Speaking of flowers, for this awesome flowery GIVEAWAY, we didn’t really use a hat to hold the names, and guess whose meant-to-be name came leaping from the jar?
Terry Steinmetz!!!!!
Terry said on April 10, 2014:
“Looks like you girls had F-U-N in NYC! Central Park was a wonderful place to visit & walk. My favorite piece of material is my first quilt that I made in my first quilting class. It is proudly displayed above my fireplace.”
Congratulations Terry! Watch for an email from the farm so my sis and I can send you a bedroom full of colorful chenille flowers.
And the original post was:
We found our way to New York City again this year. Staying in Manhattan and negotiating the taxi cabs and subways turned into a fun adventure every time we left our snug little hotel room.
We visited the Museum of Natural History (loved it!) …
the American Girl Doll Store, the Legos Store, a Whole Foods Store (to supply our kitchenette with food for the week), and spent lots of time in Central Park.
It was warm when we arrived so we bought new flip-flops …
and ate the biggest desserts ever at Serendipity!
All the while, Dad was busy at Market Week in the fabric district in lower midtown of the big city. We did meet up with him and the wonderful crew we work with, also a family-owned business. They even have a new little addition to their family, too. My sis and I are starting to be the big kids of the bunch!
While Dad wore his tie all week, we showed up proper, in our farm boots, of course! But my sis and I are pretty sure they’re happy to have real farmgirls add an authentic touch to their showrooms.
Oh, and speaking of …
Would you like to get your hands on one of our chenille bedspreads? Because I’m giving away one of Nanny’s MaryJane’s Home Chenille Queen Bedspreads (this one is called Colorful Chenille). I’ll even toss in two standard pillow shams and one decorative pillow that are sold separately. (Don’t worry. If you don’t win, you can find our bedding at Belk.com. The Colorful Chenille bedspread hasn’t been released yet, but will be soon!)
Leave a comment here telling me what your favorite piece of fabric in your house is (mine is my blankie that I’ve had since I was born), and we’ll enter your name in our GIVEAWAY. We’ll put you in a hat (I mean your name) and pull out a winner … stay tuned for that! Meanwhile …
we made it home safely and were happy to be home and snuggle up with our Nanny Jane for a bed time story.
Favorite fabric(s) is my civil ware collection that I am making a quilt for my King size bed. I love all my quilts, finished and unfinished.
My favorite fabric is whatever is used in my authentic San Marcos blanket, which is not made anymore the original way. The Mexico factory closed in 2007.
I have a piece of “prayer cloth” that I have carried with me since my grandmother’s funeral in 1997! It stays in my wallet, I can’t remember who gave it to me…. but it is like a little piece of Grandma Tan!
Awesome competition!
My favorite is a quilt my mom made for our wedding. She had squares with hearts on them for family and close friends to sign and pass along a quote or saying, then she pieced them all together. It’s beautiful and full of love!
My bath towel! It was a splurge over 20 years ago, and it’s still so soft & warm!
I have a green, white, and black quilt my grandmother made. She passed away ten years before I was born (many, many years ago). My own mother has since passed and I take it out from time to time to admire the craftsmanship and recall the legacy of tough women hand-making quilts to protect their families from the cold.
Denim, love denim!
My favorite piece of fabric has to be a little piece I got last summer when joined the farmgirl sisterhood it has lace around it and a little red hen.
My favorite piece of fabric is my Dad’s quilt that was made when he was born in 1932.
My favorite is my new leather jacket.
My favorite fabric is a tied crazy quilt my grandmother & mother made for my husband & I as a wedding gift, 36 1/2 years ago. One of the best things about it is that the batting is made of an old wool blanket, which makes it nice & warm on winter nights. 🙂
I have two favorite pieces of fabric actually. One is a dresser scarf that I embroidered and my grandmother crocheted the edges, and the other is a pair of pillowcases that my other grandmother embroidered and crocheted the edges. They are both deceased so they are even more special now.
