giveaway winners + discount code

Happy Mother's Day to all of you awesome mamas out there! I had 42 entries in my contest by midnight Friday, which made your odds of winning one of the two pieces of measuring tape fabric pretty darned good . . . and yet, only two people won this time around, and I'm always left wishing everyone could win.

Here are the two folks I'll be sending fabric to this week:

Jenny (comment: "I have to say: DOLL FACED PILLOW. I wish I could say WTH??? But really and truly, I have an aunt who used to make that stuff for me when I was a little girl. 
I like your blog and this tape measure fabric is wonderful!! Thank you so much for the chance.")

KRubin (comment: "This is perfect timing! My best friend just found out that she is expecting a little girl and will begin working on the nursery soon! I think it would make a great addition. This may be cheating, but I'm really proud of myself! Last week, I completed my first year of graduate school!"

I've already sent out e-mails to these two ladies, but if I don't hear from one or the other (or both) of them by May 17th, I'll be picking someone new. UPDATE 5/13/2013: both people have been in contact, so I'll be shipping fabric to them today! The rest of you can take advantage of the following:

Being that it's Mother's Day and I really like hearing from readers new and old, I'm giving the rest of you an exclusive coupon code for 50% off the measuring tape fabric in my Etsy supplies shop. This will expire on May 18th, so order up!

Head on over, put the fabric in your cart, and when you're prompted for the coupon code at checkout, enter SEWMAMA. That's it!

Thanks again, everyone, for another successful Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day! I was a little late (3 days) getting my giveaway post up this time around, so the amount of responses was impressive. Welcome to all of you new blog followers; I hope you'll like the post I've got planned for next week . . . CLIFFHANGER ENDING!

spoonflower typewriter-inspired fabric contest

Hey friends! This week's Spoonflower Fabric of the Week Contest is all about designing fabric with a typewriter theme.

I took it to the abstract side a bit (I like to think outside the box a little on these more-rigid contest themes) and created a pattern of typewriter ribbon reels. You can see it here, on my Spoonflower design page.

And if you like it, you can vote for it here, following the link at the bottom right. In the Spoonflower blog image, my design is the third from the left in the top row! First time that's happened in one of these contests since the very first one I entered, back in 2009. You know, back when Spoonflower was new, and there were only six entries per week, and no themes.

It seems like a really long time ago.

Anyway, give it a vote if you like! Then pop over to take a peek at my recently-added Lodge collection, inspired by our recent trip to Montana . . . you know, where I saw some beautiful mountain lodges and these guys:

(scrap metal statuary near the entrance to the Blackfeet Nation, East Glacier.)


I keep meaning to do a big ol' photo post about our trip; too beautiful.

Thanks for reading!

p.s. you can make these images larger just by clicking on them, but you probably already knew that!

i'm finally in the spoonflower fabric of the week contest!

Once a week, Spoonflower (a new company that prints made-to-order fabric from your designs!) sponsors a Fabric of the Week contest for independent designers. Winners get free fabric, and their designs are put up for sale by Spoonflower to the general public. Vote for my dandylion pattern HERE!