Spring For Cotton Sewing Challenge

I've been meaning to post about this fun sewing challenge for a while now - but, as you may have noticed, posts have been a bit scarce around here lately - due to a monster work overload.

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Rochelle of LuckyLucille is hosting a vintage sewing challenge that I'm very excited to join in!!

 You can get the details here.

The Vintage Sewing Pattern Pledge

The other day I bumped into a post over at  A Stitching Odyssey blog with a sewing challenge that got me all excited.
 The gist of it is that you join in and pledge to sew from vintage patterns in 2015.

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There's all manner of options as to how you can take part in the challenge, with varying degrees of difficulty.
Options range from actually using your very first vintage pattern to promising to sew 5 items from vintage patterns.

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If you head over to this post HERE you can find out the details and take the pledge.

Of course, I jumped right in and took my own pledge to make at least 5 things from vintage patterns over the next year.

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I wanted to take pictures of some of my favourite vintage patterns to include in this post but as my camera is still not working, I chose a few random ones from my etsy Vintage Patterns favourites collection that I hope you like. Click on any picture to go to the link.
I will, however, be making a post of my favourite vintage patterns from my own collection soon.

The Naughty Notions Bag

Yes, once more I find myself uploading the pictures of my bag challenge entry at the last minute -and vowing I will not do this again next time....

The good news is that, while,, literally finished at the last minute, it is exactly what I had imagined.

The pictures weren't the best -at the setting of the sun, it was no wonder

...but I hope you get the idea....

Most of these labels, buttons and various notions have a sentimental value and have been lurking in dark places for a project such as this.

For example, the little white daisy with the hanging beads adorned my mother's wedding dress....

I'll get some better pictures tomorrow, but for now, here is the front and below is the back of my entry.

Here is were you can see the rest of the bags in the challenge.

Linked to:

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Summer Of No Pants! Plus Give-Away!

This is a post that should've been up many days ago but my  temperamental connection had other plans....

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Over at Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky! the lovely Marigold is having a Summer Of No Pants skirt and dressmaking challenge. From May 23 to June 27 you get to join other like-minded dress/skirt fans and sew up a storm!



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There are also many guest bloggers with tutorials and lovely inspirational posts that will hopefully have you running to your wardrobe for that neglected frock.






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I'm a great fan of skirts and even more so of dresses. So, my contribution to the Summer Of No Pants 2011 is  a Date Night Dresses round-up with 10 of the loveliest dresses I could find  that will hopefully inspire you to join the fun this summer.



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As if  all this loveliness wasn't reward enough, the ever generous Marigold also  has a long line-up of prizes you can win.

One of these prizes is this OnePerfectDay cuff:

For a chance to win it go here and enter the Champagne Ruffle Cuff Give-Away.

Don't miss out!