A vintage wool blanket I found at a thrift store a couple of years ago,
My favorite fabric is my flannel sheets. I don’t have any emotional attachment to them, but they are so nice and snuggly in the winter!
An old lace curtain that I got in Paris 30 years ago. It’s hung in every home I’ve lived in, and is so delicate that it moves with the slightest breeze. Thanks for the chance to win an incredible bed set!!!
I have made quilts for all my sisters,sons and all 4 grand kids. I would like to win some one’s quilt
My favorite piece if fabric…gosh I have lots. Right now it would have to be the fluffy fleece blanket on my corner window chaise lounger where I read, at least when the dog is not sleeping on it!
My favorite thing to remember is a dress my grandmother made me before she died when I was two yrs old. It is so cute, to bad I never had a daughter to wear it as I did, love it!!
My favorite is the first quilt I every made. It stays on the couch and keeps us all warm!
My favorite piece of fabric in my house is a pile of red scraps with a lovely red/gold/pink design on it! I put it into everything I can, and I don’t know what I’ll do when I use it up! sarah@forrussia.org
My favorite fabric is a bedskirt…a tad tattered from children and grandchildren climbing on the bed….but can’t bring myself to replace it….peace
My favorite fabric is a pair of pillow cases which are hand embroidered and crocheted. One of my aunts made them for me about 60 years ago and although they are very worn, I still cherish them.
Fun to read about your recent visit to New York. It brought fond memories of when three of us Farmgirls from Connecticut met you and MaryJane in NYC in May 2010. Believe it or not, my favorite piece of fabric is flannel. There’s nothing like the cozy, comfortable feeling of well-worn and soft flannel during the chilly weather!
My favorite? I have a pair of pillowcases my Mom’s mother made with crocheted edging. She died when my Mom was seventeen and it’s nice to have something tangible from her.
I just love velvet. In my day I always had a chenille bed spread on my bed. I think chenille was the poor person’s velvet. That is why I like both.
I have not had a chenille bed spread for a long time and would dearly love one now that I am starting my life over at 71 years old. Also to have the shams and throw pillow would just be the icing on the cake.
Thank you for this oppirtunity
Kay
One of my favorite pieces is a quilt I found at a garage sale. The colors are moss green and rose, one of my favorite color combinations.
I have family quilts I love so cotton is my favorite fabric.
My favorite fabric is flannel. I love cuddling in my flannel sheets. It’s a sad day when I have to exchange the sheets on my bed for cooler summer cotton sheets. I even have a flannel comforter. Yes, I love flannel!
Did you know that chenille is the French word for caterpiller ? How apropos. Oh, this will be a difficult choice! In a previous life, I was an antique dealer specializing in textiles, so my house and cupboards and trunks are filled with fabric items. Some of my favorites: the whole cloth late 1700’s calico quilt from my Aunt Mignon. I got all her family’s hand woven linen bedsheets from the early 1800’s complete with each owner’s initials embroidered in red in the corner. There are wool hand woven coverlets from PA and WV dating to the mid 1800’s. I still use these on my beds in winter, very very warm. Unlimited boxes of hand embroidered linens, scads of crocheted doillies, and old silk shawls with foot long hand tied fringe. A mint condition CHENILLE bedspread from the 1940’s with huge peacocks on it, very showy and colorful, just the softest and brightest chenille I have ever seen. I drape it over my couch in deep winter when I need a shot of color and fun.
But my favorite fabric? Probably the hand made doll clothes my mother made for my “woman doll”, a Madame Alexander 24″ doll. She designed and sewed all her own clothes ( these days she would have been a clothing designer for sure) These were all miniatures of her outfits using the scraps of fabric left over. A perfect lineup of fabulous 50’s outlandish designs from my mother’s imagination.
My favorite piece of fabric is still my “little boy daddy sheet”, nicknamed as such because it was a sheet that my Grandma had kept from my Father’s crib and later passed to me. I toted it around like a prize as a youngster. 30 years have gone by and the sheet is thin and tattered but it’s still my most favorite piece of fabric. 😉
I have a vintage scarf that my Great Grandmother gave to my Grandma on her wedding day and it was passed down to my Mother and then to me. So much history and so many memories, I can’t wait to pass it down to my daughter.
