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To sweeten the deal even more, we've added a new bonus for all Sewing With Cinnamon members - the Liberty Jane Ginza Girl pattern and the full sew-along video is now a permanently free SWC bonus! Make this darling coat dress and capelet for your 18-inch American Girl doll with complete confidence! (This is a limited time giveaway)
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Begining in 2020 you'll notice that the monthly coupon code for a free pattern is expanding to include a few more select brands! Yay! We're excited to announce the first one, 123 Mulberry Street! As an added bonus, we are now going to include the 123 Mulberry Street Gotchies pattern for 18-inch dolls as a permanently free bonus for Sewing With Cinnamon members!
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In December (the current SWC month), we featured the Thimbles and Acorns Silk Road Dress pattern as the focus of our monthly topic. The pattern is available exclusively to SWC members for free, before it is released to the general public in 2020. This is an additional bonus, on top of the monthly coupon code for one free pattern! We've seen such a great response to this, we plan to do this several times in 2020 as well! Join today and get access to this bonus while it's still available for members to download!
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We mentioned that beginning in 2020 you'll notice that the monthly coupon code for a free pattern is expanding to include a few more select brands! Yay! Today, we're excited to announce the second one, Karen Lorraine Design! As an added bonus, we are now going to include the KLD Prairie Chic pattern for 18-inch dolls as a permanently free bonus for Sewing With Cinnamon members!
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We mentioned that beginning in 2020 you'll notice that the monthly coupon code for a free pattern is expanding to include a few more select brands! Yay! Today, we're excited to announce the third one, Sew Urban! As an added bonus, we are now going to include the Sew Urban Urban Handbag for 18-inch dolls as a permanently free bonus for Sewing With Cinnamon members! Just click over to the Sewing With Cinnamon Bonuses section to grab your free bonus today!
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We're adding the full Couture Sewing Academy course as a free bonus for new and existing Sewing With Cinnamon members. This course will be avaialbe for a limited time (through January 10th). Couture is a wild and wonderful world of amazing techniques, beautiful fabrics, and luxurious finished garments. Nothing can compare to holding a really beautifully constructed piece of clothing in your hands! Given the small scale of doll clothing, sewing doll couture specifically is an amazing canvas for these techniques, and provides a unique opportunity to workshop new methods and produce amazing art.
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Got Fabric? Here's a fun idea to make your own swatch book for future use. Get the download from the SWC Bonus section. Use it to catalog "Where to buy" fabrics as well as a "touch and feel" tool for identifying fabric types. This will help when ordering online : I've made mine from a Mood Swatch club subscription, but you can also make one using the fabrics you already have on hand.
Day 11 Bonus: Brand new pattern from a new brand and category of patterns coming to Pixie Faire!
Today we're excited to announce an adorable new brand and category of patterns coming to Pixie Faire! Cute Felt Patterns is a darling set of 4" - 7" plush animals and dolls, all made in felt, and all hand sewn! They are absolutely the cutest! Watch for these to come to the site very soon! But today, Sewing With Cinnamon members will get one free! Meet Dotty! Isn't she the cutest! Make a cute little doll for your American Girl doll to carry around! Find this new free member bonus in the Sewing WIth Cinnamon bonuses section.
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What cultural traditions do you or your family take part in? Some family traditions carry on through traditional baked goods or special meals, others could be activities, places to visit, or celebrations. We'd love to hear more about it!
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We hope you enjoy our 12 Days Of Christmas Celebration. We are incredibly grateful for your ongoing support and wish you a happy holiday season, and a terrific new year!
Merry Christmas!
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PS. The daily gift card giveaway winners have been added to the corresponding posts the day after the giveaway's end. Here's a summary to date:
Day 1- Congrats to Donna C. She is the winner of the $25 gift card and has been contacted by email!
Day 2 - Congrats to RuthAnn D. she is the winner of the $25 gift card and has been contacted by email!
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My favourite cultural tradition is attending the Christmas Eve, candle light service at church. Lately I have been looking for a pattern for a Dutch traditional dress.
