Our first week in the Seasonal Sewing Series is complete and the projects my wonderful guests shared this week blew me away! Not only great sewing skills, but incredibly creative and imaginative.
In case you missed them:
The giveaways are all still open – click on through to enter and have a chance and one or more of these great prizes!
- Sewaholic sewing patterns and a sew your own key fobs kit
- Coats and Clark Threads Set
- 2 year subscription to Vogue Patterns magazine
- 4 purse sewing patterns of your choice from ChrisW Designs
- Fabric bundle an gift certificate from Fabric Mart
And none of this would be possible without the fabulous support from our daily prize sponsors. Please drop over and visit these great sites and thank them for their support.
So what do we have coming up in the coming week – more fabulous festive projects you'll love from these amazing bloggers:
11th Nov – Amber from Crazy Little Projects
12th – Hannah from Made with Hugs and Kisses
13th – Palak from Make it Handmade
14th – Caroline from Sew Caroline
15th – Heather from the Sewing Loft
And of course more great sewing giveaways every single day! If you haven't entered the giveaways for this week yet – don't delay! Click on the projects above to go to each giveaway and enter for a chance to win lots of lovely prizes in time for Christmas.
Introducing the sponsor for today – a big THANK YOU to Modes4u !
About Modes4U – Modes4u is an online shop for cute fabrics, stationery, bento lunch boxes, DIY clay sets, Re-Ment miniature toys and accessories, which are imported from Japan and the USA. They even offer free international shipping for purchases over EUR 60 / US$78 / ₤ 54.
Modes4U introduces the shop-special Echino Laminate collection with radiant colours, many details and beautiful print. Echino is a wonderful imported collection of printed and solid fabrics from designer Etsuko Furuya for the Japanese fabric manufacturer Kokka. They are very high quality fabric, natural-coloured and water resistant with a laminate finish. This fabric is great for sewing clothes, accessories, deco and very suitable for totes, raincoats, baby bibs, playmats, table cloths, outdoor projects and more. This fabric is BPA and lead free and therefore child safe.
Check out some of the bags made with their fabrics for some real Japanese fabric inspiration.
If you love cute prints and Japanese fabrics – you'll love Modes4u ! As well as all of the usual fabric designers you might want, you”ll find fabrics under categories like:
- animals
- Christmas
- fairy tale
- owls
- fabric for boys
- retro
- maritime
- and lots more
The prize: Japanese fabric bundle of 10 fat quarters (worth over $50)
Open to: WORLDWIDE
Giveaway terms and conditions: Giveaway closes on 22 Nov 2013 at 11.59pm. Winners will be selected at random by Rafflecopter, all entries and entrants have an equal chance of winning. Winners will be notified by email and have 3 days to respond. So Sew Easy is not responsible for prize delivery, your details will be sent to the sponsor for direct delivery of your prize. This draw is in no way sponsored, endorsed or affiliated with any of the external websites such as Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. Giveaway open to all participants including guest bloggers, sponsors and I'm entering too!Grand Giveaway coming soon
And of course we are counting down too, towards the eventual end of the series – but don't be sad – there's more prizes to win on 27th November.
I love the Christmas Gift Wrapping. What a fantastic idea!
My favorite project so far are the fabric gift bags with the scrappy pot holders a close second. Thanks!
Thanks for all the fun Deby! I liked the Christmas bag project best. I’m making some of these for gift giving.
This is my first visit but I have made quite a collection of cloth gift bags and not just for Christmas. The hexagon tree skirt is a marvelous idea with such a natural opening.
I love the fabric gift bags.
I love all the projects and especially the fabric
I like the scrappy potholders. They are a great way to use up scraps and make gifts that are useful and appreciated.
The key fob
The key fobs are such a great idea for a quick and useful gift. So many great sponsors and prizes. Thank you so much for all the work you and everyone put into this great combination of projects and giveaways!
I like the fabric bags. What a great idea!
The Christmas Advent Calendar is lovely!
The hexagon Christmas tree skirt is my favorite because it reminds me of my first attempt at quilting, long ago!
I really like the Hexagon tree skirt! However, all are really great ideas to make!
The fabric gift bags are my favorite so far.
I love the gift card holder!
The pot holders are awesome. but I like the advent calendar too.
My favorite is Hexagon tree skirt
My favorite has been the pink echino birds and berries laminate fabric cherry.
All the way from Japan? How wonderful!
Wonderfull ideas! I really love the Christmas Tree Advent calendar! <3
my favourite is the scrappy potholder:D
I just love the advent calendar. This is the first one I have seen that I want.
I’m planning to give sewing a try 🙂 so winning this giveaway would truly help! Thanks
My fave project was making a baby blanket for my daughter!
I love the Molly bag/purse, very useful and beautiful!
Sorry, I was out of topic, so from these series my favorites are the key fobs! 😉
I’m loving the Scrappy Potholders. I always ruin mine!
Everything is just lovely. Love all the ideas here. Love your blog too. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love the Japanese Fabric Bundle
Good luck to all
Loved the tree skirt!
Love The advent calendar!
I love the tree skirt! I plan to make one!! Thanks so much!!
I’ll be honest – I don’t have a favorite, as I only just discovered this site. I’m going to be doing some serious looking around, though, and you can bet I’ll be passing the link on to others.
Love the hexagon tree skirt!
Many projects sewing and knitting but never have the time or patience to start ….
Anyway, thank you so much fir this lovely giveaway!
The key fobs are lovely and my fav ones! Thank you for havings this great giveaway!
Nice giveaway! I love it all!
The gift wrap and bags.Great for the environment as they are reusable 🙂
I love the tree skirt best, I’ve never seen another like it!
I like the key fob. I wouldn’t have thought to make one!
I like the potholders. So useful and a great way to use up scrap fabric.