Sewing:
A creative mess is better than tidy idleness.
~Unknown (but I could have written it!)
I bet you can relate.
Whether it's sewing, painting, knitting or any creative endeavor, you're bound to get in the "zone". When I get there, the mess (and the creative juice) flows. You know how it is, you work on one thing, then start on another and pretty soon it's a disaster of epic proportions. Felt flowers, patterned paper, thread, fabric. What was I making again? It was that bad. In an effort finally curb the clutter, I decided to re-organize my office/creative space, including buying new shelves and containers. I was making pretty good progress (HUGE sized mess) when I started to feel sick. So sick in fact that my creative space/office has been sitting in this messy, disaster state for almost two weeks! And darn! Those magical,cleaning,organizing fairies didn't visit my space and tidy it up!
Where are they anyway?
But something equally wonderful did show up on my doorstep while I was sick…
This DARLING book was delivered and my day was instantly brightened.
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Oh the Easter dress I could sew for my Emma …
There are 21 FABULOUS sewing projects to make for little girls and for those of us who are little girls at heart! I had a great time marking the things I want to sew for my girl, plus there's even a great idea for a desk cover that I may use for my new craft desk … If I can decide on one!
If only the magic fairies would PLEASE show up,
I could get right to it~
NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY!!!!
(I am so excited about this one!)
Our friends at Virtue Radio Network have a great feature on their site called:
And they have BIG news!
………….
"Rick Rack: Thread Therapy for Sewers kicks off its new season of affordable online sewing video tutorials with a class featuring the incredibly talented fabric designer, Jennifer Paganelli (Sis Boom).
Jennifer's new book - Girl's World - debuts in April 2011. And, although it was hard to narrow down a favorite from Girl's World's 21 adorable sewing patterns, Rick Rack chose the book's pretty cover dress (Mary's Fancy Sash Dress) as our first online sewing project of the new season.
REGISTER TODAY through May 12, 2011 and join Jennifer Paganelli and Girl's World's pattern maker and sewing expert, Dolin O'Shea, on May 15, 2011 for this exciting online sewing video tutorial.
What You Get
- 1 autographed copy of the book, Girl's World: Twenty-One Sewing Projects to Make for Little Girls;
- 1 downloadable Mary's Fancy Sash Dress how to sew video demonstration;
- 1 downloadable project instruction sheet w/step-by-step color photos (PDF);
- Supply list;
- Access to the student-only Fabric.com Jennifer Paganelli/Girl's World Online Class Store where class supplies (and more) will be available for purchase at 25% off Fabric.com's already low prices; and
- 1 hour live chat with Jennifer Paganelli (Dolin O'Shea will join in to answer any sewing questions concerning this project )
What You Will Learn
- How to make a child sized dress with sash
- How to cut, press and use single fold bias tape
- How to gather a skirt into a bodice
Click HERE to register and for more information."
Sponsors of this great class are:
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Doesn't that sound great? Well …
GUESS WHAT?
Remember when I said there was a GIVEAWAY?
One lucky WWC blog reader will win this class along with all of the goodies that come along with it!
Simply comment to this thread and you're entered!
We'll keep the comments open until Next Wednesday ( April the 6th) at Midnight (MST), so make sure you get yours in by that time.
GOOD LUCK!
*I will be announcing the winner of Ashley's FABULOUS FRIDAY later on this morning …
I’m a new gramma to a baby girl! I gotta get Sewing!
How awesome is that! I heart Jennifer! :)
What an incredible give away!
What a great give away! I love her patterns. I have been collecting them and fabric, just haven’t made anything yet! This may just be my inspiration! Thanks for including me! BEcs
Oh how exciting…. I love all Jennifers fabrics, EVERY SINGLE ONE.. So please pick me…
Creatively
Tammie Moore
Wonderful giveaway – would be so neat to win this.
The book looks amazing! Thanks for the post!
oh wow, this is exciting! Jennifer Paganelli has some great designs. I’m excited about her book (and this class!)
Love, love, love this giveaway!
Awesome! What a fantastic giveaway…. I’m in! I can’t wait for the book. My granddaughter will love it to. -Kate.
Oh, thank you so so much for the chance to win! What a wonderful class!
Just got my sewing machine and so far only pillows are being checked off the creative to-do list. LOVE the cover of the book—and so excited to hear about classes that sound like even I might learn something ;) I’m a little slow on the uptake if it doesn’t involve a camera and a paintbrush.
