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Fat Quarter Blog Tour ~ books giveaway! 📚
I am really excited to be part of the blog tour for Fat Quarter: Home and Fat Quarter: Quick Makes by Amanda Russell and Juliet Bawden. Two new books full of beautiful modern makes and a chance for you to win them both!
The books present ways to use those fat quarters of fabric we have in our stash to create something useful, practical and pretty. All the makes are suitable for beginners and cover a range of sewing techniques, with clear instructions. Each project has a step by step guide with corresponding photographs, which clearly demonstrate every direction, and there are plenty of tips and tricks peppered throughout.
They are, as you would expect, reasonably simple makes and patterns, which is just what you want when you need a gift or a satisfying quick make between bigger projects! The photographs are beautifully styled and inspiring. Amanda and Juliet chose lovely fabric combinations and it's worth looking at the way they use prints and colours because it works so well.
Each book has 25 projects and here are the categories:
Fat Quarter Quick Makes - Fashion & Accessories, Baby & Child, Out & About, Workroom, Presents
Fat Quarter Home - Kitchen/Diner, Utility Room, Bedroom, Bathroom, Living Room
If you want to have fun creating useful and decorative items be sure to check out Fat Quarter: Home and Fat Quarter: Quick Makes by Amanda Russell and Juliet Bawden, published by GMC (£12.99 each, available from www.thegmcgroup.com)
GMC are kindly offering a copy of each book to one lucky winner!
To enter the giveaway: please leave a comment below - if you're stuck for something to say you could tell me how many fat quarters of fabric you have.
UK entries only please, a winner will be chosen by random.org and the winner will be announced here on 12th June.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
Visit the other stops on the blog tour too:
Tilda Autumn 2016 Ranges Blog Hop 🌹 & Giveaway!
**Giveaway now closed**
Welcome to my stop on the Tilda Autumn 2016 Ranges Blog Hop! I am excited to show you the projects I made with the new limited collection 'Cabbage Rose & Memory Lane' by Tilda, available to buy now at Stitch Craft Create.
There is an adorable vintage feel to the collection, with bright florals, sweet rabbits and ditsy flowers in gorgeous colourways.
Beautiful flowers always make me smile! I chose the 'Lucille' prints in Ginger and Linen to make a Wild Flower Pincushion. It pretties up a sewing space and shows how wonderfully the autumn ranges play together!
My girls got so excited when they saw the 'Rabbit and Roses' prints so it was only right that I used the fabric to make something for them. I chose to make two hour baskets, cute and functional - large enough to hold lots of children's books!
I paired the rabbits with tiny ditsy flowers, the ranges have a really good mix of patterns so you can play with scale to nice effect - perfect for quilting!
Practical and useful things are so fun to make, so I just went for it with the next few items:
I made a Tiny Treasures Tray with my favourite print 'Libby', I layered two strips of sparkle vinyl and added cute Kam snaps for the tabs.
Then another make for my girls, adorable hair bows using the tutorial by She Can Quilt. Very quick, easy and a fun way to use up fabric scraps! I attached little alligator clips at the back and they stay put really well without being sewn down.
Finally a little something for myself! I have already made one of these thread catcher baskets, with the tutorial by The Sewing Chick, and it's so useful next to me while I'm hand sewing that I've made another one to go by my sewing machine.
Be sure to look at the full Tilda Autumn 2016 Ranges, there are also coordinating buttons, charm packs, adorable quilt labels, fabric tape, ribbons and more in the Tilda collection at Stitch Craft Create.
Check out all the stops on the Blog Hop:
1st August – Stitch Craft Create
2nd August – Stitch Craft Create
3rd August – Vicky Myers Creations
4th August – Strawberry Patch Ramblings
5th August – Charm About You
2nd August – Stitch Craft Create
3rd August – Vicky Myers Creations
4th August – Strawberry Patch Ramblings
5th August – Charm About You
8th August – Crafting Not Cleaning
9th August – Popular Patchwork
10th August – Dinki Dots
11th August – Little Black Duck
12th August – Tea and a Sewing Machine
9th August – Popular Patchwork
10th August – Dinki Dots
11th August – Little Black Duck
12th August – Tea and a Sewing Machine
Giveaway
I am giving away the Wild Flower Pincushion (follow me on instagram, there will be a fun 'making of' video later today!) and my remaining scraps of pretty Tilda fabric...
**Giveaway now closed**
⟡ Open internationally, a winner will be chosen on Wednesday 17th August 2016.
⟡ Please make sure you leave your email in the comments so I have a way to contact you if you win! No reply blogger, no chance.
Good Luck!
☑ The baskets and the hair bows can both be ticked off my fal list
Star Crossed Blog Hop
The latest pattern by Fat Quarter Shop and It's Sew Emma is the gorgeous, vintage-inspired Star Crossed and I'm sharing my progress for the Blog Hop.
