on Saturday, February 26th. I will contact the recipients via email - you will have 48 hours to respond, if I do not hear from you in that time, I will choose a replacement recipient. So, there you have it....all the "details" - good luck to each and every one of you...and again, thank you supporting Blue Ribbon Designs - I hope to bring you quality designs for years to come...
Which one? Are you kidding? I love so many of them. Peppermint Twist is a favorite of mine and it hangs in the Christmas room all year round. I like the balance of the design. So many little parts that come together to give a taste of all the good things for the season.
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taffystreasures@yahoo.com
One of my favorites is the teaching piece you designed for NH last year. My husband and I love Shaker things and have visited a few of the historical sites. I only hope that you will be able to release it one day as I was not able to attend the retreat.
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Oh, I have so many favourites but I guess I'd have to say Autumn Leaves and Sunflower Seeds. Autumn is my favourite season and this design contains everything I love about fall. I also love how you can pick just one of the motifs and create a pinkeep, fob, or pillow. You get to revisit your favourites over and over again!
ReplyDeletePlease enter me into your draw. I love your designs and congratulate you on your 100th. Keep them coming!
I'm a sucker for great Halloween designs. I just love 'Afraid of the Dark' with that spooky gray house.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the contest and congrats on your 100 design milestone!
I like quite a few of your designs but if I have to pick a favorite, it would be My Precious Treasures. I am very fond of Peacocks. Congrats!
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My favourite design is 'Black Cats and Flying Bats'. I fell in love with it on first sight. I'm a sucker for Halloween designs. I think part of the attraction was just trying to find *someone* that had a copy for sale. It took me a year of searching before I finally gave in and ordered it from an on-line store.
ReplyDeleteI love what it says around the outside edge - On All Hallows Eve Under A Moonlit Sky, The Witches, Bats and Ghosts Learn to Fly... - and the individual motifs too!
Congrats on making it to 100 designs. That's quite an accomplishment!
Congrats on your 100th - I can't wait to see what up ahead :0)
ReplyDeleteSchoolgirl Samplings is my fav to date - not only a sampler but a beautiful box to stitch & fill with even more littles that can be made from the sampler motifs.
charper@cogeco.ca
Just one? That's not fair ;o) I would have to say With All Your Heart. I love making Biscornus and plus I'm a breast cancer survivor :o)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on publishing that many patterns. That's definitely something to celebrate!
Thanks Belinda :o)
Congrats on your 100th!!! If I had to choose just one (which is impossible), I'd have to say 6 Bats & A Witches Hat, because I have it done & framed, just waiting for October to get here again. But then, I have Afraid of the Dark patiently waiting for its turn, and then IT might be my favorite. Narrowing it down to just one? Can't do it :)
ReplyDeleteI wish you many years of designing, and hope to see your 300th design and more :)
I think one of my favourites (I have so many) has to be Peppermint Twist. Love it. Anything to do with winter I love. Thanks for the chance of winning. You are most generous. x
ReplyDeleteSo unfair asking us to pick one favourite!!!
ReplyDeleteIt took me a while to decide but in the end I have to say It's Cold Outside, cute and friendly snowmen get me every time
Congrats on your 100th design!
ReplyDeleteMy fav is Schoolgirl Samplings. What attracts me are the verse on the sampler and the needlework box. I love the shape of this box!
Looking forward to more lovely designs from you!
Hugs,
Wow 100th design thats wonderful. I think my first was my favourite it was "Blessed Beyond Measure" and I have "Schoolgirl Samplings" kitted in my to-do-box just waiting for half the fabric.
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March Ann
www.stitchingagain-marchann58.blogspot.com
My favorite is Winter White Woodland - probably because I have always thought it was the most happy, joyful time of the year.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite designs of yours is the Patriotic Patchwork. I love the colors, the motifs and the layout. I saw it made up in my LNS this past week. I hadn't seen it before. It just reminds me of spring actually and here in Iowa I really have enjoyed the spring like days that we have been blessed with lately.
