Welcome everyone playing along in this wonderful day!!!
I love it when Sew mama Sew puts on the giveaway day, don't you?
I am so glad you found me on that big long list of great links!!!
It is bright and shiny today…pull up a little blanket and sit for a bit.
Now, before I go and check out the list for myself– let me tell you what you can win:
Since I just posted about finding better alternatives for her cute ponies…I thought that I would give one away:
Smappy Baby + her little smap!!
And, because I am the posse boss/owner/president of an online sewing group
{over 14 exclusive patterns + Talented designers}
I am giving away 1 FREE MEMBERSHIP!!
{$38 value}
*clickety click the button above for more info–
april Quilt Soup shared a pattern and next month is Chitter Chatter Designs turn!!
RULES:
- Leave a comment—
- Tell me what your favorite sewing book is {any subject is good}
- Where are you from?
- and, or sewing pet peeve
- Vote on the side bar for Focus Friday next month {upper right hand corner} one click girls- easy.
- Have a great day & come back and visit often— if you would like you can sign up for the newsletter too {free pattern, updates on the blog- fridays, and a monthly little newsletter + discounts on goodies}
- Please, Please– leave an email, blog, website something….so I can find you!
- The giveaway is available to all people, everywhere! Worldwide.
- Winner will be notified on May 21st!!! Yay for you!!
Just in case you are intersted you can 'play along' with us:
{i need reviewers for this month's theme!!}
pst– you can buy an epattern for Smappy baby here. $5 Great easy pattern for beginners and use your scraps to make the patchwork crafts too.
pst-pst– Since I didn't delete the post you can still buy a membership to the sewing group for a discounted price here. I'll leave that open until the 20th too. We meet online so everyone worldwide can be a member!!
I Love TheHIVE
Loving the doll. I'm from Birmingham, England and the sewing book I'm loving at the moment is Material Obsession.
Wow, I'm deeply impressed!
Would be so nice to be the lucky one.
Kind regards from Germany
Claudia
My favorite book at the moment is from Amy Butler
sorry for my poor english…..
frauknopf@gmx.de
My daughter would steal this from me!
We are in Austin TX
I hate running out of bobbin thread and having to stop mid stitch to wind another!
Favorite book is Denise Schmidt quilts
I am from West Texas, and love to quilt, sew & create!! My current favorite book is called “Daily Patchwork Bag” from Japan. I find it so inspirational.
My biggest pet peeve is when I buy a pattern with either wrong or confusing directions. Give me a pattern that has been proofread, tested & tested again any day!!
I'm really enjoying Cal Patch's book, Design it Yourself Clothes
Oh wow. What a great giveaway. Love the little gal by the way. My favorite sewing book (s) are the japanese quilting books, Cotton Time. I love them and I have a great collection. I read through them time after time and get great inspiration. I'm originally from Pennsylvania but have lived in Utah most of my adult life. I still miss the east. My sewing pet peeve? Hmm I think it is that people don't use color enough. They want to cookie cut something they see in a magazine or pattern and they don't make it their own by changing things up. I really hate to see a project made 100% exact like the original. People sell themselves short and are afraid of color sometimes. fredashive@gmail.com, nanette
Love your little snap babies. I love all quilting books–love to look through and see all the beautiful quilts people make. I'm in CT. Thanks for the chance to win.
the smappy baby is so adorable!! I'm from Mississippi! my favorite sewing book is the manual for my machine, without it i would be so lost, ha ha! i always find like 50 sewing books all at once and can never pick just one to buy, so i don't have any!
I do not have many sewing books, I learned from my mother and Burda magazines! But a couple years ago, I got Your fistr quilting book (or at least it should be) and it was great help!
I'm from Chile!
I love Amanda Soule's book. I've made several things from there.
I am from Manitob Canada.
My sewing pet peeve is not getting it right the first time.
That smappy is adorable.
carlamo (at) ymail (dot) com
Oh, she is just FABULOUS!!!! I am in Massachusetts and my sewing pet peeve is that I am impatient and I hand sew, so it just takes too long! LOL!
My name is Amaranta and I hate neutral colors !!!
Thanks for the cool giveaway!
escuishi(at)hotmail(dot)com
http://hello-my-little-world.blogspot.com/
I love both of soulemama's books. And that skirt sewing book–can't think of the name right now…
I hate running out of bobbin thread like 6 inches before I'm done. Drives me so crazy! And it seems to happen so often…
I love Joelle Hoverson's Last Minute Patchwork and Denyse Schmidt's book. I live in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Thanks for the great chance to win.