I have decided to go with a monochrome version. It's not something I have ever done before and I thought it would suit the star pattern - like gleaming stars in the night sky. I also wanted to keep it modern. Those that follow me know I adore vintage (patterns and fabric) but I am working on a couple of other quilts with vintage fabrics so I needed a change. Cue some Cotton + Steel and Doe to make my Star Crossed Night Sky quilt:
Here's my first block finished and I have to say I love it even more than I thought I would!!
The centre fabric is Shibuya in Linen, Tokyo Train Ride by Sarah Watts; the parallelograms are Lined Grids in White, Doe by Carolyn Friendlander and the background is Petite Plus, Black & White by Cotton + Steel.
The Petite Plus fabric really makes the star pop and the white Doe print makes it look like a shining star. I'm excited to get this one finished!
It's Sew Emma patterns are always so well written and easy to follow. The Star Crossed pattern gives you the sizes to make a Lap, Twin, Queen or King size. It also has the requirements for one block so you could easily make a quilt to suit any size and even make coordinating cushions or other accessories from just one block.
You can get the Star Crossed pattern here or get an instant download PDF version here.
Check out the other stops on the Blog Hop:
Daisy of Ants to Sugar
Lucy of Charm About You - you are here :)
Julie of the Crafty Quilter
Angie of Gnome Angel
Dana of Old Red Barn Co.
Natalia of Piece N Quilt
Heather and Megan of Quilt Story
Jodi of Tales of Cloth
Amy of Sew Incredible Crazy
What fabrics would you use to make Star Crossed?
brighten up Mondays {link to giveaway}
I am thrilled to be part of the Busy Girl Sews Tour, the blog hop for Heidi Staples' awesome new book Sew Organized for the Busy Girl. Full of helpful organising tips and useful ideas, that really are practical and realistic, as well as fun projects to make for yourself and as gifts. I found this to be a sewjo restoring book, that encouraged my joy and inspired my sewing. The result of which you will see towards the end of May!
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Each Monday for the next few months the tour will take you blog hopping to see projects made from the book and provide inspiration for us busy girls and guys. The tour starts today over at Lily's Quilts with a giveaway - 3 lucky winners will receive a copy of the book. Hop over to enter!
Here's the schedule for Busy Girl Sews:
April 6 - Jodi of Tales of Cloth & Angela of Cut to Pieces
April 13 - Lindsay of Craft Buds & Debbie of A Quilter's Table
April 20 - Leanne of She Can Quilt
April 27 - Fat Quarter Shop
May 4 - Erin of Why Not Sew?
May 11 - Jennifer of Ellison Lane Quilts
May 18 - Svetlana of SOTAK Handmade
May 25 - Lucy of Charm About You
June 1 - Maureen of Maureen Cracknell Handmade
June 8 - Becca of Bryan House Quilts
June 15 - Beth of Plum & June
June 22 - Jessica of Quilty Habit
June 29 - Caroline of Sew Can She
July 6 - Heidi of Fabric Mutt (Tour Wrap!)
Making Christmas
Have you seen the blog hop that's all about getting ready for Christmas (and Halloween and anything else between now and December!)?
Janine of Rainbow Hare Quilts and Rebecca of Making Rebecca Lynne have plotted to make sure we get all our crafting done in time and you can link up with your list and update or add things each week to keep you on track.
I will be joining in the great line up:
October 19th - REBECCA Making Rebecca Lynne
October 26th - KRISTY Quiet Play
November 2nd - M-R Quilt Matters
November 9th - SOMA Whims and Fancies
November 16th - FIONA Celtic Thistle Stitches
November 23rd - NAT Made in Home
November 30th - ERIN Missy Mac Creations
December 2nd - LUCY Charm About You
December 14th - SUSAN The Bored Zombie
December 21st - To be confirmed
and there will be a prize randomly selected from the links!
Grab the button and join in:
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So my list...
- Christmas gifts for kid's school teachers
- Christmas ornaments
- Quilt for one of my best friends (this is underway)
and perhaps more importantly I need to actually think a little more about other things I want to make for people because at the moment I'm totally stumped!! I guess it's good I get to add to this list then and can visit the blog hop stops before me! ;)
What are you making for Christmas?
'You Pick' GIVEAWAY!
** THE GIVEAWAY HAS NOW CLOSED - see the result HERE**
There's a lot of celebration round here - I've passed the half way stage of my pregnancy, I've managed to get a lot of sewing done recently and I have been blogging for a year on the 28th of this month. All good reasons for another giveaway...
I'm very excited about this giveaway and also to be able to introduce my new sponsor Fresh Squeezed Fabrics!
How would you like to own some of this fabric goodness? Well now is your chance!
I have purchased fabric several times from Fresh Squeezed Fabrics and can tell you first hand that they offer fantastic service and a gorgeous range of beautiful modern fabric.