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thestitchedsampler@blogspot
mrebec4@hotmail.com
My favorite design is Schoolgirl Samplings. I love the design, and I love the box and how it opens to a seascape inside. It's wonderful! Happy 100 and thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI really like Schoolgirl Samplings. I like the box and all the smalls. Congratulations on your 100th.
ReplyDeleteFirst congrats on your 100th. I love Hugs & Kisses. I am fond of anything with hearts. My favorite piece is yet to come, I can't wait to do your design on the shaker chair. It is all my colors and it has a heart.
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I love Peppermint Twist, I love the colors, the season and the way that you can use the different motiffs. But, that isn't the only one I love, it is just the one I love the most!!
ReplyDeleteHappy 100! Favorite eek! Well, all the Halloween ones, Creepy Crawly (I think that is the first one I got), Behind the Gate, Black Cats & Flying Bats, and, of course, Schoolgirl Samplings.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 100 designs! I have done a number of your designs but I think my fav's are the retreat piece from last year. The shaker box is stunning. I also love Letters, Leprechauns and Luck. It's an oldie but goodie.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to choose, but I'll go with It's Cold Outside because I love blue, snowmen, and bunnies! (My only grandchild is a grandbunny, but - shhh - don't tell her - she thinks shes human.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 100th design! To pick one of my favorites of yours is so hard, but I'll have to go with "Countdown to Christmas". Christmas is my absolute favorite time of year, and my mom always had an advent calendar that spelled out "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" once all the numbers were turned over. I plan on making "Countdown to Christmas" a staple in my house for the Christmas season!
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Congratulations! I have just discovered your designs and love them. I like Autumn Leaves and Sunflower Seeds, its elements remind me of travelling through New England in Fall, one of my favourite holidays.
ReplyDeleteHere's to the next 100 designs.
Wendy
Oh favourite.....well it'd have to be Red Velvet inscription because even though I loved stitching it the fabric I had chosen was a complete nnightmare but I was determined to have it finished!
ReplyDeleteFantastic - Congratulations!! Schoolgirl Samplings would have to be amongst my favourites - I love the beautiful box too! I love all the designs you have put out - it is a wonderful achievement to reach 100 designs! Blessings to you and your creative ability!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 100 designs. It is hard to pick one but as I have too it would be Peppermint Twist but I like sooo many others too.
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Congrats on your 100th design!!
ReplyDeleteIt was a hard decision because they are so many nice designs.
My favorite is Frolic in the Foliage.
The verse is nice, but I also love the Autumn colors, the trees, the squirrels, etc.
I love Autumn, it's my favorite season.
And, your designs are nice because you can take a piece of the design and make smalls out if them.
Thanks for the chance.
Marilyn
Murf_2@ameritech.net
Ooh - decisions!
ReplyDeleteI think it would have to be Swwet Simple Samplings - gorgeous as a whole & fabulous for individual little projects.
Wow. Congratulations on the 100 designs
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all your designs are beautiful, it's hard to choose. I love "hugs and kisses" and "It's Cold Outside"for its beautiful color.
Thanks for the opportunity.
WOW! Congratulations on your 100 designs.
ReplyDeleteI've had a good look at all your designs and for me it has to be the "School Girl Samplings". I love the old style samplers and Owls is another favourite of mine. It also has the joy of the countryside with the trees and squirrels and birds, something to remind me of my childhood. I also love the sea in the four corners of the design and in the inside of the box. The colours are just perfect. It would be a joy to stitch.
Please include me in the draw.
http://maryjoanstitching.blogspot.com/
maryjoanstitching@gmail.com
Love and Hugs
Mary Joan
It's so hard to pick just one. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'll say Turn the Page-A Bookmark Sampler (BRD-099). I love the colors in this one and this type of your designs in general b/c of all the many ways you could use individual components.
Congratulations on releasing your 100th design.
Congratulations on your 100th design! and here's to 100 more!! My favorite design? That would be "Peppermint Twist", it was the first design of yours I'd seen. The layout was unique, the fiber and fabric colors were perfect and it was my first attempt at stitching on higher count linens (I'm hooked now).
