Winner of my giveaway!

Ok, time to announce the winner of my giveaway since it's past noon on January 12th. Even though there were only two participants, I still used a random number generator. Eitchy was no. 1 and Gjeometry Catja was no. 2.

And so, the winner is EITCHY! Congratulations! I will e-mail you to get your address.

Well, I must say, this giveaway turned out to be quite a flop. Last time (last summer) I at least got six comments=six participants, this time there were only two. Which is.. kind of surprising because I've had over 500 pageviews since I announced the giveaway... weird...don't people want to win stuff? Was my prize not desirable enough? Hmmm....

Anyway, this was it for now and I hope Eitchy will be happy with her prize.

Bye for now,

Johanna

Sewing room addition

Ever since I moved my sewing space downstairs to the guest bedroom I've been seeing some sort of notice board on the wall to the left of my sewing machine. I knew exactly which fabric to use for the cover, a super cute sewing themed Tilda-fabric from Panduro called Sewingbird labels.

Yesterday, I went into town with the kids and decided to finally get some that fabulous fabric. Lucky me!!! It was on sale!!! Half off, so I treated myself to a whole metre. :)

Isn't the fabric adorable?

It wasn't the first notice board I've made so it took about 15 minutes to cover the board, put the pins and clips on it and put it on the wall.

I think the fabric is gorgeous and I wouldn't mind having it all over the walls in my sewing room. :)

Sewing-wise, I'm waiting for the Tiramisu dress pattern from Cake patterns. I will participate in the Tiramisu 30 minutes a day-sewalong which starts on January 8th. I hope I get my pattern by then. Well, I already have the fabric so all I have to get for the sewalong are the notions.

And yet again, please take part in my 5000 pageviews giveaway!

Until next time,

Johanna

Happy New Onion - another jersey dress

I REALLY like my Onion jersey dress pattern (Onion 2017) and have now made a third version, version one here and version two here.

Yesterday I decided to finally do something with the lovely striped jersey fabric I have. There was one metre each of hot pink and grey melange, both with white stripes. Originally I had planned to make some t-shirts, but I got the idea to make a two-tone dress and use the Onion pattern. Well, here's how it turned out...

I'm happy with the dress although I was a bit ambivalent right after finishing it. I didn't know if I liked it in two colours or if I should buy more fabric and make two dresses. But now it feels good and I like it.

I made the dress like my first version, with separate waist pieces. I like it better that way. For my next version (yes, I alreday have another one in mind) I'm thinking of shortening the back bodice and lenghtening the front bodice with a few centimetres. I also like the just-below-the-knee length, usually I feel kind of frumpy dressed in that length but not with this pattern.

The left-over pink fabric was used on a dress for my girl, who loooooooooooves pink. I thought that we could match each other on New Year's Eve, but nope, she went for a RTW-dress with pink fox faces (sounds weird, but it's super cute).

BTW, I'm wearing my brand new headscarf from Christine Headwear which I ordered from Simply wigs, the "nearest" place to get Christine headwear. Simply wigs is great though, they give excellent service. The scarf is made out of lightweight soft dark blue denim (chambray?).

Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY, open to everyone around the world.

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Hugs,

Johanna

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

So, time for the "5000 pageviews giveaway"!!

First, here's what's at stake:

Yep. that's all of it, but let's have a closer look...

Sewing pattern from Burda. Sizes EU 34-46.

Another sewing pattern from Burda. Sizes EU 34-44.

 Simplicity sewing pattern. Size US 10/Bust 32 ½ ". There are only pattern pieces for the blouse and the dress (not for the skirt or the trousers).

This pattern is very incomplete, but I'll throw it in anyway. The front and back dress pieces are missing (circled in red in the photo). My original idea was to try and copy and enlarge them from the instruction paper, but I just won't get around to it, so I'll give someone esle the chance. The pattern is Vogue size 18/Bust 38".

This is some lightweight stretch denim with pinstripes. The fabric is about 140 cm/55" wide and 110 cm/44" long, should be enough for a skirt!

I will also include a box of cute pins and some pretty blue and white ribbon (2 m/2.18 yds).

So, that's the prize... Well, what do you have to do to get it? Ok, don't get me wrong, I am fascinated by my 5000 pageviews, I never thought anyone would be interested in what I might be doing when I started this blog. Buuuut, all the same I wouldn't mind some more followers... :)

Here are the conditions:

* Follow my blog!
* Let me know that you follow my blog by leaving a comment to this post.
* For an extra chance to win, mention my giveaway on your blog and leave a comment with a link to the post where you mention it.
* The giveaway is international, I will mail the prize worldwide.
* The giveaway is open until Saturday 12 January 11.00am CET.

Good luck,

Johanna

Giveaway coming up!

During the night I reached, and passed, 5000 pageviews! I've been waiting for this for a few weeks now and kind of fun it happened during Christmas.

I had already planned in my head to celebrate this with a giveaway, buuut... I haven't got further than that so in the next few days be on the lookout to see the prize and the conditions!

Bye for now,

Johanna

The winner of the giveaway!

Ok, so I have now drawn a winner of the giveaway. But before I announce who it is, I just have to say thank you to everyone who has participated and written a comment. It's fun and useful to read them, so I know how to continue with this blog.

I must say that I'm surprised that so few have participated, because I have had over 200 pageviews since I posted about the giveaway. Are people afraid to leave comments? Hmmm....

Well, I am glad for those of you who have written and now I won't hold out on you any longer.

THE WINNER IS.........           Angela!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Angela, and please e-mail me your address so I can send you the fabric.

To draw the winner I used a random number generator, which I found through another giveaway post here.  Here you can see Angela winning, as commenter number 1.

Stay tuned for an upcoming post on the fantastic Meringue skirt from Colette patterns.

Bye for now,

Johanna

24h countdown

Just a reminder that there's now only 24 hours left to leave comments in the Celebration GIVEAWAY!

I will draw a winner tomorrow at 10 am CET. Exciting!!!

Bye for now,

Johanna

Celebration GIVEAWAY!!!!!

Hey, everyone! Today is the two month-anniversary of my blog and I want to celebrate that and the fact that in those two months I've had OVER a thousand pageviews! I never thought that would happen when I started this blog as sort of a therapy for myself. Yay! I'm actually very proud of myself.

So here's how it's going down.... If you want a chance to win some faboulous fabric, look through my blog, find the post you like the best and write that in a comment to this post. You can name whichever post you want up til this post, so anything posted after this is cannot be voted for. By this I hope to get some help to keep my blog interesting and worth reading. You have one week to comment, I will not consider any comments made after 10.00 Am CET Monday June 25.

I will draw a winner of all the people who has commented. No use to make several comments, you will only have one chance to win.

So here's what you can win:

Pretty, isn't it?! It is some kind of polyester crepe, I think (no guarantees). You can see the size of the dots in the second picture. The piece of fabric is 93 cm/37 inches wide and 218 cm/2 1/3 yards long.

I am willing to mail it to any part of the world, so anyone is welcome to participate.

I also want to put in a special thank you to my two most loyal commentators, Angela and Katy. Thanks so much, it means a lot to get such encouragement that I've got from you!

So, check out the blog and leave a comment!

Bye for now,

Johanna