Today is my 10th Blogiversary!

Today is the 10 Year Anniversary of my blog!

Here is my First Post

I started this humble blog as a personal journal of my quilting Life in the Scrapatch.

As you can see,  my first efforts were small.

For many years I had about 25 followers, all friends from the online forums
where I learned much about quilting.

In a small way, the blog was also my efforts to "give back" or "pay forward" to others
how they helped me on my quilting journey.
So I have offered free patterns and tutorials and tips in my posts
that I hope have been helpful to my readers.

Although I am blessed with many more followers now
I am still a small time blogger in the online quilting world
and that is all I aspire to be.

I am sometimes surprised when I add up all the email, bloglovin', GFC and other followers
 that you add up to almost 3,000 followers.

To celebrate I am hosting this small giveaway.

I found this cute

10 Year Anniversary Magnetic Pin Bowl by Riley Blake 
@ Fat Quarter Shop

and purchased one for me and one for one of my readers.

This Giveaway Now Closed 

Winner Announced Here ~ Katie Q ~ Comment #63

To  be eligible to win this one in the package, I am using my old system of hosting giveaways.

To be eligible to win his giveaway:

please leave one lovely comment!

This offer is open to all, anywhere in the world.

You do not need to be a follower to win.

As a special thanks to my wonderfully supportive followers,

new and old,

I am offering a second chance to win.

If you are a follower, you may leave a 2nd comment 

telling me how you follow.

You do need to leave an email address where I can contact you 

to let you know if you are the lucky winner.

My blog does not allow anonymous comments to keep away the robots.

If you do not have an ID to leave a comment, 

you may email me at

scrapatches@gmail.com

and I will enter your comment for you.

This giveaway closed at midnight EST on Monday, November 4th 

and will be mailed by Saturday, November 9th. 

I will use a random number generator to choose the winner.

I will announce the winner on Tuesday, November 5th. 

Best of luck!

My blog has been a very successful and enjoyable endeavor and hope
this is the start of 10 more wonderful years.

Thank you for reading and supporting my quilty efforts ... <3