The Potholder Contest officially begins today. I was going to have some complicated rules, but decided, since I’ve gotten such a large response, to make it simple.
I’m giving away 3 potholders, so there will be 3 different winners. If you’d like to try and win a potholder, just leave a comment saying so. If you’ve already left such a comment, you’re in the contest.
On Tuesday, July 12th at 12 noon I’ll pick 3 names from a bowl. The first person picked gets the first potholder, the second the second potholder etc.
I’ll email the winners and post them on the blog.
You don’t have to live in the US to enter the contest.
I think that covers it all.
Good Luck everyone!
I do believe that my homemade apple pies would be much tastier if I had one of your potholders to remove it from my oven. My boyfriend thanks you,
Brooke
I’d love to finally win something, but it’s just fun to enter too! I wish everyone good luck who entered, but especially me!!
Lovely. You choice of colours and fabrics just make my eyes happy.
Hi Maria,
I have admired your pot holders for a long time. They are so colorful and full of life! It would be fantastic to have one of my own! Love from, Bonnie
I would love to win one of your AWESOME potholders!!! cv
Hi Maria! Love your craft work and love seeing Jon’s beautiful photos of you and the animals on the farm.
I would love to have chance to win a potholder. I especially love the yellow & orange flowered fabric you used in each of them. It looks like a vintage piece and adds a nice touch of color. Good luck with your contest!
Pick me please!!! Love your work!
Love your beautiful, colorful quilts and potholders. Please add my name to the long list of hopefuls wanting to win a potholder!
Maria, please put my name in the bowl. I would be honored to use your potholder to make food with my friends.
They are all so lovely. But I was wondering–if I win, could I pick the potholder? I think I would like the one with the star fabric. Maybe Sirius is one of the stars. Then I would be connected to you, the pig barn, and the dogs of Bedlam Farm.
Good Morning Maria Your pot holders are beautiful and cheery. They would really brighten up our kitchen! Would love to win one of them.
Thank you, Tina
One of your potholders would brighten up my newly painted kitchen and I’ll throw my name in the bowl and hopefully win one!
It would be so much fun to win one of your delightful colorful potholders. Please add my name to the potholder pot!
Maria,
Just found your site today, just in time to enter the contest.
They remind me of the type my Mom used to make with scraps, nothing thrown away. She lived thru the Depression, so waste not, want not!!
Heard Jon Katz on WNPR today with Faith Middletown. Life sounds wonderful on the farm.
Best,
scj/7-11-11
This is great! I would love to already be a winner!
Such brazenly colorful snippets of color stitched to a size that will brighten up any kitchen in this part of NY on a dreary winter day. Okay, that was my “forced” attempt to describe your potholders. They are charming!
Hi Maria,
I’d love to enter your contest to win one of your wonderful potholders!
thanks, fran haskins
Loveland, Co
I’m in–would love to have one of these creations, esp the one with the shooting star!
Maria,
I would love to have one of your beautiful potholders.
pretty, pretty potholders! thank you for the opportunity to win one of the lovely pieces you have made. :0)
I ordered potholders for a friend’s birthday in September and I was totally excited when I received them. I didn’t realize how big they were and I would love to have one myself!! Please put my name in the hat……
I too am a quilter and admire your work. please enter me.
Hey Maria, What a cool contest! I think your potholders look unique and are creative. I would be pleased to win one.
Gave my sister one of your pot holders, now I hope to win one for myself!!
Count me in!
I REALLY WANT TO WIN ONE : )
I would love to wind one of the gorgeous potholders.
Hi, Maria
I feel as if I know you; although we have never met. I love your husband’s blogs every day with Simon. I love your interaction with the donkeys. You have a gift.
I also love your potholders. Please pick me as a winner. I would love to have a little piece of Bedlam Farm.
If I win, I promise to give your potholder art a good home in my farmhouse kitchen…Hope all is well with you..
I feel as if I know you; although we have never met. I love your husband’s blogs every day with Simon. I love your interaction with the donkeys. You have a gift.
I also love your potholders. Please pick me as a winner. I would love to have a little piece of Bedlam Farm.
Hi Maria!
Love your potholders and would like to enter the contest too:)
Any of these would look great in my kitchen. Warm and wonderful!
Your potholder is lovely. I would love to have one of your creations to adorn my home, and think of your dogs and donkeys.
Hi! I’ve been admiring your work from afar thanks to your former boyfriend and his website/fb. 🙂
I think your work is really lovely and reminds me of my gr grandmother’s quilting skills…quite amazing!
I would love to be the winner of one of your potholders!
I enjoy both your website and Jon’s-highlights of my day. I live with a quilter who also does all the cooking here while I take care of our six dogs. Potholder would be fun to win! Enjoyed meeting you at Jon’s book signing in Cincinnati last year. Love his pics of you communing with the animals. Thanks to you both for sharing your lives with all of us!
We love our summer people, despite what Jon implies. We are so happy to see them come, and just as delighted to see them leave.
What beautiful potholders! I love contests, and pretty much anything, with uncomplicated rules.
Thanks for the chance. Karin
Oh how our summer barbeques would be enhanced by such lovely art…….
Art and animal healing therapy – quite a combination of talent. I’m impressed and envious.
I would love to win one!
Love your potholders and quilts. They remind of the ones my Granny used to make.
Would love a new potholder or 2!
Very cool potholders…they reflect your creativity, energy, and lovingkindness. Love, love, love, how you and Jon are creating a life filled with wonderment for each other. “Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.” ~Rumi, the Sufi Poet of Love
Thanks for sharing and the Rumi quote.
Hi Maria, There is such beauty in the plain and simple. A flower, light coming through the branches of a tree…your potholders. I am hopeful that more and more people are enjoying the beauty of simple. Cathy Miller Athens, PA
I would love to win one of your potholders. Please enter me. Thanks.
Your work is lovely, and your relationship with Jon a blessing.
If I’m lucky enough to win one of your beautiful potholders I will send you one of my handknitted potholders. Is that bribery? Naaaa….
Margaret, if you don’t win, I’ll trade with you.
What a great idea! I would love to have one of your potholders.
You already know I love your work, Maria, but I love this contest idea, too and especially your blog entry on your reasons for doing it. Fun for all!
Dear Maria,
I so love your work and would be honored to be able to look at, and use one of your beautiful pot holders every day. Thank you so much for the chance!