I would love to win this class as it just isn’t in my budget right now….regardless someone is gonna have some fun because I can guarantee you it will be a good one!
I LOVE that quote, so true. What a great giveaway. I come from a long line of sewers, but just started giving it a go for myself. Although I have a toddler boy, I have a family full of girls and two more on the way. Would love to win this! Happy Wednesday:)
what a great giveaway! i’d really love to learn to make dresses for my daughter. :)
What a beautiful book….the dresses look gorgeous! I know exactly who I would make the first dress for!!! Fingers crossed.
What an amazing class and prize! I need all the sewing instruction I can get!
That sounds like an amazing giveaway!!
I haven’t got a little girl (I had three boys ha ha all grown up now) However, this looks like just the perfect excuse to live my dreams and get that sewing machine out. I really would love to win this, I thank you for the opportunity. Good luck with the book, but I don’t think you’ll need it. It has best seller written all over it.
Love Dawn xx
I LOVE this giveaway. Many lovely things to make for my granddaughter!
what a great give away…just what I need to dust off the old sewing machine.
That is fabulous. I so want to learn how to sew dresses from my stash. I’ve never made a dress but think I’m ready to give it a try. The books looks fabulous!
Good Luck everyone!
oh good gravy! i really want to learn to sew my kids clothing! what an excellent opptortunity! thanks for a chance.
I love Jennifer Paganelli and this is a wonderful giveaway! Thank you and good luck everyone!!
Please count me in.
Thank you very much.
Finally! Thanks to Jennifer for creating a book for bigger girls! My daughter is 7 and it would be so nice to make her something lovely.
:)
What a great giveaway! I have two daughters and they look so pretty in dresses, but it’s hard to find ones that are just right for their size and our style.
Awesome giveaway! So excited!
What delightful-ness! What an amazing giveaway…Good luck to all who enter :) and of course that would include me too!!!
This is MyYearOfTechnology! Saying Yes, when I really mean NO, to learning everything I can so I won’t become an old fuddy-duddy who can’t even switch off the light. Never in my life would I think I’d ever sew. Think, nightmares from middle school home-ec class with overbearing teacher. My patient quilter friend taught me the other day, and wow, got visions of putting sewing into my Art Journals. Who knew! I’ve just learned how to look at all these marvelous blogs, and I think all you women are amazing. I’ve started a blog, got on Facebook, and away we go. If I win, I’ll be forced to learn more sewing, and it might just be good for me.
OH FUN FUN FUN!!! My nieces would love the idea of new SPRING dresses & for Easter and Sundays too!
What a delightful looking book~I just want to open it!
Blessings and joy……….~Sandie
What a great giveaway! I have made my two lovely Goddaughters dresses with Jennifer’s fabric. I would be thrilled to win! Thanks for the chance!
This is a great giveaway! I love, love, love her fabrics. I cannot wait to get my hands on this book!
What an excellent giveaway to learn how to make dresses for my granddaughter. I’m a quilter but not a garment sewer. It would be wonderful to win.
Oh my how I would love to win this one!!! I have 5 granddaughters to sew for..
Another lovely awesome creative giveway! Absolutely LOVE this!
OHHHHHH! Count me in. I’d love to win this great book!
This book looks so yummy! I have 2 Granddaughters ( & 3 grown dtrs), so I’ve lived in a “Girl’s World” and have LOVED every minute of it! I need a jump start to push myself into my sewing room, which I did re-decorate after being inspired by all of my WWC issues! Would love to make the adorable dress with the help of all the added goodies! I’ve waited for those same DARN fairies many times, they like to be bribed!
Hope the twinkle lights I’ve left on for them make them help you draw my name- fingers crossed!
Fairy Wishes, Debbie
I’m gramma of 2 adorable little sisters and I know they’d LOVE this great dress with a checked sash! Thanks for the terrific giveaway and a chance to win.
What an awesome giveaway! Hope it’s me! Thanks!
How cool! Thanks for the chance!
What a neat opportunity! The little girls’ dresses are adorable. I would love to take this class. Blessings
Pick me! Pick me! :)
I’ve taken lots of online scrapbooking classes, but this would be my first sewing class online!!! Would love to win it :)
Well Jennifer’s book looks just incredible! I.heart.that.gal. LOVE her!! I have to tell you what strikes me even more about this post is the quote. My studio is a constant mess, cleaned up once a week only to be thrashed the next day. Those who live with me and sometimes those who just visit– who are not so creative– look at me like i am from mars. My MIL even said “How do you work in there? If you would just stop to fold the fabric when you are done with it there wouldn’t be such a big pile” I laughed. Poor thing doesnt have an artistic bone in her body!
