four december giveaways!
By Patricia Belyea
This month’s giveaway features Sarah J Maxwell’s Bring On the Bubbly Collection produced by Studio 37 of Marcus Fabrics. Each giveaway includes a fat quarter bundle of 18 patterns. There are four December giveaways—valued at $54 per bundle.
Sarah J is the designer and maker of countless quilts who, like many others, began her obsession while she was expecting her first child. Now an empty nester, Sarah is focusing her creative energy on fabric design. Bring On the Bubbly is her fourth collection!
To celebrate auspicious occasions, Sarah J has included bubbles, champagne glasses, fireworks, congratulatory messages, ribbons, swags, and more in her convivial fabric collection.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED. The winners are Denise L of Ithaca NY, Kat C of Seattle WA, Janet S of Kremmling CO, and Carol W of Fountain Valley CA.
To participate in the December giveaway, answer this question in the Comment Box below: In 2018, what special event are you looking forward to celebrating?
HOW THIS GIVEAWAY WORKS: The December 2017 giveaway drawing will be held at midnight PST on December 31, 2017. Okan Arts Giveaways are open to US residents (sorry to my Canadian and international friends), 18 and older, void where prohibited. One entry per person. Four lucky winners will be chosen with a random number drawing for the FQ bundle. The winners will be notified within 24 hours. Each winner must respond within one week of notification or her/his giveaway will be forfeited. A list of Okan Arts giveaway winners can be obtained at any time from Okan Arts. Thanks for participating!
To see the Bring On the Bubbly Collection on the Studio 37 website +click here
To visit Sarah J’s website with her fabrics and quilt patterns +click here
Please ask about this collection at your local fabric store.
Thank you Marcus Fabrics for the donation of the fabrics!
This is an unsponsored giveaway with no compensation given to Okan Arts.
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225 comments to “four december giveaways!”
My mom’s 92nd birthday.
Celebrating with dear friends when their children get married.
Our 43rd wedding anniversary
I am looking forward to social security kicking in. More time to sew!
I am looking forward to celebrating the year and not specifically one event. A year of good health (I am a cancer survivor) and time with my family and friends. Thanks for the giveaway!
What could be more special than the birth of Jesus Christ? My family will celebrate together.
Our family Bi-annual reunion in Aug 2018! Three generations …we’ve been to NC, SC, WV, Fl and next year a whole new adventure in Colorado!! Can’t wait…..better yet, three quilters in our clan.
I’m looking forward to a Christmas High Tea in Georgetown, Colorado, with my daughter and granddaughters. It’s become a tradition.
I am looking forward to my wedding day!!! July 6th, 2018!! So excited! Itll be our 9yr relationship anniversary when we get married, so 9yrs and 2 kids later we are ready to tie the knot!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
in the middle of may, 2018, our middle son will graduate from medical schoool in philadelphia!! yay!!!
Very much looking forward to the birth of our fourth granddaughter !!
I am looking forward to finishing projects including wonderful curves learned at your studio. The fabrics and ideas are ready!
We will celebrate our 50th Anniversary on May 27th!
Graduation from school…and more time to create!
There don’t seem to be any special events on the radar (yet) so right now we celebrate each new day as a gift from God.
Impeachment, I hope!
I’m looking forward to celebrating the birthdays of my 4 children, my mother’s 88th. and my husband’s. I’m also looking forward to my wedding anniversary celebration; and my 30th. work year celebration. I’m very lucky that everyone is happy and healthy.
So sorry, I don’t know how my reply appeared here, but I also hope for impeachment – but I think it’s too big of a wish 🙂
Yes !
We will be visiting our kids in the Med on their new Catamaran as they continue cruising around the world. Can’t wait.
My birthday
I am looking forward in 2018 to visiting Ghana with a real good friend of mine. I can hardly contain my excitement.
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Getting together with life-long friends in Minnesota.
Our 50th wedding anniversary is in July.
Ah….two grand nieces getting married! Looking forward to making their wedding quilts!
just to enjoy the new year of great health and love…
What i am looking forward the most to in 2018 is my grand daughter’s high school graduation. She is the the love of my life and I’m so proud of her.
