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Store Closing Giveaway Prizes

All the details about the Store Closing Giveaway prizes! It'll be Christmas before Christmas for 3 lucky seamstresses!

Prize #1 : For Amy Butler Fans

• Amy Butler Love Entire Collection Fat Quarters Bundle (that's 26 FQ!)
• Amy Butler Software

($103.50 value)

Prize #2 : Sewing for your Little Girl

• Patty Young Mezzanine 12 Fat Quarters Set Bundle
• Patty Young Modkid Boutique Kyoko Sewing Pattern
• Patty Young Modkid Boutique Sophie 3-way Pants Sewing Pattern
• Patty Young Modkid Boutique Emma Sewing Pattern
• Amy Butler Mini Dress, Tunic and Tops Sewing Pattern
• Aranzi Aronzo Cute Dolls Book

($113.50 value)

Prize #3 : "Green" Theme :)

• 5 yards bundle of "in green" fabrics (1 yard each) :
  • Lotus & Leaves in Green by Erin McMorris
  • Forest in Green by Erin McMorris
  • Wallpaper Roses in Green by Heather Bailey
  • Fresh Poppies in Green by Amy Butler
  • Martini in Green by Amy Butler
• 1 Grass in Fresh Green Fat Quarter by Repeat (organic)
• Amy Butler Field Bag and Tote Sewing Pattern
• Stitched in Time: Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share from the Creator of Posie Gets Cozy Book

($105.69 value)

The Small Prints

You get 1 entry for each yard of fabric and each pattern or book you buy during the store closing clearance sale, ending on Friday, December 4th. 

I'll pick the winners in the week after. Each winner will be contacted by email one after the other to be given the choice of the prize they wish to get. Winners will have 48 hours to answer, otherwise I pick someone else. I ask this because I'd like the packages to reach their destinations before Christmas!  Good luck!

Closing the store

It's not an easy post to write, believe me! I'm closing the shop on Friday, December 4th 2009. 

There's a Store Closing Clearance Sale starting now and ending at midnight on December 4th.

• 30% off all fabrics
• 40% off all sewing patterns
• Shipping is free in Canada on all orders

It's been a great and fun adventure. I have the best customers and I want to thank you all! I enjoyed being part of your sewing projects, answering your questions, seeing and sharing your creations (and even buying some of them!). 

I've started this shop with the goal to have a project of my own while staying at home raising my 2 little boys. I had not thought it would take so much of my time and I'm now simply rebalancing the work-life balance in favor of my family. 

As I want this closing to also be a happy event, I'm launching a fun shop closing giveaway to thank you all. I'll be giving away 3 fabulous packages of fabrics, books and patterns. You get 1 entry for each yard of fabric and each sewing pattern you buy. Nothing to do on your side, I'll be compiling the entries and announce the winners in the week after the shop closes. I'll give more details about each prize composition in an upcoming post.

Winners of new Amy Butler patterns are...

Winner of Sweet Harmony Handbag and Tote sewing pattern is egater (Comment #74) who said :

"Amy Butler's design are always so beautiful!"

Winner of Liverpool shirt, tunic, short and long dress sewing pattern is jenniferladd (Comment #14) who said :

"I follow your blog publicly" and "These patterns look great! I'd love to win! Thanks!" in a previous comment :)

Thanks to all who participated!  The patterns are not here yet, I'm expecting them this week or next!

Giveaway Time! Win new Amy Butler sewing patterns!

Amy Butler is releasing 2 new sewing patterns perfect to show off your favorite Love prints : The Liverpool shirt, tunic, short & long dress and the Sweet Harmony Handbag and Tote. I have them on order and, while waiting that they arrive, why not start a giveaway?

2 winners will each win one of the new sewing patterns. You get 1 entry for each of the following :

• Leave a comment on this post with your email address so I can contact you
• Subscribe to my blog in a reader/by email
• Share about the giveaway (Twitter, Facebook, your own blog, etc...).
• Follow me on Twitter
• Become a fan on Facebook
• Follow the blog publicly
• Post a picture in Fabric in Use by Indies Flickr group
• Subscribe to the newsletter

Please post a comment for each to count as a separate entry. 

The giveaway ends on Sunday, October 18th, at Midnight EDT. Winners will be picked using random.org and announced the following day. The prizes will be shipped as soon as I receive the patterns. 

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Moms Rock the Economy Twitter Party

Moms Rock The Economy is a great new website where moms and moms business owners make a pledge to buy mom owned and support mom owned economy.  What a great idea!

They're having a Twitter Party tonight to launch the website.  There'll be giveaways every 10 minutes with prizes donated by mom entrepreneurs, and I'm very happy to be one of the donators!  See Moms Rock The Economy website for all details about how to enter.

