Hi just wondered what your favorite gift was. Mine was a whole lot of quilting books and no repotision either. That was great thanks to my very thoughtful family and friends.
Happy New Year to you all.

A $200 gift card to Threads of Time in Danville Illinois. That happens to be my favorite LQS. They have a thing going on this week where you can purchase for $350 a year long pass for unlimited retreat stays at no additional charge. So, on Saturday I'm going there to buy my Free Retreats for a Year pass. Also, by making any purchase of over $175 I'll get double reward points for all of 2011. So buying the card will accomplish that too.

Having my family here for Christmas Dinner. We usually spend winters in Az and we stayed home this winter. It was GREAT!!!

My favorite gift was getting to see my brother. He came out to surprise me for my college graduation, which was on December 17th. Complete surprise. He had been in Afghanistan for almost a year (he is in the air force). I don't get to see him much-he is stationed in Colorado. It really meant a lot that he went through all of the trouble (and money) to fly out to see me (I live in California). He was having trouble getting his base to approve leave and kept submitting the paperwork until they said yes.

Seen my daughter's face when she opened her sewing machine. She was bitten by the quilting bug 10 years ago, learned, made a couple of quilts, but high school and college are no time for quilting. Now she has one semester left on her masters degree and she is ready to get back into it. Have her shopping in my small stash was wonderful. She gets very excited over fabric. Thanks to a bunch of wonderful people on the board my daughter and I will be sewing together again. Love you, guys.

Having both sons and their family here together & all 7 grandkids for dinner on the 23rd. Only happens every 2 yrs..
Best gift is always the new pics of grandkids, ages 11 to 17.

Surprisingly ... I received nothing quilt-related at all. Even a Joann's gift card would have been a total no-brainer from anybody. No books, no nothing. I was very disappointed. I did get some CASH which I've yet to decide how to spend, but .......... I'm going to Joann's today (for specific items; not to shop she says). Maybe I'll just pull from that envelope a few dollars at a time.

A donut shaped travel pillow. DH got me also a 6x2 1/2 feet ironning board several months ago. I use that all the time and we counted that as an early Christmas pressent since it was pricey. He is still getting me a silver irroning board cover for it. No quilty stuff besides that unless you count chocolate from one of my sons and his fiancee.

Was this by chance the "Total Pillow?" My husband received one, and I've basically taken it over. It's actually as good as they say on the commercials.

My favorite present (besides a gift card to JoAnn's), was an outdoor table and chair set my mom bought us. The three of us saw it a while ago in a thrift store, but DH and I didn't feel like spending $100 that day, so we passed on it. My mom told me she went in a week later and it was still there, so she thought it was meant to be. It was such a thoughtful gift, to get us something she knew we already loved.

Spending the weekend with 3 beautiful little girls ages 7, 4 and 2. Awesome GD's!!!!

What a very nice gift. Thank him for the gift of freedom from him to the USA...

One of my boys bought me wireless headphones. They are awesome!! :D:D

I had a wonderful christmas eve with my two grown kids. They both got together and put a 1,000 piece puzzle of snoopy for me! It was the labor of love that made me cry. I'll post a pic when I can. Also this year I gifted myself: A bought a NookColor e-reader froom Barnes and Noble. I'm an avid reader and I have no more space to store books so I've been researching this one and just love it! Happy New Year to everyone here!

It is the one advertised on TV. I was at Walmart in the check out line and saw it and was thinking of getting it for myself. It was like $15 still so I wasn't. My adult adopted son helped me shopping that day and when he saw my reaction to it snatched it up and bought it for me for Christmas. I had a hard time waiting for it. LOL I know my soon to be daughter in love said her mother got one too for Christmas and loved it. I noticed they were all sold out soon after DS got mine at Walmart.

Glad you got your outdoor seating set. $100 is a really great deal for several pieces. Enjoy!

Don't you love it when your spouse gets a gift you totally love. Hehehehehe

It wouldn't be the first time. People are really generous to him! ;)

My DD bought DH and me the Roku system for our TVs. I love it. I never really thought about it being so simple but when DH had it hooked up and working in less then 15 min. anyone can. My new step grandsons LOVED the fleece tied blankets I made for them. Each one had their favorite sport team logos on the fleece. They were so appreciative. That was a great gift for me to see real happy grins when they unwrapped the quilts.

A Barnes and Noble NOOK from my kids and hubby. They completely shocked me! We are on the road a lot and I love to read so they thought it would be a good idea. My daughter buys tons of e books so she just transferred over lots for me to read.

my favorite Christmas gift came from Santa. when dh and i got home from seeing the 3 dd and dgkds there was a package wrapped in news paper, we had agreed not to exchange gifts. Inside the wrapping was a cardboard from a bolt of fabric.On the bolt this was written "Dearest Nancy, Santa is giving this to you because your husband wrote to me about how you had some money for sewing material and that his truck kept breaking down and costing so much to repair , you were afraid you didnnt have enough money to buy material. I asked Mrs Clause what kind of material to buy and she said it depends on what you are going to sew & make, So i decided to let you buy your own.
Merry Xmas Saint Nick. He left me $500!!!!!

