I promised you something a little bit lovely as a giveaway prize and I hope this wee offering fulfills that promise.
You wouldn’t believe it, but I have completely trashed my sewing room putting together that wee bit o’ nonsense. My husband entered my sewing room during my “creative phase” and gave me *that* look. You know the one; complete disbelief mixed with a slight suspicion of some kind of hidden mental illness. Mania perhaps?
“Do you really need to empty all this stuff on to the floor every time?” and “How can you find anything in all this mess?” was what he said, or words to that effect. He was genuinely perplexed, bless him.
Good questions.
Why do I do that? Every time.
Almost every other creative person I know does the same. You get a whiff of an idea and every piece of fabric, thread, button, lace, ribbon, felt etc that you own gets pulled out and examined for worthiness of inclusion in your current project. You can lose track of all earthly time and find yourself still in your jim-jams and furry slippers at 2.30 in the afternoon. Shocking!
I had gone into Hobbycraft last week looking for something or other (can’t remember what?) and I came out, not with the thing I went in for, but with some beautiful Tilda fabric.
Sound like a familiar story? Are you kidding me, I know you guys do that kinda thing too 🙂
After much fabric stroking and fretting over the actual cutting up of such a thing of beauty, I finally convinced myself that it was the right thing to do. After all, it’s what the fabric would have wanted, right?
And with my Facebook page reaching a wee personal milestone of 2000 followers (I know! can you catch your breath!), I thought it timely to host a little giveaway to say ‘thanks’ for keeping me company all this time ♥
So, here it is … a pretty wee pouch for one lucky reader. Well worth getting my sewing room all messed up for 🙂
The pouch is padded with cotton wadding for extra softness. A wee bit of lace and a few other carefully chosen embellishments help to create a delicate, feminine look that I just love!
The little suffolk puff has a brooch pin sewn on to the back of it, which allows you to detach it from the pouch, so you can pin it on to something else if you like. Nifty!
And whilst I was on a roll, I made a wee lavender sachet to match which I’ll include in the prize
For a chance to win, here’s all you need to do:
- be a follower of this blog by subscribing to email (click the box in the top right of the home page) or Bloglovin (or some other means!) and leave a comment below telling me which way you are following along. If you are a no-reply blogger, be sure to leave me an email address so I can contact you if you win 🙂
- for a second chance to win pop over to my Facebook page and follow the instructions on the giveaway post pinned to the top of the page
That’s it! The giveaway is open until 24th October 2013 at midnight, GMT, after which time a winner will be picked at random from all entries here and on Facebook. The winner will be announced on Friday 25th October 2013.
Good luck everyone and thank you for entering!
Natalie x
Edit: This giveaway is now closed, but you can purchase the pattern for the little zippered purse featured in this giveaway here.
They’re beautiful and I love your detailed blog about them too. Your photography is amazing. Where do you get the time lol?
Just stunning. I follow you via email and FB. Best wishes and good luck everyone, Carina
Oh what a beautiful bag combo.
I follow you via blogloving. thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Beautiful – how can you bear to give these away!
Wow, what a way to spend a day, totally understand your approach! Love, love, love Tilda, and the fabrics you have chosen. The two items for the giveaway are devine and I hope my name is drawn. Hope you are going to put out a pattern, because I am sure they will fly out the door. I am currently following you my email, but I have also just joined bloglovin so will do that too so I don’t miss out on your posts.
Really lovely! Very feminine and such a beautiful combination of colours and textures. Fabulous finish too. Already a follower. Thank-you
This is so beautiful, words can not describe it, LOVELY! I follow on bloglovin.
I follow you with bloglovin, what a beautiful giveaway. Thanks
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That pouch is absolutely beautiful! I follow you on bloglovin!
Beautiful! I follow you via Bloglovin.
Hi, I follow you via e-mail – about to follow you on facebook. I love your work and I’m truly grateful for your tutorials as I am only just starting out in the sewing world!
