Fabric Inspiration & Giveaway

Here is a fabric and book giveaway by author and designer Amy Barickman of Indygo Junction.  If you're going to enter, make sure you comment on Amy's blog here.

Here is Amy's blog post about it: 

Many times I’ve been asked how I get the ideas for my books, patterns or fabric lines? And the short answer is lots of places.  My passion for seeking out vintage sewing treasures and collecting sewing books and ephemera has lead to many of my projects over the years. The Sew-it Book, Buttonware, Hankie Style and Vintage Notions are just a few of the books that I have created based on inspiring vintage items I’ve found and collected.
Through my travels, I always seek out antique malls, galleries or flea markets to rummage through. Often, I see something beautiful that catches my eye – colors, fabric textures, the shear artistry of a piece or the details in the stitching. It may just be an old book filled with gorgeous illustrations.

Many times this stirs my creative juices and I combine the inspiration with current trends in the market to come up with a new book or pattern idea. Other times, I find a vintage piece and realize the concept or creation would be interesting to today’s consumer and feel the need to “rescue” it from obscurity.

One example is my latest embroidery book, A Stitch in Time with Mother Goose. This book of vintage embroidery designs, along with my coordinating fabric line from Red Rooster Fabrics of the same name, was inspired by a darling baby blanket I found during my travels. The quilt was created from an old Butterick transfers pattern circa 1920’s. I’ve also discovered in my collection the original magazine ad featuring the pattern for sale. Below are a few shots of the original blanket.
I was toying already with the idea of creating a new embroidery book with a vintage feel and had some wonderful Mother Goose line art that I wanted to use, but the project had not yet come to fruition. I happened upon this hand embroidered baby blanket in bluework, along with the original vintage transfers and the entire project took shape.
Embroidery is really making a come back. The book includes 25 designs to be transferred to fabric and instructions for 7 different projects including two quilts. Here are just a few projects included in this book:
Another method of embroidery can be done with just the Mother Goose fabric itself. Two of the fabric line coordinates are “cheater” blocks. These two panels – one in red and one in blue – have the Mother Goose line art already printed directly on the fabric. All one has to do it thread your needle and following the lines. No transfers needed.
Enter to win A Stitch in Time with Mother Goose fabric bundle and book

For a chance to win a bundle of A Stitch in Time with Mother Goose fabric (one yard of many coordinate plus one each of the two embroidery cheater block panels – please note that only 19 of the 24 coordinates are available in this giveaway) AND a copy of A Stitch in Time with Mother Goose, you have five ways to enter the drawing.
1.    Post a comment to this blog post only letting me know what you would create with this collection.
2.    “Like” my Facebook page at facebook.com/amybarickmanstudios
3.    Sign up for my twitter account at twitter.com/amybarickman
4.    Repost this blog entry on your blog. Email me at amyb@amybarickman.com with the link to your post.
5.    Post this blog entry on your Facebook page. Email me at amyb@amybarickman.com with the link to your FB page.
A winner will be drawn at random from all entries. Entries will be accepted until Tuesday, February 1st at midnight and a winner announced on Thursday, February 3rd.
Good luck!!

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Congratulations!!! Winner of the Giveaway!

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Thanks again to my wonderful, special customers at my Etsy shop, Lucinda's Nice Things for getting me to my first milestone of 100 sales!!!  It's very special to me to have you support me while I stumble and bumble along my learning way in this endeavor. 

Thanks, too, to those of you who visit my blog.  I really love it when you leave a comment, letting me know that you're out there and reading what I write.  It's very special that you visit my little spaces on the web.  I'm honored. 

To celebrate my sales milestone, I held a giveaway of a Target gift card.  And . . . now that the time for entries is passed, the winner is . . .

heidijaneblankets!!!!

Thanks for playing along with my giveaway!  Thanks for visiting my little shop.  Thanks for hearting my shop and leaving nice comments.  

Very special indeed . . .

Giveaway!! Thank you for 100 sales!!

Thanks to my buyers, I have finally hit 100 sales in my little Etsy shop, Lucinda's Nice Things!

It's had some fits and starts, but I'm starting to get the hang of having a little online shop and business has been good lately.  Thanks to those of you who bought from me while I'm learning along the way.  Thanks to you for buying when my pictures haven't been perfect (that's most of them!).  Thanks for buying when I have typos.  Thanks for helping me out when I let you know I don't know something about an item  And thanks for pointing out that it's impossible for that bangle bracelet to be only 4" around!

I'm celebrating this little milestone by having a giveaway here on my blog.  I thought about it a bit and I chose this $25.00 gift card from Target . . . fun stuff!

Here's hoping for plenty more sales and more milestone giveaways!

Here's how to enter the giveaway (and thanks to RikRak for the ideas!):

1.  Visit my Etsy shop called Lucinda's Nice Things
and tell us in a comment below about your favorite thing and why you love it!
One entry!

2.  Heart Lucinda's Nice Things on Etsy and tell us.
One entry!

3.  Follow me on twitter Denny1600 and tell us.  
One entry!

Please note that each entry must be its own comment.  Thanks so much!

It is possible to have a maximum of three entries total per person.

Using random.org, one winner of the $25.00 Target gift card will be chosen on Monday, November 8th at 7 PM EST.  

Open to contestants worldwide.

Please be sure to leave an email address where I can reach you.  Thanks!!

Just to be sure you know I mean it:  THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

Fabric Giveaway!!

Who doesn't love FREE fabric?!  Here's your chance to win a Verna jelly roll and 2 yards of fabric to go with it.  It's being offered by Burgundy Buttons through Park City Girl's blog here.

Have fun looking!!  And I'll keep my fingers crossed that you'll win.  But only if I don't win.  :)