Friday, January 16, 2015

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things...

Guess what time it is?!

Sewing Anniversary time! Yay!!!! I've been sewing for 2 years as of January 24th and blogging for 2 years as of February 1st.

Last year I talked about how I started sewing (now in an "about me" link above), 'tips from a newbie', and what my goals were for year 2. Well I already talked about goals for year 3 here (and meeting year 2 goals) sooooo...we can skip past all that and get to some good stuff...

GIVEAWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With a theme of "my favorite things", I have 3 prizes to share with my sewing friends! I ask (not demand, and I will not check - lazy) that you be an actual reader of my blog. I totally get that people read/follow and don't necessarily comment - that's okay - but I would feel warm and fuzzy on the inside if you were a follower and not just here for the prizes.

Now, we sewers can have short memories so I'll tell ya, I'm totally kicking it 'new school' with pattern giveaways. :)


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Prize A
I contacted Alexandra of In House patterns to ask about gift certificates. She doesn't have that as an option right now, and my next idea was to purchase a copy of the Kimono tee as a giveaway. Well she was gracious enough to offer up one free pattern of your choosing! YAY!!!!!

Visit the shop here and take a look at the offerings.

  • Patterns are (typically?) sized 0-16 or XS-XL (size chart here). 
  • The Cool Cowl, Belle Blouse and Kimono Tee are drafted for D cups (YAY US!!!!!!!!!!!!!). 
  • The Blossom and Diana for A, B, C or D and the Jenny tee for A/B and C/D. 
  • There are also a skirt, cropped pants and shorts. 




Prize(pack) B
You all know I'm by and large a Big 4 sewer and my latest faves are:

Vogue 9032; which I'm sure you're tired of me waxing poetic about :-p
This pattern comes in sizes 6-14 and 14-22

McCall's 6996: sure I've only made one but there WILL be more (I'm going to use my wool jersey for this pattern!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
This pattern comes in sizes XS-M and L-XXL

McCall's 7093: Choosing the third pattern was more difficult and again, it was only made once but it's a GREAT pattern and has so many options!!!
This pattern comes in sizes 6-14 and 14-22

I was going to run out and buy these but realized I would have to choose a size band. I would rather pick a winner and let them tell me what size they need. So that's what we'll do there.



Prize C
Last but certainly not least; you gotta know that fabric is one of my absolute favorite things of all the things!

The winner of prize C will get a $15 (electronic) gift certificate to Fabric Mart!


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Leave a comment below to enter! Comments will close (10 p.m. CST) on
Friday January 23, 2015
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Winners will be selected by random draw and announced on 
Saturday January 24, 2015

Things to note:
*Comment "A, B, C" with your preferred entries
*In House Patterns are PDF files; once a winner is announced, I will have you send me your pattern choice and email address and InHouse Patterns will send your pattern directly to you.
*The pattern pack winner will need to email me with their size choices and mailing address.
*FabricMart does offer international shipping but I assume it costs a pretty penny so keep that in mind if you're not in the US.

I will leave it open to all as the only thing I'll need to ship are the 3 patterns.

A sincere thank you everyone who reads, encourages, offer suggestions (THANK YOU!) here on my blog and just plain makes the sewing world a fun place to be. I am looking forward to my 3rd(!!) year of sewing blog craziness!