I am looking forward to celebrating my sister’s “70th” birthday and my Dad’s 97!!
I plan on going to Montana to be with my granddaughter on her birthday.
In 2018 we will be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary! I’ve tried to tell my children I was a child bride, but they don’t believe me. 🙂
What a fun collection! This would make a great festive tablerunner. I’m looking forward to my 35th college reunion in 2018. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Love those fabrics—thanks for the giveaway! I’m planning to meet up with a friend and head to spring Paducah for the first time ever.
It’s my birthday Saturday, looking forward to Christmas. And hoping to win these fun fabrics
Celebrating the first Birthdays of our youngest grandson and our beautiful great niece.
My 59th birthday
Turning 70 in 2018. Look the cheerful colors!
My niece just found out she is having a baby I can’t wait to make some quilts for the baby
I going to celebrate getting well; healing my frozen shoulder so that can sew with these beautiful Marcus fabrics.
Thanks for opportunity. Looking forward to Sue Spargo in the spring.
looking forward to my first trip to PADUCAH with quilting buddies…and good health.
My visit with my remaining sister.
I will be so happy to see my daughter and grandchildren in June.
25th Wedding Anniversary
I’m looking forward to a family wedding in the Rockies and my first ever float plane trip
I am looking forward to celebrating 47 years of marriage to a wonderful man
My special event is moving into my new house.
Christmas and the New Year with my family.
My 40th wedding anniversary!!!
I look forward to celebrating my 34th wedding anniversary and going to our state’s Quilt Symposium, which is being held in my city!
THE BIRTHDAYS OF ALL OUR DEAR LOVED ONES! THANK YOU FOR A GREAT GIVEAWAY!
Traveling with a college friend to Germany and Austria and gathering up new inspirations for future projects.
I’m looking forward to retirement and another visit to the Joe Retreat and meeting new and old friends.
A summer cruise to Alaska.
I’m looking forward to a special trip with Ms. Patricia Belyea to Japan in 2018… so excited!
I am looking forward to helping my husband celebrate turning 65! Thanks for the giveaways!
What I am looking forward to is getting an embroidery sewing machine. I want to add another dimension to my quilting. Wish me luck.
The birth of my son’s second child here in nyc, followed by my mother’s 90th birthday in Baltimore !
Busy month, birthday, anniversary and Christmas.
There will be two weddings to look forward to in 2018!
The end of physical therapy following two hip surgeries this year!
My 24th wedding anniversary.
My 70th birthday.
My best friend’s daughters wedding.
Birth of a grandson.
Beautiful fabrics! Right now, the only thing I have to celebrate is a co-worker who is expecting her first baby in May. No weddings or big anniversaries this year. We just finished the run of 25 year anniversaries in my family (5 in 4 years!) so we have one more year before we start on the 30 year anniversaries.
A possible move
I’m looking forward to celebrating my daughter’s graduation from vet school.
Looking forward to celebrating the New Year!
The event I’m looking forward to is the wedding of my nephew who is about 30. Have been waiting a long time for him to settle and he has a great lady he is going to marry.
4th anniversary of the Book Group
That is the four – zero anniversary.
Attending my husband’ 50th reunion at the Naval Academy.
These are super giveaways! Thank you for thinking of us!
Looking forward to celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary in May.
Celebrating my 60th birthday and my husband’s and my 35th wedding anniversary!
I’m going on vacation in January to Porta Vallarta (hope I spelt that correctly).
I’m looking forward to that – getting away from the cold and getting warm for a week. I had been looking forward to a great-grandbaby but it wasn’t to be – my granddaughter lost the baby after two months. Here’s hoping for another chance. Love the material. the bubbles are darling.
My oldest grandaughter becomes a teenager in 2018!
A family gathering of aunts, uncles, cousins , grandkids, nieces , nephews, and siblings. We have always gathered as a family on Christmas Eve since I was young at my grandparents home. Best memories ever.
Visiting my son and his family as they move back to the states,
My granddaughter’s third birthday. I would love to make her a very happy quilt using the Bring on the Bubbly. The colors are so happy!
