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Blog Hop Party – We have a WINNER!

Blog Hop Party with Give-Aways

Wow-oh-wow! Almost 200 comments on the Blog Hop Party Post! How fantastically awesome!

I’m super excited to announce the winner of the Sewhooked Blog Hop Party Giveaway – Mary W!

Tree Trimming

Mary W. wins this fantastic grab bag of reproduction fabrics plus a hard copy version of my best-selling pattern, Tree Trimming!

In case you missed the Blog Hop post, I also shared a new, festive, and FREE pattern!

Holiday House

Holiday House
a free pattern
5″ or 8″ ( 5 1/2 or 8 1/2″ unfinished)

I can’t thank you all enough for playing along! I love giveaways and this one was especially fun, with visitors from all over the world!

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post.

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Join me for my workshop:

Registration is open!

 
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My Memories Giveaway – The Winner!

Well, how much fun has it been getting to chat with you all about the album themes you like from My Memories, all the while knowing that you might win some awesome software?

I don’t know about you, but I thought it was pretty darn fun! If you enjoyed it, let me know, because we have the opportunity to do this again in the future. Fun, huh?

And now, my super-secret, high-tech, new-fangled way of choosing winners.

Or not, but this is the best, most fair way I’ve found to do this!

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Without further ado, the winner of the My Memories Free Software Giveaway here on Sewhooked is Adrith! You can see at a glance my super-futurist method of choosing a winner. 😉

Adrith wins a free download of the My Memories Software Suite! Woo!

Did I mention that I love giving away free stuff??

If you remember, in order to be entered to win, all you had to do was leave a comment on my original My Memories post about one of the album template themes from the My Memories website that you liked.

Adrith chose A Touch of Fall.

A Touch Of Fall Album Theme

You all chose fantastically fun themes, here are some of my favorites from your choices:


Awesomeness, chosen by Sunni


Beautiful Blue chosen by charminggoats


Twilight Fanpire chosen by Sally

If  you didn’t win, you can still get $10 off your purchase of My Memories Software with coupon code STMMMS23344. The software is $39.97 USD, making ten bucks off a huge savings!

A huge congratulations to Adrith, and thank you to everyone else that played along.  This was a lot of fun for me, I do love giving away freebies!

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Something To Look At

Squirrels in my backyard

A little something to look at while you wait for my tardy TTMT.

These little guys have been hanging out in our backyard all summer, hiding from the heat and the drought.  They especially enjoy napping at the base of the live oak, where they’ve dug a little hole. They also play in the sprinkler when it’s on, and drink from the water hose when it’s off.

It’s been a long, hot summer.
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2010 in review

This was too cool not to share…I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did! I promise to try and keep it up for 2011…there’s lots to come!

Look for a 2010 UFO status update, coming later this week.

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 7 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 166 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 384 posts. There were 19 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was February 4th with 886 views. The most popular post that day was sewing: Hot Dog, A Pillowcase!.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were crochetpatterncentral.com, sewhooked.org, ravelry.com, stumbleupon.com, and myhq.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for christmas stocking pattern, stencil, fangtasia, harry potter party, and paper piecing.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

sewing: Hot Dog, A Pillowcase! January 2010
14 comments

2

crochet: Loopy Shells Blankie September 2009
7 comments

3

crochet: Two for One Heart Square, 6″ & 12″ variations October 2009
3 comments

4

crochet: Eye of the Vampire 6″ Square August 2009
2 comments

5

crochet: Chained Compass Motif with variations August 2009
4 comments