Circa 1934 Winner!

Thanks everyone for entering my giveaway!

Without further ado the winner is.....

 Who is:

Congratulations Nancy Sue, I'll be in touch with you shortly for your details. Thanks so much to Janette over at River Fabrics for sponsoring this great giveaway !

And don't forget to pop back Monday for another great giveaway for the Sew, Mama, Sew! Giveaway day :-)

Circa 1934 Giveaway sponsored by River Fabrics

A couple of weeks ago, I hit the 1000 follower mark on Google Friend Connect, something that I used to see on other people's blogs and dream about last year. I was thinking about it one evening, reading some of your lovely comments congratulating me and decided that really, as I couldn't do this without all your encouragement, suggestions, good advice and friendship, a little celebration was in order! So, I thought about it some more and reckoned that a fun follower appreciation giveaway was the way to go.

My fave fabric enabler, Janette of River Fabrics, very kindly agreed to sponsor this giveaway - and it is FAB!! Those of you who visit me a lot will know how much I love River Fabrics. I love the huge range of beautiful Konas, the gorgeous Aurifil threads, and the fabulous range of fabrics Janette carries - with lots of great designer names, new ranges like Ruby, Cabbages and Roses, Circa 1934 and lots of precuts - check out these fab layer cakes for example.  I love the brilliant service and most of all the fact that I get fabric into my hand 1-2 days after ordering it! I love it even more now, since they have introduced free UK and ROI postage for orders over £49.

So, what's the giveaway - well, this gorgeous bundle of 6 metric FQs of Circa 1934 - one of the coolest range of fabrics out there at the moment. I just love that typewriter key fabric, and the numbers...in fact, I love all of it!

You get 2 chances to win -

1. Pop over to River Fabrics and have a little look around, then come back here and tell me what your fave fabric/product is in a comment.
2. Either sign up for the River Fabrics newsletter OR like River Fabrics on Facebook and let me know which you are doing - or if you already get the newsletter/like the FB page - in a 2nd comment.

The giveaway runs until Friday 9th December at 9pm Irish time. I will draw the winner using Random number generator and announce over the weekend.

This is a follower appreciation giveaway so you must follow FairyFace Designs through GFC/Reader/FB/Twitter to enter. Giveaway is open internationally. I will delete duplicate entries. Please leave your email address in your comment unless you are sure you have one in your profile - if I cannot contact the winner, I will have to re-draw.

Goodie Swap sewing!

So, because I really have nothing else on my agenda at the moment (la la la, fingers in the ears, not thinking about my mammoth to-do list!!!) I decided to take part in Cindy's Goodie Swap 2011. I blame Cindy for thinking up such a great swap, but she is not alone. I blame Judith, Hadley and Susan too. Yes, it is ALL your fault that I couldn't resist. As Judith so eloquently put it a few weeks ago, I am a SUCKER!!

Anyway, now that I have my little blame game out there in the open I have to say I got 2 of the best partners ever. I was so thrilled and just hope they like what I make for them. Being all quilted out trying to write up my Across the Sea QAL tutes for the back this week, and coming down with a nasty flu type bug at the end of the week, I wasn't in the humour for anything too major in the way of sewing, so yesterday afternoon when I felt human again, I took out some of the lovely Aviary 2 fabrics that I got from River Fabrics (swoon!) and decided to make a little something for partner 1. I thought she might like a needlecase so of course, without any pattern, I just sketched a few lines out on graph paper, decided not to overthink it and just went for it! It turned out pretty good although my seam ripper got used a little bit :-)

I put in a little pocket and some tabs on one side:

 

And a zipped pocket on the other side for thread and measuring taper or any other little bits that might fall out!

Both fabrics are from the Aviary 2 line and I added a plum solid to compliment them. I put in two sheets of wool mix felt for needles and pins - luckily I had the right colour in my felt box! 

On the outside, I fussy cut the fabric to give me the bird on the front, and I covered a button with the inside fabric for the closure. I used a little bit of lavender coloured ribbon as the tie, and finished it with some purple buttons I found in my button box.

On the front, I quilted a little box around the bird and I quilted straight lines on the back. Lastly I decided it needed a little pincushion to finish it off and I had a perfect off cut from my fabric cutting to use - I decided to make another bigger cover button as the feature on this - I'm addicted to these lately!

So, I really hope my partner likes this. If she doesn't I will quite happily keep for myself!!

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