A charity event sponsored by my daughter…to raise funds for PKU research.
In 2018 it will be my pure pleasure to see my oldest granddaughter graduate from high school She has already been accepted by a University and will go to that city in the summer to begin her part-time job. So proud of this young woman who will major in engineering and participate in mountain bike racing and play on the lacrosse team.
Celebrating my granddaughter going to middle school. She is really looking forward to it.
25 happy years with my man.
My aunt will be 100 in January, and I’m hoping we will get to celebrate it. I’ve made her a quilt for the occasion.
I’m eagerly awaiting the birth of my nephews child in January
Our 50th wedding anniversary!
III plan to get to Sisters Oregon for their wonderful Quilt week. So much color I love it
Thanks SVadset ndlenana@frontier.com
Those fabrics are so beautiful.
Hoping to retire (and quilt more) in 2018!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
My 71st Birthday on December 25th.
A baby shower for my first nephew!
my baby, last of 5, graduating from High School.
I have two great nephews or nieces being born next year! So excited to welcome new babies to our family
My art quilts have been accepted at a local art gallery — so I am looking forward to the first sale!! Otherwise, there are no grandbabies or weddings in the works! So I’m looking forward to a generally happy, healthy year of new memories with my 4 children and their spouses and lots of fun lunches with great friends!
I hope to see another grandchild get married this year.
I am going to take a workshop on indigo dyeing!
I am looking forward to moving into my new sewing room in a new lake house and finishing many quilts and a good year at retreats with my quilting friends
In 2018, the event I’m most looking forward to is my summer vacation on Cape Cod.
I’m looking forward to celebrating my friendship with mi Amiga Vida with a trip to Portugal!
My husband, who has dementia, coming out of hip replacement surgery next week and doing well without too much confusion.
I’m looking forward to my niece’s wedding in 2018! Definitely a “Bring On the Bubbly” event!
Not sure…but hopefully a wedding. I’ll gain another daughter.
Christmas eve with family and friends from Slovenia.
So looking forward to a Hawaiian vacation with my family. All our children are in their thirties so time on the islands is very relaxing and fun!
i am looking forward to our summer vacation!
I will be celebrating my 60th birthday!
74 years on the planet.
My birthday / art reception at my solo quilt show.
Starting a new quilt that I’m very excited about…Solstice Quilt by Fourth and Sixth. New challenges for me in there.
I hope to celebrate emptying another sweater box of fabric, without adding too much new. Am having a great time playing with color.
In 2018 my husband and I will be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary.
So many things to look forward to! Our 37th anniversary, and a visit to Indiana to sew with my BFF.
I’m looking forward to celebrating my niece’s wedding in March 2018! Thanks for the giveaway.
My husband’s retirement!
It won’t be in 2018 just yet, but I would like to celebrate my own birthday; , and one can Never have enough yellow , thanks for a chance to win some Bubbly!
It’s my 25th wedding anniversary.
I’m planning on closing my business in 2018, and finding another adventure.
Family Holiday with all generations to enjoy and discover – my 97 year old Mom, her 3 daughters ages 71, 65, 62, her grands in their 40’s and 30’s, including newly weds, great grands in their teens, and one great, great grandson, age 3. WOW!
In October the Quilt Museum in La Conner, WA is having huge event in Everett. I am planning to have enough of my wares assembled that I can be there as a vendor, not just a visitor!
iN 2018 I am looking forward to July 24, my eldest child turns 40. He had retired in 2016 (from the USCG). This is his next big lifetime achievement and since we don’t live close anymore we have missed many birthdays but not this one!
I’m looking forward to celebrating my 47th wedding anniversary in January.
To me every day is a celebration and a gift.
Two weddings–a niece and a nephew.
Visiting my beloved mother-in-law in Japan with the whole family–the first time we’ve been able to gather together like this in a decade!
My grandchildrens birthday parties (all 9 of them!!)
Our Heatwole Sewing Retreat!
In June of 2018 son #3 will be marrying a wonderful young lady and our families are just as excited as they are.