“A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN OR FIND INTERESTING IS…..??? I don’t even know for sure what nationality I am (?) I think It’s Norwegian and Irish, but honestly, it doesn’t matter to me. What truly matters is that I am a child of the Almighty God. That said, I thoroughly enjoy sewing and utilizing my God given talents to create beautiful gifts for family and friends; including making doll clothes :)
A favorite cultural tradition in our family is with Native Americans. We have Choctaw, Chickasaw and Osage in our lineage. Tradition tribal dress patterns both male and female for these would be so much fun!
I love the Mexican/ Spanish culture and would love to see folkloric dresses or maybe a flamenco dancer from Spain.
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN OR FIND INTERESTING IS our family Christmas where each of us take turns opening our gifts. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE simple costumes from various countries”
My favorite Cultural tradition…that is a hard one. Perhaps patterns of traditional clothing from the Native American tribes with the beautiful beading or since my ancestry is Swedish, German, English, Scottish/Irish any of the traditional clothing from those areas.
I would love to see more historical costumes for 14" dolls. I have been collecting the old " My Name is Katie " dolls released by the American School of Needlework back in the 90’s , and their patterns were more geared to knitting and crochet rather than sewing.
A favorite tradition of my family is to get together on Patriots day when the Boston Marathon runs right through my town. We gather and walk down to cheer on the wave after wave of runners. We then walk back and have a fun get together. You can’t get across the route for about 10 miles on each side so we plan ahead. It’s so fun seeing the next generation participate and compare photos of their moms, dads, aunts and uncles doing the same thing.
The cultural tradition we take part in is the advent calendar. Our grandchildren are now using the one I made for our children back in the 80’s. It is showing its age, but they love it. They also love the teddy bear stockings I made that same year. I would love to see some sort of pattern for an advent calendar small enough for the dolls to enjoy.
I would love to see a grouping of European patterns representing each country.
A favorite cultural tradition I take part in is the making of Danish AEbelskivers on Christmas day. Even my children’s friends come over because they are so delicious.
A favorite cultural tradition I take part in is being the first to find the pickle ornament hidden in the tree. The winner opens the first Christmas gift!
A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be a dirndl set for 18” dolls.
I would love to see a series of patterns dedicated to traditional dress from countries and cultures around the globe that highlights specific decorative techniques and provides some historical and cultural information about the attire. It would be wonderful to have the patterns include both boy and girl outfits. I would love a line like this.
Along with the traditional holidays like Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. On St.Patrick’s Day we have a corn beef dinner. My granddaughter is Irish from both sides of her family. I would love to make her a traditional Irish dress or an Irish dancers dress.
A tradition in my family is gathering on Christmas Eve. We do poppers, or crackers, which is fun to see paper crowns on the grown ups, and everyone’s favorite, presents from the dolls! My mom sets up a doll tree in her room of dolls / paper dolls, and buys little goofy gifts she finds, usually from thrift shops, for everyone and wraps them. We all get so tickled to open presents from “the dolls”!
A cultural tradition we take part in is German Dancing. I love the colours of the dresses and head pieces from the different regions of Germany. I would like to see costumes designed to match the dresses and head pieces from Germany
The cultural I’d like is costumes for 14” dolls, not your everyday costumes but fancy costumes
A cultural tradition we take part in is Ukrainian Dancing. I love the colours of the dresses and head pieces from the different regions of Ukraine. I would like to see costumes designed to match the dresses and head pieces from Ukraine
My very first job after college was teaching Head Start on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northern Arizona. I am still in touch with many of the friends that I made there, and that culture is very important to me. We have been trying to come up with a pattern to make a traditional Hopi dress, but I am too inexperienced to take pieces of this and that to do it. I would be happy to be a consultant with a pattern designer to do that.
A favorite cultural tradition we use to take part in when I was little was all getting together at my great grandmas house every Christmas to make cookies and chocolates. My favorite were chocolate covered peanuts!!