Had three very special gifts this year. The first was a shopping day with my mom,my 17 y/o DD and my 17 y/o niece. We were supposed to have two other nieces along but they couldn't get the day off-planning ahead for next year so we can have the whole bunch together The second was that my oldest brothers 23 y/o daughter told me all she wanted for Christmas was for me to teach her to knit/crochet/and quilt. A very pleasant surprise as I really didn't think any of the younger family members had any interest in my hobbies! I definitely see a quilt in her future! The third of my best list was a surprise form my 19 y/o niece. She is a very modern stylish girl and not the type you would expect to like crafty things. I had started a baby quilt for her and never finished because I went back to school and then had kids of my own. I have kept it all these years, unsure what to do with it. I finally decided to show it to her and ask her if she wanted it - letting her know it would not hurt my feelings if she didn't want it, that I could donate it to charity. She saw it and was just thrilled - she wants me to finish it so she can have it for her own baby one day- hopefully far in the future-LOL! All these experiences made for a very Merry Christmas!! They meant much more than any material gift ever could!

Hmmm....three gifts, all from my brothers. One was that they all knew I was horribly missing our mother this year, and they/so's all showed up Christmas night with leftovers, just to have supper with me! Mom would have been happy.

The second gift was a beautiful antique little girl statue about 4" high, playing the violin. It had been an angel, but the wings had broken off, which my brother didn't realize until he went to wrap it. He felt bad, but I didn't. It reminded me that we can all aspire to be better. I think I'm going to leave her out year 'round.

The third gift was the best....the same brother had collected cool rocks all year long for us to put in our gardens. We each got 4 or 5 boxes of festively wrapped rocks! I haven't had that much fun in years! One of the girlfriends commented that she couldn't believe how much fun we were all having....over rocks.

How do you like it so far?

My best gift ever was the beautiful treadle machine from my son and his wife. My daughter is taking me shopping for fabric this week as she didn't want to just get a gift certificate. I think it is so she can help pick out fabrics that she likes!

My favorite Christmas gift was from my 21 year old son who is still in college. He took his (Step-) Dad and I to an exquisite dinner then he treated the 3 of us to The Nutcracker Ballet. The fact that he actually took the time to go with us was almost as special as it gets.

I liked them all. Our Mr. Coffee frappe machine is great; the Tom Tom will take me to quilt shops all over the state, along with some fun smaller gifts and fun money. It was a great Christmas.
Oh, this summer hubby bought me a Janome Horizon for bday/Christmas....can;t forget that!

It has to be the box of fat quarters I opened and the gift certificate from my LQS.

I got a $50 gift card to HOME DEPOT to start work on my first barn quilt-----------don't be expecting pictures any time soon. LOL

ditto :)

Aren't we all so lucky.
My overall special moment at Christmas was arriving at my Son and DIL's , I hadn't seen them for some time and my son will be going over seas with the RAF in January. So great being with them and Leah who is 10 and Brandon who is 12. Grandchildren are growing so fast.

I have a list of what not to buy me,but quilty gifts are great.All the quilting goodies & gift cards work for me.
A Grson actually remembered I needed spices.....so he got me some.Love it & also a huge tea selection from a DD. I also got peppermint cocoa & mint chocolates.I love peppermint.I seldom get a gift I don't like.....the family knows Mom/Grma :-)

My son gave me crystals to hang in my sewing room windows, when the sunlight comes through them they make little rainbows all over my sewing room.

My Christmas was bittersweet, our three DD and all the grands and great grands were here. It is always nice to have them together chatting away and excited and noisy. The only downfall was we lost our only son to cancer in Oct. so this was our first Christmas with out him. Tough!!
I did not get anything quilty but a lot of gift cards so when the weather is better, off to the stores I will go.

I got my 2010 Christmas gift in March, 2010 when the oncologist said my husband was all done, with everything. No more catscans, no more bloodwork, no more visits. Clean as a whistle, free of cancer. I have had this gift in my heart for 9 months now and was/is the best gift I could ever receive. Gotta admit though, it was a tough choice here - Moda scrap bag from my daughter in law or a portable dishwasher from my husband. Every gift I received was a thought out gift. Each one was my favorite because of the way people perceived me. IT was a wonderful Christmas. Edie

My daughter had all our old movies from way back in the 70's.She went out of her way to get them on a DVD.She didn't get them all because who ever did the one DVD mucked it up so bad.What we did see was wonderful and sure did bring back alot of wonderful memeries.We are going to help with the money to finish them up.What is a better Christmas than that.

having all my children grandchildren and great grandson at my house for Chistmas dinner was so much fun I cherished every minute

spending the Christmas week with my daughter and g baby, and the g baby gave me a $50 card to Hancocks....way to go Boo, nonnie loves Hancocks

pretty good for a toddler

I asked for an electric drill, as every time I want to use one of DH's battery operated drills the batterys are DEAD !!!! I got a battery operated screw driver !!????

It wasn't anything quilting, It was postage stamps with pictures my GD's drew and I can now use for mailing.- J

I've been wanting a new digital camera for a couple years now and my hubby always said no when I wanted to buy one. I hinted to my mother that I wanted a new one for my birthday, but she got me a new one for Christmas! A Sony Cyber-shot...I love it, so much better and faster then my old camera! Can't wait to use it to take pictures of my future quilts!!

My DH gave me my favorite gifts although all is loved and appreciated! He gave me an Accuquilt Go! along with the rag quilt die and a Amazon Kindle. I have used the Go! only once, it is going to be a blessing when I get the time to do something with all those scraps I have been saving for the last few years.
As for the Kindle, I would reccomend this to everyone.It is wonderful!

best gift was my kitchenaid pasta maker attachment from my husband. he also surprised me with Serenity and Firefly.