My retirement and 65th birthday!
My special event will be my 62nd birthday!
spending as much time as I can with my 6 year old great grandson.
Looking forward to getting new knees.
I am looking forward to going on a retreat in October of 2018.
I look forward to celebrating 75 years of loving life. Happy Birthday to me.
My daughter, oldest child, will be 46 in March – my son, youngest child, will be 26 in April!
Moving from California where I was born and raised to Texas to be near my granddaughters!
The marriage of my daughter. And hopefully soon thereafter the announcement of a pregnancy. Involving triplets.
My parents 50th anniversary!
I am looking forward to celebrating my sister-in-law’s 60th birthday!
I’ll be celebrating my 16th wedding anniversary!
Playing ukulele better and better, and sharing music with friends.
My quilt guild Christmas Party. It is always so much fun to be around other quilters.
Birthday #80!!!!!
My 72nd birthday
I’m looking forward to going to NM in January. My sister and parents visited me in late August and now it’s my turn to visit them. I hope to go to La Posta – a great Mexican restaurant that reminds me of my grandparents.
Our 29th wedding anniversary.
I am looking forward to Quilt Tulsa 2018 to be held on June 1 and 2, 2018. As co-chair of the quilt show, I am excited to see what my fellow quilters have made for displaying. After working on the show for two years, it will be terrific to see all the parts come together. Hopefully it is as great as we have all imagined and planned for.
No special events really just look forward to seeing my daughter and grandsons.
My 67th birthday and a new left knee. My son’s marriage (I hope).
My son is deployed to Djibouti until the end of January, after which we will go visit him and his wife, see our granddaughter and meet their son who was born Oct 2!
Our first grandchilds First Birthday and the day after that celebrate with my husband and JR high school sweetheart our 41st wedding anniversary:)
Family reunion
Looking forward to Quiltcon in February
Looking forward to ten friendly quilters traveling together to A Mountain Quiltfest, Pigeon Forge, TN in March.
Looking forward to May 2018 when my son, my youngest child, graduates from college.
Looking forward to two weddings this year! My husband’s niece in February and my nephew in October!
Celebrating the holidays with family. Thankful for retirement, a wonderful new daughter-in-law, soon-to-be new house. Wow!
time with my wonderful boys and more time with my little quilting group and appreciating the little joys in each day. thank you for the generous giveaway.
My husbands 75th birthday!
I plan to spend more time in my studio exploring different styles of quilts and working with more fabric from Japan! I just love the different look the fabrics add to my quilting.
My nephews gradustion from college, after 6 years.
Our 30th wedding anniversary!
What a woonderful way to celebrate the holidays with these fabulous fabrics!
Looking forward to multiple workshops in both quilting and bookbinding.
2018 – another year of quilting!
I’m looking forward to a nice quiet Christmas celebration with my husband.
My husband and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with family.
Thank you for this generous giveaway.
I am looking forward to creating in my new sewing room and dedicating myself to making several quilts for me and my family.
No special events in 2018, so I’ll just say my birthday!
We are looking forward to our oldest niece’s graduation from college in May. Very proud of her!
I’m looking forward to my husband and I 3rd wedding anniversary in April. I love him lots. angielovesgary2 atgmail dotcom
Our Arizona State Quilt Guild will celebrate its 40th anniversary, with special red quilts in its show on March 23- 25th.
My mother will be 80 in February!
I’m looking forward to celebrating my father in law 99th Birthday! Woo hoo!!!
A family reunion.
Our next wedding anniversary will be 22 years and I would like to do something wonderful for my husband.I love him more every day.
My sister and brother-in-law’s 40th wedding anniversary!
I’m looking forward to celebrating my husband’s new hip with a hiking trip to Patagonia!
Looking forward to celebrating a move to a new place to live!
Just looking forward to a healthy 2018 and a move from Washington state to Texas.
I’m looking forward to a break in my overloaded schedule and actually getting to my beloved sewing machine!
I am looking forward to our Okan Art’s retreat in May!!!!!
I’d love to win the celebratory FQs for my 85th birthday in February!