“A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN OR FIND INTERESTING IS just doing what my parents did, we didn’t have any specific cultural traditions, we were Irish but I like the Spanish traditions..go figure. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE a Spanish fan dancing costume with the ruffles ad fans
A favorite cultural tradition I take part in is baking with my grandchildren. I would like to see some traditional Swedish costumes.
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN IS MARDI GRAS. BAKING, BEADS, PARADES, BALLS. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE COSTUME PATTERNS & BALL GOWNS.
A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be something like a Qipao Cheongsam, a Hmong Miao outfit or a Korean Hanbok. Those are the ones I’m trying to design now, but got stuck when I realized it was looking more like a Star Trek uniform.
I’ve been on a cultural kick this past year as I designed an African inspired dress with headdress, both a summer and winter Russian dress (also with headdresses), a Polynesian inspired dress with lei, and an absolutely gorgeous Ballet Folklórico. So now I have an Asian style dress I want to figure out.
A cultural tradition I find interesting is anything Bohemian. I would like to see those types of outfits offered at Pixie Faire.
Gather Christmas eve for family , celebrate with food and games. Mothers tradition of hanging red and green streamers twirled from the corners of the room to center.
I would like to see costumes of many different cultures for boy dolls, including a full suit so he can dress up just like the girl dolls
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN OR FIND INTERESTING IS OUR ANNUAL IRISH FEST. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE A TRADITIONAL IRISH DANCING COSTUME.
I love reading a Christmas story every night to my grandkids. I did this for my own girls as they grew up, and it is a special memory for me.
Patterns that I would like to see are patterns for American children throughout our history.
A cultural tradition that I take part in is attending Smorgasbord at our church. It began with guests bringing traditional Scandinavian dishes to share. It has expanded to include offerings from other cultures of congregants using our church, such as, Mexico, Somalia, & Ukraine.It is a night of food, festivity & fun, celebrating diversity and togetherness!
I’ve also attended Native American dance events in our region. I’ve loved watching the dancers and seeing their bright costumes.
I look forward to seeing Pixie Faire patterns that celebrate our rich cultural diversity & history. I’d love to see more patterns from Ireland, Scotland, England, France & Germany.
We never seemed to have cultural traditions in our family growing up, so as the Grandmother in a 3 generation home, I have been helping to bring some traditions from our very mixed heritage into our family. We are Swedish and German on my fathers’ side and Irish, Scotch and English on my mother’s. We make Swedish Almond and Cardamon Cookies, go to Fredricksburg and Humble in Texas for the Christmas festivities and I have the girls make straw ornaments for the tree. Our best friends and backyard neighbors (we are so friendly that we built a “friendship” gate between our houses on the back fence and you never know who might be in whose kitchen making coffee and breakfast for everyone) are Puerto Rican. They have a special Christmas Eve and New Years Eve party at their house and roast a whole pig in a China Box in their back yard. I make dozens of Mallorcas, a soft, semi-sweet roll that is traditional to PR and no one can find here in the states, to share. We make cookies for all the kids who hang out in our house while the adults drink and party in V’s house. The kids love decorating the cookies and set up games and have Christmas movies going. This is much more fun than the family get togethers I remember as a child.
As far as cultural patterns, there are many of the standards available, such as the Viking and Scotish and Spanish costumes. I would like to see more Middle Eastern patterns, and perhaps variations on Spanish and Asian cultures, such as Thai, Portugal, Vietnamese, African and Greek. An interesting class might be how to make tweeks to current patterns to make them more ethnically diverse.
A tradition we have, not just at Christmas, but also at Thanksgiving and Easter, is to go around the table and read silly riddles associated with that holiday. I find them online and print them out, with each person getting to read three or four while everyone else guesses the answers. It’s a good way to get ALL ages involved, and everyone laughing. I would enjoy seeing more Polynesian patterns. I used to live in Hawaii, so know there are many styles of long dresses.
When our 4 children were growing up and we had no family close by and we established our own family tradition for the meals at Thanksgiving and Christmas. We continue this tradition whenever we are able to be together for the holidays. Now our grandchildren enjoy the tradition also.