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sue61408@yahoo.com
Congratulations on your 100th design! Well gee, how am I supposed to pick my favorite!? Is my favorite one of the ones I have stitched or is it one that is waiting to be stitched? Tough decision! Maybe I should do eeney meeney meiney moe!
ReplyDeleteOkay...I choose "Blessed are those who gather here" (although tomorrow it could be something else)! I love the verse, the house, the sheep! I stitched this as a SAL with a group of friends and loved every stitch of it.
I love how your designs are very versatile -- stitch them as a whole or stitch a part!
rlbrown@firstva.com
I love Peppermint Twist. It just represents to me all my favorite things about the season. I love the colors and I love that you can use each motif individually in addition to the main sampler! It's just my all around favorite.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Like everyone else it is very difficult to pick just one favorite. I am currently working on Behind the Gate and have Frolic in the Foliage kitted up and ready to go. I can't wait to buy Pocketful of Peppermint when it's available, and I also love Peppermint Twist! I think Frolic in the Foliage is my favorite.
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asmith82@cox.net
My favorite design,is the Peppermint Twist. I like all the representations of the holiday. I do enjoy peppermint all year long and keep a stash handy to stick in my hot chocolate or cookies. Congratulations on your 100 design and a wish for many more. :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your success in creating such wonderful designs for us cross stitchers to recreate! My favorite design is Good Karma, it's words are words I try to live by.
ReplyDeleteMy signature is to put a heart on each piece I stitch, even if there's no heart on the piece, & Good Karma needs a heart!
simmcar@comcast.net
My favorite, by far, is Sealed With A Kiss (although all of your designs are great). I love the pink and the hearts and the perfect square the entire design is. So many cute little squares to stitch it's like you have a finish every square!!!
ReplyDeletePeppermint Twist is my all time favorite design. In fact I have stitched it twice....once for myself but then my mom spied it and claimed it so I stitched it again.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the contest.
hugs
-missy-
My favorite design is Trick or Treat from Afraid of the Dark because my son has dressed up as both Frankenstein and Dracula on Halloween so what a great way to remember it.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on reaching 100!
artlvr52@gmail.com
My favorites are the Red, Blue and Black Inscription Samplers - love the beautiful designs and colors!!
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kimberlybreid at hotmail dot com
My favorites are Read Between the Lines and now the new Turn the Page. I like the modular feature - stitch a whole sampler or just a bookmark or two. So useful for quick gifts.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 100 designs, and thanks for your generosity!
Anne
abw@eastlink.ca
Terrie@StitchStore.NET My favorite design is a new one. I love peacocks so I'm awaiting my Hoffman shipment for Turn the Page.
ReplyDeleteBelinda, I would love to be entered in your giveaway! It would be hard to pick just one design but I would have to say it is winter wingding because it was my first blue ribbon finish. Congrats on 100 releases!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I couldn't choose a favourite, but if I had to narrow it down, it would be all the Christmas ornament designs from the Just Cross Stitch Ornaments issues!
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My favorite design of yours has to be Expression of Gratitude. It was the first of your designs that I purchased. I think it is just so beautiful, classic and timeless for a traditional dining room like mine. I'm also partial to Merry Pat.......
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WOW! 100! My favorite piece is "Home For The Holidays" Love the colors - warm and rich! That's why I was so drawn to it right from the moment I saw it! So very proud of you to have made it this far. Cathi - DSM :)
ReplyDeleteNo doubt about it--my favorite is "Read between the Lines." It really suits me because I spent my professional career as a library media specialist. I love all those bookmarks that are incorporated into this piece. I'm sure that I'll be stitching "Turn the Page" as well.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on those 100 designs of yours. What an accomplishment!
Mary H
maryhint21@gmail.com
My favorite so far is "Find Your Happy Place". It's just the perfect inspiration for reminding me that happiness is a choice I can make every day!
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to choose just one but I do like sweet songs of spring, i love the springtime, and i loe that you can pick a small part of the design to stitch up as well as the whole design
ReplyDeletecongratulations on 100 designs, i hope there will be many more
Lisa B
xstitchmum@hotmail.co.uk
100 designs! Wow! Congratulations and here's wishing you 100 more!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite design is the one I am currently working on - Hugs and Kisses. This design matches my bedroom colors perfectly, and I can't wait for it to be the first to hang on the wall in there.
