A Pattern & Fabric GIVEAWAY : :

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It's time for a new Friday Giveaway!

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ChrisW Designs brings you an ever growing range of PDF patterns for handbags, purses, tote bags, backpacks and all sorts of bag sewing patterns designed to teach you loads of wonderful bag making techniques!

Be sure to visit ChrisW Designs at the links below to see more!

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Moona Fabrics is wonderful, online fabric shop with a mission to find the most beautiful and highest quality fabric out there, and to share their finds with all of us! They get new fabrics in frequently, so be sure to add them to your favorites, and visit often!
  

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 We hope you enjoy visiting their sites!! 

This week ChrisW Designs is offering a giveaway prize for any FIVE PDF bag sewing patterns in her shop, along with Moona Fabrics who's offering the winner this 1/2 yard bundle of Joel Dewberry's brand new Bungalow Home Dec weight cottons! Each of these three fabric prints will measure 18" x 54", for lots of beautiful bag making!!

Looks like the perfect Fall bag to me!!

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Enter to Win!

Here's how,
 
1. Simply leave a comment here in this post! (one entry)
2. You can like ChrisW Designs on facebook as an optional extra entry. Just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)
3. You can like Moona Fabrics on facebook as an optional extra entry. Just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)  
4. My followers always get an extra entry, too! Just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry) 
5. Help spread the word!! I know that many of you already do, so I thought it would be nice to add that as another way to enter! Whether by tweet, facebook, pin, blog, instagram, etc... (optional extra entry)
 
That’s five possible entries! Enter now through Monday, September 30th, when I will announce the name of the winner at the bottom of this post, here on the blog! 

* Note * This giveaway is open to EVERYONE! If you're a "no reply" or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment so that I can contact you should you win!   

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Thank you to all who entered the Giveaway!!

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From 1,070 entries, Mr. Random says the lucky winner is...

    Comment #187 --   *  SIMPLESEW  *   

Congratulations! I will be in touch shortly!   

A Pretty Pink Tote Bag : :

I can't believe it has already been a couple weeks since the night I started this tote bag! Which will explain all the dark photos, yikes! One thing I do plan to do in this new, glorious year is lots and lots of more applique projects. I do love applique!! And, I'm excited to finally share this pretty pink bag today, yet another handmade gift for the holiday!



This particular applique was so simple and completely inspired by one of the Joel Dewberry Notting Hill fabrics I recently stashed from Sprightly Fabrics, Primrose in Magenta.



Mimicking the simple, modern flower, made up of stacked circle shapes in Mr. Dewberry's lovely design, plus a couple fussy-cut leaves from a Stockholm print, just as I did on this pillow -- this applique came together super quickly with some Heat'n Bond Lite and a little zig zag stitching with black thread.



The night I finished up this bag front I was so tempted to continue sewing this into a colorful quilt top! I had to hang it up to snap a quick photo and stare at it just a little while before I could move on with my tote bag making. What do you think about a quilt made up of these blocks?



The rest of the bag is made up of a few more Notting Hill fabrics, some pretty pink Pure Element solids, and a little coral pink polka-dot!



It came together using very similar instructions to the Quilted Tote Bag Tutorial that I put together for Riley Blake. I love the soft, sturdiness the batting and quilted stitches add, while leaving it very washer friendly!



I've made a few other bags in a new style that I'll be sharing soon! How about you, what have you been stitching up? I'm loving all the Scrappy Trip Along photos I've been seeing everywhere!!

Southern Fabric Giveaway Winner!!

Thank you to all who entered and to Southern Fabric for sponsoring this weekend's Giveaway!! 

 

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  From 1,072 entries, Mr. Random says the lucky winner of the Vintage Yellow Palette from the Aviary 2 Collection as a Layer Cake  is..

 Comment # 176 -- melissamo1, who said...

I started sewing 15 years ago.

Congratulations Melissa!!! I will be in touch shortly!

I'll be back later today with a regular blog post to share, 

and I have yet another new fabric shop giveaway beginning on Friday morning!!   So be sure to stop back!!

A Fabric GIVEAWAY : :

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It's Fabric Giveaway Friday!

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Southern Fabric has been an online fabric shop since 2004. They are located in the heart of middle Georgia, have a very experienced staff that specializes in customer service, and sell top quality quilting fabrics and precuts from Moda, Westminster, Free Spirit, Riley Blake and Alexander Henry!

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We hope you enjoy visiting their sites!!  

For this weekend's giveaway Southern Fabric is offering the entire Vintage Yellow Palette from the Aviary 2 Collection as a Layer Cake -- an assortment including 16 coordinating, 10" charm squares, in 8 prints, 2 of each print from the Aviary 2 collection designed by Joel Dewberry for Free Spirit Fabrics. 

