I know it's standard to say that I wish you all could have won but it's really true! I loved the things you all wanted to make, and the suggestions I raided your grandparents' closets made me laugh, and generally it really sucks to have to only choose two. But it has to be done, so the first winner is:
And that's Quilary who said "I think I'd be making quite a few cushions, with a matching solid for the backs. Very pretty! Thanks for the chance. :)"
Then I took her out of the running and the second winner is:
Who is Faery Sarah! She said "me likey! reminds me of sheets I had as a kid :-) I'd make softies out of them!" And the bonuses of Sarah winning is that she was first and thus saved me counting down the comments (28 was a stretch I tell you) and actually lives in the same neighbourhood as me which saves on postage. And it also goes to show that being first to comment doesn't rule you out of giveaways that use a random number generator. I was first commentor on a giveaway a couple years ago and won, so I'm a firm believer in it being a lucky number!
Congrats ladies and an email will be on its way to you asap. And thanks to everyone else who took the time to enter and say such nice things about my taste in sheets :)
I've been thinking a lot about vintage sheets lately, especially since I did a swap with Jenna over at Jenna Designs (I forgot to take photos of what I sent but she took some when they arrived!) and her parcel hasn't shown up yet - the Postie just went past 5 minutes ago without leaving a package AGAIN - curse you Postie! Anyways, while I haunt the mailbox I thought I could probably send some vintage love my reader's way so couple of you can haunt your mailboxes too! It's such fun.
So up for grabs are two bundles of 5 FQ each, leave a comment below if you're interested - international entries welcome of course. One comment per person and I suggest you don't Tweet, blog or Facebook about it to increase your chances ;) You can tell me something interesting in your comment, maybe what you're going to do with them - or you can just say hi. Either way, make sure I have some way of contacting you - if I have to spend too much time hunting you down I'll just draw another name. I'll use a random number generator to choose two lucky peeps on Friday afternoon, NZ time (which would be Thursday night sometime for those North Americans among us). If you are having problems commenting with Disqus then shoot me an email and I'll add you to the list.
I added a favicon to my blog - the little image that shows up to the left of my URL in the toolbar. What do you think? Does it actually look like a hazelnut at that size? I'm wondering if I need to get rid of the shadow...
ETA: I got rid of the shadow - but I don't know if it makes it better or not! Or maybe it doesn't really matter, I just like that it's there.
...I recently bought a duvet cover set that I'd been hankering after for awhile - when it was 50% off!
Yay. It's called the 'Alice' but when I see it the first thing that pops into my head is this video:
I still like birds on things, but inevitably the phrase "put a bird on it!" pops into my mind first :)
...I'd like to do a shout out to Belinda at Candy Cane Kids, for her great customer service and two lovely tops. Hazel picked both of them, neither are pink, and she loves and wears both of them. Score!
...and maybe it's just jealousy talking here, but is anyone else getting really sick of the massive coverage of this Go! Baby cutter? I don't even think they're available here, and would cost a bomb if they did, so I'm at the eye-rolling stage when yet another post pops up in my reader for a product I don't have ready access to. They've obviously got a crack marketing team who have targeted a goodly number of the bloggers I regularly read. I appreciate it would be a very tempting offer to recieve, but so many people extolling its virtues at the same time makes it seem more than a little spammy.
Ages ago I did a post about a website that looked like it was going to be a sewing version of Ravelry - and oddly it's one of my more popular posts via Google, despite the fact that the site never seemed to get off the ground! I guess us sewers are pretty desperate to emulate Ravelry :) Anyways, a couple days ago Allison left a comment there alerting me to a new site called Seamed Up, which is aiming to fill that gap. There is also My Sewing Circle, which has been around for a year or so. I'm not as good at updating my projects as I should be, but you can find me there by clicking the button over to the right in the sidebar.
So there you go - two sites that actually do work and that you can use to store your patterns and fabrics, read reviews, put your projects up and admire others'. There are also forums to share ideas and ask questions. It's up to us to make them work!
I've just quilted the plus cushion cover and am very taken with the back of the piece! I half wish I'd kept the bobbin colour the same throughout, but the dark wasn't working with the lighter colours I switched to part way through. I'm tempted to do something like this on plain fabric...very tempted! It'd be a butt-load of lines to draw though (innate laziness battling artistic urges)
*I doubt I can keep this whole plus thing up for long, but will milk it as much as I can!