Congratulations! If I can only choose one it would be Halloween with a Y - love Halloween designs. I am looking forward to seeing your next 100 designs. :o)
ReplyDeleteCongrats! So hard to decide on a favorite but I think I like your sayings best because they are so positive. Anything is Possible leaps to mind.
ReplyDeleteI love "Peppermint Twist" because it reminds me of my sister "Joy" that taught me to stitch in 1993. She passed away in 2000, but this piece has the many things we enjoyed as children at our grandparents. Cardinals, owls, trees, deers...all wonderful memories.
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I purchased Winter White Woodlands and I hope to make it as a single piece and also as individual ornaments between now and next Christmas.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your achievement.
Impossible to have just one favorite piece. I'm a retired school library media specialist so I love Read Between the Lines and your new Turn the Page because they can be bookmarks and also look so good all together. I've also had Peppermint Twist on my Christmas wish list for quite some time and I love your many many birds. Thanks for the giveaway and hooray for all 100 of your designs!
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Congratulations on your 100th design. It is hard to pick one favorite but if I have to I think it is Peppermint Twist. I love anything winter. I actually think this is the first designs of yours I bought!! Thanking you for a wonderful giveaway. Pat
ReplyDeleteLet me add my congratulations to your 100th design!
ReplyDeleteI would have to say your design in Just Cross Stitch "Berries, Birds, and Blooms". I am a sucker for flowers and birds! And have great memories of picking wild black berries with my boys. Also I can "pull" out an area and stitch it for fobs!
Thanks for the give away!
Congratulations on your 100th design.
ReplyDeleteI have entered The Crazy Fifteen Challenge and two of your designs are included. Peppermint Twist and my favorite Frolic In the Foliage.
I just love the designs in this one and the colors are so much fun.
I would love to win your giveaway.
Your designs will live in our homes and with our families for generations to come. That makes your 100th very special indeed. We're congratulating you for giving all of us delightful designs. But pick a favorite? Ooh, that's hard. But I think it would have to be all the smalls that can be made from your designs - such as Afraid of the Dark (you very kindly included my Trick or Treat in your Gallery), Winter White Wonderland, and Autumn Leaves and Sunflower Seeds. They're precious, charming and just make me feel good every time I look at them. Thanks so much for your creativity.
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It's hard to decide but my favorite design is Red Letter Ornaments--they're just elegant.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway.
Char
cbrooks55@bresnan.net
Can anybody pick just one?! I love Indian Summer Sampler because of the colors and all the little autumn motifs. I just can't help myself with your designs, the autumn ones, the Christmas ones, the spring/summer ones, especially the Shaker design from the retreat. Congratulations on 100 great designs and hopefully there will be many more!
ReplyDeleteI just realized I didn't leave my email address in the first comment: ladybug8@bellsouth.net I'll delete the first message.
Hi Belinda - my favorite design is "Schoolgirl Samplings" I just love the box and all the motifs - especially the autumn part with the owls and squirrels and I love boxes! I would like to enter your drawing for the chart you are offering!
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Tedra Raden, Phoenix, AZ
Belinda, this is as bad as picking your favorite child!! It's a tough call, but I think I'd have to say my favorite is a tie between: Pocketful of Peppermints which was the teaching piece at Stitcher's Hideaway where I met you; Creepy Crawly which (witch??) is just a cool Halloween piece that I love; and With All Your Heart which is a piece that has so much significance to me. It was the first of your designs I ever stitched, and I did it in honor of my best friend whom I'd just lost to breast cancer the prior year. Every time I see the piece I think of her, and of you, and smile. Your designs just "speak" to me, - I have a pretty good collection of them! Keep up the wonderfully creative work! ~Ruth
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I love the sunflower serenade. I lived in Kansas a few years and got addicted to sunflowers.
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madebywendy@gmail.com
Congratulations on your 100th Design!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite is still Creepy Crawly because it is very unusual, Halloween and very much 'me'. I have the chart but still have to stitch it.