The prize I'm giving away is an Amy Butler Daisy Chain in Turquoise 4 Fat Quarters Set :

  

See you tonight!

Winner of Sydney Euro Hoodie Dress Ready-to-Sew Kit is...

... Carla! who said this : 

The dress would be so adorable on my niece Cara!

Thanks so much to all who participated, I'm very happy with the success of this giveaway!  From your comments there are obviously a lot of lucky little girls with a mom, an aunt or a grandma that sew for them, that's beautiful.

You can find both the complete ready-to-sew kit or only the Sydney Euro Hoodie Dress and Top sewing pattern or Mezzanine fabric collection in the shop.

Win a Sydney Euro Hoodie Dress Ready-to-Sew Kit (Patty Young pattern and fabric)

I wish I had a little girl to sew her funky outfits like this one, but with 2 boys, I guess I'll patch their pants more often than I sew something new :)

The Giveaway prize is a Ready-to-Sew kit to make the Sydney Euro Hoodie, dress version, exactly as shown below.

The kit includes everything :

• The Sydney Euro Hoodie Dress & Tops Sewing Pattern by Patty Young for Modkid Boutique
• Fabrics from Patty Young's most recent line, Mezzanine : Main Fabric, Contract Fabric and a 5 Fat Quarter Set for the strip skirt
• Fusible interfacing (Pellon) 

You can see the details of the kit here.  The kit is to make a size 7, so you'll have plenty of fabrics for the smaller sizes.

You get 1 entry for each of the following : 

• Leave a comment on this post
• Subscribe to my blog
• Share about the giveaway (Twitter, Facebook, your own blog, etc...).
• Follow me on Twitter

Please post a comment for each to count as a separate entry.

Other rules :

• The giveaway ends on Sunday, August 30th, at Midnight EDT.  Winner will be picked using random.org and announced the following day 
• I'll provide shipping for winner in Canada and United States.  I'll ask international winners to make a donation for the shipping. 

Good luck!

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Big August Clearance Sale!

Welcome to my first clearance sale ever! :)  I'm making some space for the fabulous upcoming Fall and Winter fabric collections.  That means you get the chance to scoop up some fabric at 25% off!  You can choose amongst these 4 collections that have all become instant classic :

• Amy Butler's Belle 
• Amy Butler's Lotus
• Tanya Whelan's Ava Rose
• Heather Ross's Mendocino

And do you know about my Friday Twitter Giveaways?  Each Friday, I'm doing a giveaway on Twitter, easy peasy to enter.  You just have to "follow me" and send me a reply when I post the giveaway.  This week, I'm offering 2 Fat Quarters in Amy Butler's Daisy Chain collection.  It only runs for a couple of hours, so hurry up and enter! :)

There's also only 1 day left on my 25% off introductory sale on all sewing books!

Alright, that's all! :)  Have a great weekend!  Thanks to my parents that are coming over this evening to take care of the kids, I'll be starting mine with a walk on "bande du canal Chambly" with a chocolate sundae because the summer has finally started in the Montreal area!

I couldn't resist! This is a Sundae Crochet Pattern you can find in StripeyBlue Etsy shop along other patterns.  Yes, there's one for a cupcake :)

Giveaway on Fabric Shopper for Amy Butler Frenchy Bag Ready-to-Sew Kit

I'm putting together more and more ready-to-sew kits every week and this week, I'm sponsoring a giveaway to win one on Fabric Shopper blog.  This blog is a useful resource for every fabric addict out there that want to stay on top of trends and get inspiration and tips.

I'm giving away a ready-to-sew kit featuring Amy Butler's Frenchy Bags pattern.  

My aunt Claire has sewn this bag that my aunt Corinne is now proudly wearing in Gaspésie, a beautiful Québec destination for nature's lovers!  (and just lovers too...)

Photo Copyright Dr Papillon and Hoedic

The fabrics are from Amy Butler's Daisy Chain collection with the main fabric a bold floral print that is the perfect size for the bag.  The kit includes everything : fabric, sewing pattern, interfacing, thread and magnetic closure!

Enter the giveaway here.  Good luck! :)

For those who can't bear the idea of maybe not winning, you can shop the kit here. :)

Winner of Amy Butler Mini Dress Sewing Pattern Giveaway is ...

Random.org has spoken, and the winner is Stephanie!  Congratulations to the winner and a huge thank you to all participants!

Just found a super summery bag on Stephanie's Flickr stream, it's so perfect for end of June with this lovely strawberries fabric, perfectly made too!  I thought I'd share :

Photo copyright Stephanie Ellison

I'm picking up some August Fields home dec fabric this morning and I'll be making kits to make the Mini Dress as shown in the inspiration pictures, can't wait!

Photos copyright Amy Butler Design

I also got a small hint for you : I've just started a 15% off sale on all designer sewing patterns yesterday :)