Chenille bedspreads! Oh I haven’t thought of my mother’s chenille spreads for years. She’s been gone since 1976 and how I wish she was here to listen to me and give me advice. Unlike many in my age group (72) I don’t have parents to are for in their advanced years, and when I hear them complain I want to say “be grateful you have them.” Sorry, I digress. Chenille … wow, what memories.
Love this post of the grandkids trip to New York! So charming! My favorite fabric is actually many little pieces, scraps from the days of making kids clothes and my own clothes, to make a “brickwall” quilt. I love to surround myself in that quilt on days that I need a “homey” hug!
My favorite piece of fabric is a quilt my mom made me!
My favorite piece of fabric is a piece of my Mothers satin wedding dress we made into decorative pillows after she passed away so all of her children, and grandchildren, would have something to remember her by
I love to get out my 40s and 50s floral tablecloths and enjoy the bright fun colors.
Hmmm… favorite fabric of mine would be a very loved quilt my Grandma gave me for my twin bed as a girl…. it looks like it has been at the mercy of a band of fun loving cats for decades… it is so threadbare now you can see throu th spots….35 years old now I’d guess.
My favorite piece of fabric at my house is one of my Dad’s old shirts I use as a painters smock, all tattered and torn, spotted and stained. It keeps his memory alive while I am working in my painting studio.
Carol I know what you mean. My Husband past away a year and half ago. I have kept several of his shirts my favorite is an old flannel shirt. Some day I will make a quilt but not right now. I just can’t. A little piece is a memory. You go girl. Bless you
I have a few old old quilt tops handstitched by a friend’s Gramma…love them dearly. BUT my favorite piece of fabric is relatively new…my NC made a big Throw blanket & brought it to me (in Ohio)…while I was doing 7 weeks of daily Radiation Treatments last Fall. She said she wanted me to have Special Daughter Hugs with me while stayin at the Hotel. (yep…still makes my eyes leak…) This is such a Treasure to this Momma’s Heart
My favorite fabric is the dress I wore to my very first day of school. I attended a one room school house just down the road from us and my mother put me in a little blue and red plaid dress. It has tiny ruffles down the front of the bodice with a row of red buttons in the center of the ruffles and a Peter Pan collar. There are ties at the waist to tie a pretty bow at the back. I still have this dress and it brings back such fond memories of that little one room school house.
My favorite piece of fabric is a small pillow I embroidered when I was little. Too small to use the sewing machine, my mother helped me finish the back and add the ruffle. My favorite memory of her.
my favorite fabric is a quilt that I won at the American Bashkir Curly Horse Convention years ago, people bought a square with their name, horses name or ranch. it has very special memories.
My favorite piece of bedding…hmmm, my down comforter and some super cool and soft cotton sheet set. I have about 10 pillows ranging from king, queen, standard, shams, to the quirky and colorful statement pieces in my throws. *Matter of fact, I’m going there now!
My favorite would either be the quilt that a friend made, or our so soft sateen sheets.
I am not sure it constitutes fabric but it is close. I crocheted a bedspread several years ago and it is one of my favorites in my home.
My favorite fabric in my house away from my quilting stash is my satin wedding dress! I have a piece that was hemmed off of the bottom that I keep in my sewing area of the kids playroom/tractor room so that I can see and touch it often so that my whole wedding dress doesn’t get wear from my handprints on it
My nordika fabric collection is my fave! Thanks for the chance to win!!!
My favorite piece of fabric is a quilt pieced by my sister. The coolest thing about this is that although this particular sister never sewed, quilted or anything terribly crafty while we were growing up (and I did do all of those things!), in the post-college years that she lived out of state and we were not terribly close, she learned to sew and to quilt and later blessed me with this beautiful quilt! I’ll always cherish it!
I have a hand made quilt my Grandmother made.. I will cherish it always.