I have to say my favorite is the Red Velvet Inscription Sampler....because it is so clever!
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to some Shaker boxes you might like..since Goods From the Woods went away.
http://www.shakervillageky.org/shop_the_craft_store/index.cfm?task=catalog.detail&show=327
I'm fortunate to live near here, when in KY.
Cathy from KY in CA
kytravelrn@gmail.com
This is a hard choice because I love so many of your designs, but I'll pick "A Sampling in the Square"...I love the verse and the colors, and it contains all my favorite little motifs. Congratulations on 100 designs! I hope we'll see 100 more!
ReplyDeleteThis was fun to read all the comments and to add mine I will say Black Cats and Flying Bats. You have the corner on the Halloween designs. Like that smaller designs can also be stitched. The grandkids love to look at my Halloween stitching. But I have to add Litte Quakeresque as a favorite. Love the alphabet,small motifs and one color. Sometimes you don't need a million different colors going at once!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 100 designs!!
shop4baskets@aol.com
I had a hard time narrowing my favorites down to one. I enjoyed stitching so many of them. I guess my favorite is Winter White Woodland. The colors always catch my eye. I love Winter!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 100th design!!
caseyc1000@yahoo.com
Patriotic Patchwork is my favorite Blue Ribbon Designs design. Celebrating our great country, enjoying the summer and the spectacular red, white & blue floss combination are just a few reasons why this is my pick.
ReplyDeleteThank you for offering this giveaway & I look forward to your next 100 designs!
Cathlyn
cathlynbacks@aol.com
I love a of your designs but since Christmas is my favourite time of the year I am constantly drawn to your Christmas ornament designs in magazines so one of the first charts I purchased of yours and still love is Christmas Wishes.
ReplyDeleteI would love to enter your give-away and I am now a follower of your blog.
ReplyDeleteI love anything to do with birds or nature, so my favorite design would be the red birds with the flowers.
Thanks.
Peggy
peggy_verdongibbs@att.net
http://keepmeinstitches-peggy.blogspot.com
Okay, My favorite(if I am FORCED to choose one) is Sampler for Mary Pat. After seeing it stitched and displayed at Colleen's in Des Moines I had to have it. I bought it at Merry's shop and I met you for the first time there. My friend Tracey and I started stitching it together. Just last year I had the pleasure of meeting Pat of said sampler. So that is why it's my favorite. I have met Merry and Pat and it was the first chart I bought of yours and it is autographed by the famous BELINDA!!! LOL!
ReplyDeleteMay you have continued success!
Connie Adrian
connieblue@cox.net
Of all your designs, I'm hard pressed to pick my "favorite", but I really like "Postcard from Paradise"...because I live in paradise! Congrats on your 100th design. I just purchased "Blessed Beyond Measure" at the Super Bowl Sale at my LNS..my fingers are itching to start a new BRD!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the new designs - best of luck!
Rebecca
becca42_57 at yahoo dot com
Hi Belinda,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 100th design! My all time favorite design is your Beauty in Simplicity pattern on the shaker box. That piece is stunning! Many of your other designs are so beautiful that I love the crispness of them besides there flexibility. Some of my other favs are: Birds, Berries and Blossoms besides of course Frolic into Fall or something very close to the latter name. Thanks for your generousity and keep up the great work designing it's appreciated. Jane
Hi Belinda, I love Acorns and Owls. The sampler just reminds me of Fall and the wonderful colors that time of year shows us. Congrats on the 100th design. Can't wait see the next 100!
ReplyDeletesunshine2boy@aol.com
Congrations on your 100th design. My favorite is probably Creepy Crawly. I love them all but this one stands out.
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stashqueen@coloursdownunder.com.au
Congratulations on your milestone! It's so hard to pick a favorite...hmmmmm...Afraid of the Dark is so great! I love the composition of it & the colors & the monsters &....Well, I think you get the message!
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jehwpga@mindspring.com
This giveaway has ended. Please check back for the winner(s) to be posted on Saturday, February 26th. Good luck to all!!...and thank you for following...
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