What a great giveaway! My husband and I will be celebrating our 37th wedding anniversary this year on July 4. Though we live far away from friends and family, we always toast each other with champagne and watch the fireworks from the grandkids’ treehouse. Even though we miss the big celebrations that we used to have before we had to move for my husband’s work, we always look forward to our quiet July 4 celebrations too.
For me, the big event in 2018 is moving into a new apartment! Lots of work-yes, but I get to set everything up just the way I like it. A new place for new ideas!
Looking forward to the new year & change in our world !
my second year of freedom to make stuff!
Getting to the point of feeling like the house we just moved into feels like home.
I am looking forward to my husband getting the cast off his right ankle (he had surgery) and getting to walk again. A wheelchair really helps us appreciate a lot of simple tasks that become not so simple.
I love these fabrics!
I’m looking forward to spending time with my relatives in Rome. I haven’t seen them for two years, so we have a lot of catching up to do.
I’m really looking forward to meeting my college roommate for a week in Tucson at the end of January! We get together every 5 years, and it’s too long! Thanks so much for the giveaway. The fabric is such pretty colors.
Celebrating my first year of retirement.
Looking forward to visiting Road to California and QuiltCon.
I looking forward to going to the Tokyo Quilt Show.
I am so excited about the birth of my first grandchild, Lily, in April.
2018 is bringing on the joyous moment of My First Grandchild!
Going to the Houston Quilt Show with my daughter in October.
I look forward to my husband’s chemo treatments to be finished in 2018 and to their successful goals. He’s a real keeper. And possibly I will get to start my Family Tree Quilt. Thanks.
My goal for 2018 is to complete a SF Giants quilt for my grandson. He’s designing it!
Two big first time quilting adventures, QuiltCon in Feb and the Yukaka Quilting workshop in Sept. CratNapa in Jan, too, but this will be my second time and I can drive to Napa, lol!
Looking forward to celebrating my daughter graduating from college (and no more tuition payments). Love the colors of this fabric line.
I hope to travel to see my niece in Alaska in 2018.
Have not attended the Pacific International Quilt Show since I moved from California 6 years ago, it is so inspirational. I am making plans to attend in 2018.
Our 50th wedding anniversary!!!!
I’m looking forward to celebrating the birthdays of my 4 children, my mother’s 88th. and my husband’s. I’m also looking forward to my wedding anniversary celebration; and my 30th. work year celebration. I’m very lucky that everyone is happy and healthy.
Looking forward to finishing my sewing room, so that I can quilt my finished tops. And maybe start some with the giveaway fabric!
I look forward to Fridays and Tuesdays and every third weekend lol. Merry Christmas All!!!
After a year on the road around the US in a travel trailer my husband and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary. Amazing.
Janet S.
I am looking forward to the birth of our one and only granddaughter.
I’m looking forward to getting married, after 18 years of dating my special guy! Also to continued wonderful experiences with the WAQO’s (Wenatchee Art Quilt Organization).
I look forward to ANOTHER YEAR OF LIVING!!! As I age, this will always be the single best thing. Cheers!
I am looking forward to the birth of great grandson # 2, due in February. He will join his cousins, a girl, Tia, age 3, and a boy, Solomon, who was born in August.
That makes two of us looking forward to another year of living, lol !
The special event I am looking forward to celebrating is my 52nd wedding anniversary!
I am looking forward to the SAQA conference in San Antonio in April.
I’m looking forward to attending my first visit to Quiltcon.
Celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary.
My 45th wedding Anniversary.
I’m looking forward to finishing the the remodelling work on our home.
I know it is a long ways away, but I am looking forward to next Christmas already. My husband just finished school so we are currently trying to figure everything out. I have almost no idea what this next year will hold, but I look forward to Christmas and the potential of all being back together again!
I have my 15 year anniversary coming up – big one for me!
In August 2018, we will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary! 35 years of true love!
Celebrating my 29th anniversary and time work my family and friends!
I’m looking forward to celebrating the birth of my first-born child’s first-born child!!! My daughter is expecting a son in mid-May…happy-happy-joy-joy!!!