Giveaway Winner...

This is the magic bowl of chance... 3 Ladies will be winning... Fabric No. 1 is...

Christy!!! Now No.2...

Making Changes! You didn't put your name or email! Just send it to beebeesvintagedress@hotmail.co.uk Now the Piece everyone seemed to fall over! No.3 goes to...

Jannine!!! Congratulations you winners and commiserations to everyone else!

If you could send your Adresses to Beebeesvintagedress@hotmail.co.uk I can post them all of ASAP!!!

Finally a GIVEAWAY!!!! CLOSED

Yes as promised I have been deliberating about what to do as a giveaway to celebrate both 100 followers and my one year Blogiversary.

I have decided to give away fabric this time. But not one... Three!

Two of the fabrics are cotton and are about a metre each.

No. 1 is a lovely ditsy print.

Number 2 is this beautiful green quilting cotton with gold swirls.

Number 3 is 2 panels of this amazing Jersey fabric. It has 1970s style people looking awesome on the width! How kool is this?! I wanted to give away something super special as its taken me so long!

So here are the Rules:

To comment and enter you must be a follower my blog. You must also specify if you want fabric 1,2 or 3.

If you'd like a second chance or to go for a different fabric you need to be following me on twitter @bbvintagedress and liking us on Facebook.

If you'd like a third entry slap my new button on your own blog OR if your techphobic (I don't blame you!) Blog about the giveaway and link me up!

I will be revealing this blog button in the next couple of days. All you got to do is just copy and paste the HTML into your design box!

This giveaway applies to any country and I will announce the winner in about a weeks time!

Good Luck Lovelies!

We have a winner...

Thankyou all for your lovely comments! We have a winner for the patterns and golden hands magazine
I used a randomizer and it came up with...

SorbetSuprise! (sorry I couldn't find your name!)
Jade
Trudy
Charlotte
Alexandra
Lizzy
Emma
Margith
Making Changes
Zoe
Lyn
Kate
Timestamp: 2011-04-02 13:29:31 UTC

Thankyou again for entering I will post the goodies on Monday.

Happy Weekend Everyone

Get Stuff done. Day two...

Evening all!
I spoke too soon about the washing...
I've had a long boring day Ironing. Ironing everything in sight... Pattern pieces, fabric, the lot. One rather crinkled Jersey I got from ebay took two hours to get straight again!

At least now I have a nice pile of ready washed ironed fabrics ready for use...

This is where we come to my art deco quilting fabric I bought from Rosenburgs at sewing for pleasure. It looked great when in was drying and then I opened it out to iron and...

This is what I saw. A dark line where it had been folded had affected the gold... It is right down the middle so when I cut my fabric the front has a big streak down. I'm really annoyed as none of the other fabric is affected.

The only thing I can think to do is shove the pattern pieces back into the wash and hope they fade equally.

Any better suggestions let me know.

Don't forget Midnight tonight is when the giveaway ends! There are 12 of you in the draw so far... So the odds are good!

Stash Talk...

Hello fellow sewing lovers, (Especially new recruits)
The giveaway is going well but do not forget... If you Re-blog the giveaway on your own blog I will enter you in twice! TWICE! Two chances to win the Vintage Goodies!
You must make sure you either comment again or let me know as so far I have been checking up on you all! Like a nosey Auntie... (perhaps a stealthy one...) Don't forget the giveaway closes Friday at midnight GMT!!!

Now onto todays proceedings. I'm afraid i'm not feeling so hot today. I was going to try and get a handle on one of those pesky UFO's (Unfinished objects) But a headache and temperature descended so I am now in bed.
But before I started feeling lukey, I decided to label and sort out my fabric stash. It was in a bit of a mucky pile behind my door and I thought, "This won't take me 5 minutes and i'll get onto the sewing." Oh how wrong I was dear friends...

This is how it looked when I emptied out those two boxes and the pile on top...

My thoughts? Bloody Hell... where did all this come from? Of course we all know where it came from but I have never had a serious stash before and I felt a mixture of pride and panic.

So I got it all up onto the bed and began to measure and label every piece so I knew how much I had of each fabric, where I bought it and if I had a specific project in mind for it.

It was a pretty mundane task but entirely necessary and in the end pretty useful. I got to know precisely what was in my stash and how many had projects destined for them ( and the many that didn't.)

I tried to stick similar colours together but I ran out of boxes in then end! two boxes have multiplied into 4! But 4 well organised boxes is better than 2 packed, hectic boxes that won't shut.

Here are all the boxes packed and ready to be put away. I was intending to count my fabrics and pair some into projects as well as get photos up into my iPhoto as I did here. But the Lurgy descended. I was surprised at a few things in my stash. First the amount of useable pieces I had told myself would be too small to make garments! As well as the amount of yellow hued fabrics I have. I didn't have quite as much blue as I had been imagining either which is good as that is what my wardrobe is full of. I also found some green suede that is perfect for a RTW I had in mind. But that is another blog post for another day.

So for now I will leave you to wonder at my neat little fabric stash a wild beast no more! More a delicate swan if you will...