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN OR FIND INTERESTING IS – every year we seek out local celebrations from different cultures, religions and celebrations unique to our area.
A favorite tradition is going to church on Easter Sunday, along with every Sunday, but when I was growing up everyone dressed in fancy dresses with hats. I would like to see fancy dresses with fancy hats offered at Pixie Faire.
A cultural tradition I take part in id the lighting of the Advent wreath candles.
A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be costumes from the Nutcracker ballet.
“A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN OR FIND INTERESTING IS…we display the Nativity in our home. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE… to have a Joseph (Mary’s husband) for male 18 in dolls so that we could purchase the Nativity patterns in your line and this pattern and have a Nativity for 18 inch dolls, I didn’t see a male Nativity pattern in the line". I’d love it.
Our family’s favorite cultural tradition is celebrated on May 5th – Children’s Day in Japan. All of the cultural patterns I wanted are already offered on Pixie Faire.
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION WE TAKE PART IN is attending a candlelight church service on Christmas Eve and singing traditional carols. My ancestors are eastern European and American Indian. It would be nice to have a resource for cultural doll patterns to teach our children about their ancestery.
A cultural tradition I took part in was having Christmas Eve dinner with our Italian neighbors which always consisted of lasagna and garlic toast. I would enjoy seeing patterns from any/all cultures.
A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be any Dutch traditional outfits since that is my family’s heritage.
I am a huge fan of international costumes. Eastern Europe has some lovely, intricate styles that I haven’t seen made into a pattern. I am always looking for patterns that are culturally Chinese, Mexican, African and Irish. I buy them as soon as they are listed.
A favorite cultural tradition I take part in is baking a King Cake during Mardi Gras. A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be traditional clothing and costumes from around the world.
My family are Welsh and yes I have seen a Welsh costume that I did buy on Pixie Faire. I am still hoping for a Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson pattern for AGAT and Carpataina boy dolls. Something I think would be fun is to do Holiday outfits for the dolls to wear such as a Christmas Tree, Bunny outfit, Pumpkin outfit etc etc.
Our traditions come from my Italian heritage. We make special foods such as holiday soup (wedding soup) and Italian cookies – pizzelles. I would like to see patterns related to early Italian culture such as during the Renaissance period.
A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE COSTUMES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
We are of German/English decent. We make a traditional German sausage pie (apples, ground pork, tart cherries, cinnamon, allspice, cloves). I would like to see a German traditional and English traditional patterns.
A favorite Southern tradition we have is to have black eyed peas with ham for New Year’s Day. How many peas you eat is how many dollars you will make in the year. As a kid we said that each pea was worth $1,000 bucks!
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN OR FIND INTERESTING IS GOING TO SEE THE NUTCRACKER EACH YEAR. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE A PRINCESS PATTERN FOR A 14 INCH DOLL.”
My only real tradition is the Thanksgiving family get-together and feast. Since my family’s heritage comes from all over Europe, I have an appreciation for all cultures and I’d like to see patterns for traditional dress from all countries in different time periods. I simply love the variety.
A favorite tradition is usually the food around the holidays- turkey on Thanksgiving, ham on Christmas and pork and sauerkraut for New Year. A cultural item I might like to see on PF is American Indian clothing. I also like the idea of hand embroidery patterns. Thank you for these 12 Days give aways. I enjoy reading the posts more than the idea of winning something!
I love our Christmas tree. How about a set of 18 inch tree ornaments. Little trees can be found at Christmas tree. They would be fun to make and collect over the years!
A tradition I take part in is to bake Greek New Years bread. A coin is baked into the loaf. When the loaf is sliced, each person of the family, in desending order by age, gets a slice. When the knife hits the coin, that person will have good luck or prosperity in the new year. Happy new year to all of you at PixieFarie!
