Giveaway winner!!!

Sorry I know I was supposed to do this yesterday, but better late than never right?

Thanks to all who commented on the garlands and entered into the draw to win 5 metres for themselves.


The random number generator is in an the winner is... COMMENT NUMBER 2!!!! Come on down...

Marina Court Sitting Room, you are the lucky winner. The garland will be winging its was over the pond to you shortly.

Thanks again everybody, this giveaway thing was kind of fun, stay tuned for more in the future.

xx

Circus room

Hi guys! Ugh as you can tell I have been a bit lazy with the old blog this week. I swear Vegas took more out of me than I thought it would. Definately can't go there more than once a year. Unless its a special occasion... twist my arm why dont you.

So this weekend I did manage to do some fun crafting. Since I am the luckiest girl in the world with the nicest friends, I now am the proud owner of Odette! A super awesome PINK sewing machine. Yay for me.

ANYWAY, I have been dying to make some party garland like on the Purl Bee and this weekend I took my chance.

I started off with some left over scraps and 2 new fat quarter bundles from Purl Patchwork. And I even invested in an air erase fabric marker. I love the pen, but didnt realise how quickly it would air-erase. I spent about 30 minutes drawing a new embroidery pattern to stitch at a later date and the next day all I had was a blank piece of fabric. Likewise when I traced the shapes for the garland, the race was then on to cut them out before the lines all dissappeared.

So here are the fabrics I ended up going with...


I guess I didnt take into account how much garland this many fabrics would make, because I ended up with about 50 metres (55ish yards). Thank-fully I had a very nice cutting assistant (A) who helped with most of the speed-cutting.

Then a few nights later I parked up at Odette and sewed this mother out. 4 hours and 6 eps of My Name is Earl later... voila...




The view from bed...

My favourite fabric was the yellow one...


So let me know what you think! I tried to use as much as I could to decorate my room, hence the title, but I still have screeds and screeds left.

Soooo this leads me to my very first GIVEAWAY!!! I have decided to give about 5 metres away to one lucky reader. All you need to do it leave a comment on this post by 5pm (New York time) on Monday 20th to enter. I will use a random number generator to pick the winner and will post off your garland almost immediately. And yes, I will ship anywhere in the world. Good luck!

NB: just so you know the edges of the fabric shapes are raw (aka un-hemmed) but shouldn't fray unless you are really rough with it. Fair warning.

Hope everyone is having a good week so far. Only 2 sleeps till the weekend.

xx