Funny enough, I posted a photo of my studio on my blog today and you can see a pile of dresses and fabric on the chair! Glad I’m not alone :)
Thanks for hosting this giveaway. To win it would get me to sewing again which I loved to do.
I really hope this giveaway is not over, I would love to win this
Brenda
How Fun!!!
Who doesn’t Love Creative People!!!
0×0
Kelly
I am just finally learning how to use the intimidating white machine sitting and mocking me from the folding table in my dining room. And I think I might be in love.
Winning this would just be the icing on the cake, and I’m pretty sure my daughter wouldn’t be putting up a fight, either. :)
Thanks a million for hosting the giveaway and for the always awesome and inspiring loveliness that makes up WWC!
What a fabulous give away! I love Jennifer’s fabrics and patterns!
I would just love to sew up some of these projects for my own girl! Plus Jennifers fabrics are just gorgeous :)
Saw this class and wanted to take it, but our budget doesn’t allow it right now. How awesome it would be to win it! Thanks for the chance!
I really want to take this class! And to get an autographed copy of the book…HOW AWESOME!!!
This is a amazing giveaway! Thank you for offering this. I would be delighted to win. please.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter!!
Wow! What a dream!
oh, i am hoping hoping hoping to win. wow. i used to sew for my boys but really didn’t when they got older. but now i have darling little daughters and i am trying to start back up. this looks fabulous. i never thought of a class this way before. how perfect.
Sounds like fun. I would love to win!
What an awesome book and what a cool way to take a class.Love it!!!Lisa
Oh so glad I am not too late to enter for this one! What a GREAT opportunity!!!! Those dresses are DARLING!!! Thank you!!!
Oh my goodness, girlie girls and girlie dresses go together!!!
This giveaway will be announced the day before my birthday. Now, that would be a really wonderful gift!
What an incredibly generous giveaway. As the auntie to a bevy of beautiful nieces, I would so love to win. Thanks for the chance.
I would love to win this class! I love everything that Jennifer has designed, and the class sounds like a great time!
Wow!
I am a longtime fan of Jen Paganelli and I have made so many beautiful things with her fabrics over the years…her prints are what got me initially into sewing little girls clothing. So many fun vintage patterns. I have sewn dolly bedding, dresses, clothing, hair bands, curtains…just love her stuff! Can’t wait to get my hands on her book. Thanks!
Enter me in!
Angela
i am hoping! this would be wonderful
This would be so much fun!
I love to sew wonderful dresses and hats for my Grnadaughter Blayke!
My nieces would LOVE this dress, and I would love to make it!
Oh boy – well this is my first day on the website – and there are giveaways? Wow – i’m hooked ;)
Hey there! First time I’ve popped in for a visit – was surfing the web looking for decorating inspiration cos the process you described for your creative space … well … it’s a VERY familiar scene here, except I didn’t get sick! :0) The sewing room ‘creative chaos’ (which sounds SO much nicer than my mother’s label of disaster zone!!) is currently undergoing a makeover. I’m throwing out, sorting out … wearing out!! Walls are painted an inspirational blue, new furniture has been bought or madeover … now if only those organising fairies would show up here too! Tee! Hee! Hee! Good luck with YOUR creative chaos taming … I’d better get back to mine! :0) Bear Hugs! KRIS
Oh, what a darling dress. I can’t wait to see the other 20 projects in the book. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will win your giveaway!!!!
I will be taking this course whether I win or not, but thanks for the opportunity!
what a great giveaway. good luck everyone
I would love to win this book – thanks for the giveaway!!
After 36 years with a lemon of a sewing machine, I’ve just upgraded to a Janome (!) Would love to inaugurate with a project from this book.
I would LOVE to win this giveaway! :)
I just love Jennifer Paganelli! I already have a ton of her fabric and even made a tunic that I get compliments on every time I wear it! Excited about her book.
I have a little girl that would love to wear things like that! Here’s to good luck…
Awesome giveaway! I would love a chance to win!
Oh thank you! I would love to win!! Thank you for the chance!
With three granddaughters (4, 2 1/2, and 10 months) how could I pass this up. I was going to buy the book, but decided the whole course was designed for me! Can’t wait to get started.
Wow! What a great giveaway! I love the look of Girls World and can’t wait to dig in! Great fabrics, too!