A favorite tradition is usually the food around the holidays- turkey on Thanksgiving, ham on Christmas and pork and sauerkraut for New Year. A cultural item I might like to see on PF is American Indian clothing. I also like the idea of hand embroidery patterns. Thank you for these 12 Days give aways. I enjoy reading the posts more than the idea of winning something!
I broke with tradition and started my own! Since Jesus is the reason for the season, I replaced Christmas trees with a tall, 6-tier display of events from Christ’s birth to eternity in New Jerusalem. At the base I have a display of foreign dolls since God knows no prejudice. I would like to see PF add a line of historical cultural attire for dolls.
With all of the original emigrants to the U.S. now deceased in our family, I’m sure new traditions will surface. We still like to watch the Rose Parade from Pasadena on New Years morning. I do like the styles of the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s but there are already a lot of those patterns. Maybe parade theme wear might be fun. Especially if it reflected back into our countries history.
A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE a traditional historic Russian outfit because of the beauty of these outfits and because my family originated from Russia.
Our favorite cultural tradition is decorating the Christmas tree and baking Christmas cookies! I always love seeing new patterns so I really don’t have a preference.
A cultural tradition that I enjoy participating in is a Christmas lessons and carols service. I suspect that there is a traditional Victorian-style / Dickensian carolers pattern somewhere on Pixie Faire, but some for the ladies and gents is a cute possibility. Also, the traditional English boy choir robes could be fun…maybe there is one already? I just haven’t really thought about this before so haven’t really looked for such a pattern.
My favorite tradition is decorating for Xmas, especially outdoors. I would like to see patterns for historical dress for children from all countries.
A favorite cultural tradition is divinity at Christmas time. My Dad used to make it and it evokes fond memories.
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN is hand cranking homemade ice cream every year for Christmas (not sure if it’s culture based but definitely my favorite tradition and goes back as far as any of us can remember)… A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE a pattern to create a hand crank ice cream freezer. I would also love to see Irish dance patterns!
I am of Irish heritage and find the older traditional costumes especially dance interesting!
I love R-W-B, 4th of July, fireworks designs and fabrics… summer time. Our winters here in (way Northern) Michigan are long and cold, and summer is just too short to NOT make the most of it.
A favorite cultural tradition I find interesting is the different ways countries celebrate holidays.
A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be traditional costumes from other countries.
I would like to see patterns for traditional cultural costumes from all around the world
I never had any cultural traditions so a cultural pattern I would like to see is.clothes from all cultures”
My Grandaughters are half Korean I would love to see a korean outfit I could make for the girls.
All of our traditions are American midwest. My ancestors came to America mid 1700. I do enjoy traditional dress from other cultures but anything from American history is my favorite.
Celebrating Christmas.
Celebrating Christmas.
A favorite cultural tradition I take part in is going to see the Christmas Lights on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be costumes from Scandinavia or Eastern Europe. There is such a variety of cultures and costumes available there.
My tradition is celebrating Christmas.
I don’t have any cultural tradition.
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN IS MAKING ITALIAN ANISE PIZZELLE COOKIES AT CHRISTMAS. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE A JAPANESE KIMONO WITH OBI AND ALL THE TRADITIONAL ACCOUTREMENTS.
I would like to see more cultural patterns on Pixie Faire
We live on a Century Farm in the farmhouse my grandmother designed. My favorite era is the ’30s. I love to celebrate the rural home arts and make doll outfits with reproduction feedsack prints. My Kit is Shirley Anne, American Farm Girl.
My favorite holiday tradition is to hide a pickle on the tree. The first one to find it gets a special gift.
I don’t any other traditions other than the ones my family does together but I would love to see some Irish tap dancing patterns.
A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE Ukrainian.
A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN IS BAKING COOKIES FROM OLD FAMILY RECIPES LIKE SPRITZ AND LINZER. A CULTURAL PATTERN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OFFERED AT PIXIE FAIRE WOULD BE A SWEDISH OR GERMAN FESTIVITIES DRESS FOR BOTH GENDERS.