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Enter to Win!

Here's how,
 
1. Simply leave a comment here in this post. It can be any ol' comment, but I would really love to know how long you have been sewing? (one entry)
2. Follow Southern Fabric on Facebook. Just let me know that you did by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)
3. My followers get a third entry! Whether you follow me here or on Facebook, just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)
 
That’s 3 possible entries! Enter now through Monday morning, June 4th. Mr. Random will pick the winner and I will announce their name in a new post here on the blog.
 
* Note * This giveaway is open to EVERYONE! If you're a "no reply" or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment so that I can contact you should you win!
                                        

Good luck everyone!!! Have a great weekend!

We Have a Winner!

Before I announce the winner of this past weekends Giveaway, I want to share another sneak peek at my contribution for the next issue of Fat Quarterly -- My Heartfelt Pillow Cover! This is a project combining felt, fabrics, and a reverse applique technique to create this one-of-a-kind, soft and cozy pillow cover, very similar to my Purple Stitch Pillow that was a favorite here and on flickr.


Fat Quarterly Issue 6 - Alternative Fabrics will be available for sale on the 27th July!!! Update :: VERY SOON!!! I'll announce it here just as soon as the release day is set.


We have a winner! 

First, I want to say a big THANK YOU to Moona Fabrics for being so very generous!!! If you've fallen in love with these fabrics, you can find the entire Joel Dewberry Heirloom Collection in the Moona Fabric shop right now!


Thank You to all of you who entered, I'm so glad you all liked our Giveaway! I know that not winning is not much fun at all -- my apologies for that! So, good news -- I'll be having two more Giveaways in the next few weeks and one is for a GO! Baby fabric cutter/3 die set!!! Be sure to stay tuned for those!

So without further ado, from 624 entries (WOW!!!) Mr. Random says our lucky winner is comment # 587, Michael of Inspired by Charm!!! I hope you enjoy your winnings, I can't wait to see what you make! Both Moona Fabrics and I will be in touch!

Thanks again and Happy Monday!!!

A Sponsor {Giveaway} : :

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It's time for a Giveaway! 

My sponsor Moona Fabrics has so many beautiful new collections just stocked and on the way! Some of our favorites include of course Anna Maria Horner's Loulouthi, Sara Jane's Children at Play, Joel Dewberry's Heirloom, and arriving any day -- more Grand Bazaar by Patty Young and Catkin by Julie Paschkis. For this giveaway, Moona Fabrics and I, decided on Joel Dewberry's newest fabric collection Heirloom.

The Prize!

Moona Fabrics is generously offering a Quilting Cotton fat quarter set of Joel Dewberry's newest collection Heirloom in the Ruby Palette from their shop. That's Thirteen fat quarters to one lucky winner! WOW!!!


Enter to Win!

To enter, simply add your comment to this post, you can include what you'd make if you won. My followers get a second chance, just let me know that you follow my blog by making a separate comment to record that entry. If you're a "no reply" commenter, remember to include your email address in your comment so that I can contact you should you win! Enter now through 10 o'clock pm (EST) Sunday, July 24. I will announce the winner next Monday morning here on the blog.


Thank you and a huge thanks to my sponsors Moona Fabrics!!!

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Pillow Talk : :

Throughout this past week a few little pillows were made that I thought I would share before I get too ahead of myself with other wips in the works. This one, made from Innocent Crush, is the scraps leftover from my patchwork desk mat. This was the first project that I have ever made that turned into zero waste right away -- Love that! I am not sure how it happened, but it worked out beautifully!

This one couldn't have been easier! Made of just a solid Joel Dewberry print on the front and an envelope style back in a coordinating solid. I thought that if I cut this fabric into smaller pieces for something else it might lose the wonderful pattern of those large dogwood blossoms. I decided to leave it alone and keep it simple. This pillow and the above are for my sister in Hawaii. (Love you Catherine!)

This little pillow I knew I had to share, since so many of you seemed to like our Sewing Buttons 101 project from earlier in the week. Isn't it sweet? It is the result of Haila's button tree, that just happens to be the right size for her puppy, that she named "pupperly?" I will be the first to say that all of my children are very creative, when it comes to naming stuffed animals....ahhh, not so much. : )

And finally, the finalists for February's Blogger Pillow Party were announced yesterday and I made the cut again this month with my purple stitches pillow! Hooray!!!

photo via Stitched In Color

All of these pillows have inspired me so much, so I bet you can guess what I'm making a few more of this weekend. I hope some of our pillows might inspire you, too!
Thanks for visiting! ~ Maureen