I adore sew darn cute book, I live in the Great State of TEXAS, sewing pet peeve really don't have one
My favourite sewing book hasn't been officially published?
A friend created a collection of tips and tricks and printed it for me. I live in Canada's capital, Ottawa!
thisisdishy(at)gmail(dot).com
She is sooooooooo cute!!
And my favorite sewing books are all the books from SUE SPARGO. I love her designs. I met her some weeks ago in Nantes, I am dutch but I live in France. She is also a lovely lady
My favorite sewing book at this current moment is: Handmade beginnings by Anna Maria Horner, just because its new & exciting. I am Desiree, from Wisconsin & my biggest sewing pet peeve is when people don't finish things neatly – call me a perfectionist but iron and cut strings people.
The book that got me quilting, Scrap Quilts: The Art of Making Do by Roberta Horton, is my all-time favorite.
Thanks for the opportunity! I don't have a lot of sewing books actually, but I love looking online for tutorials! I am from the Los Angeles area and my sewing pet peeve is when I start a project without all the proper equipment – I do this way too often, although that's really a problem with me and not with sewing in general. Thanks for the giveaway (oh, and I voted for Apron-ology(.
I don't have a favorite sewing book (I've actually never used one). I'm from the Central Coast in California and my sewing pet peeve is thread barfs… they always happen at the worst times.
Thanks for the giveaway!!
My biggest sewing pet peive is when I sew two fabrics wrong (usually right side/wrong side combo), unpick the whole strip, flip it over, and then sew the whole thing wrong again! I hate that!
and that doll is adorable!
Pet peeve is “unsewing”–hate hate hate picking out wrong stitches!
Favorite book on sewing is whatever is in my hands at the moment!
My favorite book currently is Fat Quarter Fun and I 'm from WI originally and live in GA currently! Sewing pet peeve is seam ripping!
living4himjoshayden@gmail.com
I don't have many books..it just isn't something i like to pay for when there is so much free online; but I always appreciated my Around the Block book. So many blocks and so many sizes already configured.
my pet peeve is my fault really….threading needles….I just can't see as well any more and it is difficult. Just saw one of those Clover threaders on sale…I probably will pick one up soon.
Oh, my daughter would absolutely love her
My favourite book at the moment is Diane Gaudynski's “Quilt Savvy”. I'm from Ottawa, Ontario Canada, and my sewing pet peeve is when my thread breaks during free motion quilting.
My favorite sewing book is currently Liberated Quilting II by Gwen Marston. I'm from New Orleans currently and my biggest sewing pet peeve is when the bobbin thread runs out and I don't notice and keep on sewing. Doh!
oh and I voted for Material Obsession…they always have such interesting things!
My current favorite sewing book is “The Giving Quilt”, I hate turning straps, that's my pet peeve, and I'm in the Austin TX area
SOoo cute!
I'm a google girl I surf the web to find what I need instead of books.
Just so cute I love her already!
I love your little doll and I know just the little girl that would really love her. as for my favorite sewing book, so many I love them all, I have been into the Singer free motion book, and the watercolor book and I just won the twin peaks book and can't wait to get started there, see the list goes on and on and on. My pet peeve, well it is with my Pom, I will be in the sewing room and the maltese lays under my desk the pom comes in a steals what she can, most times she has my test blocks in the living room or a spool of thread or a marker. guess she don't want me to work please enter my name in your lovely drawing
ladycolmn(at)aol(dot)com
Such a cute little doll. I don't really have a favorite sewing book but I love anything from kaffe fasset. I'm in WI and the dolly would go to my daughter. Thanks.
ninjaeema at aol dot com
Right now my favorite sewing book is WOOL CRAZY By Joann Mulally. I LOVE IT. I am working on a wool crazy quilt and you can see one of the blocks on my blog. http://lefthandednorwegianstitcher.blogspot.com
I am from “MY LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN” a 150 year old farm house with an awesome front porch that looks out over the valley and the creek with flower beds, bird feeders, our horses, neighbors cows, etc. Southwestern Wisconsin.
Come and Visit sometime. Company is always welcome.
my favorite sewing book is One yard Wonders. It has so many neat things you can do with just 1 yard of fabric. =]
aww the little toy is so cute
i'm from redmond, washington. i saw pretty little potholders in the book store recently and loves it.