These are so sweet. I love your attention to details. The embellishments are what make these little bags so precious.
Sent from my iPad Jeneen Conway jeneenconway@gmail.com
Oops! I forgot to say that I already follow you with Bloglovin.
This is so beautiful, thank you so much for sharing your talents in the giveaway. i also have a’ pull out all the fabric and trims’ problem! Popping over to Facebook now.
I’m following on bloglovin! (also, check out my own giveaway ending at midnight tonight! wp.me/p11p3d-IJ)
I am a follower through e-mail subscription! Thanks for your kindness, it is so beautiful!
oohhh.. these are lovely giveaways.. I’m a follower on wordpress.. 😀 will pop over to your FB now.. 😀
I follow you with Feedly. I love love love the giveaway items. They are so special!
I am a follower on Bloglovin. I love your blog. Thank you for the giveaway!!
I am following you on your blog, and facebook of course, thank you for a chance to win this beautiful set :-))
I follow by email
Husbands just don’t get it…! I follow you by email now. Congratulations on the milestone, and many thanks!
Oh Natalie! Beautiful work!
I did all on FB and I like you here and I follow you on Twitter!
I hope I have entered all I need to!
You are so talented just to make this up!
Stunning x
I’m a follower. So pretty!
Oh. my. GOODNESS. A person after my own heart. This is exactly how I create things, and I get that *look* from hubby too (got one last night, as a matter of fact). I follow here on WordPress, and I “think” I’m on your Facebook page – time to find out right now, eh? 😆
A very generous and lovely giveaway x
Beautiful bag, following via email and bloglovin and facebooj 🙂
wow these are beautiful. I follow on bloglovin.
(if I have several post I apologize my computer went crazy and please disregard all the extra ones)
Reading that, sounded just like me! Why waste valuable time getting dressed when you could be sewing haha. It’s one beautiful bag.
Im a bloglovin follower
Would love to win…they are so pretty!
What a beautiful pouch!!!
Looking at my sewing space right now… yes, fabrics every where!! I think i need my own HOUSE just for my sewing needs (O:
Cheers,
Isabel
Follow thru bloglovin’
Love the fabric range. So pretty. Would love to win this for my sister .
Wow amazingly gorgeous ❤ would love to win this for my mum, have also entered on FB 🙂 xx
Wow! Absolutely love these! 😀 gorgeous pretties! X
oh I so so love this, would love to give it a home 🙂
What lovely pretty handmades. I follow via email.
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You giveaway is beautiful! I follow by email! Would so happy to win such pretty things!
Lovely items. 🙂
Oh my goodness that is the most beautiful thing that I’ve ever seen. I’ve crocheted for a while and am just trying to get into sewing, however, if I won I’m sure that I’d spend more time looking at this bag than actually using what’s inside of it 🙂
what an incredibly attractive prize. I am not a flowery or pink sort of person but i just saw this and wanted one its beautiful. thank you for offering it x
i forgot to say i receive your blog by subscribing through email x
I follow via facebook…don’t know if that counts. THose pouches are super sweet. You do wonderful work with embellishments…seems that is what I have a hard time with.
Oh my what beautiful loveliness!!! {squeal} it’s just so pretty, the fabrics,,,,that button, the lace…be still my heart…and yes my sewing space is one big *organized* mess. But I do believe that is how the artist’s mind works!!!
oooops got so distracted forgot to mention I follow this blog via bloglovin,,
Everything you described here is exactly what I do when I’m crafting!
Lovely give-away!
Just beautiful xx
Ooh these are lovely, what a beautiful giveaway. Snap, I make aright ol’ mess as well, it’s all part of the fun 🙂
Beautiful projects!!
Oh Natalie, these are so beautiful, so feminine. Everything is just perfect. There is going to be one very happy (and lucky) winner.
Beautiful. Fingers crossed x
That top photo made me swoon, so I just had to read the whole post! 🙂 What a lovely giveaway! (And, yes, my sewing room looks like that when I’m on a project, too!)