I'll let the lovely owner tell you a little more:
My name is Randi and I have been a fabric lover for a long time---ever since I was little and my grandma carted me to the fabric store every weekend. It always seemed magical to spend time in her "fabric closet" looking through her fabrics, ribbons and buttons and dreaming of what those goodies might become. In my little shop I carry the latest designer fabric and patterns, for all of your crafty projects.
She has a fantastic range! I'm currently crushing on these great bundles: Chicopee, Madrona Road and Nursery Versery:
Fresh Squeezed Fabrics lets you buy exactly what you want and it's so easy to create your own custom bundle, there's also a great sale section!
She has a fantastic range! I'm currently crushing on these great bundles: Chicopee, Madrona Road and Nursery Versery:
Fresh Squeezed Fabrics lets you buy exactly what you want and it's so easy to create your own custom bundle, there's also a great sale section!
Randi is kindly offering you the chance to look through her shop and pick 6 fat quarters of your choice!
Here's how to to win this great giveaway:
1 - Hop over and like Fresh Squeezed Fabrics on Facebook, come back and leave a comment telling me you did (and honestly Randi has a fun facebook page - she posts great links and projects too!)
2 (optional entry) - Follow my blog, use the buttons on the left sidebar to subscribe by GFC or RSS and leave another comment telling me you have or do already!
Here's how to to win this great giveaway:
The giveaway is open internationally and the winner will be announced on Monday 3rd September
** SORRY THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED**
I'm joining the Quilting Gallery's Blog Hop - make sure you check out the other great giveaways and good luck!
Feeling fugly
I've finally caught that horrible bug going around and feel totally lousy today :(
Just wanted to remind you the the Fugly fabric party starts aweek fortnight today!! **thank you Erin, I'm such a ditz!!)**
To say thank you for linking up I'm offering a prize to one of the linkers (you can call it bribery, I'm going with incentive!!)
I don't have a big stash and very little fugly fabric! So you'll be pleased to know my giveaway (open only to those that link a post with fabric offerings) will be this delicious charm pack!!
Yes this time it's only one charm pack! What can I do with that I hear you say?!
Well by amazing coincidence look what's just come up on the Moda Bakeshop... this fantastic pattern by Sunflower Quilts, using only one charm pack and some solid yardage!
So what do you need to do to win? Just come back on February 7th and link up! After a week, once the linky is finished I'll pick a winner using random.org.
You must link up with a post offering some fabric to your readers (and hopefully visitors!!). Be it fugly, ugly, not your taste or just fabric you're not likely to use. You can have a giveaway, competition, swap or offer it to anyone who'll pay the postage!
Please make sure it is cotton fabric suitable for quilting and a decent size, feel free to offer scraps if they're useable (no smaller than 5x5") but make sure it's clear in your post.
Thank you to those who have already helped spread the word! Remember we want some takers for the fabric so please encourage people to come and blog hop starting Tuesday 7th and spread the word on your blog. Grab a button and stick it on your sidebar:
Off to completely veg and feel sorry for myself (while amusing a 2 year old with as many puzzles as I can find!!). Yucky, yucky illness :(
Just wanted to remind you the the Fugly fabric party starts a
To say thank you for linking up I'm offering a prize to one of the linkers (you can call it bribery, I'm going with incentive!!)
I don't have a big stash and very little fugly fabric! So you'll be pleased to know my giveaway (open only to those that link a post with fabric offerings) will be this delicious charm pack!!
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| again not a sponsored giveaway, bought by me!! |
Yes this time it's only one charm pack! What can I do with that I hear you say?!
Well by amazing coincidence look what's just come up on the Moda Bakeshop... this fantastic pattern by Sunflower Quilts, using only one charm pack and some solid yardage!
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| http://www.modabakeshop.com/2012/01/follow-pezzy-brick-road.html |
So what do you need to do to win? Just come back on February 7th and link up! After a week, once the linky is finished I'll pick a winner using random.org.
You must link up with a post offering some fabric to your readers (and hopefully visitors!!). Be it fugly, ugly, not your taste or just fabric you're not likely to use. You can have a giveaway, competition, swap or offer it to anyone who'll pay the postage!
Please make sure it is cotton fabric suitable for quilting and a decent size, feel free to offer scraps if they're useable (no smaller than 5x5") but make sure it's clear in your post.
Thank you to those who have already helped spread the word! Remember we want some takers for the fabric so please encourage people to come and blog hop starting Tuesday 7th and spread the word on your blog. Grab a button and stick it on your sidebar:
<div align="center"><a href="http://charmaboutyou.blogspot.com/p/fugly-fabric-party.html" title="Charm About You"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6723225913_dc59644156_m.jpg" alt="Charm About You" style="border:none;" /></a></div>
Off to completely veg and feel sorry for myself (while amusing a 2 year old with as many puzzles as I can find!!). Yucky, yucky illness :(
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