Whew! Let's see you needed a comment… working on it….. You wanted my fav sewing book… hmm, well, my fav at the moment (cause I have sooo many, you should see my sewing library, lol) is probably “Quilter's Complete Guide” by Fons and Porter, since I'm doing so much quilting lately. Next… where am I from? I hail from Nashville, TN. I spent the first 20 yrs of my life in Nashville, second 20 yrs in Timmonsville, SC, a few more back in Nashville, 5 in Colorado Springs, CO and THANK GOD now back in Tennessee. Not quite home, since I had never been here before moving here Sept 2009, but I love the old Victorian we found over the internet…..(Gee, I sound ancient, but I'm about to be a spry 50 yr old this month) My sewing pet peeve would have to be trying something new and getting cocky and finding out I stitched it wrong and now have to rip it out.
But you bet I won't forget next time…. 
I voted on Focus Friday and signed up for emails…. and I am soooo hoping I will win the subscription. I don't have the option of a quilting club at the moment for quilting fellowship, so this would be perfect. I run a custom window treatment business from my home and have added quilting to my services, so I welcome staying in touch with others on current trends. Thanks so much for sharing with us. I hope this isn't too lengthy, but you sparked my enthusiasm, lol
Peggy
Oh so cute! My favorite book right now is Anna Maria Horner's Seams To Me or One Yard Wonders. They have such pretty pictures! I'm from Portland, Oregon and I don't know if it's a pet peeve, but I HATE when I have to change my bobbin in the middle of a project. Of course, it happens quite often so I can't really get away without it!
Oops, forgot to say moved back to Tennessee, now living in Newbern, TN (just an hour NW of Jackson, TN) Check out Newbern, TN on google – about 3000 people, lovely little town. Just not a lot of fabric shops or sources for sewing items… guess I'll be doing a lot of online shopping… Thanks, Peggy
I'm from Iowa, U.S.A. I actually don't have a favorite book – I don't own any, actually. My mom does though, and I borrow from her. I like modern quilts and paper piecing quilts.
Thanks for the giveaway, the Patchwork Posse sounds pretty cool!
My fav. sewing book is the Amy Butler sewing for Little Ones, since I usually make baby items. I'm from Shreveport, LA & my sewing pet peeve is bias tape! I always make it look horrible! LOL
Thanks for the great giveaway! That would be awesome to win! My little girl would love that doll!
Thanks so much!
I love any books from Lotta J….however you spell her last name. She got me back into sewing. I'm from washington state, just outside of Seattle. My sewing pet peeve is when my machine eats my fabric. (It sometimes does that right at the begining of a stitch. very annoying!)
wow, thank you for the chance to win a cute doll and membership. i am from texas but live in illinois now. i don't own a sewing book…that might be my problem. i am reading Middlemarch by George Elliot (or would be if I wasn't checking out everyone's blog!). I hate when I make a mistake and have to rip, rip, rip. something I do often. I also hate when I am sewing the corner of something and the material doesn't feed right and I end up sewing a big knot. is there a way to avoid that? yes, i am a beginner but love it! christiharrison@gmail.com
I have been able to borrow some great books from the library, the one that I am oohing and ahhing over right now is I heart Patchwork!
I'm from Nova Scotia, Canada.
My biggest sewing pet peeve is taking out stitches when I make a mistake!
Hi, I don't have sewing books as such, but I do love my Ottobre magazines!
I am from Christchurch, New Zealand!
So cute! I'm loving the book 'Sewing Clothes Kids Love' and trying to sew my way through it this year. Thank you!
luscofamily(at)ortelco.net
Hmmm.. favorite sewing book, well, um,… at the moment any of the jelly roll books. I'm from Australia as you probably already know and my sewing pet peeve is UNPICKING! I think it should be outlawed… really.
I am still trying to decide to join or not to join …. oh, such a difficult question… I mean, I really do have enough projects, right? Dear oh dear…..
lv,
Joy
hello! my favourite book is from japan and taiwan… i can't tell u the name because i am not able to read the characters
however they are full of photo illustrations which i adore.
come join my giveaway too at my blog.
xo
grace
http://whimsyloft.com
I like this book: http://www.amazon.com/Stewart-Tabori-Chang-Book... and I am from Kansas City MO.
My favorite sewing book, and my only sewing book is twinkle sews by wenlan chia.
This is a generous giveaway and this is great.
Thanks for this great giveaway!
mikthasq(at)gmail(dot)com
Oh, wow! How great! You know, I really love Handmade Home. I know it's nothing new and certainly nothing you can't find perusing crafty blogs, but it's so much better to be able to sit down with a book in hand and be inspired!
serenakate at gmail dot com