Since this is such a divisive time in our country, it would be really great to see the the clothing worn by children from the many nations that make up this country, including those of the first people here whether they came across a land bridge from Russia or in boats from other parts of the world.
No real culture tradition in my family. My heritage is German, Irish, English, French and a touch of American Indian.
I would love to see more heritage costumes from other countries introduced, so we could celebrate our heritage
My favorite traditions include Scottish, German, and Norwegian traditions.
A favourite cultural tradition for me is celebrating Canada Day on July 1. We gather in the afternoon at the home of our oldest son & his family with our other son & his family & whatever friends can come. Over shared food & beverages we visit while the kids play games. At dusk we walk to a local park on the shores of Lake Erie to listen to entertainment until it is dark. Then we enjoy a half hour of fireworks set off for barges on the lake. We then return to our son’s for more visiting until time to go home. A wonderful celebration of our great country with family & friends!
“A FAVORITE CULTURAL TRADITION I TAKE PART IN OR FIND INTERESTING IS.
I love our town light ceremony at Christmas time.
We drive around on Christmas Eve looking at all the house lights
The Cultural pattern i would love to see, Ukrainian Dance Outfit, with the flowered head band.
A favorite cultural tradition I take part in or find interesting is native american weddings. A cultural pattern I would like to see offered at Pixie Faire would be the wedding attire for the brides and grooms.
A favorite cultural tradition we take part in is decorating the Christmas tree as a family, baking cookies for Santa (with all the leftovers given to extended family), and loys of Christmas family fun.
It would be fun to sew a traditional kimono complete with the obi and all the details. I also love the traditional women’s folk wear of Guatemala and Peru, both heavy on colorful embellishments and embroidery and contrasting fabrics.
A favorite cultural tradition I take part in at Christmas is to decorate the yard, house and tree. We also make cookies and decorate them as well.
Like Leah below, my daughter danced the Nutcracker every year, and I made some of the costumes the dancers wore. I would love to see some Victorian wear for the Christmas party, as well as some of the other costumes you see in Nutcracker. But in addition to tutus, I would like to see some lyrical style dance costumes Russian dancer costumes, clown costumes and “snowflake” costumes.
A cultural tradition I find interesting is that of a family friend who makes lease, krumkake and rosettes from her Norwegian heritage, and shares them with many people.
Our family traditions are mostly food orientated and family gatherings around winter activities like sledding and skating. Tomorrow we go on a horse drawn sleigh ride.
A culture celebration I look forward to every year is July 1st, Canada Day. I love the diversity of my home. I would love to see native clothing through the ages and cultures of the peoples who make up North America.
The only cultural tradition that comes to mind is celebrating Thanksgiving every year with a big family get-together for turkey and cornbread dressing and all the sides. I would like to see patterns of folk costumes from European countries.
I am American first of course but our family is a mix of Italian and English. We have a tradition of making canolis for holidays. Maybe since so many countries use red green and white for their flags, a costume utilizing those colors.
One of our family traditions is for someone to say a prayer before eating; especially during meals when several families are present. i think various Native American patterns would be great; they are so varied from different parts of America and some of them closely resemble the decor of other countries
(Mexican) Day of the Dead, (Dutch) Saint Nicholas Day, (Swedish) Saint Lucia Day.
All of the various costumes from the traditional Russian Nutcracker ballet: Party Scene girl, Party Scene boy, the different dolls that dance in the party scene, rats, snow, Clara (dress and nightgown), Nutcracker, Chinese, Russian, Arabian, Spanish, Pas de Trois (French), butterfly, flower, Sugar Plum Fairy.
A cultural pattern I’d like to see is one for the caped French coat like the story book Madeline wears, with a pattern for her felted yellow hat as well.
My favorite cultural tradition is taking part in lighting candles on Christmas Eve. I would love to see French couture.
Dolores
January 04, 2020
One of the this that stands out in my childhood is family. Whatever the holiday everyone gathered at my parents house to celebrate and eat. It was like a great family potluck. I miss this gathering since my parent passed and brothers and sisters moved away. I believe family is very important.