Happy Birthday Eleanor!
We invite you to leave a birthday greeting for Eleanor in the comments section below and/or on our Facebook page. We'll collect them and pass them along.
To celebrate, we're giving away three bundles from Eleanor's Christine collection. For a chance to win, email us at socialmedia23 (at) gmail.com with the name of your favorite Eleanor Burns fabric collection in the subject line. Giveaway ends Monday, July 7th at 11:59 pm EST. We will randomly draw three winners' names.
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I credit you for so many of the techniques I use every day when practise my craft. My love of quilting comes from watching your programs. Happy Birthday and many more.
ReplyDeleteHave the happiest of birthdays! You have inspired so many quilters to make beautiful quilts!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Eleanor! I'm thrilled to share the same birthday with you. Found you on public TV years ago and would watch when I wasn't at work. My mom couldn't remember your name but loved the way you would throw the scraps over your shoulder.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor - I miss your TV show and I have inherited you 'throw it over the shoulder' habit (my poor rugs).
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor - I miss your TV show and I have inherited you 'throw it over the shoulder' habit (my poor rugs).
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Eleanor! You are an inspiration to all of us!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor! You've taught me so much!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Eleanor! Thank you for all you have done.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor. Wish you the best. Still love watching your shows and learning. Rosalie
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor!! You have taught me a lot.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor! It is great to have the knowledge you share with the world available to us folks who want to learn. Many happy times for you and yours as you celebrate.
ReplyDeleteDear Eleanor,
ReplyDeleteOn this happy day, I must tell you that I admire you for the obstacles you have overcome in your life, the children you have raised, and the enthusiasm and knowledge you have shared with those of who quilt, want to quilt, or have quilted using your methods. A very happy Birthday.
Happy birthday, Eleanor! I credit you as one of the two women who started me on my quilting journey. I used to watch your show, and Shar Jorgenson's Quilting from the Heartland, on PBS while living in Hawaii some 25 years ago. I cannot thank you enough!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELEANOR!!
ReplyDeleteI have learned so much from you. I loved watching your shows and seeing how you simplified your patterns. You made everything look so easy Thank you for all you did for us.
Happy Birthday, Eleanor, and many,many more. I am going to meet you eye to eye one of these days. I am 8 days older than you, and watch your RFD shows every week and have 40 of them recorded and have lots of your books and videos. You are my inspiration, and I thank you for what you have done for the quilting world. You are the greatest. You did a beautiful job raising your sons, and survived like no one else, With affection my quilting instructor, have a great day. Wish I was there with you. It would be so fun. Betty
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Eleanor. Best wishes and many happy returns of the day.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor. Thank you for all the quilting inspirations you give us.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Many many more~
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to my favorite quilt instructor. My first quilting attempt was guided by your Quilt In A Day ( Log Cabin). I have been hooked ever since!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday from Down Under Eleanor! Hope its filled with lovely surprises. Your flying geese method blew my mind, and the thought of getting a quilt in a day!......cheers!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Eleonor! You are one of my inspirations and have been influencing my quiltmaking for over 30 years!
ReplyDeleteI learned to quilt from Eleanor by watching a PBS series while my daughter was getting chemo infusions 23 years ago. Now that daughter is also a quilter. Thank you El, and happy 70th.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor! Quilt on!
ReplyDeleteIt's because of you that i'm a quilter today, watching your shows on PBS.Have a great day.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday! Hope you had a wonderful day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Eleanor!
ReplyDeleteThanks for inspiring me with your programs and quilting books!
Happy Birthday Eleanor Hope you have many more quilting years ahead
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Very Happy 70th Birthday Eleanor!
ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching us that we don't have to be perfect to be quilters!
Happy Birthday Eleanor!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor! I've been watching you way before I ever thought of quilting LOL
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Eleanor. Thank you so much for the Egg Money Quilt. It is one of my favourites.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor!!! I remember watching you years ago and you really helped to instill in me the desire to quilt. I met you at Road to California one year and you are beautiful inside and out!
ReplyDeletehappy birthday! you are truly an amazing woman!
ReplyDelete-Rose (roseharries_06@hotmail.com)
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ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Eleanor!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Eleanor!! Your video tutorials are filled with energy and inspiration... I hope you continue to do what you do best and what we love!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Eleanor. As someone once told me,
ReplyDelete"Don't count your life by candles,
Don't count your life by year,
Count instead by memories and times of happy tear."