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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Summer Pattern Giveaway Winners

Hello readers! I apologize for the delay! It's been a crazy week at work and also getting back into our normal routines after house guests for two weeks. I was totally wow'd by the number of people who entered the summer pattern giveaway and was excited to divvy up the responses. Surprisingly, an almost even number requested either pattern. I was waiting to see a clear favorite pop up, but it really was as close to divided in half as it could be (with 31 entries). So, onto the winners!

Winners were selected using random.org after I sorted the entries into two buckets - Simplicity 1873 and 0325.

The winner of Simplicity 1873 is:
Stacy Sews and Schools
'My favorite summer tradition is cooking out and just hanging around the house with my family. '

The winner of Simplicity 0325 is:
Cuckoo Chanel
'My favorite summer activity is going to Block Island, RI with my boyfriend. During this heat wave, I am also devoted to jumping into the pool as soon as I get home from work!'

Congratulations to the winners! I really had fun with this and it made me want to host more giveaways. So, if you were not a winner, stay tuned as I'll try to get another giveaway going shortly.

If the two winners could please send me their mailing address at craftycupcakeblog@gmail.com. Thank you!

Monday, July 02, 2012

Summer Pattern Giveaway

The promised giveaway is here! In celebration of surpassing 250 GFC followers, 200 Facebook followers, and just because I appreciate my readers, I am giving away two of the new Simplicity summer patterns.

One may look familiar – I just made Simplicity 1873.

And the other dress, Simplicity 0325, just looked like a fun summer pattern. I love the center pleat in the skirt.

To enter: Please leave a comment to this post specifying the pattern that you prefer, and for fun... what's your favorite summer activity/tradition? If your profile doesn’t have a link to your email, please also leave a way to contact you. This giveaway will close on July 9th, and is open to all readers (global) that follow via Google Friend Connect, Facebook, or RSS feed.

*Note, this giveaway is not sponsored by Simplicity, but are new, uncut patterns from my own personal collection.

Sunday, July 03, 2011

Sew Weekly UFO: Dress Challenge

This dress fulfills a few purposes:

1. A summer dress with a lightweight fabric that I've had in my stash for a while
2. A completed garment as part of the Summer Sewalong, and finally
3. A UFO off my shelf!
4. Gives me space back on my ironing board.

I started this dress over a month ago but could never get past cutting all of the pieces. You may remember when I returned to the craft room at the beginning of June, my cat was in love with this project. That made one of us. I had cut all of the outer fabric pieces, but couldn't decide if I would do the lining in the same fabric or another. The dress was so light that I didn't want to weigh it down. So I did what I have a tendency to do... folded everything up and let it live on my ironing board. This spot is where my projects go to die. Or at least, a long hibernation.

When I saw Sew Weekly's UFO challenge, I knew just the project that I could use. So I did inventory to figure out where I had left off, dusted off the rest of the fabric and started assembling the dress. I used Simplicity 2579 in version B.

I really enjoyed this pattern, especially the upper bodice assembly. It made finishing all of the seams on the rest of the dress really easy. In the end, I was left with a very tidy, light, summer dress.